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Hadley Pottery Careers
Please note: At this time the positions listed below have now been filled. Please check back later for future opportunities.Download our Employment Application (PDF)
Sales Associate (Part Time)
The Hadley Pottery is seeking a sales associate to work in its Louisville Factory Outlet Store location. Work in a wonderful environment steeped in tradition, helping long-time collectors and new customers find the perfect piece for themselves or to give as a gift. Strong interpersonal skills required for taking phone and in-store orders. Additional duties include stocking shelves and working as part of a team to merchandise seasonal ware and new products. Hourly wage commensurate with experience.
Apply by downloading and completing the employment application (with any other relevant information or documents) to email@example.com. Qualified applicants will be contacted for an interview.
Pottery Decorator
Be part of a Louisville tradition! Hadley Pottery is currently seeking an artist to join its pottery decorating staff. Qualified applicant will have the ability to learn to paint dozens of Hadley Pottery patterns on greenware from a member of our experienced decorating team. In addition, our decorators regularly refresh our line by submitting ideas for new designs for consideration; the decorator selected will demonstrate the ability to sketch and paint new ideas based on direction from marketing/design management. Patience, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently as well as to collaborate with the decorating/design team are required.
Interested individuals may apply by downloading and completing the employment application and emailing (with any other relevant information or documents) to email@example.com. Qualified applicants will be contacted for an interview and testing, during which they will be asked to demonstrate sketching and painting abilities to the hiring manager.


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Coffee exists due to a simple little bean. That single bean led to a global industry. From Kona to hazelnut to peppermint, coffee is a phenomenon and shows no signs of slowing down. If you want to make a perfect cup of coffee, keep reading this article to find out how to do it.
When you only want to have one cup of coffee, try using a single cup machine. This maker lets you brew one cup, and you can select from all types of different flavors. There are various makers to pick from that have various features.
French Press
Consider trying a French press when brewing your coffee for a richer more robust flavor. Paper filters in your typical drip-style machine will soak up all the oils in your coffee that are packed with flavor. A French press operates differently. It uses a plunger to concentrate the bean at the lowest point of the pot. This squeezes every drop of oil into your coffee, providing fuller flavor.
Don't grind your coffee beans until just before making a fresh pot of coffee. Once the beans are ground, flavor loss occurs. If you grind your beans early, your coffee will not taste as good.
Do not warm up coffee that has already been brewed. However, this is not because doing so will create dangerous chemicals. The taste does suffer, though. The compounds that give coffee its special taste start to break down as soon as 30 minutes after brewing. Coffees like these taste really bitter and odd, compared to regular.
When you work from your home coffee is very comforting. Many coffee shops offer free internet, so they are a great place to go when you have to work outside the house. Consider that many restaurants now do the same thing.
Be careful about the type of water you utilize when preparing your coffee. If you use bad tasting water to make your coffee, the coffee will not taste great. Of course, you still want your water to contain some minerals. Unless you do so, the coffee may taste bitter.
Coffee can last longer when placed in a freezer, but be sure to only keep it there for three months. Storing it in the freezer longer makes it lose its freshness and flavor.
Coffee Maker
When you first purchase your coffee maker, do a trial run. What this entails is running water through the coffee maker the same way you would if you were making an actual pot of coffee. By cycling water through your machine, you will clean out any dust or dirt that got into the machine during manufacturing and transport.
If your coffee is kept in the refrigerator, be sure that the coffee container is completely airtight. The coffee will absorb odors from the refrigerator if it becomes exposed. If you do not store your coffee the right way it might not last.
Get a simple coffee grinder. By grinding your own beans, you can ensure that your coffee tastes fresh. Coffee grinders are able to change the coarseness or fineness of the grind depending on your preference. There are also coffee machines that come equipped with grinders already.
Buying coffee at a special store or coffee shop can be expensive, but it is also a nice treat. There are many choices and many sweet things you can add to your coffee as well.
Don't ever reheat coffee. Use a thermal mug to keep the coffee hot for long periods. If that's not possible, you can brew another pot for better taste.
