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I hope readers will help draw attention to this stunning news in today's Canberra Times:
Australia's leading climate change scientists are being targeted by a vicious, unrelenting email campaign that has resulted in police investigations of death threats.
The Australian National University has confirmed it moved several high-profile climate scientists, economists and policy researchers into more secure buildings, following explicit threats to their personal safety….
More than 30 researchers across Australia ranging from ecologists and environmental policy experts to meteorologists and atmospheric physicists told The Canberra Times they are receiving a stream of abusive emails threatening violence, sexual assault, public smear campaigns and attacks on family members.
I hope you will also voice support in the comments section for the scientists and the important work they are doing to warn humanity of the gravest danger facing the planet. I have many readers and colleagues in Australia and we will make sure that as many of the scientists see these comments as possible.
UPDATE: See the featured comment below from Stephen Spencer, an Australian reader with insight into what's happening down under.
Only in a very perverse world are such tireless, underpaid heroes the subject of relentless attacks to muzzle their vital message, as if they were the title character in Henrik Ibsen's classic, An Enemy of the People. Sadly, such cyber bullying and threats of violence are not exclusive to Australia (see "UK Guardian slams Morano for cyber-bullying and for urging violence against climate scientists").
Here is more from this important Australia news story:
Among the scientists being targeted is Australian National University climate institute director Professor Will Steffen.
Others include University of NSW climate change research co-director Professor Andy Pitman and University of Melbourne meteorology professor and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead author Professor David Karoly.
Many scientists spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they feared the email attacks would escalate if they were identified.
Several scientists have installed upgraded home security systems and switched to unlisted phone numbers after receiving threats that their homes and cars would be damaged.
One scientist said he was advised by police to install a ''panic button'' security alarm in his university office after receiving death threats. Others have removed all contact numbers from their work websites, and deleted social media sites after these were defaced with abusive comments and obscene photographs. One researcher told of receiving threats of sexual assault and violence against her children after her photograph appeared in a newspaper article promoting a community tree-planting day as a local action to mitigate climate change.
Australia's new chief scientist, former ANU vice-chancellor Professor Ian Chubb has condemned these email threats as ''an outrageous attack'' on open and public debate.
''These hurtful attacks are intended to intimidate scientists, to scare them off and stop them from participating in public discussions on climate change. They are the antithesis of democratic debate,'' Professor Chubb said.
Federal Climate Change Minster Greg Combet said harassment of scientists or other researchers was unacceptable….
Australian Greens deputy leader Christine Milne said the emails were ''an orchestrated, extremist anti-science campaign attempting to threaten and intimidate people into silence.''
Outspoken climate science critic, Queensland Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce also condemned the attacks as malicious and counter-productive.
''No one deserves that kind of behaviour,'' Senator Joyce said.
University of NSW senior psychology lecturer Jason Mazanov said the emails were indicative of a ''closed room'' mentality where people have lost all sense of what is normal.
Someone should modernize An Enemy of the People into a climate science parable. The closest anyone has come is discussed here, "Jaws: A movie review by DenialDepot."
Given that so many of the threats are against NSW scientists, this Thursday story from The Sydney Morning Herald is sadly relevant:
Upper house whip under fire for Nazi slur on scientists
THE state government's whip in the upper house, Peter Phelps, has been accused of likening scientists to Nazis in a speech to Parliament.
In an address attacking global warming, Dr Phelps said it should not be forgotten that ''some of the strongest supporters of totalitarian regimes in the last century have been scientists''.
''We should not be so surprised that the contemporary science debate has become so debased,'' Dr Phelps, pictured, said. ''At the heart of many scientists — but not all scientists — lies the heart of a totalitarian planner.''
… Speaking in Parliament on Monday, Dr Phelps quoted an unidentified writer whom he described as ''speaking about the rise of Nazism'' and its similarity to ''scientists agitating for a scientific organisation of society''.
Dr Phelps then went on to say: ''One can see them now, beavering away, alone, unknown, in their laboratories.
''Now, through the great global warming swindle, they can influence policy, they can set agendas, they can reach into everyone's lives; they can, like Lenin, proclaim what must be done.''
The anti-scientist disinformers can't even decide if climate scientists are ultra right wing or ultra left wing. It's all the same hate speech to them (see Lord Monckton meltdown: "I'm not going to shake the hands of Hitler youth").
For some background on cyber bullying of climate scientists, see my earlier pieces:
- The rise of anti-science cyber bullying
- Even now, ClimateDepot's Marc Morano reiterates his call for a "hostile reaction" to climate scientists
- Climate Crock video on Flogging the Scientists
Stephen Spencer · La Trobe University
I am an Australian who is currently travelling in England. What is happening in Australia is quite surreal. The Oposition and the Government both have policies supporting a (small) rection of carbon emissions, the problem is that the Opposition Leader (Tony Abbott) often talks like a Climate Denier as he is desperate for the votes of climate crazies. The media (which is dominated by the Murdock Press) give Abbott a free pass on his inconsistency and dishonesty so the Denier Crazies feel justified in their absurd ideas.
The Climate Deniers claim to be conservatives but are acting in a very unconservative way, rejecting basic science and economics. Not all Conservatives reject their traditions in this way. In England the Conservative government is arguing for 50% emissions cut by 2025! Before the mid 1990s most conservatives accepted the science and economics, but something strange happened to encourage many conservatives to reject basic Conservative traditions. It would be interesting to read a post / paper / book by someone who could explain why so many conservatives have turned against such basic elements of their tradition.
Below are the earlier comments from the Facebook commenting system:
It looks like we are approaching the "End Game". "I do not know the weapons of WW III but WW IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstein. I am rooting for WW III to be fought with reason and scientific understanding and WWIV will be fought with sonnets. Where WW III becomes known as the "WE ALL WIN WAR," (WAWW), Where people and nations and armies across the world work shoulder to shoulder to provide a sustainable rewarding environment for all to share and prosper. It will only happen if we all believe can/will happen. It cannot happen if Capitalism and Corporations continue to put Profits before Planet, The "commons" be damned! It cannot happen if ~50% of "We the People" feel it is "SEPs", "Someone Else's Problem". Douglas Adams
June 4 at 6:21pmKenyatta J Yamel
Ignorance and intolerance on the rise.
Root and branch, stock and stone, the guys who do the hard work of climate science will always have my support. As for these orcs — the Ents are stirring. It is when the gentlefolk get really angry — that's when the anti-science bunch had better have a hole ready!Cheers — John.
A lot of us had to deal with bullies in school, especially around junior high age (which I spent in Lawton, Oklahoma). Security systems and complaints to police won't stop them. The only hope is to fight back, employing acid edged rebuttals, humor, and ridicule, not violence. Santer and Alley succeeded at this recently on television, turning Congressman Rohrabacher into a grinning idiot who suddenly wanted to be their friend.
Bullies are, after all, insecure cowards. The worst thing you can do is show them that you have been intimidated, since they smell the blood.
June 4 at 6:54pmTomasyn Berkowitz
Pure evil. I hope the people behind this can be identified and arrested.
