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Friday's Letter from America
Consumer advice, Consumer Stories, End of Week
Welcome to this week's Letter from America, it is not the article that was actually scheduled for today, but is a last minute replacement. The original will be published at a later date.
Tahoe Beach and Ski Resort HOA Election Results
Jake Bercu and Al Fong Declared the Winners!
By Irene Parker
Tahoe Beach and Ski Resort held their annual meeting and election for two board positions September 22, 2018. The two board members running for another three-year term were Alfred Fong and Jacob Bercu. Three other candidates were on the ballot.
Jacob Bercu 2124
Javier Cervantes(withdrew) 39
Alfred Fong 2154
Timothy Dobbs 39
Pat Hanna 1929.5
Laurence McGill 1887
Typically, voting is private, but the math indicates that Diamond Resorts voted for Pat Hanna and Laurence McGill. One owner reported that Hanna and McGill both stated they were in contact with Jason Toste, vice president at Diamond and one of the three board members named in the Point at Poipu lawsuit. They said they wanted to work with Diamond Resorts. According to the owner reporting, this made owners suspicious, as the association has made numerous attempts to work with Diamond Resorts to resolve affiliation and operations issues, to no avail.
https://advantagevacation.com/the-point-at-poipu-angry-owners-file-lawsuit-against-diamond-resorts/
Diamond Resorts controls 23% of the inventory at Tahoe Beach and Ski Resort and, in the opinion of the member reporting, who wishes to remain anonymous, Diamond has had a difficult time following the rules of the association.
Another twist to all this is the revelation that a member of the board at Tahoe Beach and Ski is now running for the board at Lake Tahoe Vacation Resort, a Diamond property. This was not disclosed to the owners. When questioned about his motives for running for the Lake Tahoe Vacation Resort, he stated that he was interested in gaining useful information about Diamond Resorts.
The letter below is from an owner at Tahoe Beach and Ski Resort. The candidates supported by Diamond campaigned on the fact that Diamond is a new company with new management and that Diamond has changed their ways and we need to work with them. There have been many complaints about Diamond posted on various complaint sites and the Attorney General of Arizona has issued an Assurance of Discontinuance after receiving hundreds of complaints from Diamond members accusing the company of unfair and deceptive sales practices. Diamond did not admit wrongdoing. Based on the letter below and the daily posts on our member sponsored Diamond Advocacy group, we feel improvement in customer relations is warranted.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiamondResortsOwnersAdvocacy/
In addition to Jason Toste, Kathy Wheeler was a board member named in the Point at Poipu lawsuit. They are the authorized owner-representatives for Diamond Resorts at Tahoe Beach and Ski. Owners said they have had reports from other TBSC owners that Diamond sales agents and employees at Lake Tahoe Vacation Resort, Kaanapali Beach Resort and Historic Powhatan have been claiming for the last six years that:
Diamond owns Tahoe Beach and Ski Resort,
Diamond manages Tahoe Beach and Ski Resort,
Diamond guests have full access to the private beach at Tahoe Beach and Ski Resort.
Owners also reported that Diamond Resorts also occasionally claims that when they take over Tahoe Beach and Ski Resort, owners will have to pay a large special assessment to renovate the resort, just as they are now doing at Tahoe Seasons Resort.
The owner's letter:
Hello, Tahoe Beach and Ski Owners.
I do not believe Diamond is our friend, and I know many of you feel the same.
Gini and I were pricing a Safari Rose Sunset Cruise rather late the other evening. A lady approached us and offered assistance. As we were setting up the cruise details, she asked if we would like a discounted price… sure! The key to the discount was to attend a Diamond Timeshare presentation. She asked if we were current timeshare owners and when we said Tahoe Beach and Ski, she looked us in the eye and said, "We want your beach. Diamond wants your beach!"
This made us even more curious about what they had up their sleeves, so we agreed to attend their presentation. The next afternoon, we met with their salesperson Alejandro. When we affirmed our Tahoe Beach and Ski ownership & our lack of interest in Diamond membership, he made statements to the effect that:
Diamond owns Tahoe Beach and Ski,
Diamond manages the daily operations at Tahoe Beach and Ski Resort,
It's only a matter of time before DR takes over and totally renovates the resort.
He then asked what would I accept for my Tahoe Beach and Ski timeshare… $1,000, $5,000, or $10,000? He then offered $10,000 credit on any Diamond program purchase in exchange for my current deeded timeshare.
Please help Al and Jake keep Diamond out of our resort. I want my family to continue to enjoy this closely knit, small-town ownership community that we all love.
Comments from Irene Parker:
Congratulations to Jake and Al and to the efforts of many hoping to regain control of our vacations. It was suggested I throw my hat in the ring for Diamond's US Collection election. I did this with the understanding that it is impossible to win, so agreed for the purpose of letting our voice be heard. We're grateful to learn, at least at Tahoe Beach and Ski, a real owner really representing other owners can happen.
To me it would be simpler to have meaningful discussion as to our concerns about questionable sales and marketing practices, rather than engage in this nonsensical battle I call Timeshare Wars. Through our Diamond Advocacy Facebook, Inside Timeshare, and members who found us on the internet, we have heard from 531 Diamond members in the U.S., all but a handful reporting that they experienced unfair and deceptive sales practices. It is my belief Diamond has a product, but over promising and making false claims should not be a part of the selling equation. I feel "The customer is always wrong" because of the automatic; "You signed a contract" will be the downfall of this industry, as Diamond is not alone in the onslaught of member and owner complaints. Why can't we just talk? I have always said that half a problem goes away when confronted.
If you have any views or comments on this or any other article published, then use our contact page and let us know, we welcome your views and insights.
That's the end of another week, join us again next week for more insights into the world of timeshare, have a great weekend.
The Whistleblowers of European Timeshare
Consumer advice, Consumer Stories
Most timeshare owners have over the years received cold calls, be they for resales, claims and the cheap holidays commonly known as flybuys. In many cases the caller has been met with verbal abuse, well not surprising considering the number of calls owners have had to put up with.
