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The recent ruling by the California Supreme Court on the validity of Proposition 8 is a dangerous ruling for all minorities. The Court has handed the mob a loaded weapon that can too easily be used to pursue inappropriate discriminatory goals and agendas. The ruling undermines the judiciary's authority to protect minority rights and it substantially alters the California Constitution as a document of independent force and effect.
In its ruling, the Court has altered the procedural process regarding Constitutional initiatives having to do with civil rights. They have done so by removing the procedural requirement that initiatives affecting only individual liberties go through the more rigorous, deliberative process known as Constitutional revision (as opposed to Constitutional amendment). The implications of this ruling have a far-reaching and chilling effect on state constitutional rights as this ruling has eased constraints on the ability of the majority interests in our State to discriminate. Indeed, it has been a hallmark of our State Constitution, our Federal Constitution, and the very fabric upon which our political and social systems in this nation were formed that we operate on a system of majority rule with protection for minority rights. Great and honorable steps against "tyranny of the majority" have been undertaken throughout our history, and sweeping policy attitudinal changes and reforms have been imposed to protect the rights of the minority in society.
This is why, for example, it is against the law to refuse to hire an individual because of their race or ethnic origin; why it is illegal to deny equal access to government based on a suspect classification (such as race, gender, religion, etc). These issues are very often hotly contested and debated, yet to our credit as a people very often we have been able to rise above our own individual prejudices and dislikes. We have enacted laws that are designed to protect the members of a minority group, members of, in Constitutional parlance, a "suspect class." Race is generally considered to be the most easily recognizable example of a suspect classification, and there are indeed many others as well.
This assessment of the high Court's "invitation to discriminate" falls far short of mere speculation or conjecture; a discriminatory pattern of behavior by the majority towards minorities is a well-documented reality throughout history. Let us recall that Nazi Germany started with German citizens being stripped of their rights for no reason other than their religion, Japanese-Americans of this country went from curfew to internment, women were not allowed to vote, and blacks were "separate", "but equal," a concept that is all too blatantly adopted by the Proposition 8 ruling. The Proposition 8 ruling opens the door for a majority of California voters to adopt future measures designed to gradually reduce or eliminate fundamental rights of vulnerable minorities.
The right to marry is an integral component of an individual's interest in personal autonomy guaranteed by the privacy provision of the State Constitution and of the liberty interest protected by the due process clause. The Court in the Proposition 8 case states that same-sex couples still have a "core set of basic substantive legal rights" and that it simply changes the substantive content of the constitution in one specific subject area by "carving out" a limited exception to access to the use of the designation "marriage." The Court's euphemistic ruling failed, however, to simply "carve out" a limited exception to the recognized policy against discrimination. This Court simply hacked off and eliminated a slice of every California citizen's privacy, due process, and equal protection rights. The Court turns a blind eye (or perhaps a winking eye) to the powerful implications of this ruling. Just as it was decided long ago that separate is not equal for the black community, so it must be held for this particular minority group in our society: homosexuals.
There is indeed debate on the subject of what does and what does not constitute a "suspect classification" in our society, and agreement on that point is difficult to achieve. Indeed, many years ago such agreement was impossible to achieve on the subject of race. So it will undoubtedly be as to sexual orientation. California Supreme Court Justices Marvin Baxter and Ming Chin are on record as previously holding the opinion that sexual orientation is not "a suspect class" and thus not subject to a more stringent standard of review for state constitutional purposes. This is, in fact, a key point in this current debate, since arguably if sexual orientation is indeed characterized as a suspect class then laws that are enacted that impact the class will be subject to a standard of review of strict scrutiny, which gives rise to greater steps being taken to ensure that the members of the subject class are treated fairly and equally.
The Proposition 8 decision purports to simply change one specific subject area of the rule relating to access to the designation of use of the term "marriage," which (arguably) gives this court a backdoor means of circumventing the "strict scrutiny" standard required for equal protection. The language of the majority opinion indicates a tortured attempt to define exactly what right the State is now conferring on the people by virtue of the enactment of Proposition 8. The Court ruled that in common speech the term "right to marry" is most often used and understood to refer to an individual's right to enter into the official relationship designated "marriage." The Court decided that in order to minimize potential confusion in the future, instead of referring to this aspect of the State constitutional rights of privacy and due process as the "right to marry," they were now going to refer to this constitutional right by the more general descriptive terminology: "the constitutional right to establish, with the person of one's choice, an officially recognized and protected family relationship that enjoys all of the constitutionally based incidents of marriage (or, more briefly, the constitutional right to establish an officially recognized family relationship with the person of one's choice)." Isn't that so much easier and "less confusing"? The court "explained" that this constitutional right is distinct from the right to have one's family relationship designated by the term "marriage". The Court found that Proposition 8 had a narrow, limited effect upon the preexisting State constitutional right of privacy and due process and upon the guarantee of equal protection of the laws because the term "marriage" is mere nomenclature or terminology.
The conclusion of the Court that the term "marriage" is merely a designation, and that Proposition 8 impacts only access to the use of the term "marriage" is, however, a clearly strained, forced trivialization of this issue and an erroneous characterization of the substance and meaning behind the term "marriage." This issue transcends the simple assignment of a designation of symbols. Words have context and significance in our society. Clearly, when you ban a minority group in our society from using the description "marriage" to characterize their relationship with their significant other, you are denying that relationship the equal respect and dignity that the State is obligated and constitutionally mandated to support. This is a far reaching discrimination of the most insidious kind that quietly and cloaked in a blanket of mere "terminology" stabs into the heart of the equal protection guarantees of the California Constitution and fundamentally alters its scope and meaning.
The Supreme Court took great pains to avoid reference to Proposition 8 as a ban on same-sex marriage. National and local newspaper headlines following the decision, however, still read "gay marriage and gay union ban upheld." On the day the Proposition 8 decision was released, the Governor of the State of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and one of the country's most prominent talk show hosts, Jay Leno, discussed and referred to the Supreme Court's decision as "the same-sex marriage ban," indicating that it was their understanding that in upholding Proposition 8 the Supreme Court had banned same-sex marriage as opposed to simply the use of the term "marriage" by same-sex couples as the California Supreme Court would have us believe. This perception by the public demonstrates that the Supreme Court's observation that the distinction over the use of the term "marriage" is (in the vernacular) "no big deal" is either a matter of wishful thinking on the part of the Court, a strained attempt to support what is otherwise an ill-conceived decision, or some combination of the two. The simple truth is this: opposite-sex couples are bestowed with the revered designation of "marriage" while same-sex couples are now handed the unfamiliar title of "domestic partners," thus perpetuating a lengthy history of discrimination towards homosexuals.
