"The Celebrity Apprentice" Keeps Trump As Executive Producer
But the president-elect devote "zero time" to the show and retains credit only because he conceived of the show.
By Jarett Wieselman
Jarett Wieselman BuzzFeed News Reporter
Last updated on December 10, 2016, at 6:49 a.m. ET
Posted on December 8, 2016, at 6:35 p.m. ET
Donald Trump on The Celebrity Apprentice.
President-elect Donald Trump will remain an executive producer on the new season of NBC's The Celebrity Apprentice, BuzzFeed News has confirmed. The story was first reported by Variety, and Trump's spokeswoman Hope Hicks told the outlet: "Mr. Trump has a big stake in the show and conceived of it with Mark Burnett."
Trump hosted The Apprentice offshoot for seven seasons, but NBC cut ties with Trump in June 2015 after he called Mexicans, among other things "rapists." In a statement, the network said, "At NBC, respect and dignity for all people are cornerstones of our values. Due to the recent derogatory statements by Donald Trump regarding immigrants, NBCUniversal is ending its business relationship with Mr. Trump." But NBC did maintain a relationship with Burnett. MGM Television, of which Burnett is the president, produces The Celebrity Apprentice and will pay Trump's executive producer fee, an unknown sum.
On Saturday, Trump tweeted that he would devote "zero time" to the show, and called reports he would actively work on the show during his presidency "FAKE NEWS" and "rediculous." [sic.]
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
I have NOTHING to do with The Apprentice except for fact that I conceived it with Mark B & have a big stake in it. Will devote ZERO TIME!
Reports by @CNN that I will be working on The Apprentice during my Presidency, even part time, are rediculous & untrue - FAKE NEWS!
The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice were popular programs and boosted visibility for Trump starting in 2004. Many have gone so far to say that the Mark Burnett–produced reality shows actually made his presidency possible.
Trump and his relationship to Burnett came under scrutiny during the 2016 election as interest in Trump's behavior — including alleged racist and sexist comments — from the sets of The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice increased. Archival footage and b-roll from the shows were sought from Burnett, but recordings have yet to surface. As pressure mounted against Burnett, he released the following statement: "I am not now and have never been a supporter of Donald Trump’s candidacy. I am NOT 'Pro-Trump.'"
Trump seems keen to further his relationship with Burnett, as the New York Times reports that the two met to discuss attention-grabbing ideas for his inauguration. Proposed ideas included a parade on New York's Fifth Avenue and a helicopter ride (which could span from the capitol to NYC), to "hold the attention of millions of people expected to watch from around the world."
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Jarett Wieselman is a senior entertainment editor for BuzzFeed News and is based in Los Angeles. Wieselman writes about and reports on the television industry.
Contact Jarett Wieselman at jarett.wieselman@buzzfeed.com.


Bond denied for former teacher charged in girl's kidnapping
6-year-old girl found unharmed
MCSO
Jessie Mae Pollard. She is listed as Jessie Mae Brown on the Madison County Sheriff's Department's website. Officials say Brown is her married name.
SOURCE: MCSO
Bond has been denied for a former Kemper County teacher charged in connection with the abduction of a 6-year-old girl.Jessie Pollard, 54, faces a federal kidnapping charge because she's accused of taking Jashayla Hopson across state lines, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Pollard appeared in federal court in Jackson for a hearing on Thursday.Pollard and the girl's mother are cousins, the family said. During Thursday's hearing, court officials read a text message alleged to have been sent from Pollard to the girl's mother that said, "Don't call the police. I will call you later. If you call the police, you won't see her again." Investigators said the abduction stemmed from a dispute between the two women.An Amber Alert was issued Wednesday after Kemper County officials said Hopson was kidnapped from Kemper Elementary School shortly after 12 p.m. Tuesday. Authorities said a woman walked into the school's library, called the girl's name and walked out of the school with the kindergartner.Later that evening, surveillance cameras at a hotel in Bessemer, Ala., showed Pollard with Hopson, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office. The girl was held in a hotel room overnight and dropped off the next day on the side of the road in Enterprise, Miss., federal officials said.Michelle Bell said she found the child on the front porch of her Lauderdale County home about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Bell said the girl was wet from the rain and crying so she brought her inside, dried her off and offered her some food before calling police.Lauderdale County Sheriff Billy Sollie said deputies arrived at the scene and notified the FBI, which took over the investigation.Hopson was taken to Rush Hospital in Meridian for observation, but Sollie said she did not appear to have been injured. The girl was reunited with her family Wednesday afternoon.Police in Northport, Ala., arrested Pollard Wednesday.Pollard moved to Alabama about a year ago to be close to her son, Devonta Pollard, who plays basketball for the Crimson Tide, her family said. He was the state high school player of the year in 2012 and the only Mississippi player in last year's McDonald's All American game.If convicted, Pollard could be sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison and a maximum of life in prison, federal officials said.Hopson told investigators that two other women were also involved in the kidnapping. She described one of the women to authorities and said she was wearing a pink shirt. The other woman went by the name "Jocelyn," according to court documents.
JACKSON, Miss. —
Bond has been denied for a former Kemper County teacher charged in connection with the abduction of a 6-year-old girl.
Jessie Pollard, 54, faces a federal kidnapping charge because she's accused of taking Jashayla Hopson across state lines, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Pollard appeared in federal court in Jackson for a hearing on Thursday.
Bond denied for third woman charged in girl's kidnapping
2 more arrests made in Kemper County kidnapping
Pollard and the girl's mother are cousins, the family said. During Thursday's hearing, court officials read a text message alleged to have been sent from Pollard to the girl's mother that said, "Don't call the police. I will call you later. If you call the police, you won't see her again." Investigators said the abduction stemmed from a dispute between the two women.
An Amber Alert was issued Wednesday after Kemper County officials said Hopson was kidnapped from Kemper Elementary School shortly after 12 p.m. Tuesday. Authorities said a woman walked into the school's library, called the girl's name and walked out of the school with the kindergartner.
Later that evening, surveillance cameras at a hotel in Bessemer, Ala., showed Pollard with Hopson, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office. The girl was held in a hotel room overnight and dropped off the next day on the side of the road in Enterprise, Miss., federal officials said.
Michelle Bell said she found the child on the front porch of her Lauderdale County home about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Bell said the girl was wet from the rain and crying so she brought her inside, dried her off and offered her some food before calling police.
Lauderdale County Sheriff Billy Sollie said deputies arrived at the scene and notified the FBI, which took over the investigation.
Hopson was taken to Rush Hospital in Meridian for observation, but Sollie said she did not appear to have been injured. The girl was reunited with her family Wednesday afternoon.
Police in Northport, Ala., arrested Pollard Wednesday.
Pollard moved to Alabama about a year ago to be close to her son, Devonta Pollard, who plays basketball for the Crimson Tide, her family said. He was the state high school player of the year in 2012 and the only Mississippi player in last year's McDonald's All American game.
If convicted, Pollard could be sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison and a maximum of life in prison, federal officials said.
Hopson told investigators that two other women were also involved in the kidnapping. She described one of the women to authorities and said she was wearing a pink shirt. The other woman went by the name "Jocelyn," according to court documents.


How Many Exceptionalisms?
Explorations in Comparative Macroanalysis
Aristide Zolberg
Publication: May 08
12 tables, 1 figs.
A collection of essays on the importance of comparative cultural analysis
The essays in How Many Exceptionalisms? span the long history of the intellectual output of Aristide Zolberg, one of the most distinguished social scientists of our time. In this collection, Zolberg shows his originality, insights, and breadth of thought as he addresses subjects ranging from theories of immigration policy, the making of Belgium, and the origins of the modern world system.
Written over three decades, and featuring many essays that have not been in wide circulation, Zolberg here draws from political science, cultural anthropology, sociology, and history to provide a configurative analysis of and long-term approach to the cultural diversity in Africa, Europe, and the United States.
"Ever since the late 1960s…Aristide Zolberg has crafted wonderfully engaging essays that have profoundly altered our understanding of politics and society in Africa, Europe and the United States. His writing has been deeply…global, especially with its focus on the large-scale movement of populations and their reception in new locations….Zolberg has been one of our most creative and informed scholars in the social sciences, at work on issues that really matter."
—Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University
"Each of the chapters in How Many Exceptionalisms? is a major academic contribution on its own terms. They show us how Zolberg has extricated key conceptual tools from the complicated architectures of social and political life—the management of diversity, the interactions of culture and history, the role of state formation in creating refugees, the limits of ‘crisis’ perspectives, and more. Together this selection of articles is one of those rare cases where the whole is indeed more than the sum of its parts. As the foremost contributor to macrohistorical analysis of international migration, Zolberg knows how to choose his essays: their sequence is a narrative that shows us how he got there, and does so with a grand geopolitical sweep."
—Saskia Sassen, author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages
"(A) thoughtful reflection on macroanalysis.... Zolberg has presented us with a deeply global book. Its geographic sweep, historical depth, and theoretical eclecticism will surely nourish our curiosities about the past and present." —Contemporary Sociology
Introduction: Explorations in Political Macroanalysis
1. Patterns of National Integration
2. Moments of Madness
3. The Making of Flemings and Walloons: Belgium, 1830-1914
4. International Migration Policies in a Changing World System
5. Origins of the Modern World System: A Missing Link
6. The Formation of New States as a Refugee-Generating Process
7. How Many Exceptionalisms?
8. The Great Wall Against China: Responses to the First Immigration Crisis, 1885-1925
9. Matters of State: Theorizing Immigration Policy
10. Why Islam Is Like Spanish: Cultural Incorporation in Europe and the United States (co-authored by Long Litt Woon)
11. International Engagement and American Democracy: A Comparative Perspective
Aristide R. Zolberg is the Walter Eberstadt Professor of Political Science and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research. He wrote the foreword to The Unwanted (Temple), is the author of A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America and Creating Political Order: The Party-States of West Africa, and is co-author of Escape from Violence: Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing World.
Politics, History, and Social Change edited by John C. Torpey
This series will disseminate serious works that analyze the social changes that have transformed our world during the twentieth century and beyond. The main topics to be addressed include international migration; human rights; the political uses of history; the past and future of the nation-state; decolonization and the legacy of imperialism; and global inequality. The series will also translate into English outstanding works by scholars writing in other languages.


CDT Map Set - Colorado Sections 12-23 - Spring Creek Pass to Twin Lakes
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In rural West Africa, gardening offers women a way out of poverty
In Burkina Faso, the nonprofit organization La Saisonnière empowers rural women by teaching them skills like carpentry, sewing, and organic farming, which helps them contribute to their children's education and provide for their families.
La Saisonnière
Cultivation tables keep vegetables clean throughout the growing process and consume less water thanks to drip irrigation.
By Hannifah Sawadogo L’Economiste du Faso
In Africa, it is often said that poverty has a woman’s face. Rural women face discrimination just like those in other socioeconomic sectors, particularly where access to land is concerned. But in Burkina Faso, the nonprofit association La Saisonnière (French for “the seasonal one”) has developed a technique to help women climb out of poverty while growing organic food.
“When I started coming to La Saisonnière in 2006, I had no bicycle, no idea how to take care of a garden, and no income generating activity,” says La Saisonnière’s team leader and producer Aminata Sinaré. “Today, I know how to garden and I own a motorcycle.”
Like her, many women have seen their living conditions improve thanks to the nonprofit. Initially created as an informal group in 2003, La Saisonnière became an association in 2006, after it planted a garden to grow crops. Since 2007, it has endeavored to help disadvantaged women in the 10th district of Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, on land granted by the city council.
La Saisonnière has a market garden with a wide array of African agricultural products, but its activities also include sewing, weaving, and even carpentry. Determined that the empowerment of women can only be achieved through education, the association also teaches the women reading and mathematics. Some 30 women are learning gardening, and another 80 are participating in weaving and sewing workshops. All of the women are selected based on vulnerability criteria.
Since its creation, the association has promoted organic farming. Its efforts paid off in October 2017, when it received the SPG organic certification label, one of the first national organic labels in West Africa, issued by the National Council of Organic Agriculture, which guarantees production according to the Burkinabe organic farming standard. Chemicals are replaced by a mix of rice husks, peanut shells, and compost made by the women.
In 2015, La Saisonnière also started focusing on soilless culture. The Italian nongovernmental organization Acra introduced the micro-gardening method to the association by building cultivation tables about 10 square feet in size on site. This technique keeps vegetables clean throughout the growing process and consumes less water thanks to drip irrigation. Everything can be grown on the table with the exception of corn and okra.
"Thanks to the Acra project, I went to Dakar [Senegal] to learn this technique and bring it here. We teach it to women, children, and our students,” explains Ms. Sinaré. She says if women who do not have access to arable land learn this technique, they can produce what they want for their own consumption at home, and sell the surplus at the local market. For example, a full table of spinach sells for 1,000 CFA francs ($1.80). For sorrel, she says, "I can sell my four tables for 1,500 CFA francs ($2.69)."
According to Sophie Sedgho, president of the association and a retired professor of natural sciences, each woman is entitled to seven boards with a cultivable surface of about 65 square feet. Some of it is grown for their family and the rest is destined for market. "They can keep the proceeds of what they sell but we are there to follow them through training, behavior management, and marketing strategies. Each woman contributes 1,500 CFA francs ($2.69) a month to pay for a night watchman," says Ms. Sedgho, adding, "They are often close to the legal minimum wage."
Underground cultivation is another technique practiced at La Saisonnière. In 2015, a water shortage ceased being an issue for these gardeners. “The mayor gave us a manual drill. It was annoying because it was difficult to get the water. We then replaced it with a pump, which broke down,” recalls Sedgho. They decided to install a solar-powered water pump, at a cost of 4 million CFA francs (about $7,200). All the women helped pay for it.
Today, the association still faces one major challenge: poor yields, especially during summer heat waves and winter floods. This difficulty aside, Sedgho says that everything runs smoothly. "We have a lot of orders. Our customers are mainly local residents. We are on Facebook, people see us and travel for miles to come and buy. But we do prioritize the locals,” she says. “We organize a farm gate market, people walk through and buy from us directly. We are very happy with this method because our customers know exactly what they are going to consume.”
Perhaps best of all, thanks to gardening, the women are now contributing to their children’s education and their families’ expenses.
This story was reported by L’Economiste du Faso, a news outlet in Burkina Faso. The Monitor is publishing it as part of Impact Journalism Day, an international effort by more than 50 news organizations worldwide to promote solutions journalism. To read other stories in this joint project organized by Paris-based Sparknews, please click here.
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Qualcomm-NXP Semiconductors Could Create A Behemoth In The Automotive Semiconductor Space
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According to a report by Wall Street Journal, leading chipset maker, Qualcomm is reportedly in talks to acquire NXP semiconductors, in a deal likely be valued at more than $30 billion. This could be potentially the largest acquisition in Qualcomm’s history. Though there is no official press release from either of the company, stock price of both Qualcom and NXP surged following the acquisition report, by 6% and 17%, respectively. In this analysis, we investigate the reasons as to why it makes sense for Qualcomm to acquire NXP Semiconductors.
Qualcomm To Gain An Edge In The Automotive Semiconductor Market
NXP Semiconductors is a leading provider of High Performance Mixed Signal and Standard Product semiconductor solutions, which respectively account for 85% and 13% of the business. Mixed signal devices are so called because they comprise both analog and digital circuits, typically engineered together to achieve a specific application. NXP focuses on designing high performance devices used in automotive (36% of revenues), secure identity (9%), secure connectivity (22%), secure interface and infrastructure (18%) applications. Standard Products (13% of revenues) comprise and range of basic circuits, including diodes, thyristors, rectifiers and transistors. The company manufactures the bulk of its products and possesses a range of CMOS, radio-frequency, mixed-signal and analog process capabilities. The possible acquisition of the company would significantly diversify Qualcomm’s offering and provide it an entry into multiple markets outside its core mobile chipset business. Further, it must be noted that NXP Semiconductors acquired Freescale Semiconductor for over $10 billion in 2015, as a result of which, it became the largest semiconductor supplier to the automotive industry. The companies were originally the captive semiconductor businesses of Philips and Motorola, respectively.
Given that Qualcomm is also targeting the automotive infotainment market with its family of advanced processors, a potential acquisition of NXP semiconductor should help the company become the largest supplier of chips used in cars. Qualcomm’s existing automotive solutions equips the cars with features that include: 1) advanced smartphone quality connectivity; 2) 3D connected navigation support: 3) facial and voice recognition features that personalize car settings; 4) wireless device charging; and, 5) parking assistance features.