But have you ever thought that the person calling is not actually aware that they may be working for a "scam" outfit. Many of these call centers are based in Spain and the workers tend to be expats especially women just out to earn a living for their family. That is not to say that all callers are unaware of what they are doing, many are well aware that they are calling to "scam" people of their hard earned cash.
Inside Timeshare has recently received several emails from workers, not only from call centers but also from the sales people based in the resorts.
As for the sales representatives that have contacted Inside Timeshare, they also tell a very similar story, taking on the job to be able to live a life in the sun. One sales rep who emailed us explained how he applied for the job from the UK, he was unemployed and thought this would be just the right new start in life he wanted.
He travelled to Tenerife with the promise of three months free accomodation, then began training. At first he believed in the product he was selling, it was pitched very much like it is to the potential purchasers, a dream.
At first he was having trouble selling, he was then taken to one side by a very experienced rep and told how to make the sales and earn his commission, that was the only source of income as there was no basic pay. You don't sell you don't eat.
He took on board what he was told and began to embellish his pitch with the usual lies, "you are buying property, it will go up in value", "it's an investment", well you know the rest. Eventually this rep was making lots of money and certainly living the dream.
So what changed his mind?
As he explained, he had an elderly couple on tour, using all his charm and the usual lies, he eventually sold them a pack of several weeks in a one bed apartments, all with the promise that they would receive a rental income for the weeks they didn't use and a resale with a substantial profit after two years. All this was financed with a loan from Barclays Partner Finance, totaling around £50,000.
The following year he met the couple again while they were on holiday, the story they told him made him feel guilty. This couple had great difficulty in repaying the loan, they ended up having to remortgage their home in order to pay it off. This had brought them great financial difficulty and they asked for the timeshares to be sold.
He had the unenviable task of telling them that there was no call for what they had purchased, that the only way was to upgrade, which they could not afford to do. Again the Barclays Partner Finance loan was offered. The couple were in tears, they could not afford to take on another, they were now lumbered with timeshares they did not want and were also in a considerable amount of debt.
There was absolutely nothing he could do for them, guilt took hold as they reminded him of his own grandparents. He realised he had been used by the timeshare company to make them unlimited amounts of money. Subsequently he handed in his notice, luckily he had not fallen into the usual trap of spending his money on drink and drugs so had a fairly large amount saved up. He eventually found a job managing a bar and continues to do so although not in Tenerife.
The company he worked for was none other than Silverpoint.
Inside Timeshare has heard many stories such as this, it does go to show that there are some people who have worked in the timeshare industry who do have a conscience and some morals.
Have you had an experience such as these, if so contact Inside Timeshare and let us tell your story.
The Tuesday Slot
Consumer Stories, News
Welcome to the Tuesday Slot, this week we have another consumers "Nightmare on Timeshare Street", this time involving the timeshare company Westgate.
Over the past few days Inside Timeshare has been receiving many emails from Silverpoint clients seeking advice, we have also received an email from an ex-telemarketer of Signallia Marketing, which sheds a lot of light on what they are up to. We will be publishing an article on this subject tomorrow, but now on with this weeks Tuesday Slot.
A Westgate buyer's experience
By the Dashiell's
Westgate owners Jackie and David Siegle's 90,000 square foot home
The plans for the American Versailles, a 90,000-square-foot behemoth near Orlando, FL, seemed to have one overarching goal: to make the French original look shabby by comparison. Did Marie Antoinette have 10 kitchens, an ice skating rink, and a 5,000-square-foot closet?
https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/queen-of-versailles-q-and-a/
The Dashiell's Westgate Experience
When I purchased a Westgate Lakes timeshare two years ago, the salesman told us about great financial benefits. We don't have money to throw away, but it sounded like a good investment. The sales rep kept telling us over and over how the timeshare would "pay for itself" by generating rental income while also paying for maintenance fees and loan payments. He mentioned that we could write it off on our taxes and also said I could refinance the timeshare at my personal bank to get a lower interest rate. We thought we had security and low risk, especially since he said the timeshare could easily be resold.
After the presentation, our sales rep didn't give us time to read the long contract. It would have taken all day if he had. He told us what was in the contract and pointed out where to sign and initial. He mailed us our document package with our contract and everything in it, AFTER the contract rescission period had passed! After receiving the contract, we learned that everything told to us during the sales presentation contradicted what was in the contract! We have tried to make the best of it, but it's been two years now without making a dime on our "investment" and we could not refinance or get tax breaks.
We tried calling Westgate to give it back but they said I would have to find a buyer myself. There is no rental program. There is no resale program. The program is hard to use and we are done with it.
Another reason I bought was to be able to travel with my family at an affordable price. Our rep told me that I would be able to exchange property locations at any time and go anywhere if I had Interval International and all the travel extras for free or very cheap. In reality, properties were ALWAYS booked. I was told I should book 11 months out to reserve my stay. In this day and age of Airbnb and Expedia, that is just not realistic or flexible.
I've read other owners' testimonies. They all seem to share our story. We feel the way the product was sold to us was unfair and deceptive. It's bad enough that people can't get rid of a timeshare, it's yours for life, but promising rental income and tax breaks that do not exist seems criminal.
After we wrote Westgate a letter of complaint, Westgate spent months informing us by email that they were looking into our contract. They did not reply until we filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. Westgate said that they had replied to us by letter (which they hadn't), explaining that 'timeshare real estate sales are highly regulated,' pointing to the AOR document with my initials.
Westgate said that it 'absolutely holds its employees responsible for the things they do and say, however, supporting documentation is required.' What documentation would there be – a letter from the rep with his signature confessing his misrepresentations? Needless to say the BBB closed our case swiftly and we are now hoping that the Attorney General will help us. If the Attorney General won't help, that means the sales reps can say anything to make a sale and get away with it. I feel this is criminal.
I have no hope or faith that Westgate will respond to us. I do wonder what the point of the Better Business Bureau is, if they regularly side with Westgate when there is so much precedent on their own forum with so many Westgate buyers describing deception and misrepresentations.
Thank you to the Dashiell's for sharing their experience. Contact Inside Timeshare if you have a timeshare experience to share. When sold honestly, a timeshare can be of great benefit to a family. Families, who feel they bought a timeshare based on inaccurate information, letting their voice be heard, may save another family from making a timeshare decision they will live to regret.
