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It's been apparent for several weeks that the largest U.S. banking behemoths will remain as big and dangerous as they are today once President Barack Obama signs off on the Wall Street reform bill. But individual oversized banks are not the only problem Big Finance poses to the economy—the overall sector is much too large, and if we do not shrink it, we'll be dealing with difficult economic conditions for years to come.
Right before the banking system crashed, the financial sector accounted for an astonishing 40 percent of corporate profits. That share of the economy plunged as banks sought their bailouts, but by the end of 2009, finance was back, again accounting for almost 36 percent of corporate profits.
When the financial industry takes up that much of the economy, it becomes a big problem for two reasons. First, instead of serving as a catalyst for broader economic growth, finance is simply devouring other sectors of the economy. Like money, finance is not a goal in and of itself—it's just a way to support goods and services that make life better. At 40 percent of profits, finance is not supporting that activity, it's destroying it.
Second, for finance to take up 35 to 40 percent of the total profit pie, it has to be engaging in a lot of raw speculative gambling, rather than economically productive lending. That creates a tower of speculation that can easily topple with a single event—and the resulting mess can be very hard to clean up. As Nomi Prins has detailed, between 2002 and 2008, only about $1.4 trillion in subprime mortgages were issued, while about $14 trillion in securitized bets were derived from these mortgages. When the subprime market cratered, we didn't have a $1.4 trillion problem, we had a $15.4 trillion problem.
So in addition to cutting the biggest banks down to size, we also need to scale back the entire financial sector. There are a handful of provisions in Wall Street reform packages approved by the House and Senate that would help accomplish that goal. Unfortunately, the bank lobby, and in some cases, the Obama administration itself, is fighting those provisions. Here they are:
1. Capital and Leverage
Banks amplify their bets in the capital markets by using leverage—borrowing a lot of money. If you buy $10 million worth of stock, and it goes up 10 percent, you make a ten percent return-- $1 million. But if you borrow $490 million, put up $10 million of your own money, and put all of it into the same stock, a 10% gain in the stock price scores you $50 million—a 500% return (it would actually be a little less, as you'd have to pay interest on that $490 million loan, but you get the idea). But if the stock drops just 2 percent, you lose all of your own money, and find yourself $490 million in debt. You are ruined.
Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., managed to squeeze an amendment capping bank leverage at 15-to-1 into the House reform bill, meaning that banks could not borrow more than $15 for ever $1 they put up. That's good-- less leverage means less overall financial activity. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, managed to get a weaker, but related provision into the Senate bill, which would force megabanks to reduce their leverage.
Unfortunately, the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are fighting both amendments. Even worse, as Mike Konczal notes, the Treasury is also fighting hard against international agreements to limit bank leverage.
2. Derivatives spin-offs
Five big banks control over 96% of the derivatives market, which totals literally hundreds of trillions of dollars. One of the reasons this market is so big is that banks fund these operations with deposits. Since the government guarantees bank deposits against losses, this funding is cheaper than anything else the bank can get outside of the Federal Reserve, which also lends to all five of those banks. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., pushed a provision through the Senate which would bar any commercial bank that deals derivatives from receiving Fed loans. In practice, this would force the banks to move their derivatives dealing operations into a separately capitalized subsidiary.
The banks, Treasury and the Fed are all fighting this provision tooth-and-nail because it would significantly alter the way the derivatives business is funded. Instead of being able to rely on cheap government money, banks would have to finance their derivatives operations in the more expensive capital markets. When something gets more expensive, people do it less, so the Lincoln plan (authored by Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.) would trim back the derivatives casino.
3. Consumer Financial Protection Agency
One way banks eat up the broader economy is by simply stealing from consumers. Just about everyone has had a bad experience with a credit card, mortgage or overdraft rip-off. These are, first and foremost, bad for our pocketbooks. But what is bad for our pocketbooks is bad for other businesses—it means we have less to spend on goods and services. So by screwing consumers, banks are really sticking it to the broader economy.
The existing bank regulators at the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency simply have not enforced consumer protection rules over the past decade. Their primary goal is ensuring bank profitability, so if banks profit from consumer abuses, they don't really care. We can end this system of abuse by establishing a strong, independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) tasked only with looking out for consumers. The House language on the CFPA gives the agency more independence and broader authority to both write and enforce regulations than the Senate version, but it also exempts abusive auto dealers from the agency's jurisdiction, which the Senate version does not do.
So what else in the bill will cut back on our oversized finance system? Not much. There is a very weak version of the Volcker Rule, which bans banks from gambling with taxpayer money, but it will take years to implement and can easily be gutted by regulators. That leaves a handful of key provisions that should be focus of the reform fight next year:
1. A financial transactions tax.
Many of our current economic woes are tied to excess speculation in finance. By imposing a tiny tax on trades of stocks, bonds and derivatives, the government can discourage rank speculation while bringing in a lot of revenue for the federal coffers. A tax of just a few tenths of one percent will not seriously effect long-term investors. But for speculators who place big bets on the movement of stocks over the course of an hour, or for flash traders who buy and sell millions of shares in less than a second, this kind of tax actually would matter. Based on trading volumes from 1997, which are vastly lower than today's trading volumes, economist Dean Baker estimates that this tax could bring in $100 million a year in tax revenues, even if the overall trading volume fell by 25 percent.
2. Glass-Steagall
Banks don't just use taxpayer-guaranteed deposits to back their derivatives bets, they also fund all kinds of risky securities businesses with deposits. In the 1930s, Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Act, which barred banks that accept deposits and make loans from operating in the securities markets. By separating taxpayer guarantees from risky activity, the move made that risky activity less profitable, and by extension, less profuse.
3. Regulate Hedge Funds and Private Equity
The current bill doesn't really do anything to rein in these shadowy entities. They'll now have to register with the SEC . . . just like Bernie Madoff.


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COFOCE, the World Trade Commission of Guanajuato, would like to invite you to attend the SAPICA Spring/Summer shoe fair in Leon, Guanajuato Mexico on September 25-28, 2008.
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Senators approved a package of gun control measures Monday evening by a 43-18 vote, but members of the Democrat-dominated Assembly adjourned, promising to take up the legislation at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
There was no debate on the measure in the state Senate, but a dozen senators spoke on the chamber floor to explain their votes. The first was Bronx Sen. Jeff Klein, leader of the Independent Democratic Conference, who said the bill would set the tone for the rest of the country.
Other Democrats, including Klein's IDC colleague Sen. Malcolm Smith, echoed this point: New York would "set the mark" with the new legislation. Some Democrats, most notably Bronx Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., said their partisans should be given credit for the triumph.
"Make no mistake, we are saving lives by passing this bill tonight. For that, everyone in this chamber has my tanks, whether it's in allowing it to come to a vote or casting a vote in favor of it," said Sen. Mike Gianaris, D-Queens.