The word "marriage" is steeped in religious and social tradition, and history; through the centuries its context and our perceptions of its meaning have evolved. Only in recent history has the word been used by same-sex couples. Justice Carol Corrigan's previous reasoning that there is an age-old understanding of marriage as a relationship limited to that between a man and a woman and that same-sex couples are not similarly situated for the purpose of recognizing the availability of the label "marriage" is discussed in this ruling. This reasoning demonstrates a failure to recognize the current condition of society with regard to the concept of marriage, and a failure to recognize that a person's sexual orientation is an inappropriate basis for drawing these distinctions and for treating people differently.
The word "marriage" is imbued with social context and meaning as demonstrated by the controversy, polarization, unhappiness, and anger over its use. This begs the question, why are we using the term "marriage," one that is so historically based in religion, to describe and to designate a governmentally supervised, regulated civil partnership? Why not use the term "civil union" and leave the term "marriage" to religion? Let the religious organizations attempt to morally and ethically justify a theology that denies the marital union from a segment of society. Let these "institutions" attempt to make the argument that such is not bigotry. Where is the separation of church and state on the use of this historically religious word? Unfortunately, by embracing the historically religious use of the term "marriage" as a fundamental component of our mainstream society, yet then concluding that it has little meaning in the civil context, the Supreme Court has created a conundrum.
The Supreme Court is now allowing people to be treated differently based solely on their sexual orientation. The Supreme Court is also impinging on the privacy of all gay couples who may in the future contemplate a dissolution of their relationship, as every one of them will now be asked the question by a California family law attorney "Are you married or are you in a domestic partnership?" The California family law bar has already recognized that for purposes of dissolution and enforcing mutual rights and obligations, the Supreme Court has now established different classifications of people that family lawyers must treat differently because the process for dissolution of marriage and for domestic partnerships is different. There are privacy concerns of a group who must now consider the implications and "fallout" associated with being forced into this "other" category of "equal". Same-sex couples with children will be faced with school, camp, and physician's questionnaires that seek private information as to the status of the parental relationship. The designation of the word "marriage" (or lack thereof) will have far reaching effects on the children of these couples who will continue to be singled out, susceptible to prejudices and hate crimes.
It may be that heterosexual or atheist couples seek to demonstrate solidarity with the gay community by choosing to forego use of the designation "marriage" for their own unions. Opposite sex couples do not, however, have this option open to them as they are not entitled to apply for Domestic Relationship Partnership designation under California law unless they are over 62 years of age. Do we still perceive "equality" in the Supreme Court's decision?
A critical aspect of the Court's decision turned on the question of whether the enactment of Proposition 8 constituted a revision to the California Constitution or an amendment to the Constitution. Subject to certain procedural requirements, the California Constitution permits amendment by initiative through a simple majority of votes. A revision to the State's Constitution on the other hand can be proposed in one of two ways: the Legislature, by a two-thirds vote, may propose a revision of the Constitution to be submitted to the voters, or the voters themselves by a two-thirds majority of those voting "may submit at a general election the question whether to call a convention to revise the Constitution." The revision provision is based on the principle that comprehensive changes to the Constitution require more formality, discussion, and deliberation than is available through the initiative process.
In determining whether Proposition 8 constituted an amendment or a revision to the Constitution, the Supreme Court looked to prior cases that focused on the magnitude of the change. The previous court decisions used to determine what constituted an amendment as opposed to a revision assessed (1) the meaning and scope of the constitutional change at issue, and, (2) the effect - both quantitative and qualitative - that the constitutional change will have on the basic governmental plan or framework embodied in the preexisting provisions of the California Constitution, with a leading case noting that even a relatively simple enactment may accomplish such far-reaching changes in the nature of our basic governmental plan as to amount to revision. Previous cases have held that structural changes to the government be accomplished by revision as opposed to amendment.
Prior to this Proposition 8 case there was no precedent that limited the definition of a constitutional revision to one involving structural changes. In fact, none of the past decisions explicitly held that only a measure that makes a fundamental change in the state's governmental plan or framework could constitute a constitutional revision. The Court's consideration of an initiative that would selectively deprive some but not others of a fundamental right in this context of revision versus amendment had simply never come up in past case law.
As this was a case of first impression, the Supreme Court had the freedom to expand its previous holdings and make the determination that this was in fact a revision to the California Constitution and was thus impermissible. The judicial branch has the duty to restrain the majority from infringing on the rights of a minority. The public perception of the substance, significance, and meaning surrounding the description of "marriage" is such that the withholding of such designation from a "suspect class" has a broad impact on foundational principals. The act of reserving the official, traditional, and somewhat revered designation of "marriage" for heterosexuals is clearly broad in scope and impact. It sends the message to society that it is acceptable behavior to treat gay individuals differently than heterosexuals and accord them lesser status. This initiative required discrimination and constituted a far-reaching change to fundamental core foundational constitutional principles of law, the constitutional guarantees of privacy, liberty, and equal protection.
Instead, however, the Supreme Court has now issued a ruling that limits California Constitutional revisions to "structural changes." Before this ruling a qualitative revision included (rather than required) one that involved a change in the basic plan of California government. Under this new rule, constitutional initiatives affecting only individual rights will be deemed mere amendments rather than revisions because they fail to affect governmental organization. The court has eliminated the right of the people to challenge constitutional changes that deprive individuals of constitutional protections on the basis that the initiative is a constitutional revision. The court has limited individual liberties by exempting constitutional amendments affecting only individual liberties from the procedural requirements for constitutional revision. The Court has concluded that compliance with the revision procedure is mandatory only for changes affecting governmental organization and structure. Initiatives affecting only individual liberties no longer have to go though the more formal deliberative revision process. The court then found that as a qualitative matter, the act of limiting access to the designation of "marriage" to opposite-sex couples does not have a substantial or, indeed, even a minimal effect on the governmental plan or framework of California that existed prior to the amendment. The Court thus held that Proposition 8 was a valid amendment and permissible change to the California constitution enacted by 52.3% of the majority vote.
Supreme Court Justice, Carlos Moreno, the lone dissenting justice finds the Court's ruling in this case erroneous, advising that this was in fact a revision to the California Constitution as opposed to a mere amendment. Moreno stated, " Proposition 8 represents an unprecedented instance of a majority of voters altering the meaning of the equal protection clause by modifying the California Constitution to require deprivation of a fundamental right on the basis of a suspect classification. The majority's holding is not just a defeat for same-sex couples, but for any minority group that seeks the protection of the equal protection clause of the California Constitution."