If you have a similar story and want to share it it others, contact Inside Timeshare using our contact page and we will get back to you.
Have you had a call from a company promising you the earth, want to know if they and what they say is genuine?
Have you found a company on the internet that claims they can get you out of your timeshare and get your money back?
Not sure how to check if they are genuine and will actually deliver what they say, then contact us and we will point you in the right direction.


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Nicholas I. Froio
Email Nicholas I. Froio @ nick.froio@klgates.com
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Private Equity Transactions
J.D., Temple University Beasley School of Law, 1997 (cum laude)
B.B.A., Temple University, 1993 (cum laude)
Bar of Delaware
Nick Froio is a partner in the firm's Wilmington office, and his practice concentrates on alternative entities and general commercial and financing transactions.
Nick focuses primarily on organizational, structural, operational, management and governance issues relating to alternative entities, such as statutory trusts, general and limited partnerships, limited liability companies and special purpose corporations. This includes their utilization in a wide range of domestic and cross-border structured finance transactions, securitizations, special purpose/bankruptcy remote structures, and other commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, venture capital, private equity and hedge fund transactions, equipment and project financing transactions, leverage lease transactions, trust preferred securities transactions, aircraft financing transactions, collateralized loan obligations, structured settlement transactions, insurance premium financing transactions and life settlement transactions. He also provides advice in structuring and restructuring matters involving alternative entities.
Nick's practice also includes representing financial institutions, trust companies and service providers in all types of commercial and financing transactions. This includes their serving in various roles such as owner trustee, trustee, indenture trustee, collateral agent, custodian, escrow agent, securities intermediary, paying agent, servicer, back-up servicer, local manager and independent director.
Additionally, Nick frequently provides advice and third party legal opinions on issues relating to Delaware entities, the perfection of security interests under the Delaware Uniform Commercial Code and other matters of Delaware law.
Nick serves on the Delaware State Bar Association's Statutory Trust Committee, which is a small and prestigious committee responsible for drafting Delaware's renowned statutory trust statute.
Named as a leading practitioner in Delaware in the Alternative Entities subcategory of Corporate/M&A in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, one of the most respected legal rankings in the world.
Named in the 2016, 2017, 2020, and 2021 editions of Best Lawyers in America©, touted as the preeminent peer-review based referral guide to the legal profession in the United States.
Delaware State Bar Association: Statutory Trust Committee, Corporation Law Section; Commercial Law Section

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Impact Report, 2015-16
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The Difference We Made: Impact Report, 2015/16
Our impact report sets out the positive changes we've made to the lives of vulnerable children across the UK
We worked with over 18,000 vulnerable children and young people last year
Our campaign wins will bring life-changing support to more than 5.6 million
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We're tremendously proud of our achievements over the past year. We're continuing to make a difference to millions of children in the UK who would otherwise have nowhere else to turn.
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Will you support vulnerable children and young people?
We are a national charity that runs local services, helping children and young people when they are at their most vulnerable, and have nowhere left to turn.
A message from our Chief Executive, Matthew Reed
At The Children's Society we work towards a country where children are free from disadvantage
In this year's impact report we have focussed the evaluation of our work on our five core thematic areas:
1. Young people affected by child sexual exploitation
2. Mental and emotional health
3. Going missing
4. Substance misuse
5. Young people who are affected by issues related to being in care or transitioning out of care
So often the issues faced by young people are exacerbated by wider issues in society, and so we also work with young people indirectly through our acclaimed public policy and campaigning work. This year, our campaigns to tackle problem debt, to extend the Warm Home Discount, and to put statutory guidance in place for the cost of school uniforms have all helped change the lives of millions of young people. And this year for the first time we campaigned locally, when our Handle with Care campaign successfully targeted local authorities in Greater Manchester to improve the support they give young people in the care system who get placed out of their local area.
Many of our services are now working with young people who are experiencing some of the most complex problems we see in society; despite the challenges of this work I am encouraged that we are consistently delivering positive outcomes, which is good news for these young people and for wider society. The case studies in this report show that our work changes lives, and it is these real life stories and successes that inspire my colleagues and I to want to do more.
I hope you enjoy learning about our work helping millions of children, and we look forward to doing even more good work together in the future.
We set out five key goals for 2015/16, focussing on the difference we were aiming to make to children's lives.
Our goal: Work with more than 8,000 young people living with one or more of our five priority themes.
In 2015/16 we worked with 5,055 children and young people in our priority themes. This figure falls slightly short of our intended goal and we are strengthening our efforts to reach those most vulnerable and are aiming to reach 10,000 next year as a result of continued refocussing of our services.
In total, we supported over 18,000 children and young people across our services.
Our goal: Deliver more than 1 million positive changes to children's lives through our campaigning and policy work.
In 2015/16 our campaigning and policy work brought about 27 national and local policy changes and these contributed to over 5.6 million positive changes to children's lives
Our goal: Maintain the high proportion of ourusers who experience positive change through our services.
In 2014/15, 73% of the families, children, and young people who were assessed, experienced positive change. In 2015/16 we continued our planned exit from children's centres to focus on vulnerable young people. During this period of transition we maintained our 73% ofusers who experienced positive change.
Our goal: Increase the number of donation and new supporter actions to 80,000.
The total number of our new financial supporters and number of supporter actions increased to 70,000. We fell short of our target for new financial supporters mainly due to the changes in the external fundraising environment and adverse media publicity and scrutiny which affected the whole sector during the year. Despite the tough fundraising year, we recruited more financial supporters than we did in the previous year.
Our goal: Increase the number of volunteers mobilised in our communities to 9,500.
In 2015/16 we had 9,817 volunteers supporting us in communities across the UK. This is a 9% increase on the 9,000 people who supported us last year and demonstrates strong growth in our volunteer base.
Our goal: Grow our net unrestricted income from fundraising activities
Despite the challenging external fundraising environment and the increased regulatory demands, net income from donations and legacies increased slightly from £16.5m to £16.7m in the year.
Additional achievements
In addition, we were also able to:
Win £13.7 million of new contracts – this figure includes all closed won opportunities related to projected notification date within the financial year. It includes both new and extended contracts.