The only Republicans to speak on the bill were Kathy Marchione of Halfmoon and Greg Ball of Putnam County. Ball said the bill should have included a greater overhaul of the state's mental health system, and would simply end up burdening lawful gun owners.
"We haven't saved any lives tonight, except for one: the political life of a governor who wants to be president," he said. "I voted no, and I only wish I could have done it twice."
The other senators voting no came from Upstate America: John Bonacic, John DeFrancisco, Hugh Farley, Pat Gallivan, Joe Griffo, Bill Larkin, Tom Libous, Betty Little, George Maziarz, Mike Nozzolio, Tom O'Mara, Mike Ranzenhofer, Patty Ritchie, Joe Robach, James Seward and Cathy Young. Sen. Lee Zeldin, R-Long Island, was excused from the chamber for Army Reserve duty but issued a statement saying he would have voted against the bill. George Amedore, the certified winner in the 46th District, has opted not to vote pending a legal appeal of ballot counting that could undo his win.
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In just over five weeks at least a dozen companies have picked up properties around Zenyatta Ventures' TSXV:ZEN Albany graphite project in north-central Ontario. A steady source of encouraging news since its January 2012 discovery, Albany was bound to attract admirers—but why so late and suddenly so many? Little is being said, other than the properties became available and the timing couldn't be better.
"It's been great for the markets," says Michael England, CEO/director of Cariboo King Resources TSXV:CKR. "All the juniors that have gone in have seen an increase in volume and even some financings. It's been fantastic. It's kind of what the doctor ordered for our markets. All of us were so dead but with the [Alpha Minerals TSXV:AMW/Fission Uranium TSXV:FCU] uranium play in the Athabasca Basin and this one—wow! What a change it's made."
Among the earlier entrants reported by ResourceClips.com on July 17 were Brookemont Capital TSXV:BKT with its 416-hectare Albany East property, Cavan Ventures' TSXV:CVN 768-hectare Cage claims, TAD Mineral Exploration's TSXV:TJ 257-hectare Constance Lake property and Bluenose Gold's TSXV:BN.H Zenyatta West project.
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Cariboo King heralded its 256-hectare Nezen property July 29. The next day Alchemist Mining TSXV:AMS did the same for its 256-hectare Mondatta property and the day after that MPH Ventures TSXV:MPS got in on the act with its same-sized North Albany. On August 13 GTA Resources and Mining TSXV:GTA said it increased its Auden project to over 26,000 hectares, making it the area's largest landholder.
Then the play moved farther afield with two August 15 announcements, Cariboo King's 1,536-hectare Pito property 20 kilometres west of Albany's drill holes and, about 25 kilometres east of Zenyatta, the 256-hectare Hearst project for Benton Resources TSXV:BEX—which passed it on to Alabama Graphite CNSX:ALP the very next day. Alabama IR officer Danny Gravelle tells ResourceClips.com, "The property became prospective to Benton not only because of the location but an historic report by Noranda which gave some really strong indicators that there's potential for graphite."
But what prompted so many companies to pour into the Albany area at this time? Gravelle responds that Zenyatta's story obviously has investors compelled. After trading for less than $2 in May the stock hit a 52-week high of $5 on July 26. "For a stock to perform as it has in the worst market I've seen in my lifetime shows a significant amount of strength. I think investors are convinced that Zenyatta has great potential because they've shown they like this story even in the worst of markets. That's what really generated the interest."
Cariboo King, with projects close to a number of former graphite mines in Quebec and also to Timcal Graphite & Carbon's operating Lac-des-Iles mine, evidently lets others lead the way. "I do play closeology a lot with my companies," England tells ResourceClips.com. He saw the policy pay off when New Gold TSX:NGD took out Geo Minerals in December 2011. "That was something that we never even drilled but it was close to their Blackwater deposit."
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Sun-Bird vegetable soup reproduction tin is made from recycled cans. If new cans are preferred, rather than recycled cans, they are an extra 60p each, please just contact us. Please note when recycled cans are out of stock new cans are used at no extra charge. The can measures approx 11cm high x 7.5cm wide. Option of lids to fit these for as little as 50p each and can be purchased in our shop under lids. A larger version is available in our shop under larger cans.
Many months of research has gone into creating these labels and some of them date back as early as 1880's. Each label has been carefully redesigned, taking great care to keep them as authentic as possible, including full label design all the way around the can. All labels are laminated to give them not only a quality finish but will also make them last much longer if being handled frequently. You can wipe the labels over with a damp cloth, but they are not dishwasher friendly and not waterproof. If you do need to wash the inside of the tin, be careful not to get the label wet and dry the inside of the can straight away.
The cans can be used to store many items from pens, hobby items, cooking utensils, cutlery, menus, serviettes, plants and flowers literally anything or just used as props to display in your home or business. They also make great gift ideas to store items inside and attach a lid.
There are many designs to choose from including designs in vintage fruit cans, vegetable, milk, coffee and many more in our shop. Any quantity can be ordered from small to large and please do contact me for larger quantities to see what offers or discounts I can offer you with your order. We ship to any country and can offer a quick turn around if your items are urgent, just let us know and we will do our best to get your goods to you as soon as possible.


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Today, June 7th, 2006, is the 48th anniversary of the birth of Prince Rogers Nelson, one of this country's most influential musicians, a genius who, it might be inferred by some of his song lyrics, once rode the bus. Not convinced? He also happens to be left handed, a trait which, at least according to this lefty, is common among genius/bus rider types.
Tomorrow, June 8, 2006 is National Dump the Pump Day, a day "dedicated to raising awareness that public transportation is the quickest way to beat high gas prices." Come on, y'all! I know we've just shaken off that whole 90s grunge thing, but let's make sure Seattle's the dumpiest city of all!


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AeroVironment Awarded $2.3 Million DARPA Concept Definition Contract for TERN Medium Altitude Long Endurance Unmanned Aircraft System Program
Three-phase development program aims to produce a low-cost, large-scale prototype vehicle
MONROVIA, Calif., Nov. 4, 2013 - AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVAV) announced that it has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to provide its market-leading expertise in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) toward the development of a new category of this technology. AeroVironment will work as the prime contractor with DARPA on the Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node (TERN) Program to develop a medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) UAS designed to operate from small ships to provide persistent intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities. Sierra Nevada Corporation will subcontract to AeroVironment on the project, which is valued at $2.3 million
"We are excited to have been selected by DARPA and about what this signifies for the future of the UAS industry," said Roy Minson, AeroVironment senior vice president and general manager of the company's UAS business segment. "TERN represents an entirely new category of UAS that has the potential to meet the evolving needs of customers for ISR capabilities. We look forward to applying our extensive experience in creating unique, high-quality and battle-proven UAS solutions to develop a concept with the TERN team that addresses DARPA's requirements."
"AeroVironment's history of innovation has long been a strategic differentiator, and we believe this award from DARPA is a testament to our market-leading position and capabilities," said Tim Conver, AeroVironment's chief executive officer and chairman. "This is a time of significant opportunity and progress at AeroVironment as we execute on our fiscal 2014 plan. We look forward to building on our momentum, and important collaborations like this, as we continue to address new and unique customer challenges."