The concurring opinion by Justice Kathryn Werdegar indicates that the Justice is clearly troubled by the effect of this ruling on civil rights, as she rejects the Court's analysis that a "revision" is one focused on governmental structure and organization. In describing the drafting process for the California Constitution, the Justice notes, "the task on which these delegates embarked was to create a legal structure for a society, not just for a government. To conclude they intended to protect individual liberties less jealously, and to give them less permanence, than the forms of governmental organization and structure is unsupportable." Justice Werdegar concludes that it is the scope of the change rather than the subject matter that is significant, and that in her view the limit on the designation of the word "marriage" was not a broad change in the principle of equal protection as to amount to a constitutional revision since same-sex couples are still entitled to all the rights of marriage. Justice Werdegar's opinion demonstrates conflict in this reasoning as she notes on one hand "that excepting the name," same-sex couples are entitled to enjoy all of the rights of marriage but on the other hand she recognizes that there are remaining important differences between marriage and domestic partnership both in substance and perception.
The Supreme Court's ruling on Proposition 8 is a travesty for the gay community and for all citizens of California. The gay rights march towards equality will continue and will ultimately prevail, either in the courts or at the polls as generational attitudes change. The train has left the station, so to speak, as 18,000 gay marriages have now been recognized in California and other states around the country are beginning to recognize these marriages. The best interest of the children must be a foremost priority. This is becoming a Byzantine mess for the Family Law Bars around the world as these family units start to move around the country and internationally. Like it or not, the world is on a global trajectory towards same-sex marriage. Common ground on streamlined uniform codification both nationally and internationally on how these relationships and the children of these relationships are to be legally and equally treated is necessary to prevent further discrimination.


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Greenpeace activists from Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan and France entered the Centre Stockage de la Manche (CSM) nuclear dumpsite at La Hague in Normandy, France, to demand the removal and decontamination of the dumpsite. Theactivists placed their countries' flags and banners declaring 'France: Nuclear Waste Dump' on top of the dumpsite.
The activists represent the principal clients of French state
reprocessing company AREVA that have disposed of nuclear waste at
the CSM (1). An estimated 140,000 containers of nuclear waste
disposed at the La Hague dump came from foreign nuclear utilities
in Europe and Japan. Under French law, it is illegal to dispose of
foreign waste in France. The largest amount of waste at the site
was produced by Electricite de France (EDF). Greenpeace is
demanding that the 1.4 million containers of waste in the CSM
dumpsite be removed and repackaged.
In a further challenge against illegal waste disposal in France,
Greenpeace today is to file legal papers against the reprocessing
company AREVA in relation to Dutch nuclear waste produced at the La
Hague plant. In February this year, Greenpeace obtained an
injunction against AREVA that forced the disclosure of its
reprocessing contract with the Dutch utility EPZ (2).
Last week, Greenpeace released a study on the radioactive
contamination of the underground water and rivers around the CSM
Normandy plant (3). The water is used by farmers for their dairy
cattle and on their fields. A former senior engineer at the
facility has stated that in addition to tritium, other
radio-nuclides in the dump, including plutonium, will leak out and
given the state of the waste in the dump, it should now be
"This dumpsite is like a nuclear sponge - it soaks in water and
squeezes out radiation. Foreign customers from Germany, the
Netherlands, Japan, Belgium, Sweden and Switzerland, together with
the French utility EdF are directly responsible for irradiating the
countryside. It's a dump that should not be there containing
material that it is illegal under French law. It is a problem
created by them and they need to deal with it urgently," said Shaun
Burnie of Greenpeace International.
The protest comes on the eve of a vote at the French Senate on
waste disposal, including maintaining the "Law Bataille of 1991",
which forbids the disposal of foreign nuclear waste in France.
AREVA's operations have led to the reprocessing, storage and
disposal of tens of thousands of cubic metres of nuclear waste.
At the same time as the Senate is debating nuclear waste
problems, EdF which is responsible for most of the radioactive
waste produced in France, is planning to build and operate the new
and controversial European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) at nearby
Flamanville. If it becomes operational it will add to the problem
by producing the highest level radioactive waste of any commercial
nuclear reactor in France (4).
The protest and filing of legal papers took place on the day
that the site operator ANDRA received the full historical record
for the dumpsite. As a result of flooding, a large amount of
documentation was destroyed by flooding at least on two occasions
during the 1970's. Falsified documents were produced in their place
"France is an undeclared international nuclear dumpsite in
violation of its own law, contaminating the environment above
safety limits. The French authorities do not have precise
information of what is in the dumpsite - how much plutonium,
strontium, and other extremely long-lived and dangerous materials.
There is no real solution to nuclear waste that will eliminate the
threat, but the first step is to stop further illegal waste
disposal, and halt the generation of more nuclear waste," said
Yannick Rousselet of Greenpeace France.
Greenpeace obtained a final victory in the Supreme Court in
Paris in December 2005, when AREVA, was found guilty of illegally
importing and storing Australian nuclear waste.
Other contacts: Shaun Burnie, Greenpeace International nuclear campaigner, +31 629 00 1133 Yannick Rousselet, Greenpeace France nuclear campaigner, +33 685806559Mhairi Dunlop, Greenpeace International Communications, +44 7801 212 960
VVPR info: Stills available from +31 653 819 255Video information available from +33 168 454 7758
Notes: 1- The CSM site was opened in 1969 and closed in 1994. In total the volume of waste in the CSM dumpsite is estimated at 527,000 cubic meters. The foreign utilities with waste illegally stored at the dump include: EoN, RWE, (Germany); Electrabel (Belgium); NOK (Switzerland); EPZ (the Netherlands); and Tokyo Electric, Kansai Electric (Japan).2 - The ACRO report, 'Nuclear Waste Management: the lessons from the CSM Disposal Site, May 23rd 2006, contains extensive analysis of the condition of the CSM site, and measurements of radioactivity on the La Hague peninsula - available at www.greenpeace.fr and www.stop-plutonium.org.3 - The contract between Cogema (AREVA) and EPZ, together with details of the legal case available upon request. The legal papers will be filed in the Cherbourg district court.4 - It is planned the reactor will operate at very high burn up - the fuel remains in the reactor longer - and up to 50% of the fuel will be plutonium mixed oxide - MOX. The so-called public enquiry on the construction of the reactor is due to begin on June 15th - lasting only 6 weeks.5 - It was confirmed by the former ANDRA engineer that in addition to flooding, documentation was destroyed by an infestation of mice, in particular the records related to alpha contamination (including plutonium content).
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Configuration for transparently redundant firewalls
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The goal of any network is communication. We can no longer be satisfied with simply sustaining communication, we need to do so safely and efficiently, according to networking expert Vincent Jones. Vincent Jones is the author of High Availability Networking with Cisco. And this tip from InformIT explains how to keep your network secure with a redundant firewall if a firewall or router goes down.