Sustain our media presence with a media reach of 758 million, and a total media value equivalent of £23 million.
Engage senior church leaders to undertake 64 actions that supported our influencing work.
On average, engage over 400 young people a month in lobbying, campaigning and organisational decision making.
Our direct work with children and young people
Through our network of targeted services and children's centres, we worked with over 18,000 children and young people last year, bringing positive changes to vulnerable children up and down the country.
Our impact, mapped
Click on a region to find out more about our work with children and young people.
Total number of young people supported: 8,839
Services run: 42
Policy changes: 21
This year, The Children's Society in the North has continued improving the lives of thousands more children in the region. We are truly proud of the role our services have played in giving young people in our area happier, healthier and safer childhoods.
Total number of services: 15
The Children's Society in the Midlands had a strong year in 2015/16. We consolidated existing services for vulnerable young people, attracted new and important investment into our services, and expanded and enhanced the role that volunteers and supporters play in directly improving the lives of children and young people in the Midlands.
London and the East
The Children's Society in London and the East is dedicated to improving the lives of all children living in the area, and this year we have brought more positive change to thousands of young people who urgently needed us to be there for them.
South and the South West
This year The Children's Society in the South and South West has positively changed the lives of many children. Our children centres and youth at risk services continue to provide class-leading support for children, young people and families dealing with a range of serious and complex issues, and in the past year we have launched several new services that have brought benefits for young people across the region.
Sophie's story
'I was extremely lucky to find The Children's Society at the time I did. I hate to think of it, but I'd be dead. I was just on the brink of becoming someone who no one could have saved me from.'
Just after her 16th birthday and with difficulties at home, Sophie started going missing and rarely went to school. She met a gang who got her to steal for them, and after police found Sophie with a man they were arresting on suspicion of sexually assaulting women, she was referred to The Children's Society.
Sophie worked with one of our workers who helped her to understand the risks and dangers of going missing. Soon Sophie started going back to school and achieved good grades in her GCSEs.
She is now attending sixth-form college and has stopped going missing from home. Sophie's worker remains in contact with her in case she ever needs further support.
John's story
'Mum says that things are going our way for once and The Children's Society can take a lot of credit for that'
John and his mum had experienced some really tough times together since he was little. He loves being close to his mum, but found it hard to make friends at school and his behaviour got him into a lot of trouble.
John and his mum approached The Children's Society for help, and John started attending group work where he made new friends and used his creative talents to produce some fantastic pieces of artwork. John made amazing improvements both in and out of school. The need for school meetings has decreased and John's friendship groups are now much wider. With The Children's Society's help, John's no longer gets angry like he used to, and things are now on the up for him and his mum.
Our campaigns and policy work
Our ambitious campaigning is grounded in strong practice.
Through our direct services we learn more about the complexity of the issues that affect children and young people. This learning influences our campaigning and policy work nationally and locally.
We run campaigns to tackle the deeply engrained issues children face, influence Government policy and change prevailing attitudes to the most vulnerable in our society.
This year our campaigning and policy work contributed to:
Five of the country's leading energy companies changing their practices to improve life for children in families with problem debt.
The Government reconsidering plans to cut tax credits which would have been a huge blow to low income families already struggling to make ends meet.
An extension of the Warm Home Discount on energy bills through to 2020, which will benefit up to 1.6 million children.
Guidance on school uniform costs being made legally binding, which could affect up to 1.2 million children.
Thank you for all that you do
We would not have been able to do all we have for young people without our dedicated supporters, the thousands of people who we rely on to work with us through our campaigning, fundraising, and volunteering to help change children's lives.
I would like to thank each one of our supporters, along with our many funding and implementation partners across the country, for working so hard to be part of everything we have achieved for young people this year. I am very proud of you, our work and the organisation we are building together.
Finally, I'd like to thank the children and young people it is our privilege to work both with and for. Their stories of resilience and tenacity continue to inspire me, and remind everyone at The Children's Society how important it is that we do all that we can to ensure children and young people are given the opportunity for a brighter future.
Find out more about what we do
We also campaign for changes to laws affecting children and young people, to stop the mistakes of the past being repeated in the future.


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In fact, it's also because of this reason that with out appropriate certificate, there's a dearth of qualified professionals in this field. where to find jobs Even in the event you have some great skills, keep in mind that you simply haven't been within the work force for fairly some time so you may desire to start applying for the lower level job openings. There are various advertisements for jobs within the Dubai newspapers. Call each organization and ask data relating to job openings and position vacancies.
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Act as if discovering a job is your job – it is. I am married and have three youngsters ages 5, ten and fifteen years of age. Being component of a free nation, use your rights to challenge and question the advertisements that youre showered with! Dale Dauten along with Kate Wendleton in a syndicated column said, At age 40, 40 percent of employers will not consider you; at age 50, it's 60 percent; and at age 60, it is 80 percent.
Your stellar resume and cover letter has landed you an interview. Will your present skills function in another sector You may put much more emphasis in 1 region and not as considerably in yet another region, depending on your individual requirements and can negotiate from that point. But, when I believe back I was completely unprepared for the realities of searching for a job when I graduated from school.
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There could be 100 or a lot more applicants per job posting, and they all have the identical or much better abilities as you. But I didnt tell him what I found out about his resume. Dear Career Journal… Generating a lot more than one version of your resume may mean youre not severe sufficient with your career.
You might be going to have to make sure that you incorporate the time you have been unemployed and ensure that you add all of the points which you did that took up your time even though you had been not working. Locate some recruiters that specialize within your market or position and get them your resume. I've had the experience of shopping government auctions. Some actions that may enable you to to uncover a job: Public Health Jobs.
Once searchers have narrowed down a potential field, based on interests and education, developing a resume or portfolio template is really a suitable follow-up Mississippi Jobs. To cope with the challenging times ahead, you can find those that take time to enroll in a community college although working. Rather than spending your days in a cubicle, you'll be able to get out into the world and aid folks cope with their troubles and challenges. . .