The intent of the TERN program is to produce a low-cost, large-scale TERN prototype vehicle over the course of three development phases that would demonstrate automatic launch and recovery and key technologies required by a TERN objective system. The mission performance goals for the operational TERN system are comparable to emerging land-based MALE UAV capabilities.
The ultimate goal for a TERN objective system air vehicle is to enable persistent ISR capabilities with payloads of 600 pounds while operating up to 900 nautical miles from a host vessel. The TERN objective system is intended to operate from multiple ship types, including Littoral Combat Ship 2 (LCS-2) class ships, and in elevated sea states.
The phase 1 concept definition contract was awarded on August 26, 2013. As part of the agreement, Sierra Nevada Corporation will subcontract to AeroVironment for ship integration.


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*** Your reading choices from news, politics, poetry, spiritual, health and weight loss tips, party food and chocolate recipes, science and lots of humor from funny videos to political cartoons. Catch up on your fav blogs or get a new fav! :)
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From Denny: This post is number 601 for The Social Poets blog, my first! Woo! Hoo! :) Who knew where blogging would take me - and you - this past year?
I'm finally getting back into regular blog writing. I took a couple of weeks off early in January to slow down the daily writing on 12 blogs for a well deserved rest. Just when I was ready to resume writing the Haiti earthquake hit. Then the three week saga started with trying to find my cousin who had been visiting Haiti at the time of the earthquake disaster - to donate her time as a music teacher. After three weeks she was given a cell phone and talked to her mother and sister.
Of course, as usual, worried family is not so good on details, not thinking like a journalist, and I still don't know her exact location. Sounds like she's in some tent city on some soccer field, recovered from vague details of bad bruising and a not described concussion from falling debris as she ran out of the music school where she was giving a concert. Apparently, one of her students died, though again, no details or name given. She has gathered several of her other students with her - again no names or updates on their status - since they are separated from their parents or may not know the status of their parents.
Well, one detail I know for sure is that my cousin Jeanne will do all she can to help the children around her to keep up their attitudes and play some music for everyone to cheer them as well.
I just wanted to take the time to thank all of you, my subscribers and blogging friends, for checking back on all these blogs for updates on Jeanne and new posts too. Some of the blogs have languished for daily posts. The past week I've worked at getting caught up and created this post for a roundup of posts on all the blogs so you can get caught up easily too. Again, thanks so much for showing up to check out each blog as it's much appreciated!
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From The Social Poets:
Libations Friday Poetry
*** Blog Carnival for Poets - create a poem about orphans and your poem linked here: Angels Left Behind: Orphans of the World poem - Libations Friday 29 Jan 2010 - promote your blog!
Three Endings and One Beginning Poem - Libations Friday 5 Feb 2010 - *** 4 life stories of people I have known: 3 committed suicide, 1 reclaimed their life.
I Wait, poem for Haiti - Libations Friday 22 Jan 2010 - *** Told from the point of view of an earthquake survivor buried underneath the rubble awaiting rescue. Dedicated to the people of the Haiti earthquake disaster of 12 Jan 2010.
*** Cheeky Quotes Wednesdays ***
Funny Reincarnation and Religion Quotes - Cheeky Quote Day 3 Feb 2010
Inspiring Quotes About Disaster - Cheeky Quote Day 20 Jan 2010
*** Roundup of Late Night Shows *** Mondays
Roundup of Late Night Funnies 1 Feb 2010
Roundup of Late Night Funnies 25 Jan 2010
*** Political Cartoons Saturdays ***
Editorial Cartoons This Week 30 Jan 2010
Editorial Cartoons This Week - 23 Jan 2010
Social Issues News:
Good News: Child Abuse Drops Dramatically
67 Charities to Donate: Helping Haiti Heal
Mission of Hope Run by American in Haiti
This Weeks Posts @ The Social Poets 19 Jan 2010
Popular Posts 2010 at The Social Poets and Thank You!
Popular Posts 2009 and Thank You: The Social Poets
Dennys Global Politics where I pull together several days of clips of ongoing stories into one post:
Haiti News:
What Structural Engineers See For Haitis Recovery
Summary: Surviviors Process as They Rebuild Lives
Lucky Haiti Orphans Found Open Arms, New Homes
Politics in America:
How Wall Street Killed the Middle Class in America
Obamas Political Showdown with Republicans: Full Length Video and Text
Political Showdown: Obama in Face-Off with House Republicans
Prez Obamas 1st State of the Union Speech Text and Video
American Public Angry at Prez Obamas 1st Year in Office
From Beautiful Illustrated Quotations for thought-provoking quotes and commentary:
Let Your Silent Voice Sing
How Do Dreamers Create Our World?
How Are Our Lives Like An Open Book?
Beautiful Quotes
Popular Posts 2009 at the BIQ Quotes Blog
Photo by Tambako the Jaguar @ flickr
The Healing Waters:
Popular Posts 2009 at The Healing Waters
Famous Nutritionist Joy Bauer Offers 5 Dieting Tips for Success
Clean Hidden Areas of Your Home, Avoid Allergy Causing Mold and Mildew
Weight Loss: Not So Secret Secrets Anyone Can Do
How Many Poisons in Our Food Supply?
Healing Remedies: Food in Your Fridge
Healing Power of Plants and Herbs
6 Good Friends You Need to Live a Long Life
Reclaim Your Life, Reclaim Your Joy Now
Updating Your Home: Decorating Dilemmas Solved
Bobbi Browns Makeup Tips, Great Beauty Buys for 2010
Skinny Foods to Help Us Slim Those Excess Pounds
Good News: Successful Potato Peeler Salesman Joe Ades
Trim Off Obesity: 3 Inspiring Stories, Nutritionist Answers Diet Questions
Photo by Image Editor @ flickr
The Soul Calendar for science:
Last Resort Climate Fix: Geo-Engineering
Videos: Explain Rare Haiti Earthquake
Rare Annular Solar Eclipse
Romancing The Chocolate for more than chocolate and party recipes:
4 Fun Marti Gras and Super Bowl Recipes
Sweet Tooth Alert: Sandra Lees Chocolate Truffles
Chef Sandra Lees Easy Frozen Chocolate Cookie Cake
Chocolate Cake Recipes at Romancing The Chocolate
How to Cook Perfect Al Dente Pasta, Giadas Simple Recipe
Funny Quotes About Chocolate
Oozing with 3 Cheeses and Cheap: White Lasagna
Winter Brain Food: Parmigiano Pasta with Mushrooms
Swapping Food Choices for Less Fat and Calories to Trim off holiday pounds
Valentines Day: Impressive Four Chocolates Cake
Kid Pleasing Easy Brownie Peanut Butter Cupcakes
Popular Posts 2009 at Romancing The Chocolate and Thank You!