As more and more customers look for improved digital experience in the car, in addition to other parameters, car companies are banking on technological advancements in their interiors to compete with each other. This has led to an exponential increase in the semiconductor content per vehicle. The growth in the semiconductor content in automotives is likely to further increase with the rise in autonomous car market. According to a research by Boston Consulting Group, the autonomous car market could be a $42 billion market by 2025, which could be around 12-13% of the total auto market. [1]The Semiconductor Industry Is Undergoing A Wave Of Consolidations
Demand for cheaper chips and a surge of new products – from PCs to smartphones to the Internet-of-Things (IoT) – has intensified competition in the semiconductor market, which in turn has put downward pressure on chipmakers’ bottom line. As a result, the semiconductor space has seen a number of consolidations recently and is likely to see some more in the near future. The acquisition of NXP semiconductors could be one of the largest acquisitions in the semiconductor space happening in recent years. Further, the acquisition should help Qualcomm improve its bargaining position with customers.
Tax Advantage For Qualcomm
Qualcomm has cash worth $31 billion on its balance sheet, almost all of which is outside the U.S., according to Wall Street Journal. Though the U.S has third highest general top marginal corporate income tax rate in the world at 39.1 percent, its corporate tax law allows U.S. companies not to pay taxes on foreign profits, if the income was to remain outside the U.S. forever. This provides another incentive for Qualcomm to acquire NXP Semiconductors. This comes from the fact that NXP semiconductors is a Dutch company, and Qualcomm can use its cash stashed outside the U.S. to fund the acquisition.
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Stevenage woman banned from running company after care home put residents at risk
Georgia Barrow
Anita Ram from Stevenage started running Millfield Lodge Care Home in Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, as a sole trader business in the early 1990s. Picture: Google Street View
A 69-year-old Stevenage woman, who was the director of care at a Cambridgeshire care home, has been disqualified after her business breached health and safety regulations, putting residents at risk.
Anita Ram has been banned from being involved - directly or indirectly - in the promotion, formation or management of a company without permission of the court, after a number of issues were raised by the Care Quality Commission in 2017 and an investigation into her conduct was launched.
Ram started running Millfield Lodge Care Home in Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, as a sole trader business in the early 1990s. It was incorporated in 2004, but only began formally trading in July 2014.
In April 2017, the home was inspected by the CQC and rated 'requires improvement' after breaches of regulations relating to the safeguarding of people, their care records, and reporting of incidents to the CQC were discovered.
In July and August of the same year, further unannounced inspections were carried out. Inspectors found that the care home was in breach of six regulations under the Health and Social Care Act 2008. At the August inspection the service was rated as inadequate.
They resolved that Anita Ram as director was not a fit and proper person to carry on the service, as she had failed to co-operate with the nursing agency that ran the service in the home, removed records and equipment, and prevented access to people's finances, among other concerns.
Inspectors also uncovered that not all residents in the home were being safely administered their medication, with discrepancies between the amount of medication in stock and the amounts recorded as having been administered. Ram had also failed to ensure the building met required fire safety standards, meaning residents were at risk.
As a result of these concerns, the CQC applied to the courts to cancel Ram's registration as a care home provider and close the home. Residents were safely moved from the home in August 2017, and the company ceased trading.
Millfield Lodge Care Home Limited entered Creditors Voluntary Liquidation and liquidators were appointed in September 2017, before it was formally wound up in October.


Australian workers and youth discuss SEP election campaign
Workers, youth and students attending the Socialist Equality Party’s post-election meetings spoke to WSWS reporters about the party’s policies.
Peter, a disability pensioner, was enthusiastic about the discussion at the SEP public meeting in Brisbane: “It was a very good meeting because it addressed two very serious issues that affect absolutely everybody, issues that the mainstream media does not seem to cover. Free Julian Assange for one! Once the governments get him down, there’s no more journalism. Journalism will be dead when they’ve got Assange.
“The second issue, as shown by Trump’s ‘10 minutes to midnight’ threat against Iran, is the build up to war. That’s very real. People ought to know that. Their living standards are falling so that more money can be wasted on more weapons of destruction.”
Commenting on the SEP’s campaign to defend Julian Assange, he said: “I believe we can free Assange because of the sheer numbers that we have got in the working class. We should outclass anything that the government can hold against us. Government has become far too important to leave in the hands of governments alone!”
Peter agreed with the SEP’s analysis of Labor: “I’ve seen the Labor Party and the unions working hand in glove at the expense of the workers throughout my entire working life. Whether it was union compliance with big business, or big business following union advice to keep us at minimum wage, minimum hours and then minimum livelihoods, while they got fatter and fatter. It shows that those two are in cahoots with one another, at the expense of the working class.
“We do need a global movement of the working class against capitalism. Capitalism is not necessary. Humanity existed for thousands of years before the first coin was ever minted. Karl Marx once pointed out that those who own the tools don’t use the tools and those who use the tools don’t own the tools. So that has to come to an end now. We’ve seen a lot of misuse of tools by very rich people who didn’t even know what the factory is doing.”
Amgad
Amgad, a truck driver who met the SEP during the election campaign in Broadmeadows, attended the Melbourne meeting. “I came here for Julian Assange,” he said, “but it’s good to know what is going on. I think many people don’t know about the issues of Assange. The media said that he is a rapist, that is how he is portrayed. It is profitable for the media to do that.”
William, a truck driver from Frankston, also spoke out in defence of Assange: “I have been aware of Julian’s situation since the beginning—with the publication of the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and the massive exposure of corruption by various politicians and big business people stealing ordinary people’s money and putting it away. It’s clear to see why the powers that be want to get him.
“I attended anti-Vietnam war rallies and that’s where I started to build my political perspective. I realised they were lying to me back then as a kid, so the “Collateral Murder” video did not surprise me. What I find amazing is just how vehement the ruling elite has been against anti-war figures. I shouldn’t be surprised. They want to scare journalists. This is all about intimidating journalists and making sure, if they become privy to any kind of information about how the deep state is operating, they will be too scared to actually publish it.”
Asked about the Australian government’s role in the persecution of Assange, William replied: “I am disgusted. I didn’t realise its role back when I supported Julia Gillard. I had thought she was a breath of fresh air in some ways. But the fact that she turned her back on an Australian in such a big way in 2010 is unforgivable. The Labor Party learned in 1975 that if they tried to take Australia in an independent direction, they could expect a coup d’état from the US and the CIA. Rudd and Gillard knew they couldn’t stand up against the United States.”
Lewis, an RMIT sociology and psychology student, said: “The meeting felt very inclusive. There was quite a lot of clarity. The push for people to educate themselves and not just be told what the problems are is very important. Primarily, the issue of Julian Assange is what drew me to the meeting. The most urgent issues are Manning, Assange and the fate of whistleblowers and journalists around the world, and that needs to be dealt with quickly.
“We also need to stop corporate interests dictating how society is run. I have had an interest in socialism for many years. There is always that underlying fear of what has happened in the past, which is why we need to learn from history.”
In Sydney, Haydn, 24 and currently unemployed, said: “I was very impressed with your speakers at the meeting. I asked what the SEP was going to do about youth unemployment. The speaker answered me bluntly and put it how it is. She didn’t sugar coat it but highlighted that young people of my generation are suffering and that there is no way out for us under the present system.
“The SEP has a strong link to the outside world, not just about what’s happening in Australia. It explains things from a world perspective, not just a country perspective or an individual perspective, and with that you can start to change things in our own country to match the reality in which we live.
Danielle, 40, a psychology student at Swinburne University and a mother of three children, attended the Newcastle meeting.
“This meeting made it clearer to me why Assange is being persecuted, and how it relates to the state of politics in Australia and around the world.
“America is trying to manufacture consent to a war with Iran by executing false-flag events because people are now more distrustful of the mainstream media because of Assange. People’s eyes have been opened to the corruption that’s out there because of Assange and there’s no going back.
“I think the fight by the SEP to free Julian Assange, and the call for an international fight for his freedom is really important. We need to start seeing ourselves as a collective movement. I think if the working class was to join together across countries then this would be a powerful force against the corruption of the ruling class…
“One of the things I took from this meeting is that Australia is not a collective “we”—there are two groups in society: the ruling class, which is actually a small minority; and the working class, which is workers all around the world.”
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Wenda Harris Millard
Media Executive
I went on to hold several other roles, which have all been challenging in different ways.