Ensure you are actively spending your time on the internet looking for and applying to jobs and networking with people who may be able to assist. Be memorable by utilizing multimedia advertising and marketing like e-mail, follow-up phone calls, or attempt using regular priority mail envelopes to send resumes, cover letters as well as other "marketing materials" find a job now. For an individual looking out to hire people for their organization, LinkedIn could be an successful tool for hiring. Lastly, consider working in a studying environment geared toward adults.
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In most instances the first individual reading this letter is performing a fast scan and will make the choice regardless of whether to pass it on or trash it based on that scan. Numerous firms recruit from the job search engines. You need to recognize all of them and their impact on your choice. Investigation and see what the winners are performing!
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A Breakfast Club for Investors: Dean Foods Company (DF), Kellogg Company (K)
Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason – because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics. –Bill James (American baseball writer, historian, statistician)
It seems many people like breakfast cereals–in traditional and non-traditional formats. The advent of cereal bars has changed the morning breakfast routines of many consumers and opened up new revenue streams for cereal manufacturers. So should investors like breakfast cereal and milk companies?
Dean Foods Company (NYSE:DF) is a leading food and beverage company in the U.S. Their Fresh Dairy Direct segment is one of the nation's largest processors and direct-to-store distributors of fluid milk marketed under more than 50 local and regional dairy brands and private labels. The company had 2011 net sales of $13 billion. They are the leader in conventional and value-added milk.
Concerning their Fresh Dairy Direct segment, the most recent financial reports are for the third quarter of 2012. Operating income was $94 million, compared to $75 million in the third quarter of 2011. Third quarter Fresh Dairy Direct adjusted operating income was $100 million, a 32 percent increase from $75 million in the third quarter of 2011.
Investors should research milk producers who are creative in marketing a basic staple product. In January, Dean Foods introduced a reformulation of their popular brand of chocolate milk, TruMoo. The new product contains 35 percent less total sugar than the leading chocolate milk competitor, and it has 40 percent less sugar than its previous formula.
However, it seems "on-the-go" cereal bars are having an effect on milk producers. Not having a bowl of cereal, among other trends, is quashing milk consumption. Investors, going forward, must research this trend as they check out companies involved in the milk industry. An article in The Wall Street Journal (December 2012 – Ian Berry and Kelsey Gee) related that, "In an age of vitamin waters and energy drinks, the decades long decline in U.S. milk consumption has accelerated, worrying dairy farmers, milk processors and grocery chains."
Dean Foods' Fresh Dairy Direct fluid milk volumes declined 1.4 percent on a year-over-year basis, excluding the impact of divestitures. This compares to the balance of the industry, which experienced a volume decline of approximately 3.1 percent on a year-over-year basis, based on USDA data and company estimates. Investors should consider that Fresh Dairy Direct volumes continued to outperform the broader industry, while understanding that milk does have a bit of an image problem right now.
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The Prison House of Language
The women in the novel are subjected to sexual violence so regularly that it is treated as if it is just another part of their punitive program. For many of them, this sexual violence is not unique to their time in jail. Kushner wisely demonstrates throughout the novel that patriarchy and its parallel oppressive structures are not phenomena specific to incarceration; they groom these characters from birth to feel comfortable in the rigidly authoritative structures of prisons. "I had been a waitress at IHOP right after I graduated high school," Romy says. "I was waitress 43, and the cooks would call, Forty-three! Your order is up! Which, as I only saw later, had been preparing me for here." With wrenching flashbacks to Romy's youth that bare the bruises of innocence forcibly taken, Kushner shows us Romy navigating and bucking authority throughout her life, in her predatory friendships, in her work as a stripper, and in her experiences with men. By the time she ends up in prison, like the rest of the women around her, she hardly has the capacity to question or resist authority.
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I have a close friend who used to work in the prison system as an English teacher. A longtime advocate for ending mass incarceration, he spent much of his time with his students discussing prisons as part of a larger oppressive system that disproportionately affects—targets, even—Black and Brown people. As his students discussed their lived experiences, my friend would offer insights he'd developed in an academic context, and usually they would find themselves talking about the same issues in similar ways. Both would agree that power in America seemed to belong to a small, elite group of wealthy white people who seemed to have a personal interest in policing and incarcerating, and more broadly exploiting, people of color. With some regularity, they would describe the same system the same way, but they would give it a different name. He called it systemic racism, or mass incarceration, or capitalism. They called it The Illuminati.
What makes this story poignant is not that my friend's students were mistaken or confused, but that they were not confused at all. In a society in which power is organized to the benefit of the elite few at the dramatic expense of the many, the coordinates of conspiracy theory and social theory are only superficially distinct. The Illuminati is not the same in name as the system that puts people of color in jail every day, but it is the same in every other respect. Both are governed by double-speak, secret rituals, and all-powerful masters. The administrators of America's prison system regularly misrepresent events and manipulate legal technicalities to veil and justify gross abuses of the rights of incarcerated people. Examined closely enough, these practices sound more like those of a secretive clique than those of a legitimate political institution; this distinction, too, may be purely superficial.
Sergio De La Pava's Lost Empress, published last May, is a novel about our justice system that resembles the systems novels of the American counterculture, which imagined vast, transcontinental political conspiracies as metaphors for America's political system. The novel's many subplots revolve around a farcical public competition between two children of an ailing football mogul whose son inherits the Dallas Cowboys to the frustration of his sister. Despite her superior business sense and managerial acumen, she ends up inheriting a gimmicky franchise called the Paterson Pork of the Indoor Football League. Similarly goofy stories work their way into the book, but for the most part they serve as washes of light that bring out an otherwise dark landscape in which jobs are brutally taxing to the soul, greed and power commingle in sinister machinations and all but the chosen few are shuttled without detour to the sites of their inevitable disenfranchisement.
