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A bipartisan pair of senators opened a second front in the fight to bring transparency to the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, introducing an amendment to the Wall Street reform bill that would require the central bank to comply with two federal court orders requiring it to disclose how trillions in taxpayer dollars have been used.
The Fed has appealed both rulings.
The amendment, cosponsored by Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), is the second assault on the Fed. The first was launched by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is pushing an amendment that reflects audit language passed by the House.
With the White House strongly opposed to an audit of the Fed, three economists, including two who had previously worked on oversight of the Fed, pressed the administration to drop its "apocalyptic opposition" to the amendment. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that the administration "would fight to stop it at all costs."
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), a cosponsor of the House measure, said that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's opposition represents a conflict of interest. "He was the head of the New York Fed for years and years. This audit would apply to him. And the actions he took -- which he can now take in secret and, when this bill passes, will no longer be secret -- we'll be able to see and understand the decisions that he made that, among other things, put huge amounts of bailout money into the hands of private interests," said Grayson on ABC's "Top Line" Tuesday. "It's one of the biggest conflicts of interest I've ever seen."
The letter from the economists lays out how resistant the Fed has been to transparency over the past several decades. Each time it was forced to open up, however, none of the cataclysmic market disruptions that had been predicted came to pass and the new scrutiny became an accepted and standard part of Fed activity.
Though more than 50 senators are on record previously supporting a Fed audit, knees are starting to weaken. Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), previous supporters, all now say they're on the fence. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was asked Wednesday how he planned to vote and sidestepped the question, saying that he has been a longtime critic of the Fed but had yet to study Sanders' language. "I've been involved in this deal for a long, long time," he said.
Reid pushed for a limited audit of the Fed in 1996 and what the GAO found troubled him. "For the first time in history, we have peeled back the cloak that shrouds operations at the Federal Reserve," Reid said in a statement at the time. "For years, the closed-door nature of such a large and influential public entity has concerned me. The GAO investigation reveals a spending free-for-all with no one keeping check. The nearly $4 billion soared reserve fund, along with increasing bloat, perks, and benefits begs the question of who is minding the shop. With this report, I believe we will begin to see the 'blank check mentality' at the Fed brought under control and the 1913 accounting practices modernized for the 21st century."
That mentality, however, has only been reinforced. The Fed has, over time, objected to holding hearings on monetary policy, releasing transcripts of meetings and releasing directives after those meetings. That resistance was broken and each release is now standard practice.
Grayson said that the Fed's objections are easily understood. "The Fed doesn't want to be audited. Who does? Do you want to be audited? I don't want to be audited, but sometimes it's necessary," he said.
From the letter, signed by Robert Auerbach, James Galbraith and Dean Baker:
Our careers have been tied to the cause of establishing a reasonable, forthcoming dialogue between the Federal Reserve and Congress on monetary topics. At every stage, for 35 years now, the Federal Reserve has resisted.
In 1975, the Fed resisted regular hearings on the conduct of monetary policy. They were nevertheless established, under H. Con. Res 133, and written into the Federal Reserve Act in
1978. Those hearings continue today, and are widely considered a very substantial policy success- so much so that when the legal mandate briefly expired, the hearings continued without one.
Once the hearings were established, the Federal Reserve resisted giving to Congress its economic forecast for the year ahead -- a resistance that was only broken by disciplined questioning at the Banking Committee. Today, that information is considered innocuous.
In the late 1970s, the Fed resisted releasing the policy directive at the end of each FOMC meeting. It preferred the silly practice of waiting until after the following meeting -- even though everyone knew immediately from the movement of the Federal Funds rate what the directive was. Today, the announcement is made immediately, and nobody thinks twice about it.
In the 1980s, the Federal Reserve pretended for years that it was not keeping verbatim minutes of the FOMC meetings. This deception eventually caused major embarrassment. Now the minutes are released after a five-year delay -- and the only consequence is that from time to time the public becomes aware of incompetence or deception that the Federal Reserve would prefer to conceal. An example was in the press earlier this week, as you surely know.


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A team of staff, patients and friends and family will be cycling 200 miles in two days to raise £22,000 for a portable ultrasound device for the Southampton Paediatric Rheumatology Fund.
The Bow Tie Bike Ride (named after the bow tie shaped route) team will set off from Southampton on 13 September 2014 and travel through Winchester, Portsmouth and Poole before arriving back at Southampton General Hospital the following day. The intrepid cyclists will each cycle 200 miles over the course of the weekend in order to raise vital funds.
This portable ultrasound device is crucial for the treatment of children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA). This is a form of arthritis which affects 1 in 1,000 children across the UK. The cause is unknown but the result is that children have inflamed painful joints. There are different forms of treatment for JIA, but no cure at the moment. It's really important for children with JIA to be monitored closely throughout their care to ensure they remain in remission of their disease as much as possible.
JIA is monitored in regular appointments at a clinic. An ultra sound scan is often used as part of the examination process and one that helps confirm active disease. However, in some of the clinics supported by Southampton hospital, once the professional has identified that a scan is needed, it isn't possible for a child to have this straight away. Instead they have to come back, sometimes up to four weeks later, for a scan, and then come back again for a separate appointment to receive their results. The whole process can take up to 12 weeks. While the child is waiting for their scan and the results, their treatment is delayed, meaning that they are often in pain and less mobile than they could be.