In the summer of 1996, after spending 20 years in the magazine publishing business, I was unsure about what my next career adventure should be. I had built a solid track record at such great brands as Family Circle, Ladies’ Home Journal, New York magazine and Adweek, but all of a sudden I was unsure that I wanted to be a magazine publisher for the next 20 years.
Not long before that, I had invested in and joined as president a company called Standard Rate & Data Service to have the experience of turning around a company and either selling it or taking it public. It also gave me the chance to sit on a Board for the first time. We successfully put the company back on solid footing and sold it after 18 months (for four times what we paid for it!).
I was thinking about what was next when a friend who ran a major advertising agency called and told me about a new media venture he was helping to finance. He asked me if I’d meet the founder and CEO and take a look at the company to see what I thought of its prospects, suggesting that I might be interested in joining.
After listening to him describe the idea, I said I just didn’t think it sounded right for me. “I’m too old for this ‘new media stuff,’” I said. “I’d be overdressed for it. And I don’t think I’d work well with geeks.”
Though I was half-joking, I thought that a technology-driven company would be beyond my skills and too far outside my comfort zone. My friend convinced me to take the meeting anyway.
We set it for 45 minutes but it turned into three hours of conversation, most of which I didn’t completely understand, as the founder was an engineer and I was “all media all the time.” Turns out he didn’t understand most of what I was talking about either, but we both knew that if his vision was to come alive, someone had to be able to translate the technology’s capabilities for potential advertisers.
With trepidation but a great deal of excitement, I leaned in to the opportunity to be a digital media pioneer and became executive vice president of DoubleClick. In its first five years, we built the company into a “new media” powerhouse with 3,200 employees in 23 countries and generated half a billion dollars in revenue.
I went on to hold several other roles, which have all been challenging in different ways. It has been 18 years since I held my nose and jumped into the uncharted waters of digital media. Where would I be now if I hadn’t leaned in?
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Wadbilliga National Park features remote and rugged wilderness that will leave you feeling like you’ve truly escaped into the great outdoors.
In the Brogo wilderness, Wadbilliga National Park embraces one of the largest undisturbed river catchments in NSW, providing protection for the Tuross, Wadbilliga and Brogo Rivers.
A four wheel drivers paradise, there is also camping and kayaking opportunities.
Camping is available at the Cascades campground or Lake Creek camping area. Access is 2WD.
Brogo Dam.
The park is a perfect area for long bushwalks and overnight camping. At the Cascades there is a walking track leading from the camping area to a viewing platform overlooking Tuross Falls and Cascades. In the Brogo Wilderness Area there are no formal paths and access relies on the walker using topographic maps and compass to determine the best routes, there are no constructed paths.
Due to the rugged and relatively isolated nature of the park, animal populations here have remained relatively undisturbed. Swamp wallabies, eastern grey kangaroos, wombats, possums, platypus and echidnas are evident and in places like Wadbilliga Valley are particularly common. There is a diversity of birdlife with 122 native bird species having been sighted here.
The park also contains fine examples of open forest and woodland, heath, swamp, bogs and numerous rainforest pockets.
400 kms south of Sydney, 150 km south-east of Canberra. The park covers an area of 76,399ha to the west of Narooma extending from the Woila Fire Trail in the north 48 km southwards to the Snowy Mountains Highway.
Access is difficult. The Wadbilliga Road runs through the centre of the park, however river crossings along this route can be a problem after heavy rain.
Access to the Tuross River and Tuross Falls is via the Tuross River Rd which leaves the Badja Forest Rd about 4.5 km along from the Countegany Rd. From here a path leads off to a viewpoint overlooking Tuross Falls.
Check with NPWS for current maps of this area.
The CMA 1:25000 maps which cover the park are (from north to south): Belowra 8825-IV-S | Cadgee 8825-I-S | Yowrie 8825-III-N | Wandella 8825-II-N | Puen Buen 8825-III-S | Cobargo 8825-II-S | Yankees Gap 8824-IV-N | Brogo 8824-I-N
Visit National Parks and Wildlife website for more information on Wadbilliga National Park.


Calex: Lets Make a Deal
Written by Adam Donnelly
ST. JOHNSBURY- While most people do not pay attention to, or simply discard most subscription offers that come through their mailboxes, the offer that the Calex ambulance organization sends out is one that people might want to pay more attention to.
What a lot of people won't realize is that the subscription offered by Calex, is actually a great deal. If residents sign up for the deal, they can expect to receive a free ambulance ride for an entire year, whenever the need for an ambulance occurs.
Calex board president Celina Wright believes this is a deal that people shouldn't pass up, saying, "if you do not have insurance, it's an even bigger deal... Everyone in your household is covered for the whole year. We do it every year, it is a yearly cost."
There are different prices for different packages. The most expensive coverage, the family package, costs no more than $50 per year. This price saves families hundreds of dollars where co-pays for an ambulance ride can be up to $500. Other packages include the Non-Senior Individual package which costs just $30 per year, the Single Senior Citizen package (65+) which costs $20 per year, and the Senior Citizen Couple (65+) package costing $40 per year.
Calex mails out the subscriptions towards the end of November. The package that is chosen runs all year long from January through December. You can also sign up for the subscription online on the Calex website where more information about the different subscriptions is available.


Syria and Jordan agree to reopen vital crossing
By ALBERT AJI and OMAR AKOURAssociated Press
Oct 14, 2018 at 12:01 AM Oct 14, 2018 at 9:05 AM
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) � Jordan and Syria agreed Sunday to reopen a vital border crossing between the two countries, three years after the commercial lifeline fell to rebel groups and traffic was halted.
Israel also said Sunday the Quneitra crossing with Syria will reopen Monday to U.N. observers, four years after it was closed because of the fighting.
The reopening of the crossings is a major boost to the Syrian government, keen on sending messages to its citizens and the world that it is slowly emerging victorious from the bloody conflict and beginning to restore vital services and relations. In eastern Syria, state TV said its broadcast has returned to Deir el-Zour city, seven years after it was halted when armed groups seized control of the area.
Reopening the crossing with Jordan would bring major relief to President Bashar Assad's government by restoring a much-needed gateway for Syrian exports to Arab countries. It is also expected to boost its coffers as the government is expected to collect transit fees from convoys coming from Jordan. Last month, it hiked fees for all trailers transiting through its territories.
The resumption of commercial trade through the crossing will also be a diplomatic victory for Assad, whose government has been isolated from its Arab neighbors since the war began in 2011.
Arab countries have boycotted the Syrian government since the early days of the war, freezing its membership in the 22-member state Arab League.
Jordan government spokeswoman Jumana Ghunaimat said the Naseeb crossing would be opened Monday after operational details have been agreed upon, according to the Jordanian Petra news agency. Syria's Interior Minister Mohammed al-Shaar also confirmed the crossing's reopening, according to Syria's state news agency.
"The Naseeb crossing is a vital lifeline for trade between the two brotherly countries Jordan and Syria through them to other Arab countries," Ghunaimat said, according to Petra. Rebels seized the crossing in 2015, disrupting a major trade route between Syria and Jordan, Lebanon and oil-rich Gulf countries.
The two governments had earlier issued conflicting reports of when the crossing would open.
Syrian troops recaptured it in July this year after rebels reached an agreement with Russian mediators to end the violence in the southern province of Daraa and surrender the crossing.
The crossing is also vital for Syria's neighboring Lebanon, providing its agricultural products a route to foreign markets.
The recapture of Naseeb crossing marked a major victory for Assad's forces, which have been on a winning streak since 2015 when Russia threw its military weight behind Damascus. The victory in southern Syria signaled the return of his forces to Daraa province where the uprising against him began seven years ago.
Fighting has subsided across most of Syria, but in the absence of a political deal, more than 40 percent of the country's territory remains in the hands of armed opposition and their foreign supporters
On Sunday, Israel's military announced that the United Nations has decided to return its peacekeeping force, known as UNDOF, to the Quneitra crossing area. The crossing will be used exclusively for U.N. forces, it added.
The Syrian government plans to escort media to the crossing Monday.
Syrian forces recaptured the Quneitra area in July. Russian military police deployed in the area, including on the edge of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, setting up checkpoints in the area. Moscow said it planned to work closely with the U.N. force.
Israel captured the Golan Heights in the 1967 war. The UNDOF deployed in the area in 1974.
Separately, Syrian state said Sunday technicians have installed two transmitters to restore the broadcast of the terrestrial TV station and Voice of Youth radio to the eastern city of Deir el-Zour and surrounding areas for the first time in seven years. It was the latest in government efforts to restore normal life to areas it has recaptured from armed groups.