The novel's most memorable subplot follows Nuno DeAngeles, a calculating but short-tempered criminal-by-nurture, imprisoned on Rikers Island, bent on beating the justice system at its own game. Nuno is the perfect hero for a novel about a system as bloated and unwieldy as our prison system: fiercely principled, uncommonly well-read, and armed with a wit that cuts and twists inside the wound. Nuno supplies much of the novel's humor in the form of sarcastic reversals or tautologies like "In the interest of brevity, I'll just say that the problem with paying someone a dollar a day to make an item that goes for a thousand times that is that you are paying someone a dollar a day to make an item that goes for a thousand times that." Unburdened by the illusion that anyone connected to the justice system ever acts toward unselfish ends, Nuno is determined to manipulate these actors to pursue selfish ends of his own—namely, a massive payout from a dicey prison heist. Nuno has enough braggadocio and charisma to carry the novel by himself, but Lost Empress is focused less on its hero than the system that surrounds him, its inherent flaws and contradictions, and the violence and injustice wrought by its dysfunction and obsolescence.
Nuno is introduced with a chapter that begins, "What would education look like if its ultimate goal were incarceration?" In a novel that posits incarceration as part of a larger machine that segments, targets, and processes entire populations long before they ever get to prison, the question is rhetorical (rhetorical questions are another stylistic device that recur in the novel). Later, De La Pava's narrator offers more bluntly, "One could, for example, don't laugh, imagine a situation in which ensuing human evolution was such that the need for jails decreased drastically until this jail was closed and the island returned to its agrarian roots even to the point where it became a kind of revenue-generating botanical tourist attraction. That did not happen." The tongue-in-cheek suggestion here is that this return to the time before jails would be all too appropriate, but the "need for jails" has not decreased because the carceral system needs them, for revenue and for social control. In carceral America, too many people, especially Black and Brown people, are presented with challenges they cannot surmount and then punished for failures they cannot avoid. (Nuno's challenge ends up being a moral quandary that only violence can resolve.) This progression, from insurmountable challenge to unavoidable failure, from education to incarceration, is a linear progression, like the structure of a traditional novel. The eighty-nine chapters in Lost Empress elapse backward from 88 to Zero. When we first meet Nuno, he is incarcerated. By the end, he is free. The novel that ends with Nuno's incarceration is simply society itself. With Lost Empress, De La Pava does what both postmodernism and decarceration have always aimed to do: reverse the narrative.
The process by which Nuno seeks freedom from Rikers accounts for much of the structural complexity of De La Pava's novel. Systems novels are often lauded for their breadth of research and mastery of specialist vernacular. De La Pava happens to work by day as a public defender in New York, so the language of the justice system is one he speaks fluently; he already knows that Rikers has a law library where informed and inclined inmates can learn which motion to file to request their mental fitness to proceed in court be evaluated, or to contest a Murder Two charge in the interest of justice. Nuno eventually writes and submits the latter motion when his case is heard at the New York State Supreme Court, and it stands out not just as an example of spot-on institutional ventriloquism but also as some of the most thorough and cogent criticism of mass incarceration in contemporary popular letters:
11. American law enforcement as an entity entire is currently devoid of any legitimizing authority. As an initial matter, your affiant accepts that life is just another word for violent contest. The difficulty is that the vast majority of people are physical cowards. This raises two primary questions: who do we subjugate and, given that cowardice, how?
12. In the country where this motion is being filed, the who has been obvious from the start. Against all sense, melanin was demonized and rather famously enslaved. The tool, essentially, was the legal system, nothing less than the bedrock foundation of society itself.
13. The problem with running that counter to any sense of decency or defensible truth is one of endurance. When slavery was replaced with legalized discrimination this was only slightly better built to last, which takes us to post-Civil Rights Act 1970s. An incarcerated defendant writing this motion then would've noted that he was one of about 300,000 people so situated. Today as I write these words I am one of about 2.3 million people currently being incarcerated by the United States of America.
By its end, the motion has advanced a theory of systemic racism in America so deep and nuanced that, to anyone in the novel with the privilege not to be its target, it is too dire to receive without a fragile kneejerk dismissal. Not a page into the following chapter, one of the readers reviewing the motion in the DA's office is saying "Racism? . . . I'm married to a woman whose cousin is married to a black," as if racism could be solved with a wedding or two.
The motion is not honored. Eventually, Nuno is relegated to solitary confinement without just cause, falls into a catatonia that may or may not be real, leaves Rikers for mental treatment at Bellevue Hospital, returns to Rikers and successfully argues for his release, and then breaks out before his release date because a physics instructor convinces him that, before that date comes, the world will end. "Time had a beginning with the Big Bang and like all things with a beginning it will have an end," he says. "It is slowing as we speak and it is slowing the way your great-grandfather is slowing, with the same ultimate result." Comparing the action of the novel and the forces it examines to physical principles like the laws of thermodynamics, according to which the usable energy available to a natural system always gradually depletes until the system's functioning grows more disorderly and uncertain, is an old impulse in this mode of fiction, going back at least to Pynchon's "Entropy." If the universe is Nuno's dying great-grandfather, mass incarceration is the cancer killing him, an irreversible agent of decay. This assessment is sound, but it feels like a tic—more a deduction from an older postmodern mode, than a serious attempt to come to terms with the contemporary system. Mass incarceration is out of control, but not just on the level of statistics. We already have novels that map structural oppression across space and time, but these novels tell us little about the lived experience of oppression.
Favoring rhetorical grandiosity, Lost Empress pays little attention to the social behavior of prisoners, conspiratorial or coercive arrangements between inmates and COs, or neglect of the kind that can lead to death. There is also little representation of the totally unlivable conditions reported by Rikers inmates, like unbearably hot or cold temperatures, the near ubiquitous use of force in disciplinary measures, or the "prison slavery" of negligible working wages that has now emerged as a platform for mass action in prisons across the country. Nuno is too tough and wise to fear violence or extortion, which gets De La Pava out of the responsibility of relating the experience of someone who fears violence or extortion, which is probably the more typical experience of incarceration. De La Pava may not be interested in the potentially exploitative nature of exploring these facts, but not facing up to them deprives the novel of an essential aspect of the system: what it feels like to those inside it.