How the firewall appears to your routers, either as another router or as an end system, affect how the network can be designed. The tip is based on your routers viewing the firewall as another router.
Assume that each firewall will pass any legitimate Web traffic between any valid Internet address and the Web server at 18.104.22.168. On this network, you route to the public address of the Web server, and establish a default route that takes you back out to the outside world via a firewall. This mode of operation for the "inside" network is typical for a DMZ network.
Note that you need to configure the routing so that any specific user's requests and the responses to those requests will always be delivered to the same firewall. Otherwise, any state information associated with existing connections will be unavailable and browsing may be disrupted. While this service disruption is considered acceptable if the alternative is no service (as when switching firewalls to recover from a firewall or access LAN failure), it's not something you want as part of normal operation.
The key to recovering from firewall failure is the use of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to detect when a path through a firewall is available. By advertising a unique target address for each available path, you can trigger the appropriate floating static route to direct your production traffic. To provide protection against as many double faults as possible, define the four paths in Table 1. Keep in mind that failure of any access LAN is equivalent to failure of the firewall served by that LAN.
Table 1 Path Selection for Maximum Double Fault Tolerance Using Four Paths
|Inside Router
|Firewall and LANs
|Outside Router
|Router R-1
|LAN_1 __Firewall F_1A __LAN_A
|Router R-A
|Router R-1
|LAN_2 __Firewall F_2B __LAN_B
|Router R-B
|Router R-2
|LAN_1 __Firewall F_1A __LAN_A
|Router R-B
|Router R-3
|LAN_2 __Firewall F_2B __LAN_B
|Router R-A
The critical concept behind this design is that, rather than using static routes pointing to a specific firewall service address to direct incoming and outgoing traffic to the appropriate firewall (and nowhere else), you instead use floating static routes that point to loopback interface addresses on the other side of the firewalls that you learn via BGP. When a path fails, the target address associated with that path becomes unreachable and a backup route using a different path floats into action. By careful selection of the route weights and sharing of local route information between routers, you minimize the potential for unnecessary changing of firewalls for any traffic flow.
The firewalls need to be configured to allow the exchange of BGP routing information. Network address translation can be used as desired without regard for explicit support by the firewalls for BGP traffic, because the addresses included inside BGP routing packets to provide next-hop information are ignored. Note also that you only need to provide a path for the BGP speaker on the inside to connect with the BGP speaker on the outside. If the BGP speakers on the outside routers don't support a passive (listen-only) option, this will cause false alarms during connection setup as the outside BGP speakers attempt to connect to their neighbors on the inside. The connection attempts will stop as soon as the inside speaker establishes a connection to the outside speaker, but could be annoying if an inside speaker fails.
You define target addresses on each of the four routers, one for each path to that router. Use address filters on your BGP advertisements to allow only the correct targets to be learned over each peering associated with any path. You then define floating static routes so that traffic to and from the DMZ Web server will always use path 1 or 3 if available and only use path 2 or 4 if there is no other choice. Note that for failure recovery to work, it's essential that the only way that the routers can learn a route to any of the target addresses on the other side of the firewall be through BGP.
Since BGP includes the address of the next hop to take as part of the route advertisement, you'll also need to configure your BGP speakers to override that address with the correct address for the firewall. The specific technique used will depend on the BGP implementation. The critical requirement is that you don't believe the next hop specified by the router on the other side of the firewall, as to do so would severely degrade the security protection provided by the firewalls.
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A few of the drugs that Lopid can potentially interact with include repaglinide, cyclosporine, warfarin, and statins like fluvastatin and pravastatin. Lopid drug interactions can raise the amount of the drugs in your blood and increase your risk of bleeding or developing kidney problems, among other things.
Lopid Drug Interactions: An IntroductionLopid® (gemfibrozil) has the potential to interact with a number of other medications. Some of these possible Lopid drug interactions include:
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"The Khashoggi Story: Wikipedia 25" at Zoot Coffee
October 31, 2019 @ 7:00 am - 4:00 pm
October 1-31, 2019
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Thu – Tu 7-4pm
Website: http://www.kennycole.com/khashoggi
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"The Khashoggi Story: Wikipedia 25″
One year ago on October 2, 2018 a Washington Post journalist, Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered and dismembered after he entered the Turkish embassy in Istanbul in order to obtain an official document for his upcoming marriage to his Turkish fiancee, Hatice Cengiz. His remains have never been located. Jamal Khashoggi was a critical voice against the Saudi Government for their political persecution of journalists and progressives.
There have been hundreds of journalists murdered in the modern era. What makes the Kashoggi murder any more significant? In the experiment that is our corporate democracy, this must now be the first time that a leader of our country has publicly shrugged his shoulders and admitted that commerce trumps human rights… a verb that is now personified into a being. Trump stated that the 2017 Saudi Arms Deal was more important than speaking out against human rights: "After my heavily negotiated trip to Saudi Arabia last year, the Kingdom agreed to spend and invest $450 billion in the United States. This is a record amount of money. It will create hundreds of thousands of jobs, tremendous economic development, and much additional wealth for the United States. " – "That being said, we may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder of Mr. Jamal Khashoggi. In any case, our relationship is with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia."
On exhibit are a selection of gouache drawings that represent the colleagues, compatriots and fellow dissidents that Khashoggi tried to speak out about and help, some of who are currently imprisoned in Saudi Arabia by MBS (Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud), the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, as part of his brutal crack down on critical voices. I view the Khashoggi murder as an act involving two players, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, one commits the crime and the other fails to act against this crime. The dynamic that animates this relationship between these two players is driven by commerce, pure and simple. For the gouache drawings I then decided to guide my imagery based on the kind of imagery that comes up when one does an Internet search for images using the key words "corporate achievement". Added to this I looked at insignias, emblems and flags within both country's various governmental departments, agencies and branches and all together began to create imagery that was mostly symmetrical, often incorporates pyramids, stars, laurels and birds. A simple online search for information regarding the kind of Saudi nationals that Khashoggi would have tried to alert the world about landed me on a Wikipedia page listing 25 Saudi dissidents. For me this would be where Khashoggi left off and where I could begin, reading and learning about a culture whose resources we hunger after, yet whose society we hardly understand.