The freezer may not be the ideal place for coffee storage. By doing this, your coffee can actually absorb flavors from the foods around it. You should keep your coffee in a place that is dark and where air does not get to it. If you want to put it in the freezer, make sure you put it in a bag.
When you buy beans in bulk, you should take extra precautions to keep them fresh. Coffee beans will absorb flavors. They will also lose their own flavors over time, especially when exposed to heat or light. Therefore, you should keep your beans inside an airtight, non-translucent container.
Now that you've learned some of the tips of the trade, you are ready to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Share it with your family and friends, and save a cup for yourself. You are well on your way to enjoying a great cup of coffee when you follow the advice in this article.…

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New rules for 'Maher' return
EmptyHBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher" will return with new episodes Friday sans writers and without two of its most popular features, Maher's opening monologue and the closing segment "New Rules."
As an opening segment for his shows during the strike, Maher plans to go into the crowd to riff with audience members, drawing on his background as an improvisational stand-up that includes a stint as an emcee at the Catch a Rising Star comedy club. Coincidentally, both Jay Leno and David Letterman fielded questions from the audience last week in their first shows back.
The strike-impacted "Real Time" will feature an extended version of its regular roundtable discussion with guests, with Maher's conversations with remote guests via satellite also expected to remain.
Maher will not write any material, sources close to the show said.
Monologues performed by talk-show hosts who are WGA members are at the center of a controversy sparked by "The Tonight Show" host Leno's decision to write openings for his show, which returned last week without writers.
The WGA has been adamant that, under its strike rules, such hosts can't perform any "writing services" for their shows, including penning their own monologues. NBC has claimed that the hosts are exempt and within their legal right to write monologues according to the WGA's 2004 collective bargaining agreement.
The most recent season of "Real Time" was cut short by the strike. The Nov. 9 season finale was canceled and replaced by a rerun.
"Real Time" is one of three political comedy shows returning this week without writers, along with Comedy Central's "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report."
Steven Zeitchik in New York contributed to this report.


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I don't even know where I got all this inpiration, but I started this new project couple of days ago. It took me only one morning to finish with the head's base! This time it's slightly easier though because I don't need to worry about the head fitting my head, eye vision or ventilation. I'll just place the head on a helmet on top of my head.
|Foaming in progress.
Today I had the time to do the last touch ups on the base and cover it with duct tape. Next I will cut out the duct tape and use it as a model for cutting out fabrics. I'm excited I'm getting this done so fast!
First I planned to do the mane and the tail from yellow and orange wigs, but I changed my mind. I want it to look more like the character's fiery mane, so I'm making it from yarn. It will be a lot of work to tease the yarn so it would look good, but I've already made some of the front mane.
|Mane of fire! The mane still needs to be straightened and rearranged.
The head looks more like Robot Unicorn Attack than a Ponyta at the moment, but I hope it will turn out to be a wonderful little Ponyta galloping on four legs. x3


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It has recently been brought to my attention that the name I was given actually has an effect on Who I Am. So what does that mean? It means that Who I Am I terms of how I feel, what I do, how I act, how I react to people, how I interact- everything that makes me, everything that I thought I was the 'boss' of and 'decision maker' of, can actually be running itself based on the reactions I experience to things as seemingly simple and harmless as words, such as my name. These reactions bring up memories and thoughts, feelings and emotions which are not necessarily of my choosing, it is almost as if it is automatic, as if it were a program.
And if you think about it- it really is like a program. I experience something in my world, say- someone says my name in an angry tone, and all of a sudden- as if by magic, I am experiencing myself differently than I was seconds earlier. Maybe I'm feeling fearful, rigid, tense etc.. Why? Because of memories where someone said my name in an angry tone and then something happened that allowed me to justify the negative experience occurring within me, such as something like a negative consequence as being yelled at or being punished.
It was not my choosing to select and bring forth such memories, I mean, why would I want to experience that again, or experience it every time someone says my name in an angry tone.?The truth is, I wouldn't- yet I do, without even realizing it. Because I have it programmed into me that a certain tone associated to my name triggers a certain chemical to release into my blood and cause me to experience myself a certain way, which usually impacts everything I do while I'm experiencing it, so that the outflows of that chemical release as a feeling or emotion, actually ripples through me, changes Who I AM, and then has an influence or impact on those around me through my interaction with them, as well as everything I do. So, as simple and seemingly insignificant as these programs may seem, they actually have a lot of influence, if you consider they are occurring all the time and within everyone.