However, if the team had a portable ultrasound device, they could bring this with them to the clinics, meaning that the children can have their scan right away and they don't have to wait for the results. This means children can get the right treatment straight away, rather than waiting for months in pain and decreased mobility. If the Bow Tie Ride team raise £22,000 they will be able to fund the purchase of this.
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On my blog entry entitled How to Work through Memories of Child Abuse, a reader posted the following comment:
I am wondering the same thing as Kelly…it's so unreal … how do I believe memories like those, let alone "work through them"? Will I ever really know that they are real and I"m not just crazy or sick…I do have some physical issues but no scars…unless I can actually uncover photographs or the people involved actually confess these same memories to me, independently of me telling them about them? Is it ever possible to be really "sure" when you're working purely from "memory"? ~ Lilo
I, too, had a very hard time believing my own memories, especially in the beginning. First of all, I did not believe in repressed memories. I thought that people would remember anything that had ever happened to them, so I must just be crazy. Second, my first memories were of my mother sexually abusing me, and "moms don't do that." I could recall ever hearing about a mother doing that to her daughter, so how could those memories be true?
Next, I did not believe the memories because they were from an out-of-body perspective. How could I possibly remember the back side of my body? How could I have a "from the ceiling" perspective of the abuse? Also, the memories were so amazingly detailed and clear – How could that be possible? How could I possibly remember that I was wearing pink pants during a particular incident that happened when I was only three years old?
These are all questions I threw at my therapist, and he kept telling me that my experience was normal! I was certain that the next "proof" of my own insanity would be enough for him to commit me, but my therapist kept validating me over and over again. He even told me that the "insane" patients try to convince you that they were abused, but the child abuse survivors try to convince you that they weren't!
In the early days of recovering memories, I desperately wanted proof. I found the validation I needed in small ways, such as recovering a memory in which my mother wore a particular hairstyle and then verifying that her hairstyle did, in fact, look like that when I was that particular age. Another time, I recovered a memory of hugging a toy dog after being abused. I found a picture of me at the same age holding that dog.
I am fortunate to have a sibling who has been able to verify many of my memories. We endured many abuses together, and we both have the same memories of what happened – sometimes with a different focus but still consistent memories of the same event. We also suffered many similar abuses separately, which was also validating.
Now that I am seven years into my healing journey, I see the validation in other ways. I see it when I learn about how old (pre-therapy) friends and doing and realize just how amazingly f@#$ed up most of them are today. (Thankfully, there are exceptions, but most of them are people who have been through therapy like I have.) If not for my choice to heal, I would likely be in the same place.
I also find validation in recognizing the degree to which I was broken, including the many aftereffects I have dealt with (eating disorder, self-injury, insomnia, night terrors, etc.). Further validation comes from seeing how much more emotionally healthy I am versus seven years ago. If I simply made all of this stuff up or was mentally ill, how is it possible that I am now so much healthier than I used to be?
Confession time – I have never received an official diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder (DID) from a therapist because mine is not big on labels. He did use the label of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for a particular reason that I won't go into now, and he knows about all about the alter parts, but his focus was always on learning how to love and accept myself and my experiences rather than on labeling me. I would sometimes question whether I really had DID, even though I "knew" that I did.
I received that validation from fellow child abuse survivors at Isurvive and here. If I did not endure the memories that I have recovered and never had DID, then how is it that my words resonate so deeply with other child abuse survivors? Why do they understand me so well when most people in my life haven't? Why does my advice help so many other people?
I have found validation in many ways over the years, but the most important validation came from myself. When I chose to believe myself, I healed. When I chose not to believe myself, my symptoms grew worse. Choosing to believe my memories meant releasing myself to the natural process of healing.
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This just in...a virtual feud between noted Youtubers "Dutchsince" (Michael Jantich), and "Suspcious0bservers" (Ben Davidson).
Both are known around Youtube for posting alternative news, in their own respective fashions.
Lately, we've noticed some animosity between the two, with things boiling to the point where it is now, and it's not very pretty.
"Lacing up....game on!" - says Davidson, who has been garnering quite the Youtube success lately in a relatively short time, something which Jantich may have become jealous about (or rather, suspicious about).
With a new website, more subscribers, and now paid premium content being offered by the SuspiciousObservers.org website, it's no wonder why Dutchsince has become Suspicious himself. As we all should be at this point. Anyone charging for premium content when all you're selling is freely available information, that should be a crime.
Asking for money for what they do is no new trend on Youtube. Dutchsince (Jantich) has been receiving donations for about three years now, having been the first Youtuber of his type to do what he does with mild success. But there's always someone on the verge with something better, and that's what we see with Youtuber Suspicious0bservers (Davidson). He has quite the reputation for posting a "2-5 Minute News" videos (Updated to our homepage each day) ranging from world news updates & solar and terrestrial weather, just like his counterpart.
Dutchsince should be proud because he was first to bring these kind of videos to Youtube, gaining support from tens of thousands of people like you and me, however Suspicious0bservers should also get credit for his unwavering ability to put forth a new video each and every day without fail and his genuine compassion for the matter.