Each drawing then is titled to represent a Saudi dissident listed on that Wikipedia page. Rather than creating illustrations that might depict the specifics of each individual's story I chose to build generic compositions based on all the core elements mentioned above and also filter in some of my own ongoing motifs such as tornadoes, arteries, strata, surveillance cameras and feathers. Common throughout many of the tableaux are the two prime power brokers depicted as emblematic twitter birds, posturing and preening within their sheltered heraldic realms, while meanwhile the world futilely looks toward them for answers to the calculated and gruesome murder of Jamal Khashoggi and ongoing harassment of dissident voices. – Kenny Cole
"The Khashoggi Story: Wikipedia 25-Madeha al-Ajroush" 2019 Gouache on paper 22″ x 30"


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Seattle Mariners Game 12: vs. Cleveland
The Mariners kick off their fifth series of the year with a game that pits Justin Masterson against Kevin Millwood. Both of these guys have the kind of fastball movement that offsets a lot of the platoon disadvantage they have against lefties. John Jaso is freed yet again as Jesus Montero gets his third start behind the plate. In the same time it took Montero to get three starts behind the plate, Miguel Olivo has played only four games without a strikeout. If I had to pic which quantity would be bigger at the end of the season I'd take Montero, but I hope not by much. Using John Jaso like this is basically using him as a backup DH. He's the best catcher on the roster overall, and probably the fifth best hitter on the roster. They can't afford to have him out of the lineup ever, let alone with his replacement being Miguel Olivo. If the Mariners want some kind of platoon where Jaso and Montero share DH and catcher duties, that may make some sense. But if the Mariners continue to trade John Jaso for Miguel Olivo six days a week they will only hurt their ability to score runs. I'll dig more into the roster-suicide that is leaving Jaso on the bench and Olivo the field later, but you can check out my piece from earlier today now if you'd like.
Starting Pitchers
Kevin Millwood vs. Justin Masterson
1. Michael Brantley, CF
2. Jason Kipnis, 2B
3. Shin-soo Choo, RF
4. Carlos Santana, C
5. Travis Hafner, DH
6. Shelley Duncan, LF
7. Casey Kotchman, 1B
8. Jack Hannahan, 3B
9. Jason Donald, SS
1. Chone Figgins, LF
2. Dustin Ackley, 2B
3. Ichiro Suzuki, RF
4. Jusin Smoak, 1B
5. Kyle Seager, 3B
6. Jesus Montero, C
7. Michael Saunders, CF
8. Brendan Ryan, SS
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It's time for our Cannonball Holiday Tradition – Book Exchange!
Katie (faintingviolet) has offered to handle the arrangement of the exchange again this year. You can email her directly with any questions and to sign up (see the directions below). The CBR Book Exchange is completely voluntary, but it's a nice way to add another layer to our sense of community here at CBR and a lovely excuse to purchase something via the Cannonball Read Buy Hole. Remember, 100% of the percentages generated through the Buy Hole go to the American Cancer Society to fight cancer.
If you are interested in participating this year, here are the details:
The time line:
- Sign up by 1 December.
- Send a package to your recipient by 13 December. You will receive an email with details from Katie no later than 2 December.
- Send an email to Katie when you send your package and when you receive your package so she can make sure everyone is on track. If you haven't received a package by 1 Jan, send Katie an email.
- Post a picture of your gift in a post on the group blog, and tag it with BookExchange and mark the review number as 0.
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It's easy! Send an email to Katie at firstname.lastname@example.com and include the following information:
- Your Full Name and Mailing Address
- Your CBR Name
- If you are willing to send internationally. (We have Cannonballers all over the world!)
- Whether you wish to remain anonymous (keep it as a "Secret Santa")
- Some information to help your gifter – a wish list with 5-10 books (make sure there are paperbacks included in this since hard covers can get expensive), a list of favored authors and genres – fortunately, with this blog we should be able to get some ideas about what everyone likes. Also, anything you absolutely wouldn't read. Also if you have a Goodreads account or LibraryThing that could be good to have a look at as well.
Food for thought:
If you send a used book, make sure it is in a good condition– think "like new." Feel free to add something to the package, like candy, something bookish, or something festive. Like last year there isn't a money constraint on this, because the guidance "send a book or two with a small something extra" seemed to be enough to restrain people from going too crazy and keep the monetary amount within limits.
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"Non-union workers across Canada can expect wage increases of 3.2% on average next year, according to an annual survey by Mercer.
The global business consultancy said Monday that the projected wage increases would match actual increases in base pay reported for 2012. They would also be up slightly from the average of 3% in 2011 and 2.9% in 2010."Note, that's not Statscan data and it across Canada. How does Ontario compare I wonder, considering Alberta and Saskatchewan may be giving a big boost?
"Regional and industry differences were also a factor, with Western Canada continuing to lead the way with higher increases than the rest of the country.
For example, the Calgary and Alberta markets forecast an average increase of 3.3% for 2013 compared with 2.9% for Montreal and Quebec."From those numbers, Ontario can't be that bad, although I thought Alberta would be a lot higher than the Canadian average.


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(JERSEY CITY, N.J. – November 15, 2012)—The Jersey City Fashion Week was a complete success it was the first of many more to come. The community came together to support each other and this gala of daily events during the Jersey City Fashion Week. Our supporting Mayor Jerramiah Healy helped to kick off the week on September 21 at Michael Anthony's and enjoyed the biggest fashion event during the week, the Emerging Designer's show on September 28 at Liberty State Park where there were over 200 plus attendees. The guest really enjoyed 'The Emerging Designers' runway show and there is still talk about how brilliant the children were at the children's fashion show which took place on September 24 at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Hudson County. This event made it possible to raise money for four worthy Jersey City charities: Dress for Success Hudson County, Boys and Girls Clubs of Hudson County, York Street Project and Art House Production's. This was an exciting event and everyone is looking forward to JCFW 2013!
Jersey City Fashion Week is presented by the Desha Lang Jackson Give to Live Community Foundation (Give to Live), which raises funds and promotes awareness for charitable causes through fashion, entertainment and sports-related events. Give to Live is a project of United Charitable Programs, a 501(c ) (3) registered charity.
Jersey City Fashion Week is fulfilling one of the purposes of JCFW by giving back to the community, specifically to its children and women. On November 20th, 2012 at 11:00 am in the Mayor's Office at City Hall, Give to Live will be distributing donations to the four charities from the proceeds of JCFW. "This is a big day for us and we are just so excited to be sharing it with our public" said Give to Live Founder Desha Jackson. "
"A big heart felt thank you to all of our sponsors, supporters, Night of Lights businesses, volunteers, our Mayor and all of the guests that purchased tickets. Everyone truly came together and worked to make this event a reality. I want to especially thank the City of Jersey City Division of Cultural Affairs who supported this event from its inception. It was this office that helped us identify local non-profits to donate to. Kudos as well to Provident Bank Foundation, the County of Hudson and Atlantic Coast Media Group our main sponsors!! Jersey City is a fantabulous place for a major fashion event. I am most grateful that it was a success and look forward to next year.