These programs are determined by the things we previously experienced, which become memories and feeling or emotional experiences, and the personalities we developed to cope with those experiences, which are like a cast of characters (such as, for me, 'school Kim', 'work Kim', 'social life Kim', 'family Kim', 'girlfriend or wife Kim', 'friend Kim', 'girl next door Kim', 'sad or happy Kim', 'confident Kim', 'insecure Kim' and so on… you get the point), and then the thoughts, feelings and emotions which are triggered and stem up from these characters and manifest inside of us as internal experiences which then effect the way, the who, and the how that we are (for example: 'friend Kim' likes to go out and be social, but 'insecure Kim' would rather stay home and eat junk food and watch tv, or 'confidant Kim' studies hard and stays on top of her work, but that is sabotaged by 'sad Kim' who mopes around and procrastinates and feels that life is pointless).
So, where in all this, is my agency? I mean, yes, throughout my life here and there I have applied myself with everything I have and followed through on something, but even within those endeavors, was I completely in control of Who I Am, within my life and world? Was I in control every time I spoke with my mom, dad, husband, sister, nieces and nephews, teachers, friends etc… or did I get angry, frustrated, insulted, annoyed, excited, motivated etc…thus triggering characters? How about when I wanted to eat healthy or exercise, watch less tv, call my grandmother, stop after this drink, stop after this bite, walk the dog more, read more, be patient with my coworkers, speak up in class, start assignments sooner, loosen up in social groups, learn to listen, express myself more clearly, stop biting my nails, take shorter showers, use natural cleaners? – Meaning, even during the times in my life where I made decisions and saw them through to completion, can I really say that, in every moment, it was ME who was living and making every decision? Or how often was it one of my cast of characters? In other words, how much of it was being run on these automatic programs that developed within the first seven or so years of my life? And so- how many of our daily actions can we really say we make the directive decision to do, when we do them, and how well we do them? And how much of what we do is just being pulled around on auto-pilot, by some seemingly all powerful force that we don't even realize is directing us and pulling the strings in our lives.
I am going to look at this automation by looking at my name, 'Kim', and to look at the memories I've associated with it based on the tonality with which it is spoken to me, and how that tonality actually affects the entirety of the way and the Who that I am. Is it ME, or is it the pre-designed memory-based character that is activated based on the memories triggered by the tonality of voice used when and as my name is spoken? And again-this functions the exact same way for everyone. And if you follow this blog series on 'Names' , you will see there is a very interesting surprise, which you will be able to look at and apply in your own life, that may answer a lot of questions about who we are and why we are the way we are in this context.
In my next blog, I will look at three examples of name tonalities, the reactions experienced toward them, and the memories associated with them.


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Back to ModelEarth Articles and Papers
Indigenous Hawai'ian
Sustainability, ecological, social, "ecological sustainability", "social sustainability", sustainable, "ecologically sustainable", "socially sustainable", indigenous, Hawai'ian, culture, design, model.
The mounting ecological and social problems that humanity is experiencing today might force a sincere cooperative effort in, hopefully, not too a distant future, in order to solve those problems. No matter what the results of such a cooperation might be, for them to be satisfactory, any such result will have to be a design of a world that would be ecologically and socially sustainable.
Most of the knowledge and means necessary for an actualization of such a sustainably balanced world is already available. There is enough known about ecologically sustainable technologies, however - only a very few widely known ideologies that would foster the establishment of a truly ecologically and socially sustainable future are widely enough known today. Such ideologies will have to be found and developed. One possible source for development of such ideologies could be cultures that used to live in balance with their environment and with their neighbors.
This paper essays to find if there are any explicitly stated ecologically and socially sustainable ideologies in the indigenous Hawai'ian culture, and whether it would be possible to transfer those ideologies from the context of the indigenous Hawai'ian culture into the now pre-dominant global culture.