Government forces, aided by Russian air craft and allied militia, chased IS fighters out of the city and most of the western banks of the Euphrates river last year.
In a separate offensive that occasionally raised tensions, rival U.S.-backed Syrian Defense Forces fought the militants on the eastern banks of the river and along the border with Iraq. The Kurdish-led forces, backed by U.S.-led coalition air power, continue to battle IS militants in Hajin, a small pocket east of the river.
On Saturday, IS militants stormed a settlement for displaced people in Hajin and abducted scores of civilians. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 130 families were kidnapped.
The U.S.-led coalition said it couldn't confirm news of the kidnapping. It said it has been dropping leaflets requesting that civilians leave the area for months "to avoid the brutal tactics" of the extremist group.
IS "has used innocent civilians as human shields in the past and leaflets often give them instructions for the quickest and safest exits, but we fully understand many have no other places to go," said Col. Sean Ryan, spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition.
Omar Abou Leila, a Deir el-Zour native residing in Europe who runs the Deir el-Zour 24 news network, said the militants also kidnapped SDF fighters.
Images appeared on social media of the militants holding at least a couple of men wearing uniforms. In the posting, the militants boasted it has taken Kurdish fighters captive. Ryan, of the coalition, said he could not confirm whether SDF fighters were kidnapped.
Deir el-Zour, Syria's oil-rich province, has been scene to fighting between government forces and insurgents since the start of the war in 2011. The militants seized control of most of it in 2014. But IS has lost most of its self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq over the last two years.
Akour contributed from Amman, Jordan. Sarah El Deeb in Beirut and Josef Federman in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
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Letter from the President of Congress to General Wooster, directing him immediately to march to Albany, and there await the orders of General Schuyler
Letter from the President of Congress to General Schuyler: Operations in Canada
Letter from the President of Congress to General Washington: General Thomas has been appointed to take the command in Canada, ten tons of Powder have been forwarded to Cambridge, in addition to five tons and a half sent some time ago. With regard to
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Letter from the President of Congress to the New-Jersey Committee of Safety
Letter from the President of Congress to Walter Livingston, directing the Prisoners taken at Chambly and St. John's to be sent to the Towns of Reading, Lancaster, and York, in Pennsylvania
Letter from President Hancock to the Massachusetts Congress, enclosing a Resolution of the Congress advising the assumption of Civil Government by Massachusetts, Gen. Gage having levied War against His Majesty's peaceable Subjects of that Colony
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'The mind-blowing riches of an exhilarated imagination.'
Gheorghe Virtosu Abstract artist Bio
"My mother said that if I wanted to be an artist, I would be successful. That was the hardest thing of all for me as the urge for art creation were born while I was in prison. My mother died, and I had no real chance to pay last tribute. At that time, it was not about finding my style or make it in the art world; it was about setting me free and what I had to say.” - G. Virtosu.
Gheorghe Virtosu ’s way of being in the world combines to perfection a straightforward and down-to-earth nature with a mystical and mysterious streak. The passionate nature has always urged him to follow intellectual and deeply spiritual pursuits, and therefore becoming a children’s author has fulfilled a heartfelt personal need, while at the same time mastering large scale art projects. From the very beginning, his creation has eluded all canonization, contemporary and classical, since it cannot be labelled as belonging to any of them for definite.
The contemporary artist was born on April the 14th 1968, in a small village in Basarabia, within a loving family. When he was only 15 years of age, he decided to leave home and continue his education at a town college a few good miles away from home. In doing so, he came against many adversities, while having to comply with a rigorous discipline imposed by the school, mostly through a very active and physically demanding sportive schedule. In the end, however, the active sporty lifestyle he led in college served him in good credit for the compulsory military service which followed soon after graduation.
Having envisaged a military career for himself, he ended up as a resilient character ready to tackle head-on any other challenges which life might have thrown at him. After the fall of the Communist system in USSR, Gheorghe resigned from the army and went abroad in search of a new life, like most of the young people of Easter-European background.
After having travelled the world far and wide, thus achieving one of his childhood dreams rendered as impossible for anyone growing up behind the Iron Curtain, the artist eventually chose Britain as his adoptive country, settling down in London and acquired British citizenship after a few years.
In 2004, the artist was detained by the French authorities. At the end of a long and costly investigation, he was accused of having created one of the greatest networks of immigration in Europe since The Great War.
Born under the bold sign of Aries, the artist is hardly a man to be kept down by any circumstances. Although deprived of his freedom of movement, his mind and spirit soared up to heights of creative power never reached before. As a result of his confinement in isolation, Virtosu came up with two novels. After a period of intense creative strain, he found himself at his wits’ end, experiencing mental and physical fatigue. In the remaining time of his incarceration, he kept on sketching ideas and characters which would, later on, come to life in his oil paintings.
Gheorghe Virtosu the writer.
"The Ignorance in the arms of mankind"
To be published in 2020. New York.
As we can see, abstract paintings have become chosen ways of rebelling against the miscarriage of justice occurring in the world.
Writing and painting have become the most effective way of dealing with frustration, loss, and anger - a form of therapy. Virtosu has found in art the ideal form of elevating negative emotions and transforming them into rewarding projects meant to spread and replenish happiness and a zest for life.
Engaging with all kind of challenges at different levels, he not only maintained his integrity of spirit but also added value to his art and gained new perspectives, like a beautiful diamond which, skilfully cut, reflects the light in unexpected ways.
'A visionary artist and thinker.'
'Be drawn into a weird and wonderful fantasy universe.'
'A revelation.'
While his cutting-edge literary style asserts itself as refreshingly unique, Gheorghe Virtosu surprises us, yet again, with his found taste for abstract paintings which approaches themes and topics from different cultures, thus introducing a diverse view of the world. Each artwork is singular and carries a genuine complexity of meaning which requires its code for deciphering it.
Ranging from gritty and brush, to poetical and ethereal, the characters in Virtosu 's artwork are free spirits of nature caught in a game of multiculturalism and plural voices which join in together to produce divine harmonies of colour and meaning.
The contemporary British abstract artist's pieces are like nothing we have seen before: dressed up in hooded cloaks, equipped with weapons which look like magical devices and displaying a puzzling other-worldly demeanour, the characters tell us nothing about themselves, and everything about the universe they belong to.
His works are very sparing with whom they are letting in: unequivocally, they invite the audience to engage with art at more than one level actively and lead the way to first-hand experiencing aesthetic knowledge, sensorial and intuitive perception.
Gheorghe Virtosu Artist statement
Art is an effort to fill an empty space with the expression of an idea. Work is born through the artist as the medium, melding order out of a diverse landscape in an intellectual exercise. Freedom from boundaries opens possibility in the form of the medium and the breadth of the artist to reveal wholly new ways of seeing. The truth in the revelation creates an opportunity to shape the colours of paint in an exercise that is not only the experience of art but life.
Confident art is large and encompassing, bold and insistent on the attention of the viewer while encouraging interpretation and participation in the experience of the work. The viewer engages the work as a partner to the artist and initiates a journey that shares in the evolution of its meaning. Envisioning and capturing work on canvas is not where it lies dormant and static: it is a place where the expression becomes a community and continues to expand.
In this natural form, art can only exist if it is authentic. The part of the artist is the effort to engage organic expression in a way that has not been previously achieved. Life does not just simply spill onto the canvas like blood let from veins. Randomly bleeding onto a canvas is too easy, distasteful, and ultimately disappointing. The challenge of this art is to evolve an expansive landscape that brings the viewer, idea, artist, and experience together. At once, it is chaos and at the same time, a simple embrace of the loss of boundaries at the portal to new understanding.


Proposed Rule
Common Crop Insurance Regulations; Pecan Revenue Crop Insurance Provisions
A Proposed Rule by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation on 11/17/2011
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
Written comments and opinions on this proposed rule will be accepted until close of business January 17, 2012 and will be considered when the rule is to be made final.
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CFR:
7 CFR 457
Docket No. FCIC-11-0008
RIN:
0563-AC35
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
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Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995
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List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 457
PART 457—COMMON CROP INSURANCE REGULATIONS
2. Unit Division
3. Insurance Guarantees and Coverage Levels for Determining Indemnities
4. Contract Changes
6. Report of Acreage
8. Insured Crop
13. Settlement of Claim
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Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, USDA.
Proposed rule.