Because of all the support Jersey City Fashion Week received we are able to give back in order to move the community forward to four charities that help children and women in the City." said Give to Live Founder Desha Jackson.
Jersey City Fashion Week was also supported by one and all, including several celebrities. The famous new hot Latin singer Natti Natasha attended the Emerging Designer show on September 28 to show her love for fashion and to support Jersey City. Former NBA player and Jersey City native David Rivers attended the Emerging Designer Show as well.
The week-long event included several events throughout the city. Night of Lights on Saturday, September 22, where local businesses offered discounts. The Children's Charity Fashion Show held on Monday, September 24 featured youth from the Boys and Girls Club of Hudson County and around the city. On Sunday September 23 there was a Style Tips Night where celebrity stylist offered styling tips. On Wednesday, September 26, a Women of Influence fashion show was held, featuring some of New Jersey's leaders including Roxanne Evans, anchor from Channel 12 news. On Friday, September 28 an Emerging Designer's Show was held in Liberty State Park.
Presented by DLJ Give to Live Community Foundation and backed by the City of Jersey City, Jersey City Fashion Week is sponsored by the Provident Bank Foundation, Atlantic Coast Media Group and the County of Hudson, County Executive Thomas A. DeGise and the Board of Chosen Freeholders. Supporting sponsors include the City of Jersey City's Division of Cultural Affairs, United Water Suez,Hudson County Chamber of Commerce, Genova Burns Giantomasi & Webster, PNC Bank, PSEG, Yelp, Sephora, Jersey City Independent, DLJ Sports and Entertainment Connection and OPI.
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Now let's talk about the features of this plugin. I will mention just some of them:
One of its features is that you can add an image above your header (it can be an advertising banner). Another feature is that you can choose to use mobile menu (the hamburget icon) always.
Then you can also customize your footer text and links easily. You have a field for the footer HTML code in the backend and you can choose to e.g. have the footer text centered, too.
As for the sidebar, you can set its backround color and adjust its width. You can also choose to hide the dividing sidebar line.
With Divi Booster you can easily add more social icons to your Divi website, as Divi has just Facebook, Twitter and Google+. You don't need to edit any files of your theme for this. You can add these icons: YouTube, Vimeo, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, Flickr, Tumblr and Skype.
Another very useful feature is that you can export and import the Divi Booster settings, just like you can the Divi layouts.
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I swore, no more discussion of the Zimmerman case. Butt then I read that Ricky was looking into charging him with a federal hate crime: murder "animated by racial hatred." Wow! That's surprising, considering that the jury didn't believe George Zimmerman was racially motivated - or a murderer, the FBI couldn't find any evidence of racial animus in his actions, and now this story, which seems to corroborate the fact that George Zimmerman was not only not a racist, butt an advocate for racial equality (h/t Gateway Pundit):
…a drunk adolescent son of a Sanford police official attacked a homeless black man named Sherman Ware without provocation.
The Sanford police were sweeping the crime under the rug and very little was done about the incident. Ironically, the NAACP did nothing as well, but it was Zimmerman and his wife who started a "Justice for Sherman Ware" campaign. It was Zimmerman who succeeded in organizing the black community to get results and justice for Sherman Ware. Yet ironically, Sherman Ware's sister, Tonnetta Foster, was among the NAACP protesters promoting the "racist" meme against Zimmerman. Shame on the NAACP and Tonnetta Foster (of all people).
Hmmm; that sure doesn't fit the "the white Hispanic 'racist' meme" very well, so don't expect to hear anything about it, well, anywhere.
Oh, and then there's this: a picture of George's Mom's grandfather:
Yes, that would be George's great-grandfather. He looks like he could be…black? Really!? Uncle Tom stories to follow. I'm beginning to think that if Barack Hussein Obama, "Self-professed Black," had a son who was a "community organizer," he'd look just like George Zimmerman!
So enough of that, let's turn to something important. As Sara B first reported yesterday, we've had another unfortunate "Bitch Stole My Look!" incident.
Here's MO in the $70 ASOS frock; seen here for the first and last time in August, 2012 on the Big Black Bus Fly-over Tour stops in Dubuque and Davenport Iowa.
Where we really earned our keep; first, faking sincerity:
Then dealing with the big wind (updrafts, I mean)
And then getting down with the hayseeds:
"Swing your partner, do si do!"
"Swing him around and don't let go!"
Of course this isn't the first time we've seen the WONs enjoying a little square dancing. I previously did a whole post on their swing skills:
"Swing your partner Round and Round
And turn your corner upside down."
"Right foot up and a left foot down,
And make that big foot jar the ground"
"Bow to you partner and the corner miss,
To the opposite lady just blow a kiss"
"Old Ida Red she ain't no fool,
She can put a saddle on a hump back mule" …
You'll want to see the rest here. It's pretty good, if I do say so myself.
Okay, just to entice you, here's one more verse:
"Promenade round that ring so fine
Till the cows come home
And the Oxen-dine"
Anyway, back to the issue at hand: Huma stealing Lady M's frock. Wow – and you thought Huma Weiner's hubby had "hutzpah"! He does…we all saw it!
TIME seems to think that this was a purposeful rip-off:
It would be surprising if Abedin—also a Democrat, along with her husband—was not aware that her dress was a rerun. Was this a calculated move to evoke some of the closeness that the First Couple share?
Concluding that it is probably an inspired move:
Of course, there are worse people to take a page from in the style department than Mrs. Obama.
Indeed. There's Lady Gaga for sure, along with Madonna, Beyoncé,
and, at the opposite end of the spectrum, Huma's second mother and political mentor:
Butt the number one worst person that Huma Weiner could have taken a page from in the style department is…drum roll, please:
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro! Rosa's got a lot of "hutzpah" too…although we haven't seen it…yet!
So now you're all free to get on with your day knowing that the fashion future of New York City's next first lady is in good hands.
We might want to work on her makeup next. Unless that's a mustache, in which case we have other issues.
At least Huma doesn't have to deal with the trauma of BRF.
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I feel so out of the whole blogging lifestyle lately. Life has its ups and downs and this past month there were a lot of downs. I feel as if I am never going to get better-it's just been one constant sickness after another. On top of that I had a illness in my family that I was dealing with. I want to thank all of you that sent your love and prayers to my family and I during the past few weeks. Everyone is home and healthy! I'm going to try my hardest to jump right back into blogging but please bear with me as I try to get my balance.