Photo of New Orleans in French Quarter on Bourbon Street by Lyndi&Jason @ flickr
GEAUX SAINTS!!! The Saints win the Super Bowl by 31 to 17 over the Colts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Their first Super Bowl win!!!!! It's going to be the first time Marti Gras becomes a nine day celebration down in New Orleans! :)
Comfort Food From Louisiana for more party ideas for a crowd:
Popular Posts 2009 at Comfort Food From Louisiana, Thank YOU!
6 Super Bowl Junk Food Recipes
9 Easy Marti Gras and Super Bowl Eats
Chef Sandra Lees Quick Baby Back Ribs
Super Bowl Food: Jumbo Shrimp and Gouda Grits
5 Tasty and Weird Bacon Recipes
Secrets to the Tastiest Tailgating Party
Newest Fish Trend: Silverfin Asian Carp, 2 Recipes
New Orleans Saints Celebration Menu: Jambalaya and Crawfish Gold
Paula Deens Shrimp Gumbo Casserole
Easy Winter Comfort Food: Beef Burgundy
Cajun Comfort Food Chases Away Winter Cold, 3 Recipes
5 Recipes: Lemon Chicken, Portobello Fries and Sides
8 Easy Yummy New Years Recipes to Warm Your Guests
Photo by Kjunstorms @ flickr
From Visual Insights, a photo blog:
14 Soothing Tranquil Water Photos
11 Great Quotes and Sayings Photos
14 Photos: Our Love Affair with Weird Hair
12 Funny Things You Can Do Outside With Shrubs
Artist Inspires With HOPE Sculpture
Spectacular Photos of Eyes
Photo by Tambako the Jaguar @ flickr
From Dennys Funny Quotes get a laugh:
Funny Quotes From Curmudgeons: These Guys Need to Lighten Up!
15 Wild Cartoons on Prez Obamas 1st Year in Office
Political Cartoons: Obamas State of the Union
Its Official: Folks Bring Back Thiefing Republicans, Hand Senate Seat to Them
Popular Posts 2009 of Dennys Funny Quotes and Thank YOU!
5 Funny Quotes About Time
Funny Music Video of How Americans Sound to Foreigners
Funny New Years Resolutions Cartoons
Funny Quotes About Coffee
Funny Quotes About Jobs and Work
How Funny! 10 Banned Overused Buzzwords of 2009
Jimmy Kimmels Dumbest 911 Calls of the Decade
Funny Quotes: Hollywood Actress Mae West
New Austrian Zoo Photographer is Fruit Happy Orangutan
Habenero pepper water splash photo by Tambako the Jaguar @ flickr
From Ouch Outrageous Obnoxious And Odd humor blog:
Popular Posts 2009 at OOOO Humor Blog, Thank You!
Funny Video: The Daily Show Declares Scott Brown the 45th President of The United States
Funny Video: Colbert Says Obama Is Doing Nothing and Destroying Everything
Funny Video: Mocking Rush, Robertson, Maddow Who Mock Haiti
Funny Video: Jon Stewart Lampoons Massachusetts Senate Election
Funny Video: Jon Stewart Lampoons Wall Street Bonuses
*** Get a good laugh, watch a funny video, catch up on politics and ongoing news stories, read a good poem, consider some deep thoughts, check out the science and health news, get tips for weight loss and collect some fabulous ideas for great food so you have a good reason to diet! Enjoy life, not war. Works for me! :) Thanks for visiting the blogs this year!


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Emmanuel College (Toronto, Ont.). Registrar's Office fonds
- Fonds
- 1893-2012
Fonds consists of the following series: Subject files, 1932-2003; Records relating to students, 1913-2003; Correspondence of the Registrar, 1928-1975; Records related to courses and programmes, 1893-2003; and Emmanuel College Chapel records, 1945-1960; Records related to orientation and convocations; and Records related to recruitment.
Series 4 - Records related to courses and programmes - contains records of Union Theological College, the antecedent of Emmanuel College.
Emmanuel College (Toronto, Ont.). Registrar's Office


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Darryl Berger
Program Director / Show Host
Darryl joined the WNPV family in 1985 and served as News Director for 9 years before becoming the Program Director in the mid-90's. He's done news for and hosted the morning show for more than 21 years, but is perhaps best known as the host of 'Comment Please by Univest' which he has done since 1987. "The show isn't a platform for me to forward my political or personal agenda," says the usually affable host. "The program provides a daily slice of life for the folks who live in Montgomery and Bucks Counties."
Darryl has received dozens of broadcast awards for news, sports and talk programming from the Associated Press, Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters, Philadelphia Press Association and Society of Professional Journalists. He was named Consumer of the Year in 1998 by the Pennsylvania Association of Weights and Measures. Darryl also has received the regional award for public service from the Social Security Administration.
Darryl grew up in Pennsburg and graduated from Upper Perkiomen High School. He attended Drexel University and Montgomery County Community College prior to breaking into radio at a public station in Warminster. There he fell in love with broadcasting in 1981 and Vicki Bailey in 1983. Fortunately both remain in his life, on the radio at AM-1440 and with the now Vicki Berger in Coopersburg, Pa.
Phil Hunt
General Manager
Born and raised in Lansdale, PA, Phil began his broadcasting careeras a part-time disc jockey in 1977. Since that time he has held a variety of positions at WNPV, including account executive, sports director, and program director. He has been the General Manager of WNPV since 1986.
Phil is an active board member of the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters and currently serves as Vice Chairman for Radio Broadcasting. He is active in many community organizations including his church, the North Penn United Way, and Rotary International. Phil is also on the Board of Directors of the North Penn Community Health Foundation and currently serves as Chairman.
He enjoys playing golf, traveling, and the company of family and friends. He's also an avid John Wayne fan.
Phil lives in Lansdale with his wife Wendy and their daughter Donavan, who is a senior at Penn State.
Chuck Irwin
Show Host / Director of Public Service Announcements
Dave McCrork
Engineer In Charge
He is arguably the stations "MVP" – chief engineer Dave McCrork, the man who keeps WNPV on the air and all its equipment running smoothly.
Dave is a Wissahickon graduate and has been in the industry for more than five decades, starting at the tender age of 11. He earned his diploma in Broadcast Engineering from the Cleveland Institute in 1967 while later obtaining an F.C.C. General Class Radiotelephone Operators License.
Dave has operated his own business since 1973. In addition to being the chief engineer at WNPV, he retains the same title at suburban radio stations WNAP and WISP, and WCOJ.
Dave's value to the radio station goes well beyond his mechanical abilities. Dave's sense of humor can brighten any-body's day!
He and his wife Joanne live in Souderton.
Visit Dave's website at www.wnar-am.com
Jeff Nolan
Sports Director /Comment Please by Univest Producer / Webmaster
Jeff Nolan's introduction to the WNPV listening audience began in the year 2000 as host of the Nauticom Sports Network Football Scoreboard Show. Jeff and the scoreboard show, in its current form, became a regular fixture the following year.