The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) proposes to amend the Common Crop Insurance Regulations, Pecan Revenue Crop Insurance Provisions. The intended effect of this action is to provide policy changes, to clarify existing policy provisions to better meet the needs of insured producers, and to reduce vulnerability to program fraud, waste, and abuse. The proposed changes will be effective for the 2013 and succeeding crop years.
FCIC prefers that comments be submitted electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal. You may submit comments, identified by Docket ID No. FCIC-11-0008, by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Director, Product Administration and Standards Division, Risk Management Agency, United States Department of Agriculture, P.O. Box 419205, Kansas City, MO 64133-6205.
All comments received, including those received by mail, will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided, and can be accessed by the public. All comments must include the agency name and docket number or Regulatory Information Number (RIN) for this rule. For detailed instructions on submitting comments and additional information, see http://www.regulations.gov. If you are submitting comments electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal and want to attach a document, we ask that it be in a text-based format. If you want to attach a document that is a scanned Adobe PDF file, it must be scanned as text and not as an image, thus allowing FCIC to search and copy certain portions of your submissions. For questions regarding attaching a document that is a scanned Adobe PDF file, please contact the RMA Web Content Team at (816) 823-4694 or by email at rmaweb.content@rma.usda.gov.
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Chief, Policy Administration Branch, Product Administration and Standards Division, Risk Management Agency, United States Department of Agriculture, Beacon Facility, Stop 0812, Room 421, P.O. Box 419205, Kansas City, MO 64141-6205, telephone (816) 926-7730.
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This rule has been determined to be non-significant for the purposes of Executive Order 12866 and, therefore, it has not been reviewed by the OMB.
Pursuant to the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the collections of information in this rule have been approved by OMB under control number 0563-0053.Start Printed Page 71277
FCIC is committed to complying with the E-Government Act of 2002, to promote the use of the Internet and other information technologies to provide increased opportunities for citizen access to Government information and services, and for other purposes.
Title II of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA) establishes requirements for Federal agencies to assess the effects of their regulatory actions on State, local, and Tribal governments and the private sector. This rule contains no Federal mandates (under the regulatory provisions of title II of the UMRA) for State, local, and Tribal governments or the private sector. Therefore, this rule is not subject to the requirements of sections 202 and 205 of UMRA.
It has been determined under section 1(a) of Executive Order 13132, Federalism, that this rule does not have sufficient implications to warrant consultation with the States. The provisions contained in this rule will not have a substantial direct effect on States, or on the relationship between the national government and the States, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities among the various levels of government.
This rule has been reviewed in accordance with the requirements of Executive Order 13175, Consultation and Coordination with Indian Tribal Governments. The review reveals that this regulation will not have substantial and direct effects on Tribal governments and will not have significant Tribal implications.
FCIC certifies that this regulation will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. Program requirements for the Federal crop insurance program are the same for all producers regardless of the size of their farming operation. For instance, all producers are required to submit an application and acreage report to establish their insurance guarantees and compute premium amounts, and all producers are required to submit a notice of loss and production information to determine the amount of an indemnity payment in the event of an insured cause of crop loss. Whether a producer has 10 acres or 1000 acres, there is no difference in the kind of information collected. To ensure crop insurance is available to small entities, the Federal Crop Insurance Act authorizes FCIC to waive collection of administrative fees from limited resource farmers. FCIC believes this waiver helps to ensure that small entities are given the same opportunities as large entities to manage their risks through the use of crop insurance. A Regulatory Flexibility Analysis has not been prepared since this regulation does not have an impact on small entities, and, therefore, this regulation is exempt from the provisions of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 605).
This program is listed in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance under No. 10.450.
This program is not subject to the provisions of Executive Order 12372, which require intergovernmental consultation with State and local officials. See the Notice related to 7 CFR part 3015, subpart V, published at 48 FR 29115, June 24, 1983.
This proposed rule has been reviewed in accordance with Executive Order 12988 on civil justice reform. The provisions of this rule will not have a retroactive effect. The provisions of this rule will preempt State and local laws to the extent such State and local laws are inconsistent herewith. With respect to any direct action taken by FCIC or to require the insurance provider to take specific action under the terms of the crop insurance policy, the administrative appeal provisions published at 7 CFR part 11 or 7 CFR part 400, subpart J for the informal administrative review process of good farming practices as applicable, must be exhausted before any action against FCIC for judicial review may be brought.
This action is not expected to have a significant economic impact on the quality of the human environment, health, or safety. Therefore, neither an Environmental Assessment nor an Environmental Impact Statement is needed.
FCIC proposes to amend the Common Crop Insurance Regulations (7 CFR part 457) by revising § 457.167 Pecan Revenue Crop Insurance Provisions, to be effective for the 2013 and succeeding crop years. The proposed changes are as follows:
1. Section 1—FCIC proposes to revise the definition of “average gross sales per acre” by removing specific crop years from the example. This change is being proposed because the crop years listed in the example are outdated. Removing the specific crop years does not change the meaning of the example. This proposed change will alleviate the need to change the crop years in the example each time the Pecan Revenue Crop Insurance Provisions are revised.
FCIC proposes to revise the definition of “approved average revenue per acre” by changing the maximum number of years of average gross sales used to calculate approved average revenue per acre from ten to six years. This change is being proposed based on recommendations from a FCIC contracted study that found that a shorter base period works as well or better for predicting actual yields for some perennial crops. The shorter base period will be more responsive to market trends and changes in the productive capacity of the trees.
FCIC proposes to remove the references to “lowest available dollar span” from the definition of “approved average revenue per acre” and replace it with the term “T-revenue.” The “T-revenue” will be used in place of the “lowest available dollar span” when sufficient records are not provided. FCIC will develop a “T-revenue” that will represent a value similar to the current “lowest available dollar span.” This change is being proposed to facilitate the implementation of a continuous rating methodology to be consistent with other policies. Under the current rating methodology a rate class is assigned based on which “dollar span” the insured's average approved revenue falls into. Removing references to “dollar spans” and developing a “T-revenue” is necessary in order to migrate to the continuous rating methodology because under the new continuous rating methodology “dollar spans” will no longer be used.
FCIC proposes to remove the definition of “enterprise unit” from the current Pecan Revenue Crop Insurance Provisions and use the definition of “enterprise unit” contained in the Common Crop Insurance Policy Basic Provisions. The Basic Provisions contain additional requirements to qualify for an “enterprise unit” that are not contained in the current definition of “enterprise unit” in the Pecan Revenue Crop Insurance Provisions. This change will make the unit structures under the Pecan Revenue Crop Insurance Provisions consistent Start Printed Page 71278with other crop programs administered by FCIC.
FCIC proposes to revise the definition of “market price” by:
a. Removing subparagraph (2) of the definition that references the actual price received. With the proposed revision to section 13(d)(2), the price received will be used to value any production that is sold unless the price received is not verifiable by sales receipts or is determined to be inappropriate. Since market price will only be used to value unsold production or sold production in which the price received is inappropriate or unverifiable, it is not necessary to list the price received in the definition of market price;
b. Revising the introductory paragraph by removing the phrase “the greater of” and redesignating subparagraph (3) as subparagraph (1) to make Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) prices the primary source for determining market price. FCIC proposes to add language to clarify the AMS price used must be from the nearest location and must be of similar quality, quantity and variety of in-shell pecans. FCIC proposes adding the phrase “unless otherwise provided in the Special Provisions” to the end of the first sentence of the subparagraph that references AMS prices to allow flexibility to alter this section should AMS change or discontinue their current pecan reports; and
c. Redesignating subparagraph (1) as subparagraph (2) and adding the phrase “if AMS prices are not published for the week” to the beginning of newly redesignated subparagraph (2). This proposed change will make this provision an alternative method of determining market price if for any reason AMS does not publish prices for the week. This change is being proposed because using the AMS price will provide a more reliable and consistent price to value appraised production.
FCIC proposes to remove the definition of “set out” because all other references to this term within the policy are proposed to be removed.
FCIC proposes to add the definition of “transitional revenue (T-revenue)” that will be used in place of the “lowest available dollar span.” The “T-revenue” will be an amount determined by FCIC and provided in the actuarial documents. FCIC plans to establish a “T-revenue” that is comparable to the current “lowest available dollar span.” The “T-revenue” may be adjusted as more revenue data is collected.