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From an Apatheist to an Antitheist: Why I Now Actively Oppose Religion
Scientology: The Ex Files
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An extraordinary interview with Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) by Christian Rocca.
Filmed in his house, Washington Dc, December 1, 2005.
Christopher Hitchens and John Haldane at Oxford – We Don't Do God? – The Veritas Forum
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Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked rebels urges Muslims to attack shopping malls in the US, Canada, Britain and other Western countries. I had someone ask me today what reason they had to call for these attacks. There is one reason, its actually quite simple and Sam Harris does an excellent job of explaining it…
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Straight to the website interview for Brass. So, Nicholas Boserio...
Yes, Dane Burman. Dane Stewart Burman.
So, why'd you change your Instagram name from The Brass and got rid of anything The Brass related on there?
So, we're going to talk about Instagram?
Yeah, it used to be "The Brass" and then you changed it to just "Nick Boserio" and underneath it was "The Brass" and now it's just, like, good young cocksucker or something.
It's "All Young All Brassy," so there's Brass in there.
Not very much of it.
Pay closer attention.
Trying to give Neen a run for his money-gun. Ninja Heelflip. Photo Flynn
Not much Brass left, though. You're getting rid of The Brass. You're trying to ditch the nickname.
I'm accentuating the Brass. It's not just all Brassy or all Young. It's All Young All Brassy. That's a lot of accentuating leading to the Brassy.
So people can't just type in, "The Brass" as everyone knows you by and find you on Instagram. So you're a little more hidden. I think you're limiting yourself.
Yeah, I'm hiding behind my true name. You found me out, but now everyone's gonna know.
Alright, so you've been married for almost a year now.
Yes, it's my one-year wedding anniversary this Sunday.
Doing anything special? Vineyard holiday?
Not a vineyard, no. Is that a thing?
Conventional kinker, hammer time back board Photo: Zalsavsky
I feel like it's a thing. I don't know because I don't drink and I don't marriage. So how, as a skateboarder, is married life different from the bachelor life?
Uh, I don't live in a shit house. I live with my wife.
That's a shit house. You have to wait for each other to get out of the bathroom.
I guess I'm sharing my house. I live with her instead of, like, five dudes. But that was before I was married, too, so I don't know. It's not different at all.
Who, past or present, would you like to have on the Zero skateboard team?
You could go with the Australia gimmick and put Mumford back on. That'd be cool.
That would be cool. He'd have to start skating again, though.
Oof. Dane said it, not me.
Just a couple of raw backsides, no big deal. Photo: Flynn
That's alright. He already hates me.
What about Jim Greco and we can get him to do all of our graphics?
I like Greco's boards. Okay, who besides me would you like to have kicked off the Zero team?
I need all of my focus on somebody getting kicked off to be on you. I'm not even going to think about getting other people kicked off.
Okay, while we're on this subject, why did you get kicked off Alien Workshop? Or why did they tell you that you'd never make it as a pro for them?
I don't know.
What do you mean you don't know? You know the reason: you fucking ticked somebody off, like Dylan or Dill or something.
I probably just didn't get along with them. It's like any team. A lot of the people don't work out. This is how I explain it: I didn't know that I was supposed to be getting on until I found out I wasn't. So I don't know why.
Hippie jump? More like some sleeper-cell shit on this high-jump inside grind. Photo: O'Donnell
If you're gonna play the ignorance-is-bliss card…
I don't know. I probably got pissed drunk and then did something stupid.
I heard it was because you got into a fight with Jason Dill.
Yeah, it's because I tried to choke Jason Dill out.
I feel like Jason Dill is the sort of guy that if you tried to choke him out you'd succeed.
Your words, not mine.
Not that I want to try and choke Jason Dill out 'cause he seems like a nice guy, even though I flipped him off one time for no fucking reason at all.
How did that go for you?
This cutty enough? Classic kickflip. Photo: Flynn
I don't know. He just looked at me really confused.
I'd be confused as well.
I've told you that story, right?
I don't think so.
It was when he was in Melbourne for a little while and he was going into Fast Times every single day to check his Facebook. I'd see him nearly every day and say, "Hey, what's up, dude?" Talk to him every single day. It was cool, you know. Nice guy. And then one day I was skating to Lincoln to meet up with everybody and he was out in front of Fast Times and he gave me the wave and I turned around and I flipped him off and just kept going. And then a little bit down the road I was, like, "Why did I do that?" And I had no idea why I did that. It was just my natural reaction to flip him off and keep skating. And that was the last time I saw him for fucking years. I don't think I've seen him since. So I don't know if he realized or remembers or anything, but I flipped off Jason Dill for no fucking reason.
Very nice.
I'm not bragging about that or anything. It was a dick move one-hundred percent but I think it's funny.
Well, it's a little better than trying to choke him out.
Can your super hero do this? Bump to chain-link 50-50. Photo Dominick
Yeah, like you did and got kicked off.
Yeah, I got really drunk and fucking tried to choke Jason Dill out and never got on Alien Workshop. So do you want to tell an actual story that really happened to go with this interview?