While serving as the stations sports director, Jeff's duties also include remote engineer, show producer, fill-in anchor and webmaster.
In addition, Jeff is the radio play-by-play voice of Rider University women's basketball, the USA Hockey National Championships and has handled the television play by play role for the Lehigh Valley Hockey League on Service Electric Television.
Jeff and his wife Joann reside in Perkiomenville and are parents to three children.


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Our client is currently seeking a Day Concierge to work at a luxury residential development in South East London. shifts are 12 hours long and working 4 nights on, 4 nights off.
Previous experience working in luxury apartments or 4/5* hotels would be desirable. Candidates must be immaculately presented, possess strong customer service skills and be able to abide by procedures set by the managing agents.
Duties will include manning the reception desk and dealing with any queries or issues from residents, distributing post and parcels, supervising contractors, holding keys and ensuring that communal areas are kept clean and tidy.
The successful candidate must be able to provide excellent references and be willing to undergo full vetting checks.


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Who We Are
Tower Group is a union of engineering, construction and project management companies based in Armenia. Inspired by the vision of being the best and most reliable construction company in the local market Tower Group has adopted a policy to enlarge the scope of its activities. With a focus on quality and mutually beneficial cooperation Tower Group offers competitive and sustained solutions...read more


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As the Young Canada Works Collections Management Officer here at the MIA, I started my summer off with a group of works – mostly stone sculpture – acquired by the museum in 2013. I have always been interested in different materials used in the production of objects and Inuit art is no exception. So, from day one, I'm sure I sounded like a broken record: "Alysa, what kind of stone is this?" Until finally, I began to recognize the vibrant greens of the serpentinite of a Toonoo Sharky, RCA and the bold black basalt in Barnabus Arnasungaaq's work.
Soon after I familiarized myself with the stone, I was thrown a curve-ball when I was tasked with cataloging and condition reporting Untitled [Faces (Bone on Bone)] by Manasie Akpaliapik. I found this carving absolutely striking not only in the way the artist has created an eerily lifelike face but because it was a completely new medium to me: ossified whalebone.
Ossified whalebone is bone from whales that has been dried out over time making it a viable medium for carvings (prior to my time, someone very eloquently explained the process of whalebone carving on this very blog so I won't go into great detail here). I have worked with bone before, both animal and human(!), but never whalebone! This medium has the same bubbly-spongy look to it as a lot of other bone but only whale-sized! I was entranced by its texture and managed to find a magnifying glass so I could get an even closer look! For what felt like a long time I was lost in the microcosm of the whalebone. When I returned to reality, I finished cataloging and condition reporting the piece. As Collections Management Officer I am required to take detailed photos of each piece and these definitely turned out to be some of my favourites!
Take a look and see what you think!
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Five on Friday (June 9, 2017)
So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead,
even though you must endure many trials for a little while.
These trials will show that your faith is genuine.
It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold - though your faith is far more precious than mere gold.
So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much
praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world. I Peter 1:6-7
I'll never be able to cover everything that's happened in the last several weeks in 5 paragraphs so I might fill in with some extra blog posts over the next week. Here are the highlights.
1. Memorial Day: my parents, grandparents, aunt and uncle drove down to spend the day with us, and it was delightful. I think I'll post pictures separately.
2. Mom and Dad stayed with the kids while Brian and I ran to Chattanooga for a quick 20th anniversary trip (separate blog post coming). We nearly didn't get to go because of a medical issue - Brian's, not mine! Thankfully, it was all good in the end and didn't slow us down at all.
3. Rory had her first sleepover last night, and the house was full of the sound of giggling 10-year olds. Kind of precious, equally exhausting. Camden was away at camp, and so it was the perfect time for extra girls in the house. They made their own pizzas for supper, had mani/pedis in the front yard, baked unicorn poop cupcakes at 10:00 (Camdyn and Ela are expert bakers), and in general spent an inordinate amount of time talking over each other and laughing. I also hear they stayed up until 5:00 talking. Sounds like a success to me.
This one a little more accurately represents Rory's excitement :)
(see how much smaller Rory is - she's a full year older)
5. Biggest news of the week is that I had a scan Tuesday and all is good, even showing a slight 5% decrease in tumors. My CA125 level also continues to drop. None of this changes my weekly chemo schedule, but it's nice to feel like maybe the treatments are working. I hear I'm the star patient of the clinical trial since I've had so few side effects (outside the standard fatigue, nausea, etc.), and we're moving into my 7th month of treatment. Unfortunately, the tumor shrinkage isn't occurring on the spot that gives me trouble, but we've settled into a good pain management routine. Rory was my little partner in crime both Tuesday and Wednesday and was SO excited to meet Dr. C.
All 4 of us had a nap this afternoon which is clear evidence we are full throttle into summer. Happy weekend, friends!


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Educator announces plans for City Council run
Current Charlottesville City School Board member and teacher Colette Blount announced Wednesday at Burley Middle School her plans to run for a seat on Charlottesville City Council along with 10 other candidates.
Blount, backed by Charlottesville mayor Dave Norris and City Council candidate Dede Smith, stressed the importance of educating all members of the community and enhancing dialogue between educators and politicians.
Blount joins the crowded Council race, facing fellow Democrats Kathy Galvin, Paul Beyer, Brevy Cannon, James Halfaday, Smith, and incumbent Satyendra Huja at the August 20 Democratic firehouse primary. Independents Brandon Collins, Andrew Williams, Scott Bandy, and Bob Fenwick will vie for votes at the polls November 8.Read more on: city council electioncolette blount
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Norris the red has his puppets selected. I'm proud to be African-American yet saddened to see how gullible she is.
It does look like puppetry and that would be sad to me as well. Can't remember a time in Cville where a sitting Mayor organized candidates for a ticket just because of being angry about a previous issue, its beneath him, I hope he's better than that, I believe he is. Just think of the possible consequences for the future interactions.
She's just inexperienced and is perhaps listening to the wrong people because of that. I hope she figures it out and gets some distance from the other puppets who are not in her league and the folks telling her what to do. She can win on her own without any help from anyone else. She has great character and good ideas.
Why the "puppetry" comment? Just because she has support from the Mayor? I would not assume that she is going to be Dave Norris's puppet just because Dave supports her. If there was some indication that Dave had chosen to back Collette from among a group of interested African-American candidates because she had agreed to back his views on water issues, for example, your comment would be justified. But that is not what happened.
It is no secret that the Democratic Party leadership -- including the Mayor -- wanted an African-American candidate. After all, African-Americans make up about 20% of the city, and it would be really unfortunate if we had no African-American on Council. Collette was persuaded to run when no other African-American was willing to. Collette is smart, and I doubt that she will be anyone's "puppet."
@cvllelaw The Mayor has organized the puppets for his ticket. Norris the red recruited his candidates. Collete is just that INEXPERIENCED and appears to like to be told what to do. Admit she is INEXPERIENCED in city government affairs and I will vote for her. I am African-American and do not support her. Norris puppetry at its finest yet cville is so naive.