I was born in Canberra, moved to the United States at the tender age of five, and now a burgeoning physicist, am shocked and appalled to hear of this childish, aggressive and hurtful behavior coming from my homeland. Being a (still tender) 23 years of age, the unrelenting hate mongering toward people with truly good intentions is disheartening. It is the very existence of such positive beings that inspires me to move forward to the future that awaits my generation. Our planet is too beautiful to neglect, but the momentum I'm watching grow (and doing my best to help foster) is something in which one can find genuine inspiration. The good people are out there, waking up thousands by thousands. Focusing all our positive energies, the looming global crises can and will be averted.
I encourage everyone of influential stature to look to the youth in building support and momentum for the imperative changes we face. It will be the union of professional know-how and youthful fervor that will lead humankind to our next chapter on this green planet.
At certain points the public will use force against the so called "Skeptics". The mob will hunt these skeptics and will try to lynch them. This comes after people realize climate change and becoming afraid of the doom we unleashed. Though the most skeptics are just the tools of the oil firm chiefs which fund the orchestrated campaign against science and humanity.
Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist.· Testimony to US Congress will also criticise lobbyists.· 'Revolutionary' policies needed to tackle crisis.http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/23/fossilfuels.climatechange
Climate change is about national security., about the foundation of society. If we do not act now and stop the orchestrated campaign against climate change we will have lost the last hope we have. Time is running out. Time to act is now! Everything what the human race is about is at stake!
I'm glad to see you are not personally calling for the use of force against "skeptics." I have made clear that I won't condone that here, even though the deniers continue to call for the use of force against climate scientists.
You are making a prediction about the future here that I am skeptical of. Once it becomes painfully obvious to everybody that we have unleashed multiple catastrophes on humanity for decades to come, (I suspect sometime between 2025 and 2035), I don't think there will be many skeptics left and the public will be too focused on desperate mitigation and adaptation efforts. I could be wrong.
· June 5 at 9:40am
I sure hope that your "2025–2035" prediction is wrong Joe, and I will be spending my remain years to make it so. Personally I do not see the transition coming any later than 2020. If the Humanity Epiphany moment were contingent on "A" climatic "Pearl Harbor" alone such might be the case. However there are so many other points and prods to take into account. A world wide "economic house of cards" built on a foundation of sand is right up there at the top. As the rich start to loose money it will be obvious that transition well have to start at the foundation. Capitalism and Corporations will have to be charged with, AND BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO PAY FOR, a percentage of profits to start to fill the mitigation hole. After all, PROFITS will still be made. Alternatively it will be adaptation, good money after bad, and the Big Cull. The heads of capitalism are GREEDY indeed, not stupid. (I am giving them the benefit of the doubt here in spite of many years of contrary evidence.) Humanity forward will require a fully functional economic underpinning to succeed. One that RESPECTS THE COMMONS FIRST, Profits 2nd. That is clearly why the current GOP strategy will fail. In a dog eat dog world you are left with only a few BIG dogs. Certainly not a world view I aspire to, nor a world of, by, & for the people.
June 5 at 12:26pm
In Brazil they're being murdered –
Amazon activist shot dead, third murder in a week.
(AFP) — May 27, 2011.
BRASILIA — A community leader who had denounced illegal logging in Brazil's Amazon was shot dead Friday, a church ministry said, making him the third environmental activist killed this week.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hbA_mOIhzZm-FBUvg5nQUoEL-2RQ?docId=CNG.86cef52d30e13b28b2d80598a38bfa1d.e61June 4 at 8:20pmLou Grinzo
This is beyond horrible.
But as I just minutes ago pointed out on my site, it's part of their pattern. Whether they're threatening scientists and their loved ones with violence or delaying action on climate change and therefore committing (delayed) violence on literally billions of human beings, it's just another facet of the actions that stem from their warped world view.
And people wonder why I'm screaming in my fb photo…
There will come a time when public opinion tips either into total denial and pursuit of illusion or into that sudden dreadful wakening that will happen when it realizes that climate change is real, all too real and deadly.
I hope that the organizations are demanding that the police take every possible action to identify the people making these threats and prosecute them. Even if the possibility of conviction is low shining a light on such people will force others like them to flee.
Sadly, just all too unsurprising. The 'argumentum ad baculum' and 'argumentum ad nazium' are the typical tools of resort for those who have neither logic, principles, evidence nor facts to support their dogma.
Oh, and it is also rather sadly ironic — assuming it was not deliberate! — that you said, "The anti-scientist disinformers can't even decide if climate scientists are ultra *WHITE* wing or ultra left wing." Racism does seem to be endemic on that side of the political spectrum.
No, it was just my failing to enunciate into my DragonDictate for Macintosh.
June 4 at 9:03pm
I coached 10 seasons of ice hockey (this is being written between period of Game 2 of the Stanley Cup — go Canucks!) and we taught all our players to always have their heads up. Even now on the bike path if a cyclist is coming at me with their head down I'll instinctively say "Head up like a hockey player." Fortunately none of them know what I'm talking about, as I'm sure you don't either.
What I'm saying is that we need to have our heads up about alll of this. It is a common human trait to think things will always get better, but in fact they can get worse, including much worse.
As things start to unravel due to Peak Oil, Climate Change and all the other symptoms of the Limits to Growth, many here assume that all of these causes and effects will ultimately be understood by everyone.
I'm afraid the opposite might be true and the worst ideologies of ignorance, superstitution and blamiing the messangers might take hold, as they're already beginning to. We might only have a window of opportunity to get at least the intelligensia of all writers, teachers and artists of all kinds to understand that we've reached the limits to growth and there will be all of these consequences that will each individually and all together tend to increase dramatically over time.
That's why the communication of Climate Change and everything related, both cause and effect, might well be the most important communication ever, and sadly there's no guarantee that the good guys will win. We each need to do everything we can to try to make that happen and those who believe in karma can imagine good karma and those who believe in baseball can see us going down swinging. And always with our heads up.
"One researcher told of receiving threats of sexual assault and violence against her children after her photograph appeared in a newspaper article promoting a community tree-planting day as a local action to mitigate climate change."
This is truly disgusting. I agree with greenframe78 that we need to "fight back" in appropriate ways. I was glad when UVic's Andrew Weaver sued Tim Ball.
June 5 at 2:50amClimate Portals
It's time to support a price on carbon with our down under cousins…..
Thousands 'Say Yes' at carbon price rallies.www.abc.net.auThousands of people have gathered at locations around the nation to rally in support of the Federal Government's plan to put a price on carbon pollution.
June 5 at 6:57amClimate Portals
Climate PortalsThe msm has a lot to account for….
Study says majority believe in climate change.www.abc.net.auA national survey reveals most Australians believe in, and are concerned about, climate change.about an hour ago.http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=206451146059049&id=139434822741700
I'm offering my place as a safehouse! And when she's old enough, I'll be pointing to a lot of these people and telling my kid they've got seats alongside all those other heros in our stories, the one's who stuck to principles and told the truth despite the risks.
The video "I'm a climate scientist' included names and institutions in Australia. Stuff that goes 'viral' through social media gets to people all over the world. That's the downside of reaching a wider audience, picking up variation that's farther from the mean. The cyber-threats to the Australians could have come from anywhere, and we can hope there is some tracking down on that.Note a link failure in the CP piece — "UK Guardian slams Morano for cyber-bullying and for urging violence against climate scientists." Hope there's no need to cross that to the comments on the new page format.