Do you think it's funny that everyone thinks that Jamie Thomas is a skate Nazi, like the worst dude ever, but you get fucking hammered in the back of the van on every Zero trip and talk shit to Jamie the entire time and here he is turning you pro? Seems like he's willing to tolerate a lot. Tell the story about the time you blew up the hotel room and he had to deal with it.
Oh, that was fucked. God, that's a good story. So we drove from South Carolina into North Carolina. Fireworks are, like, 100-percent legal in South Carolina but not in North Carolina, but we didn't know that. We bought a bunch of fucking fireworks from one state, drove straight into the state where they're not legal at all, went into the parking lot of the motel we were staying at in the fucking middle of nowhere and went fucking crazy with them. Like, huge cannon fireworks, everything. We spent hundreds of dollars on them. Got kicked out of the parking lot, go back to the room, still having so many fireworks left and blew everything up. We shot Roman candles into the bathroom, the shower curtain got dirt from all of these flaming balls shooting out. There were black smoke dot marks all over the bathroom. The TV remote got blown up. Cans of beer got blown up. Everything, like, getting stuck under the bedsheets. The whole room got so smoked out. It's me, Windsor James, Lannie Rhoades and I think maybe someone else was there, but I know us three were the main culprits. We fucking blew everything up. There was so much noise. This was at, like, four in the morning—a regular motel room. Boom, boom, boom, boom! Somebody starts knocking on the door and then we're, like, what the fuck? Pretend that we're asleep. Ridiculous. But we did it anyway—jumped into bed. Lannie takes all his clothes off, classic drunk skateboarder move, and answers the door naked. He opens the door naked and I shit you not, it's dark in the room and light outside and he opens the door and you can see his silhouette and just all this smoke billowing out around his head and between his legs—completely butt naked, like, "Oh, I'm sorry, what's going on?" And the people were just, like, "Are you fucking kidding me? You're trying to pretend to go to sleep and you're naked? This is complete bullshit. This place is fucked." Then Jamie wakes up because of all of the knocking and the fireworks.
Boardslide transfer as casual as a walk in the park. Photo: Dominick
We were awake. I was in the room with him the whole time. We were just lying there listening to the fucking fireworks from fucking five doors down.
I'm sure Jamie was just, like, "Well, let's get out of here." So this lady wants to kick everyone out and he's pretty much just, like, "Please. The rest of us are normal people who are also upset that these idiots are blowing up all these fireworks. Please, just kick them out and let us stay." He just wanted to go back to sleep, 'cause he's just, like, a person who doesn't even know us, putting up with this firework noise. So long story short, he drives us directly across the road, checks us into the motel across the street. And we're all in the back of the car, like, silent. Jamie is driving us in the van and we're all like bastard kids. He checks us in next door and it worked out fine. We didn't even have to pay for the room. They didn't even make us pay for the damages. I have absolutely no idea why. We fucking blew up everything, and I took a wet towel and fucking wiped down the burn marks on the walls. But there were fireworks in all the beds, the TV remote didn't work and there was beer all over the floor from blowing the cans up and they didn't make us pay for anything. I have no idea why. But yeah, Jamie's not a skate Nazi. All the time—
Not all the time.
We might have been drunk and checking into the motel at four in the morning 'cause we were checking out spots that entire night under Jamie's command. That was good times. Hammered, making irresponsible decisions. See? I'm a really good role model. I am. It's good clean fun. No one got hurt. No one ever gets hurt as long as we have fireworks inside of a tiny hotel room. Suck posse. Or did suck posse suck that night? Do you think I'm a positive role model, Dane?
I do think you are a positive role model for the children. Well, I mean you're a positive role model 90-percent of the time until you get pissed in the van, and then you're just an annoying cunt.
That's a good balance, I guess.
Hard to get cuttier than Ol' Mexico. Kicky front board in the land of cracks. Photo: Dominick
Yeah, I mean, it's like yin and yang, you know? You need your little black dot in the white square sometimes. So you have your life pretty much together right now. You're a man with a brand new car. You want to talk about your new car?
I got a car loan. My car is on street view. How about that? If you look up my house on Google street view you can see my car.
I remember being real stoked when Google Earth first came out and I saw my old house. It was, like, "Oh my God. You can look at shit." And I could see my dog that had recently died running around in the backyard and I was, like, "Oh, my little dog."
That's a lot more meaningful and sentimental. Mine is just a car in a driveway.
That's pretty meaningful and sentimental—first car in America.
Doing things. Big things. Here's my car in the driveway. I think it's symbolic of doing some good, something in America, some kind of progress. It was, like, the last thing on my list of major stuff I had to do in America. Get my license, get my fucking car.
Why do they call him Brass? Must be 'cause that's what his balls are made of. Double danger ollie con huevos. Photo: O'Donnell
It's like a closed book, it's, like, boom. Did it. I moved. I made the fucking thing. Yeah, that's how I felt when I got mine. Now I want to fucking sell the cunt. So the last photo you had in Thrasher was an ollie over to grind down a 16. Have you taken a step back from that kind of skating? What do you think about this general low-impact trend in skating? Not necessarily that you're doing that.