What appears in De La Pava's novel as a mesh of commingling and conflicting public and private interests is mapped onto the psychology of the characters in Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room. In the book's first chapter, in which protagonist Romy Leslie Hall is transported by bus to the Northern California Women's Facility, Romy says of the passengers around her, "that was the kind of people I had to be around now. People who thought everything was a scientifical conspiracy. I didn't meet a single person in county who wasn't convinced that AIDS had been invented by the government to wipe out gays and addicts. It got difficult to argue with. In a sense it seemed true." The way Romy describes it, conspiracy theory is a way to cope with prison life, a part of the experience of incarceration, a way to reconcile the maddening enormities of her circumstances. For these characters, the paranoid is as personal as the personal is political. No less indebted than De La Pava to the great postwar novelists of the left, Kushner is more stylistically of a piece with socially-minded writers of the '80s and '90s, like Jayne Anne Phillips and Mary Gaitskill, who reacted to the dizzying advancement of global capitalism by zooming in on the minute yet maddening oppressions of daily life. In The Mars Room, we get much more of the incarceration between the lines of De La Pava's massive narrative.
Unlike Rikers Island, the Central California Women's Facility of Chowchilla, California, the model for the Northern California Women's Facility of The Mars Room, despite being the biggest women's correctional facility in the United States, does not receive much attention from the media. In 2016, after studies into conditions at the prison revealed patterns of rampant violence and sexual abuse in concert with studies of other facilities, the facility's warden of over thirty years and another warden at another facility resigned at the same time, and this generated some media interest. Besides that, there is not much readily available reporting about life and living conditions at the prison. In researching this review, I was able to quickly pull up other reviews of Kushner's novel, coverage of the aforementioned events, and a fluffy piece about a new beauty therapy course at the facility. Despite the fact that women are the fastest growing incarcerated population in America, The Mars Room is notably one of few in-depth explorations of the lives of women in prison to emerge in recent years. (Comparison to the Netflix series Orange is the New Black is almost inevitable, which may be why the novel's dust jacket sets the title in orange neon against a black background.) For this reason, and because Kushner wrote the novel over a period of years spent developing close relationships with incarcerated women as a volunteer with Justice Now, The Mars Room makes a major contribution to prison literature.
By tracing the narratives of her characters' oppression beyond the prison, Kushner makes their lives relevant to ours. When one of Romy's fellow inmates, a trans man, is written up, Romy ruminates, "Some of the girls laughed and snickered that Conan was getting written up. You'd think we would band together. Even our ragtag crew from the bus, with all sixty of us we could have subdued the two transport cops easily enough, hijacked that vehicle, and gone to Mexico. But there was no cooperation. Just people eager to see others fall under the hammer they suffered under themselves." The novel reads as if written quickly, as if Romy is using the first words she finds for her thoughts (the word "scientifical," from the quote above, is a good example), but time spent with the sentences reveals that they double as social theory. Why fight tooth-and-nail for freedom when passively acclimating to covert abuse requires no effort at all?
The Mars Room's criticism of patriarchal capitalism writ large accretes as Kushner illustrates again and again how men subordinate women, and how women are taught to comply. Before going to jail, Romy works as a stripper at the titular Mars Room, where it is very literally her job to anticipate, accept and satisfy the whims of her male customers. Her bosses and her bouncers at the club are also men, but their job is really to stand back idly while the customers tell the women what to do. One of these customers eventually becomes obsessed with Romy and begins to stalk her, and when she kills him after losing her patience for his constant threats to her sense of safety, no one is willing to hear her side of the story. He is an older disabled veteran, and she chose to be a stripper, and to beat him brutally with a baseball bat. His arbitrarily elevated social status legitimizes his endangering her, and when she reacts in the interest of her own self-preservation, what the justice system sees is her rejection of an authority she is expected to recognize. Punitive justice in Romy's case is meant to be corrective of this behavioral aberration, a mistake in her conditioning.
The Mars Room offers enough freedom to its characters to allow them to devise and enact alternatives to their lifelong conditioning. Like many of her fellow inmates, who find pen pals outside of prison who will agree to do them favors and smuggle them drugs and even marry them in exchange for some desperately craved attention, Romy slowly grooms her tutor Gordon Hauser until he agrees to help her locate her son, who is left without care after her mother suffers a fatal accident. Systems are not only strictly governed by rules: they are nothing but rules. Relationships, however, are different. In the stark, intimate quiet of an empty, windowless room, with no one around and no interruption from anything going on outside, women like Romy can make men like Gordon do whatever they want.
Thanks to this awareness of the dual nature of the social, The Mars Room not only honors but improves on the systems novel. The book includes enough photorealist explosions of violence and brutality that no reader will forget for a second where its characters live, but there is enough vibration of the human in Kushner's treatment of these characters to remind every reader that we live in a shared world. We hear the story of Romy's attack on her stalker at the beginning of the novel and it is immediately clear that patriarchy has forced Romy into committing an act of violence. We hear it again at the end of the novel from the point of view of the man himself, an abysmally socialized ex-military strip club denizen who cannot find the strength to leave Romy alone.
In Lost Empress, Sergio De La Pava presents multiple parallel narratives to illustrate the architecture of mass incarceration and trace its simultaneous movements. Rachel Kushner does the same in The Mars Room, by telling Romy's story from every perspective available so that the reader understands that there are forces at work larger than Romy, in which everyone around her is complicit. Almost echoing De La Pava's line about incarceration and education, Romy says toward the end of the novel, "life does not go off the rails because it is the rails, goes where it goes." This is nothing if not true, in the way of tautologies, but Kushner doesn't tell her readers this truth up front, like De La Pava's narrator does. Instead, she watches and describes as her characters' lives go where they go, until they can put the truth in their own words.
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Grocery-carrying robots are coming. Do we need them?
Ahti Heinla of Starship Technologies presents a wheeled delivery robot at the Digital-Life-Design conference in Munich, Germany, in January 2016.
(Tobias Hase / European Pressphoto Agency)
By Matt O'BrienAssociated Press
The first cargo-carrying robot marketed directly to consumers is on sale this holiday season. But how many people are ready to ditch their second car to buy a two-wheel rover that can follow them around like a dog?
Corporate giants such as Amazon, FedEx and Ford have already been experimenting with sending delivery robots to doorsteps. Now Piaggio, the Italian company that makes the Vespa scooter, is offering a stylish alternative to those blandly utilitarian machines — albeit one that weighs 50 pounds and costs $3,250.