Hmm. It worked for me. I changed it a little. Let me know if it still doesn't work for you.
June 5 at 9:34am
It worked this time, thanks!!
June 5 at 9:46am
I am an Australian who is currently travelling in England. What is happening in Australia is quite surreal. The Oposition and the Government both have policies supporting a (small) rection of carbon emissions, the problem is that the Opposition Leader (Tony Abbott) often talks like a Climate Denier as he is desperate for the votes of climate crazies. The media (which is dominated by the Murdock Press) give Abbott a free pass on his inconsistency and dishonesty so the Denier Crazies feel justified in their absurd ideas.
The Climate Deniers claim to be conservatives but are acting in a very unconservative way, rejecting basic science and economics. Not all Conservatives reject their traditions in this way. In England the Conservative government is arguing for 50% emissions cut by 2025! Before the mid 1990s most conservatives accepted the science and economics, but something strange happened to encourage many conservatives to reject basic Conservative traditions. It would be interesting to read a post / paper / book by someone who could explain why so many conservatives have turned against such basic elements of their tradition.
June 5 at 9:28amKevin Bourassa
Stephen, if it's anything like what's happened here in the states, that something would be "Pandering to the evangelical zealot reactionaries". You can't argue against someone like that, and it makes politics in this country stupid as f*cking possible. No thanks to Rupert Murdoch either, that cracker piece of sh*t. I just cannot believe that in this country elections come out as close as they do, or even go conservative at all. When you vote Republican here, you are voting for policy changes that help only the top 10–15% of the population. They've actually duped 35–40% of the population here to vote against their own self-interest, and they use religion and capitalist "ideology" to do it. It is truly unbelievable.
June 5 at 1:40pm
by the way Joe — the 'background' links at the bottom of the article aren't working.
June 5 at 10:42amClimate Portals
Hewson takes swipe at parties over climate.www.abc.net.auFormer Liberal leader John Hewson has told a climate action rally in Canberra that Prime Minister Julia Gillard's lack of conviction on global warming has allowed the Opposition to run a fear campaign on the issue.
"global warming was "the biggest economic, social, political and moral challenge of this century".
"This issue is going to affect generations through this century so how dare they play games with the livelihoods of our grandchildren and their grandchildren."2 seconds ago.
Unfortunately, such threats are not uncommon — Ben Santer and Phil Jones have faced similar threats. These and some of the Australian scientists are long-time friends. We have to stand up for them and for the science.
June 5 at 12:34pmArne Perschel
Maybe it's time for Peter Gleick and 254 members of the NAS to resend last year's letter to NYT, WSJ and Wash Post. http://www.sciencemag.org/ content/328/5979/689.full They refused to publish it back then. Will they stay with that positiion, now that we've seen the attack on Giffords?
June 5 at 12:36pmTenney Naumer
They need to word it even more strongly.
· June 5 at 7:02pm
Shock Jock radio has these conservative con-artists of cognitive dissonance e.g. Allan Jones, squawking disinformation about climate change at an ever rushed for information mass of Howard battlers in search of sound bites of wisdom. Reminds me of the media frenzy to sell its wares during the time of Martin Luther King which ended up in stirring one of the regular believers in racist ideological non science to take it into his head to murder Dr. King. The seller must pay the price of the sale. It's the capitalist media selling us the cheapest commodity they can peddle in order to gain market share via lickspittles like Allan Jones.
Shock Jock radio has these conservative con-artists of cognitive dissonance e.g. Allan Jones, squawking disinformation about climate change at an ever rushed for information mass of Howard battlers in search of sound bites of wisdom. Reminds me of the media frenzy to sell its wares during the time of Martin Luther King which ended up in stirring one of the regular believers in racist ideological non science to take it into his head to murder Dr. King. The seller must pay the price of the sale. It's the capitalist media selling us the cheapest commodity they can peddle in order to gain market share via lickspittles like Allan Jones.
· June 5 at 8:27pm
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~Martin Luther King Jr.~
· June 5 at 8:40pm
This news horrifies me. I'm grateful for the work these scientists do.
June 6 at 9:42amMark Maguillicuty
BE careful out there.
I have on my ipod of a meeting of Autralian scientists from 3 year ago..It inspires me.I was hunting for the Marc Marano reference bec he use to work for my dear Senator Inhofe..


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A winner was selected from 383 designs submitted by 75 freelance designers.
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ROMANIA – Big things come in little packages. That's the case with a five-year old Romanian and his latest feat of strength!
Giuliano Stroe is the self-proclaimed "World's Strongest Boy," and after his latest astonishing accomplishment that may very well be true. Stroe recently broke the world record for number of "air pushups." The record was 12 until he effortlessly performed 20 on a live Romanian TV show.
This marks the second time Stroe has marched his way into the Guiness book of World Records. Last year Giuliano Stroe performed the dastest ever 10m hand walk with a weight ball between his legs. He became an instant youtube sensation ever since then.
Stroe has been training ever since he was 2, thanks to his dad Lulian Stroe who was a former gymnast. "He has been going to the gym with me ever since he was born. I always took him with me when I went training. But he's still a child and if he gets tired or bored we go a play," his faith said about their work out routines to an Italian paper.
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And not just any Wreck, either.
A wreck [dramatic pause] to the third power.
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Last week a local news website in DC ordered a cake for their fifth anniversary. The site is named DCist, and Sommer, who sent this in, asked the bakery to just write their name across the whole cake.
Here's what they got instead:
You've got to admire the tenacity of this decorator. Even while operating under the assumption that the customer wanted something written "on a whale cake", he still went ahead and just wrote those instructions out instead. The fact that the baker actually made more work for himself (by writing the extra text) while trying to make less work for himself (by avoiding drawing or carving a whale cake) is what makes this such a gem. Ah, good stuff.
Thanks to Sommer and to DCist.com, which also posted it (under the same clever title, I might add - great minds and all that) here.
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Your federal income taxes are due April 18 this year, and — for perhaps several million people — a fine for failing to get health insurance is due that day, too.
Despite a lengthy debate, Congress has not yet acted on a bill to repeal portions of the Affordable Care Act. That means the law and almost all of its regulations remain in force, at least for now.
For the majority of tax filers, who had health insurance through an employer for 2016 or through a government program, all they have to do is check the box on the 1040 form that says they were covered for a full year. That's it.
The Obama administration had called for the IRS to begin rejecting tax returns for 2016 that left that box blank. But the IRS under the Trump administration has canceled that policy, citing a Trump executive order that calls on federal agencies to "minimize the burden" of the health law.
Still, those who lacked insurance for more than three consecutive months, or who bought individual insurance and got federal help paying the premiums, need to do a little more work to figure out what, if anything, they owe.
Those with no insurance, and those who have had a lengthy gap in coverage, may be required to pay what the federal government calls a "shared responsibility payment." It's a fine for not having coverage, on the theory that even those without insurance will eventually use the health care system at a cost they can't afford, which means that someone else -- other patients, hospitals, health care providers and taxpayers — will have to pay that bill.