2. Section 2—FCIC proposes to revise section 2 to state that enterprise units are defined in accordance with the Basic Provisions and are available only if allowed by the Special Provisions. This change is necessary to make the Pecan Revenue Crop Insurance Provisions consistent with the Common Crop Insurance Policy Basic Provisions. FCIC intends to allow enterprise units through the Special Provisions.
FCIC proposes to revise section 2 to allow basic units to be divided into optional units if optional units are located on non-contiguous land, separate records of production are provided for at least the most recent consecutive two crop years that verify trees in the optional unit meet the minimum production requirement, and optional units are selected by the acreage reporting date for the first year of the two year coverage module. Optional units by non-contiguous land are being proposed at the request of producers. The proposed requirements to qualify for optional units are similar to those that are contained in the Basic Provisions, but due to the “two-year coverage module,” the requirements have been modified to be applicable to the Pecan Revenue Crop Insurance Provisions. Premium rates will be adjusted to compensate for any additional risk associated with optional units.
3. Section 3—FCIC proposes to revise section 3 by removing all references to the “lowest available dollar span” and replacing it with the term “T-revenue.”
FCIC proposes to revise section 3(d)(1) by removing the provision that contains a factor used to reduce your average gross sales for acres that are sequentially thinned. The provision is being proposed to be removed because it is ambiguous and discourages good management practices. Language in sections 3(d)(3) and 6(b) provides consequences for sequential thinning when the thinning is expected to reduce gross sales below the approved average revenue.
FCIC proposes to add a new section 3(d)(1) that states if you fail to provide acceptable records for optional units, those units will be combined into basic units and your amount of insurance per acre will be recalculated for the two-year coverage module. This provision provides the consequence for failure to provide acceptable records for optional units which is consistent with other crop programs.
4. Section 4—FCIC proposes to amend section 4(b) by removing RMA's Web site address because this is defined in the Basic Provisions.
FCIC proposes to amend section 4(d) by adding the statement, “if available from us, you may elect to receive these documents and changes electronically.” This statement is being proposed to provide consistency with the Basic Provisions. Section 4 of the Basic Provisions provides that producers may elect to receive documents and changes electronically. However, the introductory paragraph of section 4 of the Pecan Revenue Crop Insurance Provisions contains the phrase, “in lieu of the provisions contained in section 4 of the Basic Provisions.” Therefore, in order to provide consistency with the Basic Provisions it is necessary to state that, “if available from us, you may elect to receive these documents and changes electronically.”
5. Section 6—FCIC proposes to amend section 6 by removing the percentage associated with the reporting requirements for sequentially thinning because the threshold for sequentially thinning is proposed to be removed from section 3.
6. Section 8—FCIC proposes to amend section 8(d) by removing the minimum age requirements and adding a minimum level of production that must be obtained to qualify for insurance unless inspected and allowed by written agreement. This provision will protect program integrity because older trees that do not meet the minimum production requirement will no longer be insurable. Furthermore, this change will allow improved varieties that may come into production sooner to be insured regardless of age as long as they meet the minimum production requirement.
FCIC proposes to add a new section 8(e) to allow certain varieties or groups of varieties to be designated as uninsurable through the Special Provisions. This change is being proposed to address varieties that may be found to be unproductive or incompatible pollinators.
7. Section 13—FCIC proposes to amend section 13(b) by adding a statement indicating that if the insured is unable to provide separate acceptable records for any optional units, we will combine all units for which such records were not provided. FCIC also proposes adding a statement to this section stating that for any basic unit, we will allocate commingled production or revenue to each basic unit in proportion to our liability on the harvested acreage for each unit. This is standard language contained in most policies that allow optional units. These provisions are being proposed to clarify the consequences of failure to provide separate acceptable records.
FCIC proposes to revise section 13(d)(2)(i) by changing the basis by which price is determined for sold production from market price to price Start Printed Page 71279received. This change is being proposed to address concerns that the indemnity is not calculated on the same basis by which the guarantee is set. The guarantee is based on the price received for sold production, but indemnities are determined using the market price. FCIC also proposes adding a parenthetical stating that if the price received is not verifiable by sales receipts or is determined to be inappropriate for the quality of pecans sold, the market price will be used. FCIC intends to provide additional guidance in the 2013 Pecan Revenue Loss Adjustment Standards Handbook as to when a price should be considered inappropriate. The guidance will create a minimum threshold that the price received must meet and will be based on a percentage of the AMS price.
FCIC proposes to revise the example at the end of section 13 by replacing dates with generic numbers for the crop year. FCIC also proposes to revise the example by changing the historical average pounds per acre and average gross sales per acre to reflect an alternate bearing pattern. FCIC further proposes to revise the example by adding insured causes of loss to the explanation of indemnity calculation to illustrate that claims are only paid if losses are the result of an insured cause. FCIC also proposes to change the example to illustrate that the price received will be used to value sold production.
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Pecan revenue
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
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Accordingly, as set forth in the preamble, the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation proposes to amend 7 CFR part 457 effective for the 2013 and succeeding crop years as follows:
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1. The authority citation for 7 CFR part 457 continues to read as follows:
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Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1506(l), 1506(o).
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2. Amend § 457.167 as follows:
a. Amend the introductory text by removing “2005” and adding “2013” in its place;
b. Add definition in section 1 for “transitional revenue (T-revenue)”;
c. Revise the definitions in section 1 of “average gross sales per acre,” “approved average revenue per acre,” and “market price”;
d. Amend section 1 by removing the definitions of “enterprise unit” and “set out”;
e. Revise section 2(a)(1);
f. Amend section 2(a)(2) by removing the period at the end of the sentence and adding the term “; or” in its place;
g. Add a new section 2(a)(3);
h. Amend the introductory text of section 3 by adding a comma following the phrase “In lieu of section 3 of the Basic Provisions”;
i. Revise section 3(d)(1);
j. Amend section 3(d)(2) by removing the phrase “lowest available dollar span amount provided in the actuarial documents” and adding the term “T-revenue” in its place;
k. Amend section 3(f)(1) by removing the phrase “lowest available dollar span provided in the actuarial table” and adding the term “T-revenue” in its place;
l. Amend section 3(h) by adding a hyphen between the words “high” and “risk” in all four instances they appear;
m. Revise section 4(b);
n. Amend section 4(d) by adding the sentence, “If available from us, you may elect to receive these documents and changes electronically.” following the sentence, “If changes are made that will be effective for a subsequent two-year coverage module, such copies will be provided not later than 30 days prior to the cancellation date.”;
o. Revise sections 6(a)(1) and 6(b);
p. Revise section 8(d);
q. Amend section 8 by redesignating paragraphs (e) and (f) as (f) and (g) respectively, and adding a new paragraph (e);
r. Revise section 13(b);
s. Revise section 13(d)(2)(i);
t. Revise the example at the end of section 13; and
u. Amend section 16 by removing the space between “Not” and “withstanding.”
The revised and added text reads as follows:
§ 457.167
Pecan revenue crop insurance provisions.
The pecan revenue crop insurance provisions for the 2013 and succeeding crop years are as follows:
Average gross sales per acre. Your gross sales of pecans for a crop year divided by your net acres of pecans grown during that crop year. For example, if for the crop year, your gross sales were $100,000 and your net acres of pecans were 100, then your average gross sales per acre for the crop year would be $1,000.
Approved average revenue per acre. The total of your average gross sales per acre based on at least the most recent consecutive four years of sales records building to six years and dividing that result by the number of years of average gross sales per acre. If you provide more than four years of sales records, they must be the most recent consecutive six years of sales records. If you do not provide at least four years of gross sales records, your approved average revenue will be:
(1) The average of the two most recent consecutive years of your gross sales per acre and two years of the T-revenue; or
(2) If you do not provide any gross sales records, the T-revenue.
Market price. The market price is:
(1) The average of the AMS prices for the nearest location for similar quality, quantity, and variety of in-shell pecans published during the week you sell any of your pecans if the price received is determined to be inappropriate, you harvest your pecans if they are not sold, or your pecans are appraised if you are not harvesting them, unless otherwise provided in the Special Provisions. For example, if you harvest production on November 14 but do not sell the production, the average of the AMS prices for the week containing November 14 will be used to determine the market price for the production harvested on November 14; or
(2) If AMS prices are not published for the week, the average price per pound for in-shell pecans of the same variety or varieties insured offered by buyers on the day you sell any of your pecans if the price received is determined to be inappropriate, you harvest any of your pecans if they are not sold, or your pecans are appraised if you are not harvesting them, in the area in which you normally market the pecans (If buyers are not available in your immediate area, we will use the average in-shell price per pound offered by buyers nearest to your area).