I've always maintained that I like cutty hammers; I don't think I like hammers alone. Like, gnarly shit alone is sick, but gnarly shit that has something different about it—that's the ultimate combination.
I just don't have the cutty eye. I just go and find a rail and it's, like, "Oh okay, no one's 5-0'd it? I'll do that again, I guess." Then I end up with a bunch of 5-0s that are completely pointless. I guess I need to do the cutty low-impact thing like you.
What is this low-impact thing?
Tall snap to backside wallride. Photo: O'Donnell
Well, you're not going to find a perfect 15 stair in the cuts. That's not cutty. You're not going to jump down 15 stairs with four cracks before you pop and a grate on the landing, are you?
No. Maybe if it was, like, a 14 stair that doesn't have cracks at the top but you land into a hill? I don't know. Does it have to be high impact to be gnarly? No. Maybe it's the fact that so many people are doing all this gnarly shit on basic looking stuff that people are trying to do other stuff. Do you think I have a new direction in my skating? Jeez. Has there ever been directions? Well, you know what it is, I think from part to part you have to change some things, you know? You can't just keep adding a stair. You have to change. Versatility to me is not just trying to do new things or push yourself. It isn't just about trying a harder trick or trying to do the same tricks on bigger things. It's, like, is there some way of skating or some certain spots that you haven't been good at skating that you want to push yourself on?
So after this part you're probably gonna focus on a manual pad. Is what you're trying to say?
Yeah, I'm gonna go on a switch manual thing after this.
Switch manual. Perfect.
There's the pull quote: I'm going to work on a switch manual video part.
Zero Skateboards "No Cash Value Vol. 5" VideoNo Cash Value No. 5 is the finale of the series and it's a hell of a way to go out. With full parts from Windsor James and Dane Burman and a ripping team montage, it's everything you'd hope for in a Zero vid. Their legacy of brutality is secured with this one.
Burnout: No Bucks GivenChief and the boys premiered the latest installment of their popular No Cash Value series, this one starring Dane, Brockman and Windsor.
Windsor James InterviewWord has spread recently that Windsor's skating has been on fire. In this interview he talks about his comeback and his new Zero board sponsor.
Zero Skateboards "No Cash Value Vol. 5" TeaserZero stays true to their roots with this 45 second trailer for "No Cash Value Vol 5" with full parts from Dane Burman and Windsor James. Carnage Awaits...
Franky Villani's "No Cash Value" partFrom one clip to the next, there is no telling what Franky is going to pull out of his bag of tricks in this part—especially in the gnarly and creative second half. So sick, Franky!
Franky Villani's "No Cash Value" TeaserA lot of people were pleasantly surprised when they heard Franky got on Zero. And now the stoke level has risen for his full part premiering here on Monday.
New from ZeroCheck out all of the new boards from Zero in their catalog.
Nick Boserio's "No Cash Value" PartNot much to write here. Watch this part, get hyped, then go skate. Boserio's skating is loaded with inspiration.
Nick Boserio's "No Cash Value" TeaserBoserio put in the work, paid the piper, and in the end, it was blood well shed. His part premieres on Monday.
Nick Boserio InterviewHere Nick talks about his never-ending search for spots, his path to Zero through Alien, plus one hell of a story involving fireworks, a hotel, and Jamie Thomas.


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To celebrate the launch of their newly designed dealership, the St Albans team hosted 110 customers at a launch event evening on April 23rd. With such ample space, the showroom included both a kitchen, with celebrity chef Nigel Smith preparing dishes live for customers to enjoy, and a race track – with a giant scalextrics ready to race! The generous crowd also heard from Whizz-Kidz Ambassador Ruth Madeley, before raising a fabulous £1,500 for the charity through an auction.
The Hertfordshire dealership spent five months – from October until February – undergoing a complete transformation, and Alex O'Donnell, Brand Manager at St Albans Volkswagen is as proud of how his team managed throughout the refurbishment process as he is of the new site.
Alex said: "The team worked onsite throughout the redevelopment and were excellent, as were our customers who were extremely supportive and patient. I was very proud of my team, and delighted by the professional and positive way they supported the business and Jardine Motors during the redevelopment period. They overcame many challenges, contributed positive ideas and went out of their way to ensure our redevelopment was successfully achieved ahead of schedule. We formed an employee redevelopment committee who met two or three times during the project to provide feedback from the staff on progress, make recommendations and to assist in some of the operational decision making during the project. The whole team were brilliant."
The refurbishment has seen a complete internal upgrade to Volkswagen's latest standards, which included redesigning the entire showroom, reception and front of house, and aftersales. Externally the building was upgraded with new signage and entrance portals, a new car park layout was created and additional parking spaces generated.
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SHIN-NIHONTO, "Shin" means new, so it means "new
Japanese sword". It is a kind of blade constructed with several kinds of
modern steels. But I don't know exactly.
SPRING-TO, it is a modern steel blade tempered like spring, no hamon. Usually it is plated with chrome and a hamon-like pattern is put on it by polishing.
JAPANESE SWORD/JAPANESE BLADE, we use this word as the meaning of traditional Japanese sword, but some people think it as the sword made in Japan. It may be not wrong. We can't help the confusion.