Did Dave Norris support Kristin Szakos when she ran for the nomination ? She doesn't appear to be a puppet.
@TJ: "Did Dave Norris support Kristin Szakos when she ran for the nomination ? She doesn't appear to be a puppet."
Though Szakos seems to have grown a spine of late over water and roads, shortly after her election she certainly did Norris' bidding by helping to forever commit the city budget to a dedicated funding stream for low income housing - something to which Julian Taliagerro would not have agreed.
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cvllelaw "African-Americans make up about 20% of the city, and it would be really unfortunate if we had no African-American on Council. Collette was persuaded to run when no other African-American was willing to." Why? Is she supposed to represent black people or be the Democratic Party's black person, since Andrew Williams is running again this year as an Independent who is also black? If he is ev entually elected, is he supposed to represent black people who live in the city? If so, why is non-blacks allowed to vote for or against the black representative? Why are all seats voted upon city-wide but the elected official is not supposed to represent the majority of the voters? Does this sound ridiculous to anyone? If anyone is interested in the history of blacks serving on Council, here is a very interesting article on the Democratic Party's role. http://www.schillingshow.com/2009/03/05/charlottesville-elections-exposi...
Very interesting article indeed Cville Eye. Thanks!
Cville Eye: I read the article you cited. While I can't attest to the accuracy of the facts, I find, based on my experience with local politics over the years, that it is a very plausible explanation of our political culture in this town with implications for our current election. Who wrote that piece?
Our City has vestiges of the old Southern traditional political culture in which a few elites are the authorized power brokers of a patronage system, like the feudal lords of the manors. That seems the way the Democratic (and probably Republican) party operates in this town. Regular people are not welcome at the table and are considered merely pests in centralized control.
During the Griffin debacle, some citizens asked for accountability. It was the City Council that had appointed the school board that made all the horrible decisions and trouble. The City Council was reticent to intervene and behind them was a small group running the Dem. party that, was too proud to admit failure and they, rather than admit policy failure, went after and maligned parents who were critical of the Supt. inflaming racial tensions. The School Board chair at the time even went so far as to get an old time dem (mentioned in your referenced article as one who manipulated the ward referendum process) to chair the ultimate crisis meeting at the School Board, and he merely inflamed the problem. None of could figure out why the school board chair had ceded control of the meeting to a democratic party operative? The voters finally got a referendum on an elected school board passed in disgust of dem party mismanagement of that issue.
If your article is historically accurate, the race-election-ward issue is still very alive today. I see indications of what the article posits as dem control over minority candidates. I think if I were Blount I would switch to running as an (I) rather than dropping out as Johnson did. She could win without being managed by any party and then be free to vote her conscience. If your article is accurate, being the annointed one by the dem. party must be kinda weird and controlling.
I wish the NAACP would weigh in on these issues.
We have to get beyond this old model of a few people running things from back rooms. Perhaps we should have more referendums on issues. Thoughts?
I don't see anyone controlling how the Councilors vote. Holly Edwards certainly was not beholden to anyone, nor is Mayor Norris. This time we have many well qualified, smart candidates and I believe the voters will decide this election based on the candidates background experience and the issues they have highlighted.
@TJ, "This time we have many well qualified..." quick question and I hope for a quick answer: what candidates have experience establishing a multi-million dollar budget and have demonstrated a more-than-superficial knowledge of public issues or have demonstrated a capability of arriving at solutions to public problems?
@Citizen Party, I have not forgotten your questions and will get back.
Point is she was persuaded to run, if you want something you know its in your heart then you do it. Persuaded is just the hardcore fact that she is norris the reds puppet. Big difference on wanting to run verses being persuaded to run. I am african american and I know the difference
While I do not doubt Dave Norris' hand in Collete Blount's decision to run, let's not read too much into this and start conjuring larger "Democratic" conspiracies at play. Everyone needs to remember that, despite being Mayor, Norris does not speak for or control the Democratic Party in this town - nobody does. In fact, he has from time to time displayed contempt for the Party itself (or at least for those often maligned here as the "old guard").
The problem with Schilling is his tendency to see (imagine?) conspiracy theories anywhere the Democratic Party is involved.
"Big difference on wanting to run verses being persuaded to run. I am african american and I know the difference"
That's one of the most ridiculous comments I've ever seen.
There is nothing unusual, unprecedented, inappropriate or unethical about candidates for local office running as slates, whether formal or informal, be it the McIntosh slate of Huja, Galvin + Beyer, the Norris slate of Smith, Cannon + Blount, or choose your own configuration. Further, there is nothing unusual, unprecedented, inappropriate or unethical about elected officials or other community leaders supporting candidates in the primary. Voters should judge each of the candidates on his/her own merits and decide for themselves which candidates best represent their values.
I agree with "Fact is". Leaving out the rhetoric at least you know Huja, Galvin and Beyer are for the current water plan and the Meadowcreek Parkway and Smith, Cannon and Blount are against. So it should be interesting as to which side wins. Less known are the Court Clerks. Garrett for another 6 years/. Two sisters controlling both Court houses? Dugger? (sp?) In Wise County at the tip of true country Va. not only can you look up cases on line you can E-file all Court cases like Federal Court. C-ville is so behind Computer wise you cannot even look up a case on line. We are more like Wise County up here (computer wise) and Wise County is like Charlottesviile should be.
@fact is: I don't think there is any slate of Galvin-Huja-Byer but it is increasingly clear there will be one of Smith-Cannon-Blount, backed by Norris who apparently quit his day job to run this campaign full time. Their actions are turning this election into an us-them contest over a narrow set of issues. And I would encourage people to look at these individuals and their past record individually and closely. I think Smith is going to drag the rest of them down and bleed votes from them.
Point there being I can trust Galvin, Huja and Byer to be independent and not turn into a Junta with Norris. The latter group comes off as power hungry and ideologically driven. Fact is, I can't remember when a sitting mayor ever engaged in these kinds of politics which I find unusual and unprecedented and while there may be nothing unethical about it, it sure might pose problems if Mayor Norris has to serve with Galvin, Beyer or Huja, it would just exacerbate the culture of conflict that is developing leading to accusations of people in the County that Cville is a do-nothing, dysfunctional, navel gazing government.
Besides, hasn't the county already decided to dredge? Problem solved.
@ Sam, I don't actually know that Huja, Galvin, and Beyer are for the current water plan and Meadowcreek Pkwy. I know the others mentioned are against it and are hell bent on overturning it. I know that some of them and their tactics alienate people in the County poisoning intergovernmental cooperation. And as someone else has already blogged, if thats what its all about, why don;t they just run a referendum and stop polluting this election from focusing on other problems in town that are perhaps more prescient than those already decided by due process.