A few weeks ago my hair dryer died! I know tragic right? It must have been fate because the very next day Misikko.com emailed me asking if I would want to review their "Rolls Royce" of hair dryers The HANAair Professional Hair Dryer. I quickly agreed and anxiously awaited for a beautiful package to arrive from them. Having done a few Misikko.com reviews in the past for the Hana hair straightener (HERE) and the Corioliss curling iron (HERE) I thought I knew what to expect when it came to packaging but damn did they surprise me again. I received a huge box filled with shampoo, conditioner, nails files, make up brushes, bath petals, an adorable monkey that my niece stole, and lots of other goodies. Their packaging department really knows how to make a girl feel spoiled.
I'm used to the $30 Walmart special hair dryers that when you turn it on you are sadly disappointed by the amount of air it blows. But when I tried the HANAair Professional hair dryer for the first time I was blown away…literally! This hair dryer is so powerful and it took less time to dry my hair. My hair felt smooth, soft, straight and silky and I didn't see the need to flat iron it for once. I don't know if that will change once the humidity sets back in when summer arrives. But for now this hair dryer makes my morning routine a little shorter. The only negative complaint my sister and I had about this hair dryer is that if you're not brushing your hair while drying and pointing the dryer down on your hair it gets tangled in some serious knots. I guess that the trade off for all that power!
This hair dryer is one of the top 10 best hair dryers on the market with a pretty hefty retail price tag to match its reputation. Regularly $334.99, but $194.99 at Miskko. But when you think about the quality and power of this hairdryer it's worth every last nickel.
All in all, I am extremely happy with this hair dryer. If you don't mind untangling a few knots every once in a while you'll love this dryer. Misikko also has a lot of other great hair products. If you're in the market and want to buy from a company with great products and great customer service definietly check out Misikko!
Thank you Misikko for allowing me to review another great HANA product!
Thank you Misikko for allowing me to review another great HANA product!
Disclaimer: This is a review based on my opinion only. Your opinion may differ. I was not compensated in any way for this post and received the above mentioned item for my honest opinion. All opinions are my own.


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Service Units of the Oklahoma City Area provide care to the largest IHS service population (some 300,000) in the United States, with the majority of patients residing in urban settings.
The Area serves the states of Oklahoma, Kansas and portions of Texas. The Area is home to more than 39 Tribes and Tribal Organizations. A large number of Tribes have opted to operate their own health programs, from large-scale hospitals to smaller preventive care and behavioral health programs. The Area consists of eight Service Units with federally operated hospitals, clinics and smaller health stations.
The Oklahoma City Area is also home to Urban Indian health clinics and urban demonstration projects, which operate similarly to Service Units. All of the urban clinic facilities are designated as Federally Qualified Health Centers, which means they provide ambulatory outpatient health care to Urban Indian communities.
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The Final Conversations of Robert Trumbull Crowley
Former Deputy Director of Clandestine Operations
for the CIA
On October 8th, 2000, Robert Trumbull Crowley, once a leader of the CIA's Clandestine Operations Division, died in a Washington hospital of heart failure and the end effects of Alzheimer's Disease.
Known as "The Crow" within the agency, Robert T. Crowley joined the CIA at its inception and spent his entire career in the Directorate of Plans, also know as the "Department of Dirty Tricks".
Bob Crowley first contacted Gregory Douglas in 1993 when he found out that Douglas was about to publish his first book on Heinrich Mueller, the former head of the Gestapo who had become a secret, long-time asset to the CIA.
They began a series of long and often very informative telephone conversations that lasted for four years. Douglas became so entranced with some of the material that Crowley began to share with him that he secretly began to record their conversations, later transcribing them word for word, planning to incorporate some, or all of the material in later publications.
While CIA drug running , money-launderings and brutal assassinations are very often strongly rumored and suspected, it has so far not been possible to actually pin them down but it is more than possible that the publication of the transcribed and detailed Crowley-Douglas conversations will do a great deal towards accomplishing this.
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Usually the fare on our blog is light and fun. With much sadness in our hearts, this is neither one of those posts nor one of those weeks.
Our co-worker and friend Henry Mackaman succumbed yesterday to meningitis. He fought hard and nobly. His family and friends were there at his bedside when he left us. He will be terribly missed. No one here at Murfie was surprised with his generosity in being an organ donor, and Henry's untimely death may provide up to 54 other people with the chance for a better life of their own.
As our blog readers know, Henry was a contributor here, penning, stellarly, our fledgling "This Week in Music History" column. It was great.
In addition to his many other skills and talents, Henry was a musician and played guitar in his band Phantom Vibration. Take a listen to the track Sapience, which Henry wrote. It oddly seems to fit the mood at Murfie HQ – and everywhere else where people who loved Henry are mourning.
Henry had a huge, bright smile, and a genuinely happy personality. Everybody loved being around him. One of our managers shared, "I'll never forget meeting this quirky kid for the first time in his interview. He came in with his long board, sweating after skating up State Street."
Our friend had a great mind, and a kind heart, and no one will ever forget him.
Rest in Peace, Henry.
Update: If you'd like to make a donation in tribute to Henry to St. Paul Central High School Music Boosters, The Henry Mackaman Scholarship at the University of Wisconsin Foundation, and/or Minnesota Public Radio "The Current", please follow this link: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/henrymackaman


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In a recent blog on cloud computing, I wrote that asking folks to define an emerging technology is one way of gauging its popularity. In general, the squishier the definition, the hotter it is.
Another popularity gauge is how many (roughly equivalent) terms are used to describe it. A good example is operational business intelligence, aka pervasive BI, transactional BI, real-time BI and near real-time BI.
A thorough Intelligent Enterprise article discussing Aberdeen Research findings on the BI practices of best-in-class companies deals with the multiple term issue early on. The article notes:
No matter what flavor or definition is used, at the heart of the matter, organizations are beginning to focus their attention on leveraging existing data to enable and optimize daily, hourly, minute-to-minute, or even up-to-the-second actions.
Best-in-class companies are streamlining their decision-making processes, which is the overriding goal of operational BI. Indeed, Aberdeen says such companies experience decreases in both the time that elapses between business activity and the delivery of information to decision-makers, and the time between business activity and actual decisions or other resulting actions.
According to Aberdeen, other key characteristics of these best-in-class companies include improvements in customer satisfaction and customer retention and improvements in data access and availability for end users.
Best-in-class companies differentiate themselves from more "ordinary" peers with their ability to master five practices: process, organization, knowledge managment, performance management and technology. As I read through the in-depth explanations of these areas, it occurred to me that a number of them had been featured in my blogs, in my interviews with experts, and elsewhere on IT Business Edge.