Many people who don't have insurance, however, qualify for one of the several dozen "exemptions" from the fine. Nearly 13 million tax filers claimed an exemption for 2015 taxes, according to the IRS. Most often those exemptions came from people whose income was so low (less than $10,350 for an individual) that they are not required to file a tax return, or from Americans who lived abroad for most of the year, or from people for whom the cheapest available insurance was still unaffordable (costing more than 8 percent of their household income).
The fine for 2016 taxes is the greater of $695 per adult or 2.5 percent of household income. Fines for children who lack insurance coverage are half the amount for uninsured adults. Fines are pro-rated by the number of months each person was uninsured.
The maximum fine is $2,676; that is the national average cost of a "bronze" level insurance plan available on the health exchanges. But most people do not pay fines that are anywhere near that high. Last year, according to the IRS, an estimated 6.5 million tax filers paid a fine that averaged $470.
If you bought your own insurance from the federal marketplace or a state health insurance exchange and you got a federal tax credit to help pay for that coverage, you have to take another step before you can file your taxes.
People who got those tax credits must fill out a form that "reconciles" the amount of subsidies they received based on their income estimates with the amount they were entitled to according to their actual income reported to the IRS.
In tax filings for 2015, about 5.3 million taxpayers had to pay the government because they got too much in tax credits, compared to 2.4 million who got additional money back. But among those who underestimated their incomes and had to pay back some of those tax credits, 62 percent still received a net refund on their taxes.
Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
So it wasn't that long ago that health insurers could deny someone coverage if they had a pre-existing condition. These are some of the insurance companies' most expensive consumers. To learn more about how this has changed and how it affects our taxes, we turn now to Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News. Julie, welcome to the program.
JULIE ROVNER, BYLINE: Thank you.
WERTHEIMER: So the Affordable Care Act protects people with pre-existing conditions. They cannot be denied coverage, but how does it do that?
ROVNER: Well, the principal way that it does it is by trying to get more people into the insurance pool so the insurers won't just have the sick people buying coverage. And the main way it goes about getting more people into the insurance pool is this individual mandate that says, you either have to have insurance, or you have to pay a tax fine. And that's why insurance is now on everybody's taxes.
WERTHEIMER: So here's the big question. With everything that's been going on with the health care law over the past few months, are the law's tax requirements still in force?
ROVNER: Yes, they are. Nothing has actually been repealed or formally changed in the law yet, so everybody has to do something. It's basically three groups of people. For most people, they'll just have to check a box that said, yes, I had insurance. People who didn't have insurance or who didn't have it for longer than three months during the year might have to pay a penalty. And people who bought their insurance through the health exchange under the law - and if they got tax credits, they actually have to fill out yet another form to reconcile how much they got in tax credits with how much they should have gotten.
WERTHEIMER: Julie, what does it mean that President Trump then ordered federal agencies to reduce the burdens of the health law.
ROVNER: Well, he did indeed do that through an executive order, but he can't change the law itself. So the only real change that's been made so far is that the IRS has said that they wouldn't send your return back if you didn't check that box saying whether or not you had health insurance. It's not really a change because the IRS hasn't been kicking back returns for the last two years, but this year, they were going to, and they decided not to because of the executive order.
WERTHEIMER: So let's take these one at a time. If you had health insurance last year, what do you need to do?
ROVNER: You just need to check that box on your 1040 form that says you had insurance, and you're done.
WERTHEIMER: And if you did not have insurance?
ROVNER: Well, then you might have to pay a fine. Now, the fines have been phasing in gradually. Twenty-sixteen is the first year for what's supposed to be the permanent amounts. It's the greater of $695 or 2 and a half percent of your income if you didn't have insurance for the entire year. It's done by the month. The IRS said 6 and a half million people paid fines last year that averaged $470, although that was far less than the 8 million who paid fines the first year the requirement was in effect.
WERTHEIMER: Now, you said if you didn't have insurance, you might have to pay a fine. Who does not have to pay a fine?
ROVNER: Well, there are lots of ways to avoid the fine. Last year, almost 13 million people claimed an exemption from having to pay. The most popular reason was that they didn't earn enough to have to file an income tax return in the first place. Also, citizens living abroad didn't have to pay a penalty. Or if you filed for bankruptcy or if the cheapest health plan available to you would cost more than 8 percent of your income - and there are lot more exemptions.
WERTHEIMER: So what if you bought insurance on a health exchange and had help from the government to do it.
ROVNER: Well, these are the tax credits that we've been hearing so much about. And if you got one of them, then you have to fill out a very complicated separate form to see if the tax credits you got from the government were too much or too little or just the right amount. Last year, for tax year 2015, more people ended up having to pay back tax credits than got additional money, although in most cases, even those who had to pay back tax credits, meaning they got too much, still got a refund overall on their taxes.
WERTHEIMER: So what can the government do to you if you don't pay?
ROVNER: Not very much. This was a big point of debate when Congress was writing the health law. They didn't want the idea of people getting thrown in jail for not having health insurance. So, basically, the IRS can deduct what you owe in health insurance tax credits from any tax refund you have coming overall, but they can't send people after you for money the way they can if you don't pay your regular taxes.
WERTHEIMER: Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, thank you very much.
ROVNER: You're very welcome.
WERTHEIMER: This story is part of a reporting partnership between NPR, WHYY's health show The Pulse and Kaiser Health News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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(Updated at 4:26 p.m.) PHILADELPHIA - Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, the world's biggest brewer, was sued by consumers in three states, including Pennsylvania, for allegedly overstating the alcohol content in its Budweiser beer.
AB InBev's St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch routinely adds extra water to its finished products to produce malt beverages with significantly less alcohol content than displayed on its labels, violating state statutes on consumer protection, according to a complaint filed Tuesday by two Montgomery County brothers in federal court in Philadelphia. Similar lawsuits were filed in federal courts in New Jersey and San Francisco.
'AB's customers are overcharged for watered-down beer and AB is unjustly enriched by the additional volume it can sell,' Thomas and Gerald Greenberg said in the Philadelphia complaint.
AB InBev, the maker of Budweiser and Stella Artois, controls 39 percent of the U.S. beer market. The company is seeking government approval to buy the rest of Grupo Modelo SAB, Mexico's largest beermaker, for $20.1 billion. The Modelo brands account for 7 percent of the U.S. market. AB InBev shipped 98.5 million barrels in the U.S. in 2011, according to Beer Marketer's Insights.
The claims against Anheuser-Busch are 'completely false,' Peter Kraemer, the company's vice president of brewing and supply, said in an e-mail.
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Budweiser, the No. 3 beer in the U.S. in 2011, was introduced in 1876 when company founder Adolphus Busch set out to create a national beer brand, according to the Anheuser-Busch website. Each batch of the beer, which blends American aroma hops with barley malts and rice, follows the same family recipe used by five generations of brewmasters, according to the website.
The complaints accuse the AB InBev unit of also mislabeling the amount of alcohol in Bud Ice, Bud Light Platinum, Michelob, King Cobra, Busch Ice, Black Crown, Bud Light Lime, Hurricane High Gravity Lager, Natural Ice and Michelob Ultra.
Josh Boxer, an attorney for plaintiffs in California, said additional lawsuits will be filed against the company in Ohio and Colorado. The California complaint, filed by Sonoma County residents Nina Giampaoli and John Elbert, seek to represent consumers in the state and consumers nationwide who have purchased AB InBev products in the past five years. All three complaints seek damages exceeding $5 million.