Why don't issues of race relations, poverty, and equity ever get the level of commitment and passion that Norris, Smith, Cannon, and Blount are giving the water and parkway issues? I know Szakos is committed to these types of issues, has Mayor Norris lost perspective? Something doesn't smell right. When does the new gaurd get co-opted and start looking and acting like the old guard?
I would encourage people voting to vote against any junta like behavior.
Citizen Party, first there is no shame, none, in undoing an awful and extremely unpopular decision before it's been implemented, to prevent unnecessarily high water rate increases and to save a natural area from needless destruction. Many people in town are hoping the next council does just that.
Having said that, I encourage you to listen to the Smith and Blount and Cannon announcement speeches. If they were only running to push a better water supply solution and stop the parkway don't you think those issues would have been front and center in their speeches or on their websites? Do yourself a favor and speak directly with Dede and Brevy and Colette and you will see that they are HARDLY focusing their campaigns on those issues only. If at all. Your conspiracy theories don't hold water. Obviously the establishment Dems are scared to death that they might finally lose their grip on power and are resorting to nonsense.
@Fact is,
You really got it wrong if you think I represent establishment dems. Couldn't be further off the mark. In fact what has worried the most is that they have been showing up to Smith and Blount's announcements. From what I have seen it looks like water and parkway are the lynchpins of their campaigns and the other stuff is window dressing. I could be wrong, but it sure looks like this election is being framed as water and parkway litmus tests.
from Daily Progress (Published: April 17, 2011):
"Here are some questions for the city Dems: Will they field a unified set of candidates as they did four years ago, with a broad platform of issues? Or will they field candidates who are mostly running with their Exocet missiles targeted exclusively on the 50-year water supply plan and Meadow Creek Parkway?
From CvilleTomorrow (By Brian Wheeler Charlottesville Tomorrow Wednesday, June 29, 2011):
"Norris, a Democrat, has now made appearances supporting three of the seven candidates running for the party's nomination. Besides Blount, Norris has also appeared with council candidates Dede Smith and Brevy Cannon, both of whom stood with Blount."
As far as front and center on websites and speeches, some agendas don't need to be front and center to be driving agendas. I was just concerned because Norris and Lynch introduced Cannon and it smells like water and parkway, so I will ask or someone will ask him for clarification on those and I'll give him the benefit as you suggest. With Smith, well that's too obvious to even bother with. But look at Brian Wheeler's interview with Blount-its fromt and center there.
From CvilleTomorrow:
"Blount said had she been on city council earlier this year that she would have supported dredging as opposed to building a new dam at the Ragged Mountain Reservoir.
In February, City Council approved, by a 3-2 vote, the construction of a new earthen dam as part of the fifty-year community water supply plan. Blount said she would be willing to revisit that decision on the water plan if, after reviewing more data, she determined that there was a better plan.
On the Meadow Creek Parkway, Blount pointed out that she had already voted against the parkway as a member of the school board when city-owned land at Charlottesville High School and CATEC was required for construction of the county's portion of the road.
"I voted against the parkway on the principle that it would go through McIntire Park," Blount said. "
I guess I just want to know: are Smith, Cannon, and Blount running on a joint ticket to over turn the parkway and and water decision? If each were elected would they a) vote for a reconsideration of these issues and b) vote to overturn the current Council decisions on these matters?
But we will have to see and to be fair I will take your advice and speak with them and watch the campaigns as they develop to test the hypothesis. And to be fair, a number of the independents running have the water and Pkway as their primary emphasis, so everyone wants to use it as a way in.
I think if it were "many people" that would have worked itself out during the process. Why didn't we see a petition with the "many" signatures before? This still smacks of two small groups of elites who disagree, fighting it out while other issues go unaddressed- I think that's where the shame is.
Schilling must be having a hoot with this. From what I am reading on the blogs the AA community is split bec. of democratic shenanigans, now the elites are split over the water supply and Parkway. Maybe Williams has a real shot this time.
@citizen party - I think that some of us are completely worn on out on the supposed race dialogue. Frankly, I am sick and tired of the City always finding money for public housing, or giving away its land and money to developers in exchange for loud music venues and minority museums, but can't seem to get its act together for things that affect us all.
Skyrocketing water rates, lost parks, building rubbish like the Parkway are projects that affect us all, and will hurt the least affluent the most. Everybody needs a the Belmont Bridge to be repaired, yet that conversation never gets front and center.
I find focusing on a wide community issue like the dam to be rather refreshing. Now if we can just go to doing that on a lot of other subjects as well.
puppets their all puppets
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Blount seems to be severly overated . Appearing with Dede puts a real caution in the air concerning her suitability to represent the broad interests of the City and greater area . Is she easily lead ? What other things can she be persuaded to do ? Can someone like this persuade people to vote for her ? This little group seems hell bent in having poor dysfunctional sour relations for the greater area . Civic government officials should work for the greater good of the broad areas as the basic problems flow across imaginary jurisdictions . By acting in uncoperative methods the costs for citizens in all jurisdictions rises higher than necessary while services decrease . The bunker mentality of dividing one area against the other for short term individual political gains is what is happening here . The issue might be water and roads now but another time small minded opportunistic grasping politicians would conviently ride another Trogan horse tp power. Too bad Blount has hooked up with this small minded narrow device to attempt to get on council .What a disapiontment .
I support african-americans on both the school board and city council. They may make up only twenty percent of the population. Yet, their children take up the majority of a classroom teacher's attention (ask any teacher), and they utilize the majority of local government social, judicial, and police resources. Thus, it makes sense they have adequate representation in government.
It only seems proper then that a-a's have the majority on council and the school board . Just a matter of persuading sufficient numbers to put their names forward . If there was a law mandating that a-a's were required to form the majority on both then it would no doubt be easier to persuade them to become candidates .
"enhancing dialogue between educators and politicians".........................
I would have thought that both of those types already had a dialogue- the educators are paid by the politicians and get what they want and still they have to spend more on
"educating all members of the community"
@Caesonia : You said: "Frankly, I am sick and tired of the City always finding money for public housing, or giving away its land and money to developers in exchange for loud music venues and minority museums, but can't seem to get its act together for things that affect us all."
"Public housing" and "minority museums" affect us all, they are good for us all. Money spent on these things is money to promote the well being of all our citizens and that is good for the commonweal. Too many wealthy and middle class folks in this community don't realize that the well being of the "have nots" makes us all better off. Read the Spirit Level by Wilson and Pickett. I wish the City Council would spend half as much on the Race Dialogue as it is proposing to spend on the parkway or the water solution.


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METRO VANCOUVER -- A man arrested in an Earl's restaurant in Surrey with a Glock inside his black Louis Vuitton purse should serve the mandatory three-year minimum jail sentence, a prosecutor argued Friday.
Crown prosecutor Lesley Ruzicka told Surrey Provincial Court Judge James Bahen that the circumstances of Glenn Harley Sheck's conviction for possession of a loaded prohibited firearm justified the mandatory prison term.