One example of close-up picture.
This sunobe blade is well polished by the modern style.
It is made of non folded modern steel. The grain on the surface is not made of particles. It is made of full of small dimples. There is no particles on the steel surface. So the steel is not bright, it is dark and misty colour.
In the exact meaning, this is not a sunobe, because there are different steel (mild) on the shinogiji. It should be called Han-Tan-To.
For advanced persons
Today in 21st century, there are some strange Japanese styled swords that have a visible layer pattern and a strange steel colour. The steel is made by the fold welding method using some different kinds of modern steel.
The worth of such blade is same to a SUNOBE blade. Any layer pattern designs have no meaning for steel quality.
For modern steel, fold welding work has no effect onto its quality. The layer pattern design is only interesting for eyes.
To well recognize the colour and the particles of steel is very important to appreciate Japanese blades. ( => steel )
But I am afraid that in the future it will become difficult to distinguish the traditional Japanese blade from the others.
In Japan, sunobe blades are illegal. We can't have such blades. Japanese citizen never have any weapons.
Japanese style sword that made of modern steel is also illegal, even if it has pattern welding.
Only blades made of traditional method and material can be recognized as cultural assets. The educational office put a registration card to prove it as cultural asset. Japanese citizen can have swords only as cultural asset. Blades what can't get the card are disposed by the police.
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|Note: Please read the June 2011 Supreme Court decision in "Jesse U. Lucas, Petitioner, vs. Jesus S. Lucas, Respondent, G.R. No. 190710." The Court ruled that "during the hearing on the motion for DNA testing, the petitioner must present prima facie evidence or establish a reasonable possibility of paternity." This simply means that:
1. The trial court must hold a hearing on whether DNA testing should be done or not;
2. During the hearing, the petitioner (the mother or the child) must present evidence to prove that there is a reasonable possibility the man is the biological father;
Evidence to prove possibility of paternity could be testimonies of witnesses to the sexual or romantic relationship between the mother and the alleged father, videos, pictures, letters, etc.
The Court's ruling protects the alleged father from mere harassment suits.
The issuance of a DNA testing order is discretionary upon the trial court. The court may, for example, consider whether there is absolute necessity for the DNA testing. If there is already preponderance of evidence to establish paternity and the DNA test result would only be corroborative, the court may, in its discretion, disallow a DNA testing.
The Supreme Court's Rule on DNA Evidence A.M. No. 06-11-5-SC became effective on October 15, 2007. The Court used the Rule in deciding the case of "Estate Of Rogelio G. Ong versus Minor Joanne Rodjin Diaz, Represented by Her Mother and Guardian, Jinky C. Diaz," G.R. No. 171713, promulgated on December 17, 2007. The Court observed:
"For too long, illegitimate children have been marginalized by fathers who choose to deny their existence. The growing sophistication of DNA testing technology finally provides a much needed equalizer for such ostracized and abandoned progeny. We have long believed in the merits of DNA testing and have repeatedly expressed as much in the past. This case comes at a perfect time when DNA testing has finally evolved into a dependable and authoritative form of evidence gathering. We therefore take this opportunity to forcefully reiterate our stand that DNA testing is a valid means of determining paternity." Agustin v. Court of AppealsThe facts of the case
A Complaint for compulsory recognition with prayer for support pending litigation was filed by minor Joanne Rodjin Diaz (Joanne), represented by her mother and guardian, Jinky C. Diaz (Jinky), against Rogelio G. Ong (Rogelio) before the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Tarlac City. In her Complaint, Jinky prayed that judgment be rendered: (a) Ordering defendant to recognize plaintiff Joanne Rodjin Diaz as his daughter; (b) Ordering defendant to give plaintiff monthly support of P20,000.00 pendente lite and thereafter to fix monthly support; (c) Ordering the defendant to pay plaintiff attorney's fees in the sum of P100,000.00 and (d) Granting plaintiff such other measure of relief as maybe just and equitable in the premises.
As alleged by Jinky in her Complaint, in November 1993 in Tarlac City, she and Rogelio got acquainted. This developed into friendship and later blossomed into love. At this time, Jinky was already married to a Japanese national, Hasegawa Katsuo, in a civil wedding solemnized on 19 February 1993 by Municipal Trial Court Judge Panfilo V. Valdez.
From January 1994 to September 1998, Jinky and Rogelio cohabited and lived together at Fairlane Subdivision, and later at Capitol Garden, Tarlac City.
From this live-in relationship, minor Joanne Rodjin Diaz was conceived and on 25 February 1998 was born at the Central Luzon Doctors' Hospital, Tarlac City.
Rogelio brought Jinky to the hospital and took minor Joanne and Jinky home after delivery. Rogelio paid all the hospital bills and the baptismal expenses and provided for all of minor Joanne's needs – recognizing the child as his.
In September 1998, Rogelio abandoned minor Joanne and Jinky, and stopped supporting minor Joanne, falsely alleging that he is not the father of the child.
Rogelio, despite Jinky's remonstrance, failed and refused and continued failing and refusing to give support for the child and to acknowledge her as his daughter, thus leading to the filing of the complaint.