Total damages 'could be quite significant based on the volume of products that AB produces a year,' Boxer said.
It's unclear in the complaints how the plaintiffs determined the alcohol content was less than stated. Boxer said the complaints are based on information from former workers at some of the company's 13 U.S. breweries.
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The Greenbergs said they routinely purchased as many as four cases of Budweiser a month during the past four years, with the contents labeled as having an alcohol content of 5 percent by volume, according to the lawsuit.
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Adding water to the brewing process cuts the stated alcohol content by 3 to 8 percent, Boxer said.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Beer lovers across the country have filed $5 million class-action lawsuits accusing Anheuser-Busch of watering down its Budweiser, Michelob and other brands.
The suits were filed in Pennsylvania, California and other states on behalf of consumers allegedly cheated out of the beverage's stated alcohol content. Budweiser and Michelob each boast being 5 percent alcohol, while some 'light' versions are said to be just over 4 percent.
Among those filing suit are brothers Thomas and Gerald Greenberg of Montgomery County, Pa., according to a report from Bloomberg News.
Lead lawyer Josh Boxer of San Rafael, Calif., said Tuesday the suits are based on information from former employees at some of the company's 13 U.S. breweries. Boxer said water is added just before bottling, and cuts the stated alcohol content by 3 to 8 percent.
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Netatmo June Sends UV Alerts to iPhones
The forecast is perfect—84 degrees, mostly sunny with only a 2% chance of precipitation. The beach chair is unfolded, the paperback is starting to get good and I'm ready to swap my pasty winter-white skin for a bronze glow.
Except the UV-tracking jewel on my bracelet keeps forcing my iPhone to disrupt my favorite sedentary sport. "Apply SPF 15," my phone flashes after a loud chime. "The UV Index has hit 7," it says moments later. Just like my parents at the community pool years ago, the pair keep interrupting the fun to remind me to reapply sunscreen.
The $99 Bluetooth-equipped Netatmo June, which hits store shelves next week, aims to make people—specifically, fashion-conscious women—more aware of their skin's sun exposure. "Seriously? There's a gadget to tell us the sun is out?" I can hear you asking. "Haven't our eyeballs done a great job of that since the beginning of time, no wireless connection needed?"
I had the same healthy skepticism. In fact, when the June was first announced, I was more attracted to the concept of electronics disguised as jewelry than I was to its particular protective features. Though this product is the first smart wearable of its kind, you can buy less sophisticated, less attractive portable UV meters on Amazon for as little as $25.
But while the bracelet has many faults, wearing it has made me more aware of how much the sun is beating down on me—especially when it is windy or chilly outside—and that I need to be much better about slathering on the sunscreen.
Designed to look like something that would be sold at Bloomingdale's rather than Best Buy, the June is the first wearable gadget I truly haven't minded keeping on all day and night. There are no buttons, blinking lights or shrunken screens. The UV sensor is camouflaged into the face of the sparkling, elegantly cut jewel, which is available in gold, platinum or gunmetal colors.
In fact, several of my friends complimented me on it, unaware that I was wearing a Bluetooth module out on the town. The charm comes attached to a double-stranded leather bracelet, but can be worn as a brooch.
The June is beautiful because it's simple. But that simplicity makes it dependent on the iPhone to bark real-time sun-protection suggestions (hat, sunglasses, sunscreen) and display information such as your daily maximum sun dosage, aka how much sun you can get before burning.
You can tell the app whether or not you're wearing sunscreen and it will send you push notifications when the UV index has gotten stronger—or when it thinks you should reapply some lotion. Netatmo says its recommendations are based on standards from the World Health Organization, which it determines by factoring in your skin type (based on the six-category Fitzpatrick Scale, a classification of skin tones developed by a Harvard dermatologist in 1975), the current UV rating and amount of time you've spent in the sun. Netatmo says it didn't work directly with any dermatologists on the product.
The app frequently suggested I put on SPF 15 sunblock, but dermatologists recommend a minimum of SPF 30. They say it is because most people never apply enough to sunscreen to begin with, adding that you need to use a full ounce—about a shot glass worth—every one to two hours.
I spoke to a number of dermatologists about the June bracelet. All of them vehemently agreed that staying out of the sun is the best form of sun protection. (Just uttering the term "healthy tan" can make a dermatologist burn with anger.)
Still, some were encouraged that the gadget may bring awareness to the dangers of sun exposure in everyday life. "You don't need to be lying in the sun for the damage to occur," said Karyn Grossman, a WebMD-affiliated dermatologist with practices in New York and Los Angeles. "What I hear a lot is, 'I am not at the beach,' 'I am not at the pool.' They aren't recognizing how much sun exposure they are getting in their daily life."
That's where I found the June to be most insightful. It alerted me to put on sunscreen when I was having a short outdoor business lunch in breezy San Francisco, and later in the day when I walked to get some coffee.
But I experienced a lot of technical difficulties with the two units I tested. They often dropped their Bluetooth connections to my iPhone and one stopped working. (Netatmo says an app update, ready before the product's launch, should fix the Bluetooth issues.) Additionally, the bracelet isn't waterproof. It will survive a splash, but the maker says you shouldn't swim with it. That's ironic, considering people can get the worst sunburns while playing in the cool water.
The app interface is also very confusing and required some explanation by a Netatmo spokeswoman. The company promises to add some explainers to the app in a future update, but a good app shouldn't require any explanation. There's also no Android or Web app at the moment; it only works with the iPhone.
When it worked, the June made me very aware of my everyday sun exposure. It also shed some light on the risks I take when I sit down in that beach chair, especially when I neglect my bottle of sunscreen.
Ultimately I'd like to see UV tracking and fashion-forward design come to the wearable fitness trackers we're already buying. But for now, I'm setting a "reapply sunscreen" reminder on my phone and spending my $99 on a whole lot of SPF 30 instead.
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To Chris Klicka
Senior Counsel of Home School Legal Defense Association
Thank you for your message supporting the efforts of the family of Mr. Carlos Alberto Carvalho Vilhena Coelho and his wife M·rcia to have the right to teach their children at home. Actually, the Vilhena family has been educating their children at home for the past ten years in An·polis, in the state of Goi·s. They are also enrolled at the local school "Imaculada ConceiÁ"o", where their evaluation is done regularly, along with the evaluations of the other students.
Nevertheless, Mr. Vilhena's formal request for homeschooling was not approved by the Elementary Education Committee of the National Education Council, due to the lack of legal authorization for homeschooling under the Brazilian Constitution and legal system. Under the applicable Brazilian legislation, (Law number 9394 of December 20, 1996), it is the legal duty of the parents - or the legal guardian - to enroll their children in a school from the age of seven, where each year they are legally required to attend a minimum of 800 hours, as well as a minimum of 200 school days. Therefore, enrollment is mandatory, as is an attendance rate of at least 75%. In Brazil, social interaction with other children in the same age range is considered to be an essential component of the educational process.
This Brazilian legislation should be understood as a way to guarantee the constitutional right of children to an education. During the 1960s, approximately 40% of Brazilian children did not attend school, which explains the high rates of illiteracy among adults today. The current reality in Brazil is that almost all of the children who do not attend school come from very low-income families and are obliged (by either circumstances or their parents) to enter the work force at an early age. Therefore, in recent years the Brazilian government has intensified its efforts to guarantee children's constitutional right to an education.