"Mr. Sheck had the weapon concealed on his person in a busy restaurant," Ruzicka said Friday as Sheck and his supporters sat in the public gallery. "He was in the community moving about, possessing a loaded firearm and concealing that firearm."
Ruzicka noted that across Canada, judges have been weighing in on the increasing problem firearms – and handguns in particular — pose to public safety.
Sheck's defence lawyer Elizabeth Lewis is asking that the mandatory three-year sentence be ruled unconstitutional as cruel and unusual punishment and a violation of Sheck's Charter right to liberty.
If the minimum sentence is struck down, a more appropriate term would be closer to 18 months, Lewis said.
So far, no judge in B.C. has struck down any of the tough mandatory firearms sentences enacted by the federal government in 2008. The mandatory minimum terms have been ruled unconstitutional in three Ontario cases in recent months.
Ruzicka said Friday in her sentencing submissions that the Ontario cases were not similar in circumstance to that of Sheck, who put the public at risk when he brought his loaded Glock into the Earl's on 152nd Street near 101st Avenue about 7 p.m. on Nov. 3, 2010.
The fact Sheck, 31, was in a busy public place with a loaded hidden gun is an aggravating factor at sentencing, Ruzicka said.
In a pre-trial ruling last February, Bahen laid out details of the 2010 police investigation that led to Sheck's arrest.
Police were following him in November 2010 because he was a suspect in the attempted murder a few months earlier of his former spouse's new boyfriend, Bahen noted in the earlier ruling.
And the Gang Task Force had received a tip from confidential informant that Sheck often carried a gun in his black Louis Vuitton man-purse, Bahen said.
Sheck has not been charged in the June 2010 attempted murder and had no criminal record until the firearms conviction.
While no evidence of Sheck's gang associations was offered by Crown during Friday's hearing, the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit's gang squad was stationed outside Sheck's courtroom.
And during the morning break, Sheck had a friendly chat with gangster Sukh Dhak, who stopped by the Surrey courthouse with an associate despite not having a scheduled appearance.
The Vancouver Sun documented Sheck's presence last May at the funeral of international cocaine smuggler Tom Gisby, who was gunned down in Mexico.
Bahen reserved his decision on Sheck's sentencing.
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The shocking stories of religious hostility in our nation's military continue, and now Liberty Institute represents Senior Master Sgt. Phillip Monk, a 19-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force who was relieved of his duties because of his faith and moral convictions.
Monk, who served as a first sergeant at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, recently returned from deployment and found he had a new commander who was an open lesbian.
"In one of our first meetings, she was talking about her promotion, and she mentioned something about a benediction," Monk told Fox News. "She said she wanted a chaplain but objected to one particular chaplain that she called a 'bigot' because he preached that homosexuality is a sin.
"She then said, 'I don't know what kind of people actually believe that kind of crap,'" Monk continued. "I knew I was going to have a rough time in this unit and I would have to be very careful about what I said."
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Issues arose when Monk was asked to advise his commander on a disciplinary matter involving an Air Force instructor who was accused of making objectionable comments about gay marriage. After a thorough investigation, Monk determined the instructor meant no harm by his comments, and he suggested that his commander could use the incident as a way to teach about tolerance and diversity.
Monk, a devout evangelical Christian, says he was told he wasn't on the same page as the commander and that if he didn't get on the same page, they would find another place for him to work.
Later, the commander ordered Monk to answer the question of whether people who object to gay marriage are discriminating. Monk responded that he could not answer the way his commander wanted and feared an honest response would put him in legal trouble.
At that point, Monk was relieved of his duties.
"I was essentially fired for not validating my commander's position on having an opinion about homosexual marriage," he told Fox News.
Monk also told Fox News that while he is scared to speak out, he is doing it to set an example for his three teenage sons.
"Every night after dinner we read the Bible together," he said. "I tell the boys we've got a lot of stuff going on in this world and we need people to stand up. My boys know what I'm going through. They are looking at me, wanting to know how I'm going to handle this."
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All Hail the 2005 White Sox: 5 Years Later
the 1-2 pitch to Palmeiro. A ground ball past Jenks up the middle of the
infield. Uribe has it…he throws. Out, out, a White Sox winner and a world
championship. The White Sox have won the World Series and they're mobbing each
other on the field."
Sox radio announcer John Rooney made this historic call on October 26, 2005. As we take note today of the fifth
anniversary of that monumental moment, I'd prefer to savor it than lament it's
been half a decade with no repeat performance.
I have told friends that on this day five years ago culminated the most memorable time in my life because
of a confluence of events surrounding the first White Sox world title in 88
It was sharing the moment
with my 82-year-old father, fellow White Sox fans old and new and with my
patient New York-born wife who at one time couldn't understand what my South
Side passion was all about. And, of course, feeling that my 50-plus years of
loyalty was rewarded. Simply put, heaven can't be any better than what I
experienced during the Sox 11-1 run against the Red Sox, Angels and Astros that
One of the elements of the
Series title that stands out to me is all the good fortune the Sox had during
the 12 games. Why was that so special? Because, for the most part, from the
Black Sox scandal in 1919 to '05, not too many breaks seemed to come the Pale
Hose's way.
As we reminisce and
celebrate, here are some of those wonderful turning points that contributed to
the '05 championship:
* Because of the luck of
the rotation, Red Sox ace Curt Schilling did not pitch in the American League Division Series.
* The error by Boston's Tony Graffanino, a former White Sox, preceded Tadahito
Iguchi's three-run home run which
proved to be the decisive blow in Game 2 of the ALDS.
* There were three
controversial plays that involved A.J. Pierzynski. The big one came on a bad call on a dropped third
strike by former Pale Hose catcher Josh Paul in the ninth inning of Game 2 of the American League
Championship Series against the Angels. It set the stage for Joe Crede's walk-off double and an important Sox triumph
* The Sox did not face
eventual '05 Cy Young Award winner Bartolo Colon of the Angels–a former and future White Sox–in the
* Astros' great Roger Clemens left Game 1 of the World Series after two innings
because of injury.
* Jermaine
Dye was awarded first base in the
seventh inning of Game 2 of the World Series as a result of being hit by a
pitch, even though the ball actually hit his bat. The next batter, Paul Konerko, blasted a pivotal grand slam.
* Commissioner Bud Selig ruled that the roof at Minute Maid Park remain open during the course of the World Series in Houston, infuriating the Astros who enjoyed a distinct "closed roof" advantage during the season. With the roof closed and the crowd noise at a much higher level it was definitely a plus for the home team.
* While they weren't
literally "breaks," the stars must have certainly been aligned for us to
witness Scott
Podsednik, homerless throughout the regular season, hit the game-winning
blast in Game 2 of the World Series and seldom-used Geoff Blum smash a homer to decide Game 3. Not to mention that
reserve infielder Willie
Harris, in his only at-bat in the
series, singled and scored the winning (and only) run in the decisive Game 4,
won by the Sox 1-0.
the memories. Happy 5th anniversary!