The RTC ruling: Joanne is the child of Rogelio
The Tarlac City RTC finally held that the only issue to be resolved is whether or not the defendant is the father of the plaintiff Joanne Rodjin Diaz.
Since it was duly established that plaintiff's mother Jinky Diaz was married at the time of the birth of Joanne Rodjin Diaz, the law presumes that Joanne is a legitimate child of the spouses Hasegawa Katsuo and Jinky Diaz (Article 164, Family Code). The child is still presumed legitimate even if the mother may have declared against her legitimacy (Article 167, Ibid).On 15 December 2000, the RTC rendered a decision that stated:
The legitimacy of a child may be impugned only on the following grounds provided for in Article 166 of the same Code. Paragraph 1 of the said Article provides that there must be physical impossibility for the husband to have sexual intercourse with the wife within the first 120 days of the 300 days following the birth of the child because of –
a) physical incapacity of the husband to have sexual intercourse with his wife;
b) husband and wife were living separately in such a way that sexual intercourse was not possible;
c) serious illness of the husband which prevented sexual intercourse.
It was established by evidence that the husband is a Japanese national and that he was living outside of the country and he comes home only once a year. Both evidence of the parties proved that the husband was outside the country and no evidence was shown that he ever arrived in the country in the year 1997 preceding the birth of plaintiff Joanne Rodjin Diaz.
While it may also be argued that plaintiff Jinky had a relationship with another man before she met the defendant, there is no evidence that she also had sexual relations with other men on or about the conception of Joanne Rodjin. Joanne Rodjin was her second child, so her first child, a certain Nicole (according to defendant) must have a different father or may be the son of Hasegawa Kutsuo.
The defendant admitted having been the one who shouldered the hospital bills representing the expenses in connection with the birth of plaintiff. It is an evidence of admission that he is the real father of plaintiff. Defendant also admitted that even when he stopped going out with Jinky, he and Jinky used to go to motels even after 1996. Defendant also admitted that on some instances, he still used to see Jinky after the birth of Joanne Rodjin. Defendant was even the one who fetched Jinky after she gave birth to Joanne.
On the strength of this evidence, the Court finds that Joanne Rodjin is the child of Jinky and defendant Rogelio Ong and it is but just that the latter should support plaintiff.
WHEREFORE, judgment is hereby rendered declaring Joanne Rodjin Diaz to be the illegitimate child of defendant Rogelio Ong with plaintiff Jinky Diaz. The Order of this Court awarding support pendente lite dated June 15, 1999, is hereby affirmed and that the support should continue until Joanne Rodjin Diaz shall have reached majority age.Ong's death while the case was pending before the Court of Appeals; CA remands the case to Tarlac City RTC for DNA testing
Rogelio Ong filed a Motion for Reconsideration, which was denied for lack of merit in an Order of the trial court dated 19 January 2001. From the denial of his Motion for Reconsideration, Rogelio appealed to the Court of Appeals. After all the responsive pleadings had been filed, the case was submitted for decision and ordered re-raffled to another Justice for study and report as early as 12 July 2002.
During the pendency of the case with the Court of Appeals, Rogelio's counsel filed a manifestation informing the Court that Rogelio died on 21 February 2005; hence, a Notice of Substitution was filed by said counsel praying that Rogelio be substituted in the case by the Estate of Rogelio Ong, which motion was accordingly granted by the Court of Appeals.
In a Decision dated 23 November 2005, the Court of Appeals held:
WHEREFORE, premises considered, the present appeal is hereby GRANTED. The appealed Decision dated December 15, 2000 of the Regional Trial Court of Tarlac, Tarlac, Branch 63 in Civil Case No. 8799 is hereby SET ASIDE. The case is hereby REMANDED to the court a quo for the issuance of an order directing the parties to make arrangements for DNA analysis for the purpose of determining the paternity of plaintiff minor Joanne Rodjin Diaz, upon consultation and in coordination with laboratories and experts on the field of DNA analysis.The Court of Appeals justified its Decision as follows:
In this case, records showed that the late defendant-appellant Rogelio G. Ong, in the early stage of the proceedings volunteered and suggested that he and plaintiff's mother submit themselves to a DNA or blood testing to settle the issue of paternity, as a sign of good faith. However, the trial court did not consider resorting to this modern scientific procedure notwithstanding the repeated denials of defendant that he is the biological father of the plaintiff even as he admitted having actual sexual relations with plaintiff's mother. We believe that DNA paternity testing, as current jurisprudence affirms, would be the most reliable and effective method of settling the present paternity dispute. Considering, however, the untimely demise of defendant-appellant during the pendency of this appeal, the trial court, in consultation with out laboratories and experts on the field of DNA analysis, can possibly avail of such procedure with whatever remaining DNA samples from the deceased defendant alleged to be the putative father of plaintiff minor whose illegitimate filiations is the subject of this action for support.Rogelio's appeal to the Supreme Court; DNA analysis no longer feasible after death?
Among other grounds, Ong's appeal (as represented by his Estate) to the Supreme Court sought to reverse the ruling of the Court of Appeals by claiming that the CA erred when it remanded the case to the Tarlac City RTC for DNA analysis despite the fact that it is no longer feasible due to the death of Rogelio G. Ong.