For example, in the process category, Aberdeen notes that best-in-class companies are more inclined to automate their data processing and analysis activities. Charles Nicholls, the CEO of SeeWhy Software, in October made a similar point during my interview with him. Drawing a parallel between BI and aviation, he said:
When I get onto the plane, I feel very good that there are two pilots who know what they are doing. However, they are not actually flying the plane. They do the takeoff and they do the landing, but everything else in between is done by the autopilot. The autopilot is making very gentle corrections in course and speed, and it flies the airplane much more accurately than the pilot can. It's completely objective, and doesn't get confused, and that kind of thing.
Nicholls told me that companies are increasingly choosing to separate their data from data logic. He said:
So analytics can trigger business process management systems and trigger the process for retaining customers, or retaining stock, or those kinds of things. Therefore the nature of what we call BI -- for the sake of a label -- is changing. It's not just about producing reports, but about creating these kinds of autopilot systems.
Automation can affect decision-making in a dramatic way by eliminating the reporting process entirely, said Nicholls. In his example, a service representative might be immediately notified via e-mail or other means if a customer halted an online application for a mortgage, triggering an outbound call to that customer. Nicholls said:
This particular case doesn't involve a report or a dashboard. ... This is an example of how you can build BI into your daily processes. If you think about displaying information daily, a dashboard is just an electronic version of a report. If you think about an operational process, it may not be that relevant to have that dashboard, because then you are relying on a person to look at it. It doesn't give you the big performance lift.
In the knowledge management area, Aberdeen points out that best-in-class companies are ahead of their peers in providing training and other resources to BI end users. Often, this includes the establishment of a BI center of excellence or competency center.
I blogged about the importance of user involvement in BI initiatives in June and asked BI expert Lyndsay Wise, principal of WiseAnalytics, about it in an interview earlier this month. She told me that a lack of user training can derail a BI initiative because users won't adopt BI if they don't feel comfortable with it.
For super users and IT, I think they may think (BI is) more intuitive than it actually is. With BI search and different areas in which BI is starting to become more intuitive, by developing interfaces that look and feel the same way a person might surf on the Internet, hopefully in the future it won't be as much of an issue.
Since usability is still an issue for many -- if not most -- companies, Wise recommends getting business users more directly involved in BI initiatives. She said:
More super users within the business so that not only are end users not always going back to IT, but also those issues of whether something will work or how well it will work are determined by the business. Once the business adopts BI and likes it, they'll see other uses for it and want to use it more.
The Intelligent Enterprise article contains a number of other interesting insights about operational BI from Aberdeen Research. Among them: Best-in-class companies are showing more interest than their more average peers in operational forecasting.


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How to evaluate the size of an enterprise?
To evaluate the status of an enterprise one must take into account:
– the number of employees
– the annual turnover or the total annual balance sheet
The data regarding employment, net income and balance sum are taken from a closed financial year.
The number of employees responds to the number of annual work units (AWU), which is a number of employees working full time in a particular enterprise or on its behalf during the whole considered year.
The employment of staff that didn't work through the period of a full year, who worked part time (no meter for how long period), or seasonal workers are counted as a fractional part of AWU.
If an enterprise crosses the employment or the financial threshold during the last year it will not influence the status of its size. The enterprise will keep its status as it was in the beginning of the year, unless this situation repeats itself two years in a row – then the status is changed.
Exceptionally when an enterprise with SME status is taken over by a large enterprise it loses its status on the day it was taken over, and the two financial years in a raw provided for the change will not be taken under account.
|Category of enterprise
|Number of employees (AWU)
|Annual turnover (EUR)
|The total annual balance sheet (EUR)
|> 50 mln
|> 43 mln
|≤ 50 mln
|≤ 43 mln
|≤ 10 mln
|≤ 10 mln
|≤ 2 mln
|≤ 2 mln
Besides the basic information about the enterprise, it should be checked whether the enterprise is independent or related (financially or by partners/shareholders person) to other entrepreneurs.
Independent enterprise, is an enterprise which is not linked with any other enterprise or possesses less than 25% of shares or vote power in that enterprise. In the case of an independent enterprise the information about the number of employees and financial data are taken only based on its own account books.
Partner enterprise – is an enterprise which possesses (alone or at least with one linked enterprise) at least 25% but no more than 50% of capital or vote power in another enterprise. In case of partner enterprise in addition to one's own data one must add a percentage of employees (expressed in AWU) and financial data of all partners. This percentage reflects possessed proportional share in capital or votes (depending on which one is bigger).
If enterprise A has 33% shares of enterprise B then to evaluate the size of enterprise B we take 100% of AWU value and financial data of enterprise B and 33% of AWU value and financial data of enterprise A.
Linked enterprise is an enterprise which stays in one of the below relations:
In case of linked enterprise one should add to one's own data a 100% of all linked enterprise's data.
If enterprise A has 66% of shares in enterprise B then to evaluate the size of enterprise B we take 100% of AWU value and financial data of enterprise B and 100% of AWU value and financial data of enterprise A.
If at least 25% or more capital or vote power of an enterprise is controlled by a public entity then it is considered to be a large enterprise regardless of the level of employment or the financial data.
Besides connections of one enterprise with another one we should also determine whether there are any connections through any individuals. These connections are also considered when evaluating the size of an enterprise.
For example if one individual is the owner of two or more enterprises operating on the same or related markets – these enterprises must be recognized as linked, because through the person of one owner they can influence their activity e.g. by lending each other money, planning shared strategies, have shared markets etc.


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Two alleged gang members were charged with murder and attempted murder and a third was charged with being an accessory in a shooting near Santa Monica College on Tuesday that left one man dead and another hospitalized, according to the District Attorney's Office.
Christopher Chonan Osumi, 19, and Meliton Lorenzo Lopez, 23, were charged with one count each of murder and attempted murder with gang allegations and could face up to life in prison if convicted. Noah Jason Farris, 32, was charged with being an accessory and faces up to seven years in prison, according to a statement released by the D.A.'s office.
Osumi pleaded not guilty at an arraignment on Thursday afternoon. The arraignments for Lopez and Farris were continued to a later date, said Jean Guccione, a spokesperson for the D.A.
Osumi is alleged to have shot two men multiple times with a handgun around 8:15 a.m. Tuesday in the 1500 block of Michigan Avenue. One of the victims, 29-year-old Santa Monica resident Gil Verastegui, died from his wounds. The other victim remains in the hospital.
Bail was set at $3 million each for Osumi and Lopez and $500,000 for Farris. The next court date for all three is June 20 in Department 144 of the Los Angeles County Superior Court's Airport Branch.
Deputy District Attorney Cynthia Barnes with the Hardcore Gang Division is prosecuting, according to a statement from the D.A.'s office.