These efforts have succeeded, and by the year 2000 the percentage of children aged 7 to 14 enrolled in schools had increased to 97%. As recently as 1994, their rate of enrollment was only 89%, so significant progress has been made. These government efforts have resulted in a significant reduction of child labor in Brazil and have also contributed to a noteworthy decrease in child malnutrition, as public schools now provide more than 36 million free meals per day to low-income children.
Although homeschooling may be a very effective system of education in the United States, current Brazilian law does not authorize it and the highest educational priority of the Brazilian government is to ensure that all children receive at least the formal education provided free of charge by the public schools.
The organizational and structural differences between the educational systems in the United States and those in other countries, such as Brazil, should also be considered. They reflect non-symmetrical processes of social and educational development. Thus, an educational policy that has been effective in one country may not necessarily be implemented in other countries with the same results.
It should be noted that the National Education Council, in its decision, effusively praised the Vilhena Coelho family for their care and efforts to educate their children. Thus, its decision should not in any way be viewed as a persecution of that family by the Brazilian authorities, as some of the correspondence received at the Embassy from genuinely concerned American parents implies. In fact, hardly any of the individuals who write to the Embassy about this matter seem to have actually read the original text of the decision itself, instead having read an incomplete description or characterization of the decision.
Please note that the decision made by the National Education Council was based exclusively on the legal requirements imposed under the Brazilian constitution by the applicable legislation, which requires that all children attend school. Any amendments to this legislation that would allow for the inclusion of homeschooling as a legally-permitted option would depend on the expression of the democratic will of Brazilian families through the mechanisms of democracy, most likely by encouraging their elected Senators and Congressmen in the Brazilian Congress to introduce a bill through which the amended legislation would include it as a legal option.
Under the Brazilian constitution, which mandates a democratic division of powers among the three branches of government, the federal executive branch does not have the authority to single-handedly amend the text of such legislation. Nor does the National Education Council have the power to change the text of the current law. Only the citizens of Brazil, acting through their democratically elected representatives, have the power to do that. The way in which Brazilian democracy works is quite similar, in many respects, to the way in which other Western democracies work.
I hope you will have a chance to visit our beautiful country some day, so that you can see with your own eyes a few of the many projects and initiatives the Brazilian government has undertaken in its ongoing efforts to significantly improve the lives of its citizens, and especially the lives of those Brazilians who are poor and underprivileged, for whose children a decent education represents the most reliable path to a truly promising future.
Providing an education to all our citizens is - and will remain - an overriding priority of the Brazilian government, which believes that improving the education of our children is the best way to improve the future of both Brazil and its citizens.
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Oral Baptist Church, Roane County, will have a special patriotic program on July 2.
The free community event begins at 7 p.m. and features the Whitestone Singers.
Under the direction of Eugene Hattaway, the group is a favorite at Whitestone Country Inn during the Christmas and Fourth of July seasons.
The Whitestone Singers perform
annually for candlelight tours at Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C., and participate in the chorus for the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet will give a free gospel concert at 5 p.m. July 13 in Midtown Valley United Methodist Church.
The church is at 1625 Roane State Hwy. A love offering will be taken, and a potluck supper will follow the concert.
Call Diane at 376-6877 for information.
The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet performs more than 150 dates per year.
The quartet's album, "In a Country Town," is the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America's 2014 Album of the Year.
Michele R. Daniel will be the guest speaker during the annual Edgar Fritz Memorial Scholarship Program at Little Leaf Baptist Church, Oliver Springs.
The program will start at 4 p.m. June 8.
The scholarship was established after the death the Rev. Edgar Fritz in August 1978. The church has provided more than 50 scholarships. Daniel is a former recipient.
Little Leaf Baptist Church is at 228 E. Tri County Blvd.
Daniel Palmer recently enhanced the landscape around Kingston's Bethel Presbyterian Church as his Eagle Scout project.
Palmer focused on Bethel because of the long-standing relationship between the church and Kingston's Boy Scout Troop 101, which has met at Bethel for the past 64 years.
The project was his way of thanking the church because of all he learned and the many years of good experiences during troop meetings at the church. Palmer's love of plants prompted the landscaping theme.
Gold City, the Gadsden, Ala.-based award-winning Southern Gospel ensemble, will give a benefit performance beginning at 7 p.m. June 6 in Harriman's Princess Theatre at 421 Roane St.
Proceeds from the performance will support the Princess Theatre Foundation.
The group includes, from left, Robert Fulton, Daniel Riley, Tim Riley, Chip Pullen and Bryan Elliott.
Tickets are $15 and are available at Rocky Top General Store and Harriman Jewelry Exchange.
The McKameys, a premier East Tennessee family gospel-singing group from Clinton, will host their 31st annual Hometown Singing on June 6-7 in Clinton Second Baptist Church.
The Inspirations of Bryson City, N.C., will be the special guest at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
Saturday's special guest will be The Rochesters of Blacksburg, S.C., at 6 p.m.
Reserved seating is $15; general admission is $13.
Call 865-457-3678 for details or to purchase tickets by phone.
The congregation of Bethel Presbyterian Church, Kingston, recently received notification from the National Wildlife Federation that the church has been officially certified as a Wildlife Habitat site.
Church members have been has been working since 2009 to make the landscape around the church more environmentally friendly to nature.
Many areas around the church are mulched to create plant space that improves habitat for wildlife by providing essential elements needed – natural food sources, cover and places to raise their young.
The congregation of Rockwood Wesleyan Church will honor the faithful service of Pastor Robert "Bob" Lower during its 11 a.m. service on June 8.
Lower, who has served as church pastor for 21 years, is retiring. He has also served as chaplain for the Rockwood Fire Department during his 21 years with the Wesleyan Church.
The public is welcome to join in the celebration of Lower's dedication to the Lord, his community and his congregation.
Rockwood Wesleyan Church is at 300 S. Church Ave.
Bro. Joe Moore of Scarboro Church of Christ, Oak Ridge, will be the guest speaker at Sevier Drive Church of Christ, Harriman, on June 1.
Moore will teach Sunday school 10:45 a.m. and deliver the service message at 11:30 a.m.
The church is at 1014 Sevier Drive.
Batley Baptist
"Weird Animals: Where Jesus' Love is One of a Kind" is the theme of Batley Baptist Church's vacation Bible school. The VBS will be May 27-31; classes will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday. The church is near Oliver Springs at 670 Batley Road. Call 435-2400 or email email@example.com for details or transportation.
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Kota Kinabalu
Kota Kinabalu, formerly known as Jesselton, is the capital of the state of Sabah, Malaysia. It is also the capital of the West Coast Division of Sabah. Located on the northwest coast of Borneo facing the South China Sea, it is a growing resort destination due to its proximity to tropical islands, lush rainforests and Mount Kinabalu. Kota Kinabalu is often known as KK both in Malaysia and internationally. It is a major tourist destination and a popular gateway for travellers visiting Sabah and Borneo. Kinabalu Park is located about 90 kilometres from the city and there are many other tourist attractions in and around the city. Kota Kinabalu is also one of the major industrial and commercial centres of East Malaysia. These two factors combine to make Kota Kinabalu one of the fastest growing cities in Malaysia.