In his petition, the Estate of Rogelio Ong asked that the Decision of the Court of Appeals be modified, by setting aside the judgment remanding the case to the trial court for DNA testing analysis, by dismissing the complaint of minor Joanne for compulsory recognition, and by declaring the minor as the legitimate child of Jinky and Hasegawa Katsuo.
Supreme Court ruling: Even the death of Rogelio cannot bar the conduct of DNA testing
In its decision, the Supreme Court discussed the Family Code provisions on filiation, presumption of legitimacy of a child (Article 167), basis for establishing legitimacy (Articles 172 and 175), among others. I have divided and numbered the pertinent portions of the Court's ruling for easier reading and comprehension:
1. As a whole, the present petition calls for the determination of filiation of minor Joanne for purposes of support in favor of the said minor.
But with the advancement in the field of genetics, and the availability of new technology, it can now be determined with reasonable certainty whether Rogelio is the biological father of the minor, through DNA testing.
2. DNA is the fundamental building block of a person's entire genetic make-up. DNA is found in all human cells and is the same in every cell of the same person. Genetic identity is unique. Hence, a person's DNA profile can determine his identity.
DNA analysis is a procedure in which DNA extracted from a biological sample obtained from an individual is examined. The DNA is processed to generate a pattern, or a DNA profile, for the individual from whom the sample is taken. This DNA profile is unique for each person, except for identical twins.
3. Petitioner argues that a remand of the case to the RTC for DNA analysis is no longer feasible due to the death of Rogelio. To our mind, the alleged impossibility of complying with the order of remand for purposes of DNA testing is more ostensible than real. Petitioner's argument is without basis especially as the New Rules on DNA Evidence allows the conduct of DNA testing, either motu proprio or upon application of any person who has a legal interest in the matter in litigation.
From Section 4 Application for DNA Testing Order, it can be said that the death of the petitioner does not ipso facto negate the application of DNA testing for as long as there exist appropriate biological samples of his DNA.
As defined above, the term "biological sample" means any organic material originating from a person's body, even if found in inanimate objects, that is susceptible to DNA testing. This includes blood, saliva, and other body fluids, tissues, hairs and bones.
Thus, even if Rogelio already died, any of the biological samples as enumerated above as may be available, may be used for DNA testing. In this case, petitioner has not shown the impossibility of obtaining an appropriate biological sample that can be utilized for the conduct of DNA testing.


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[JURIST] Two human rights groups released documents [text, PDF] Monday confirming that planes associated with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) extraordinary rendition program [JURIST news archive] landed in Poland on six occasions in 2003. The Open Society Justice Initiative and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights [advocacy websites] released flight records obtained through a freedom of information act request to the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency (PANSA) [official website, in Polish]. Those records confirm [report, PDF] at least six plane landings linked to the CIA at the Szczytno-Szymany airport in northern Poland between February and September 2003. The flights' origins included Kabul, Afghanistan, and Morocco. The official records confirm for the first time Poland's association with the CIA's secret detainee program:
There are new and important details contained in the [documents], which provide – at the very least – confirmation of findings made in the June 2007 report of Council of Europe. These details are especially significant because they emanate from a Polish state authority and represent the first time that any agency of the Polish Government has provided public confirmation on the official record that aircraft associated with the CIA landed, repeatedly, at Szymany Airport.
In a statement, the executive director of the Justice Initiative used the report to demand accountability [press release] by the US on this issue, saying, "We are finding out the truth in Poland, and it is time for the US to come clean."
Poland has been investigating [JURIST report] the CIA's extraordinary rendition program since 2008. Under that program, terrorism suspects were seized and flown to secret locations outside the US for interrogation and imprisonment. Poland allegedly housed the largest CIA detention facility in Europe [JURIST report], but has previously denied any connection to the program. In addition to Poland, Romania and Lithuania [JURIST reports] are alleged to have housed secret CIA facilities. On his third day in office in 2009, US President Barack Obama ordered the closure [JURIST report] of all CIA secret prisons. In February 2007, the European Parliament condemned more than a dozen European states [JURIST report] for their roles in the program. Then-president George W. Bush acknowledged the existence of the secret facilities [JURIST report] in September 2006 but provided no details on their locations or operation.


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"Michael Chertoff keeps saying it over and over and over...[that] we're going to shut the back door and open the front door. And what that means is that ICE is trying to push for the establishment of new guest worker programs, so that people can come here as workers, but only as workers, without rights, without eventually getting political rights, without becoming citizens, certainly without voting, but whose labor is going to be used in the economy."
Increased Raids and Checkpoint Arrests Endanger Undocumented Immigrants Threatened by Gulf Coast Storms
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez interview David Bacon, "Democracy Now!"
September 12, 2008
Undocumented immigrants along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast have resisted mandatory evacuation orders out of fear they could be arrested and deported at checkpoints. The climate of fear around deportation has worsened as the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, or ICE, continues to step up its raids across the country, with two of the largest raids in US history taking place in the last five months. We speak to David Bacon, award-winning photojournalist, labor organizer and immigrant rights activist and author of Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Migrants. [...]
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