Transitional revenue (T-revenue). A value determined by FCIC and published in the actuarial documents.
(1) An enterprise unit as defined in section 1 of the Basic Provisions, if allowed by the Special Provisions;
(3) In lieu of the requirements contained in section 34(b) of the Basic Provisions, basic units may be divided into optional units if, for each optional unit, the following criteria are met:Start Printed Page 71280
(i) Each optional unit you select must be located on non-contiguous land;
(ii) Separate records of production are provided for at least the most recent consecutive two crop years. The records will be used to verify that trees from each unit meet the minimum production requirement contained in section 8(d) and to establish the approved average revenue per acre for the optional units selected; and
(iii) Optional units are selected and identified on the acreage report by the acreage reporting date of the first year of the two-year coverage module (Units will be determined when the acreage is reported, but may be adjusted or combined to reflect the actual unit structure when adjusting a loss. No further unit division may be made after the acreage reporting date for any reason).
(1) You fail to provide acceptable records required for optional units, which will result in optional units being combined into basic units at the time of discovery and your amount of insurance per acre will be recalculated for the two-year coverage module.
(b) Any changes in policy provisions, amounts of insurance, premium rates, and program dates (except as allowed herein or as specified in section 3) can be viewed on RMA's Web site not later than the contract change date contained in these Crop Provisions. We may revise this information after the contract change date to correct clerical errors.
(1) Any damage to trees, removal of trees, change in practices, sequential thinning or any other action that may reduce the gross sales below the approved average revenue upon which the amount of insurance per acre is based and the number of affected acres;
(b) We will reduce the amount of your insurable acreage based on our estimate of the removal of a contiguous block of trees or damage to trees of the insured crop. We will reduce your amount of insurance per acre based on our estimate of the expected reduction in gross sales from a change in practice or sequential thinning.
(d) That are grown on trees that have produced at least 600 pounds of pecans in-shell per acre (or an amount provided in the Special Provisions) in at least one of the previous four crop years, unless we inspect and allow insurance by written agreement. This amount of production must be achieved subsequent to any top work that occurs within a unit;
(e) That are grown on varieties or a grouping of varieties within a unit that are not designated as uninsurable in the Special Provisions;
(b) We will determine your loss on a unit basis. In the event you are unable to provide separate acceptable records for any:
(1) Optional units, we will combine all optional units for which such records were not provided; or
(2) Basic unit, we will allocate commingled production or revenue to each basic unit in proportion to our liability on the harvested acreage for each unit.
(i) The dollar amount obtained by multiplying the number of pounds of pecans sold by the price received for each day the pecans were sold (if the price received is not verifiable by sales receipts or is determined to be inappropriate by us for the quality of pecans sold the market price will be used);
Pecan Revenue Example
Average pounds per acre
Average gross sales per acre
4 100 750 $1,050
Total Average Gross Sales Per Acre = 2,675
The approved average revenue equals the total average gross sales per acre divided by the number of years ($2,675 ÷ 4 = $669).
The amount of insurance per acre equals the approved average revenue multiplied by the coverage level percent ($669 × .65 = $435).
Assume pecan trees in the unit experienced damage to blooms due to a late freeze causing low production. You produced, harvested, and sold 300 pounds per acre of pecans from 70 acres and received an actual price of $0.75 per pound. On the other 30 acres, the pecans suffered damage due to drought. You elected not to harvest the other 30 acres of pecans. The 30 acres were appraised at 100 pounds per acre and on the day of the appraisal the average AMS price was $0.65. The total dollar value of production to count is (300 pounds of pecans × $0.75 × 70 net acres) + (100 pounds × $0.65 × 30 net acres) = $15,750 + $1,950 = $17,700.
The indemnity would be:
The amount of insurance per acre multiplied by the net acres minus the dollar value of the total production to count equals the dollar amount of indemnity ($435 × 100 = $43,500.00 − $17,700.00 = $25,800).
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Signed in Washington, DC, on November 4, 2011.
William J. Murphy,
Manager, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation.
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Tagged: repay money to claimants
High Court challenges UK work schemes
The High Court has ruled emergency laws underpinning a government back-to-work scheme are “incompatible” with the European Convention on Human Rights.
The ruling stems from a case brought by Cait Reilly in 2012, who said being forced to work for free at a Poundland store breached her human rights.
The government brought in new rules in 2013 allowing unpaid work schemes to continue pending further legal appeals.
Ministers said they were “disappointed” by the ruling and would appeal.
But lawyers for Miss Reilly claimed the government owed about £130m to people who had fallen foul of the retrospective legislation and ministers should admit they made a mistake.
The 24-year old graduate challenged the legality of an unpaid work placement she undertook in 2011, part of the government’s “mandatory work activity” programme.
She said that she was told that if she did not agree to take part in the scheme, which she said involved stacking shelves, she would lose her Jobseeker’s Allowance.
The government was forced to pass emergency legislation amending the scheme last year after Court of Appeal ruled that the regulations underpinning it did not comply with existing laws giving the Department for Work and Pensions the power to introduce the programme
The legislation was designed to reinforce the rules to make it clear that claimants must do all they can to find work in order to claim benefits and to ensure the government did not have to repay money to claimants who had not complied with the conditions of their benefit claim.
But Mrs Justice Lang, sitting at the High Court in London, ruled on Friday that the retrospective legislation interfered with the “right to a fair trial” under Article Six of the Convention on Human Rights.
The Department for Work and Pensions said it was “disappointed” by the ruling – which it said applied to a minority of claimants – and would launch an appeal.
“We disagree with the judgment on the legislation and are disappointed,” a spokeswoman said.
“It was discussed, voted on and passed by Parliament. While this applies to only a minority of past cases and does not affect the day to day business of our Jobcentres, we think this is an important point and will appeal.”
She said the legislation remained “in force” and the government would not be compensating anyone who had been docked benefits pending the outcome of its appeal.
But Paul Heron, a solicitor for Public Interest Lawyers, said it was a “massively significant” ruling and the DWP’s decision to appeal against it would be a further blow to the “upwards of 3,000 cases sitting in the tribunal system waiting for this judgement“.
He claimed people were owed anything from four weeks benefit, about £250, to several thousand pounds and were having to mostly represent themselves at tribunals.
He told BBC News it was “about time the DWP just held their hands up, admit they made an error, and pay people the money they were entitled to at the time. That is what a responsible government would do.”
The back-to-work schemes have been condemned by critics as “slave labour” because they involve work without pay but are seen by supporters as a good way of getting the unemployed back into the world of work.
The Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal’s ruling on the regulations last year although the judges also rejected claims that the schemes were “exploitative” and amounted to “forced labour“.
Ministers said that the most recent legal judgement had upheld this view.
“We’re pleased the Court recognised that if claimants do not play by the rules and meet their conditions to do all they can to look for work and get a job, we can stop their benefits,” the spokeswoman added.
Poundland, one of several employers which took part in the scheme, withdrew from it in 2012.
Source – BBC News, 04 July 2014
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Tag Archives: Disney Channel Talent Search
Disney now casting actors and extras for new live-action comedy series ‘Mighty Med’
Super talented newcomer Paris Berelc stars in Disney’s superhero comedy series “Mighty Med”.
It’s a Laugh Productions is now in production on season one of the brand new Disney XD live-action superhero comedy series “Mighty Med”. Disney casting directors are beginning to audition actors for series regulars, recurring roles, guest starring roles, and day players. The extras are being hired throughout shooting on the sophomore season, which will continue through November 1, 2013. “Mighty Med” is a multi-camera series that was inspired by the extraordinary world of super heroes and comic books. Shooting takes place in Los Angeles.
Disney Casting Calls for “Mighty Med”
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Disney XD casting series regulars for new 1/2 hour comedy ‘Mighty Med’
“Mighty Med” comes from the production company that brought you “Hannah Montana“.
It’s A Laugh Productions is in pre-production on the new 1/2 hour sitcom “Mighty Med” for Disney XD, and the Disney casting director is auditioning actors for the show’s starring and co-starring roles, as well as possible recurring roles. Central Casting is handling the hiring of the show’s stand-ins and extras. Shooting will take place in Los Angeles, CA beginning in February 2013. The starring roles include two boys and one girl who can play 15 years of age. They are also accepting submissions from actors of any ethnicity.
Disney Casting “Mighty Med” Actors and Extras
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