Honolulu, on Oahu's south shore, is the main gateway to Hawaii and a major gateway into the United States. The city is a major hub for international business, military defense, as well as famously being host to a diverse variety of east-west and Pacific culture, cuisine, and traditions. The name Honolulu means "sheltered harbor" or "calm port".
Long Beach
Long Beach is a city situated in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 38th-largest city in the nation and the sixth-largest in California. As of January 1, 2009, its estimated population was 492,682. In addition, Long Beach is the second largest city within the Los Angeles metropolitan area and a principle city of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined statistical area.
Phu My
Phú Mỹ is a town in Tân Thành District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu Province. This town is home to heavy industrial parks. Industries here include: electricity (accounting for nearly 40% of Vietnam's total capacity in 2007), fertilizer, steel production and deepwater ports activities. Phú Mỹ is located by National Route 51, 70 km north-east of Saigon.


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Dan Walters
Dan Walters: Brown headed for another term, but major acts still unsettled
Jerry Brown may not be universally admired, but polls indicate that he's virtually certain to win a record fourth term as governor, perhaps even in a landslide, and thus four more years to cement his place in political history.
However, that place depends largely on how well these major acts, all works in progress, of term No. 3 pan out:
• Budget – When Brown signed the 2014-15 budget last week, he proclaimed that it showed "your government is working."
While Brown deserves credit for dampening the Legislature's expansionist tendencies, the budget is balanced largely because of a revenue surge from an economic recovery and a temporary tax increase.
Brown is also championing a rainy-day fund to ease the impact of future downturns, but it won't do much if a major recession hits the state in this decade, which history indicates is likely. Meanwhile, the temporary taxes will expire near the end of his next term.
• Realignment – Brown is proud of criminal justice realignment to divert low-level felons into county jails and probation, and reduce overcrowding of state prisons under federal court order.
"The prison emergency is over in California," Brown declared in 2013. However, it appears only to have been shifted into another venue.
Counties have been given a constitutional guarantee of money, but it's indirectly coming from that temporary tax increase.
Meanwhile, as the Los Angeles Times reported last weekend, local jails are being packed with 142,000 diverted felons, forcing sheriffs to release lesser miscreants, and they are complaining that the revenue doesn't cover their costs.
• Education – The state's new budget includes a multibillion-dollar increase in school financing, much of which is being concentrated on poor and "English-learner" students in hopes of closing a yawning "achievement gap."
The school money is constitutionally protected and would complicate the budget should revenue drop later in the decade. Focusing money on poor kids is a theory whose efficacy, or lack thereof, can only be proved over time.
• Bullet train – This is one of two huge public works projects on which Brown is staking his bid for a positive legacy, but it has scant public support and money for merely a short stretch of track.
The governor persuaded the Legislature to divert a big chunk of the state's new cap-and-trade greenhouse gas fees into the bullet train, but there are legal clouds, and even with the fee money, the train is still many billions short of financing.
• Twin tunnels – This is the other big project, boring tunnels beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to ease water deliveries. It faces immense opposition, however, and it's still unclear whether major water agencies will be willing to finance it and whether it can survive the legal and political challenges that lie ahead.


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At this point, I think it's no secret that I have more of a love-hate relationship with Dexter than many of you do. Indeed, in comments a couple of weeks ago, some of you suggested I stop being so hard on the show. And yet, it's episodes like tonight that make it so easy to turn on the show at a moment's notice. For every nicely done moment, for every point where it felt like the show was moving toward some sort of catharsis, there was something else that was largely terrible, just an excuse for the show to move a bunch of plot elements out of the way in time for the finale. And for a season that's been haphazardly plotted at best, having a haphazardly plotted penultimate episode is … an issue, particularly for a show where the airtight plotting has always been the chief selling point. (Even in my least favorite season prior to this one, season three, the plotting was generally very tight.)
Let's start with the biggest bust: Through a fairly clever callback (Dexter can see the video feed monitoring him and Lumen on his baby monitor), Dexter becomes aware that someone is spying on him. As the episode goes on, he becomes convinced it has something to do with Quinn, then spends his time staking out his neighborhood to figure out just which van or RV or abandoned apartment the video feed could be emanating from. So far, so good. He finally narrows it down to the van Liddy is using (a rental), then stalks over there to take out who he believes to be Quinn. Instead, Liddy gets the drop on him and tosses him into the back of the van, taking him out to an abandoned beach parking lot to get a full confession from Dexter. He's not entirely sure what he's got, but Liddy knows enough to know he's got a very big fish, though he'll need a confession for any of his evidence to stick. The bait he dangles in Dexter's face? Lumen gets to go free.
After nicely teasing out the Lumen and Dexter relationship for the better part of a season, the show needs it to have gotten very serious, very quickly, the better to push Dexter off his game. This isn't such a bad conceit. I can buy that for Dexter, it's amazing to have someone who bonds with him on such a fundamental level. I'm not sure I needed constant reminders of how much in love the two were, since every scene showed them kissing tenderly or holding hands or something, but the show has never lacked for constant reminders of the characters' situations. So Dexter's tempted by this offer, and when Liddy turns on the camera to get the confession … Dexter kicks him in the face. There's a brief struggle, and Dexter manages to plunge the knife into Liddy's heart just as Quinn walks up to meet with Liddy about the big bust Liddy was going to make. Everything works out just fine at the last possible moment, though some of Liddy's blood drips on Quinn's shoe.
All in all, this takes about 10 minutes.
If Dexter were a better show, if it really were giving us a sense that all of the plots that have happened this season were coming down around the characters' ears all at once, I might be inclined to go with tossing this little short story into the midst of everything else and giving it a hectic pace all its own. But the overwhelming sense the storyline gives off is that all involved just wanted to take care of the Liddy storyline as quickly as possible, to get back to the Jordan Chase stuff. There's no real sense of menace. Once Liddy gets Dexter in the van, you know that Dexter's going to dispatch Liddy with a minimum of hand-wringing (after all, Harry's code provides for self-preservation). So the scene takes on an oddly perfunctory quality, as if the show were simply washing its hands of a plotline it put a lot of time and development into. Sure, Quinn knows a few suspicious things now, and this gave us at least one nice little scene between Deb and Dexter (though I'm less and less enamored of her psychic crime-fighting skills), but the whole thing feels like a waste of time and Peter Weller. It's introduced, only to be gotten rid of.
I'm sure some of you will argue that Dexter killing Liddy will show how far he's strayed from Harry's code or something like that, and I might buy that if we ever got the sense that anything on this show is cumulative, that moments in the past have an effect on the future. There have been moments this season, namely a couple of callbacks back when Dexter was under suspicion of Rita's murder, where it felt like the show might finally start to pull all of its sundry plot points from over the years together, but those moments ended up being just another stall. Dexter has killed innocent men before. He's killed people who were on his trail before. I know from watching this show that he'll maybe think about it for a scene or two and then get on with things. I'm not the first person to make this comparison, but with the way that nothing on Dexter feels like it adds up to anything more than the season it's contained in, the show has the feel of something like 24, where every season is its own plotline and there's very little crossover between seasons.