It's named the Gita (JEE'-tah) after the Italian word for a short, pleasurable excursion — the kind you might take to pick up some lacinato kale and gourmet cheese at the farmers market. Its creators have such trips in mind for the "hands-free carrier" that can hold produce and other objects as it follows its owner down a sidewalk.
"We're trying to get you out into the world and connected to that neighborhood you decided to move to because it was so walkable," said Greg Lynn, chief executive of Piaggio's tech-focused subsidiary, Piaggio Fast Forward.
Tech industry analysts are already declaring the Gita as doomed to fail unless it finds a more practical application, such as lugging tools around warehouses, hospitals or factory floors.
"That's a lot of money for what is in effect just a cargo-carrying robot that's going to carry your groceries," said Forrester technology analyst J.P. Gownder.
On a recent November morning, Lynn was hunched over in a Boston waterfront park, pushing a button that triggered a Gita to "see" him with its cameras and sensors. Then came a musical whirring sound as the device — a squarish, bright red bucket with two oversize wheels — rose up and signaled it was ready for a neighborhood stroll.
A young boy in a stroller pointed excitedly. Another pedestrian asked to try it, and playfully shouted "ah!" as it swerved around, keeping in pursuit as she switched directions.
The Gita doesn't require a phone or intrusive people-tracking technology such as facial recognition or GPS.
"It basically just locks onto you and tracks you," said Piaggio Fast Forward's other co-founder, Jeffrey Schnapp.
Other start-ups, including Starship Technologies, have a more conventional business plan for their own delivery robots. The company charges a delivery fee starting at $1.99 if you order its rovers to bring you a Starbucks coffee or a lunch from Panda Express.
So far, the best habitat to find Starship's six-wheelers are relatively confined spaces such as college campuses; the University of Houston and the University of Wisconsin-Madison rolled them out this fall. The robots, which look like oversize ice chests on wheels, can carry as much as 20 pounds.
"I love them. I think they're so cute!" University of Houston freshman Sadie Garcia said as one of the machines rolled up with a bagel sandwich she'd ordered. She said it was so cold she didn't want to leave her dorm.
Starship co-founder Ahti Heinla said his San Francisco start-up once looked at selling the machines directly to consumers but dropped the idea after realizing it would have to price them at more than $3,000.
Amazon is experimenting with a similar-looking machine that delivers retail goods in a handful of U.S. neighborhoods. FedEx is testing its own delivery rover in partnership with Pizza Hut, Walmart, Target and Walgreens. Ford has showed off a gangly two-legged robot to carry items to homes. So far, none are as far along as Starship, which has hundreds of its machines already in service.
Although Forrester's Gownder isn't impressed with the Gita, he's bullish about delivery robots of the Starship variety because their autonomy will help save labor costs. Gownder said it's more of a question of whether ground-based rovers or aerial delivery drones will prove more successful.
The wheeled cargo robots that have already made it out into the wild have significant limitations.
Starship's machines still require plenty of manual supervision to load them with food orders. They rely on remote pilots to troubleshoot navigation problems. Customers also have to check a phone app to tell the vehicle where to go and to unlock the bin once it arrives.
The Gita, meanwhile, might still be impractical for many people. It favors paved environments that are dense enough to have stores in walking distance, but not so dense that the machines get lost in the crowd.
And anyone who is simply looking to pull home groceries without heavy lifting can find durable wagons online for less than $100.
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Monday Morning Memo – February 14
Congressional leaders reached a deal to boost military and non-defense spending, paving the way for a comprehensive deal to fund government through the end of the fiscal year. To be clear, there is still a lot of work to do to finalize the 12 spending bills and the agreement can still fall apart at any time. In fact, the appropriators who cut the deal—Senate Appropriations Chair Patrick Leahy, Senate Ranker Richard Shelby, House Appropriations Chair Rose DeLauro, and House Ranker Kay Granger—will not even release the funding totals in the deal but it has the approval of leadership. "I am pleased that we have reached agreement on a framework, which will allow our subcommittees to get to work finalizing an omnibus," DeLauro said, adding that appropriators will "now proceed with great intensity to enact legislation." There is no word yet on which (or any) of the previously agreed to earmarks will make it into the final spending package.
After months of resistance, Congress also appears on the verge of an agreement to ban trading of individual stocks by Members of Congress with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer joining the chorus calling for the reform. Pelosi and Democratic leaders greenlighted a plan to draft legislation last week. The House Appropriations Committee will begin drafting legislation with the goal of bringing it to a vote this year, potentially before midterm elections. In the Senate, several versions of the bill have been introduced, with the most high profile proposal from Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Steve Daines of Montana. The deal to bring legislation to the floor represents an about face for Speaker Pelosi who last December opposed a ban, saying "We're a free market economy. [Members of Congress] should be able to participate in that."
The budget train continues down the tracks this week with additional hearings on Mental Hygiene, Transportation, Economic Development, and Taxes. Last week, lawmakers held Joint Legislative Budget Hearings on Local Government, Higher Education, and Health. There was also some legislative action with the Senate Consumer Protection Committee advancing comprehensive data privacy legislation—the New York Privacy Act—and confirmations on the floor for a few of Hochul's outstanding nominees. Governor Hochul also took action on masks, adding New York to the list of states ending their mandates. They continue in effect in schools for the foreseeable future.
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Ivestigative reporters who uncovered information about U.S. policy toward Iraq and who reported charges of sexual misconduct by a former senator were rewarded last night at the Kennedy School of Government with a prize of $25,000.
The Goldsmith Awards "bring together the world of scholarship and the world of practice...enhancing the work of both," said Kennedy School Dean Albert Carnesale.. The awards are given under the auspices of the Kennedy School's Shorentein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
The prizes for investigative reporting were awarded to Douglas Frantz and Murray Waas of The Los Angeles Times for their series on U.S. government policy toward Iraq, and to David Boardman and Eric Pryne of The Seattle Times for their series on allegations of sexual misconduct against Brock Adams, a former Senator..
Murray Waas spoke on behalf of the L.A. Times team, explaining their efforts to expose "Iraqgate."
He stressed the inverse connection between domestic well-being and covert foreign policy.
"People have a right to know the secret history of how these [foreign policy] decisions are made in their name," Waas said.