That humanity as a whole has become the enemy of itself and of most other life around on the Earth has become axiomatic, - one only needs to see the vital statisticcs and follow the news to see this. If quality of life might be said to be improving, this might be true only in some localities and for, proportionally, a very small number of people, and it can be shown invariably that this happens at the expense of other parts of the whole Earth system.
If the trends observable today in the world could be taken as indicative of the world's future, then the future of the world would be one of increasing misery for most life on Earth. Any hopes to the contrary would be unfounded. Any measures meant to heal the plight, either currently implemented or contemplated, can only result in slowing down of the destruction, because the ultimate goals of any such measures are not the achievement of a true environmental and social balance, but only to achieve a temporary, limited relief. Only by aiming for a true environmental and social balance (those two go hand in hand: there can be no social balance without living in a balanced ecology - the anxieties about resources would not allow it, and there can be no ecological balance without having resolved intergroup conflicts - people who fight do not have the leisure to bother with environmental problems) on Earth can any effective and lasting results be achieved. Since different people have different ideas about what the ideal future of the world should be, they have to overcome their differences, sit down around a virtual round table, design a world that would be ecologically and socially balanced (a world that would be ecologically and socially truly sustainable), and proceed to find ways that would result in achieving of such a world.
The knowledge and the means for doing so is mostly available, and if not available such knowledge would have to be found. There already is a great amount of knowledge concerning ecologically sustainable technologies. However, as of now, there are virtually no widely enough known ideologies that would foster ecological and social sustainability and state so explicitly, even though there were many (or, perhaps, there still might be some, marginally surviving) cultures that might have lived in balance with the ecological processes and in harmony with other peoples. The purpose of this paper is to try to find any such ecologically and socially sustainable ideologies (that would be stated explicitly) in the indigenous Hawai'ian culture, with the hope that those ideologies could be adopted in designing of a sustainable world.
Since anything connected with the production of this paper is constrained by the very short time-span allowed (this current semester - Spring 2002) the methodology employed is very simple: a several individuals presumed to have some knowledge of the indigenous Hawai'ian culture were approached by the means of electronic mail, the results to be briefly analyzed for the purposes of this paper and then used in farther research. The message to those randomly selected informants-hoped-to-be (from various lists of Hawai'ian organizations and from people known to the author) was as follows:
Dear people!
I am an undergraduate at the UHH, my Major is Anthropology, and my main interest is the Design of Ecologically and Socially Sustainable Communities. I am interested in finding ideologies that would support the establishment of ecologically and socially sustainable communities. I would appreciate if you would read the following, and see if you could help me in any way. I will be interested in any constructive input. With the increasing degradation of the world's environment and with the decreasing quality of life of most of the world's humanity, it is only a question of time that really effective, and really sincere solutions for the problems of the world will have to be sought. The most expedient solution to the most of world's problems would seem to stop creating problems, and start undoing the damage done in the past. The simplest and easiest way to accomplish this could be for humanity to strive to live in harmony with the ecological processes of the Earth and in harmony with the social processes - to live ecologically and socially sustainably. There is already a fair amount of knowledge of ecologically sustainable technologies, however - as of now, there are only a few philosophies that would foster ecological and social sustainability, and state so explicitly. Maybe there are such explicitly stated philosophies still surviving in cultures that used to live in harmony with their environment and in harmony with other peoples, and maybe those philosophies could be used in the present day need - the members of the now dominant global cultures are in many cases many generations distant from the times when those cultures might still have been living in harmony with their environment and in harmony with other peoples, and have, by now, no (or a very little) memory of those distant times. I understand that there might be many sustainable (ecologically and socially) ideas in the indigenous Hawai'ian culture that are implicit, however - are there any ecological and social ideas in the indigenous Hawai'ian culture that would be explicit, so that it would be, perhaps, possible to transfer such ideas into other cultures, most importantly - into the now prevalent global culture, without the need to transfer the whole of the indigenous Hawai'ian together with those ideas?