What's shocking to me is just how much "Hop A Freighter" feels like a placeholder episode, especially this late in the game. There are certainly nice moments and nice scenes throughout, and I think that Dexter trying to track down Jordan and Lumen is a pretty great idea for the finale. But the overall sense was of the show marking time before it really had to get into the nitty gritty of wrapping all of this up. Deb and the crew at homicide close in on Jordan Chase and the link between him and the many men who've been mysteriously disappearing. (There's a funny scene in this storyline where Quinn unintentionally makes a grieving woman's pain all the worse by telling her her husband wasn't gay but … was a rapist. Nice going, Quinn.) Deb's vigilante theory gets more credence thanks to something Masuka finds. Deb and LaGuerta have it out. Jordan kills Emily. Dexter tracks Lumen and Jordan using his blood spatter analysis skills (a scene that's pretty nifty, honestly).
But the episode wastes a lot of tension that's been building all season long by dispatching of Liddy in such a perfunctory way. I get that Liddy's body is still floating around out there, just waiting for someone to discover it and tie everything to Dexter. I get that Quinn now knows enough to start pasting together pieces in his lunkheaded brain. And I get that the many threats on all sides are making Dexter sloppy. But this would all be a little more tense if I thought it would have any bearing on the show's future whatsoever. Without a firm end date, there's essentially nowhere for this show to GO. There's just Dexter hanging out and doing his thing and then the fate of whatever guest star happens to drop in for that season. Put another way, the Dexter and Lumen relationship has been the most fascinating thing in the show this season, but now that the two are in love, there's a definite sapping of tension out of the relationship. We've always known Lumen would need to leave one way or another; the question has stopped being who Dexter would be to her when she left and has boiled down to something far less interesting: How will she leave?
Stray observations:
- Toward the end, Dexter is following the blood trail and asks whether everything he loves must end in blood. Honestly, I expected him to rip open his shirt and start howling at the fucking moon.
- Dexter is headed up to Orlando soon for Harrison's birthday party. Lumen invites herself along, which means she's probably gonna die. (Though, honestly, given the zig-zaggy nature of the season, I'd guess she just hops on a plane and goes elsewhere for the duration of the show's run.)
- Dexter was renewed for a sixth season, so we'll have the show to kick around for at least another year. This season has been the highest rated yet, so I'm sure we'll have the show for at least another two years, if not three, actually. It's far too valuable to Showtime, and Showtime doesn't have even an ounce of artistic credibility at this point. (Exhibit B: Weeds, which apparently had a good season but is STILL ON?)


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PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has filed and resolved an age discrimination lawsuit against Horsham, Pa.-based Astea International, Inc. for $175,000 in monetary relief and significant equitable relief.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Frank Fesnak satisfactorily performed his duties as vice president of strategic alliances but was fired because of his age, 47. The EEOC charged that after Fesnak was assigned to report to a different supervisor, the new supervisor made derogatory comments regarding older workers. Astea, a professional consulting services group, abruptly terminated Fesnak and hired someone 15 years younger to replace him, the EEOC said in its lawsuit, Civil Action No. 10-CV-286, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Such alleged conduct violates the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement.
In addition to the $175,000 in monetary relief to Fesnak, the two-year consent decree includes: injunctive relief prohibiting Astea from engaging in unlawful age discrimination; anti-discrimination training; and the posting of a notice about the settlement. Astea did not admit liability in the consent decree, which was approved by the court on Jan. 26.
"We are pleased that Astea worked with us so that we could file both the complaint and the consent decree resolving the lawsuit on the same day without the parties engaging in costly litigation," said Acting Regional Attorney Debra Lawrence of the EEOC's Philadelphia District Office, which oversees Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland, and parts of New Jersey and Ohio. "In addition to providing satisfactory monetary relief, the consent decree contains important equitable relief to prevent future workplace problems, including training of all managers and employees at the corporate headquarters."
In Fiscal Year 2009, age discrimination charges reached 22,778, the second-highest level ever. In July 2009, the EEOC held a public hearing on age discrimination and barriers to the employment of older workers. Additional information about the hearing can be found on the EEOC's web site at http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/meetings/7-15-09/index.cfm.
According to its web site, Astea International is a global provider of service management software solutions. Further information about the company is available on its web site, www.astea.com.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Bothroyd happy with Helguson link-up
Jay Bothroyd is delighted with the partnership that he has struck up with Heidar Helguson this season.
The Icelandic forward has now scored in four consecutive Barclays Premier League home games, equalling Les Ferdinand's record for QPR.
"Heidar is doing really well," Bothroyd said about his fellow striker. "A lot of his goals have been headers. He attacks the ball really well and his timing is really good."
Bothroyd was unhappy that the R's dropped points at home to West Brom on Saturday and wants to bounce back when they head to Anfield to face Liverpool at the weekend.
He explained: "It was disappointing to draw the game. We were in control before they equalised and they didn't have many chances apart from long-range efforts.
"It will be a tough match at Anfield, but we have to be positive going into the game."
Some of QPR's best performances of the season have come against the top teams, including a win at home to Chelsea and the England international wants that to continue.
"We beat Chelsea and, even though we didn't get the win against Manchester City, we did really well against them too. And at White Hart Lane we gave a good account of ourselves in the second half.
"We can't worry too much about the opposition, and we've got to approach the game without fear and do as well as we possibly can."News Now - Sport News


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Steps For Success: California State University, Los Angeles 3/3/12
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
Saturday, March 3, 2012 from 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM (PST)
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Steps for Success Saturday
The Hispanic Scholarship Fund, in cooperation with California State University, Los Angeles, is hosting a community outreach event for high school students and their families on the importance of a college education. Bilingual materials and publications will be provided along with refreshments.This event is free and open to the entire community. To learn more about the Hispanic Scholarship Fund please visit www.yourwordstoday.org
Student and parent workshops include:
Preparing for College
Researching Financial Aid
Scholarship Opportunities
Sábado de Steps for Success
El Hispanic Scholarship Fund, en colaboración con California State University, Los Angeles, está presentando una reunión familiar para estudiantes y sus padres sobre la importancia de una educación universitaria. Materiales bilingües y publicaciones serán disponibles al igual como refrescos y bocadillos. Este evento es gratis y todos están invitados. Para conocer más sobre el Hispanic Scholaship Fund visite: www.tuspalabrasdehoy.org
Talleres de padres y estudiantes incluyen:
Preparación para la universidad
Ayuda financiera
Oportunidades de Becas
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California State University Los Angeles
Student Union-Golden Eagle Ballroom
5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles,
Saturday, March 3, 2012 from 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM (PST)
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Founded in 1975, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund believes that the country prospers when all Americans have access to the opportunities a college education can afford. As the nation's leading Hispanic higher education fund, HSF works to address the financial and cultural barriers that keep many Latinos from earning a college degree. HSF has awarded over $335 million in scholarships over the past 36 years and has supported a broad range of outreach and education programs to help students and their families navigate collegiate life, from gaining admission and securing financial aid to finding employment after graduation. HSF envisions a future where every Latino household will have at least one college graduate, creating an enduring impact on the college outlook of Latino families nationwide, and strengthening the American economy for generations to come.
For more information, go to: www.HSF.net.