The message that I emailed to the various individuals and organizations that I presumed to be knowledgeable about the indigenous Hawai'ian culture, brought a very little response, and not a single person who replied would come with an idea that would be possible to use out of the Hawai'ian cultural context. This lack of positive results leads to many speculations, which, in turn, might form a basis for further research. Some of those thoughts and speculations:
1) It is possible that the difficulty in answering my query lay in the vagueness that the terms "ecological sustainability" and "social sustainability" evokes. A better, more practically useable definitions of "ecological sustainability" and "social sustainability" should be formulated.
The term "sustainability" has a wide range of meanings to different people, and thus elicits a widely disparate responses. This should not be surprising, - to date there have been rather too many attempts at defining the term, especially when the term is meant to be used within the context of human ecology, and many of the definitions are being formulated on ambiguous and arbitrary basis. It is obvious that unless a definition of "ecological sustainability" is arrived at on more satisfactory basis , one that would be based on some universal, axiomatic, widely acceptable ecological principles, no meaningful progress can be expected to start in the field of modeling of an ecologically (and socially) sustainable world.
2) It is possible that the need for global-wide solutions to global-wide problems is not widely enough perceived. It is conspicuous that although the globally expanding culture is effecting progressively more and more aspects of everyone's life in the whole world, the response to this culture negative aspects is not globally coordinated. It could be said that there is a lot of local response to the negative features of the global development, but no global ideology that would make the local responses globally united for them to be really effective. Thus there are many locality based groups that profess an opposition to global expansion, however - most (if not all) of any such locality groups operate on principles that basically can never threaten "globalization" seriously. There are many movements for political and culture independence among peoples who were formerly exploited by colonizing nations, however - their agendas (for most), if not all) are based on gaining political independence, while the issue of becoming also ecologically sustainable (something that would mean real independence) is absent. Witness all the formerly colonized nations that are now "independent" politically, while in reality they are fully depend on outside commerce and handouts. Closer to home - in Hawai'i the independence movements do not promote any ideology from the past that would stress the tie between land and the people who live on it (read - ecological sustainability) in any clear detail as much as they stress the importance of gaining political and cultural independence first - something that does not challenge economical dependency of Hawai'i on international power brokers. To mind comes the ancient dictum of "divide and conquer" - there are many groups in the world today that actively support the powers of globalization by depending on its economic support, while struggling for political and cultural independence. This observation is supported by the absence of any detailed models of an independent Hawai'ian nation that would show any degree of ecological and social sustainability (an indicator of real independence from the global economically dominant powers).
In order to be able to use any
ideas from indigenous cultures that might have been
ecologically and socially sustainable in designing of an
ecologically and socially sustainable world model, it would
be necessary to find experts on indigenous cultures that used
to be sustainable ecologically and socially, experts
who would also be interested in designing of a sustainable
world model, and who would see the necessity of a global
approach to global problems that globalization presents.
There, no doubt, might be such experts somewhere, but I
failed to find them in Hawai'i. I myself am not qualified
to decide whether it would be possible to use any ideas from
Hawai'ian indigenous culture in designing of a
sustainable world model.
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Alright, I'm sure I am now down to two readers, but that's what I get for being MIA for a month, right? Oh well. I was thinking about making this blog public again, anyway.
Let me try and summarize the last month:
My new job, like all jobs, has its good things and its bad things. I like my boss and the girl who works for me a LOT. They rock, actually. A lot of my coworkers are cool, too. Like everywhere, though, I have to deal with a couple of douchebags, like this one lazy guy who balks at helping anyone else out and Miss Passive Aggressive, who loves to come down to my office and imply that I am incompetent and/or inflexible with the schedule (this is because I will not make everyone else work around her schedule). Of course, she does this under the guise of being "concerned". Argh. If there is one type of person I don't get along with, it's passive aggressive types. That kind of behavior irks the crap out of me.
My department, which was at 75% capacity, has recently been reduced to 50% capacity with the resignation of this one girl who worked for me. I tell you what, though, she was good riddance. She did nothing but create more work for me an the other girl in my department. But her leaving means she and I have to do a LOT more work, so I will be slammed at work until further notice: working extra nights, extra Sundays, teaching extra classes....oh well. Hopefully we will find a replacement soon.
But that's all well and good. Normal stuff that is to be expected. What is really bizarre is how uber-controlling this school is. Maybe it's because I am used to working in the public sector, but I feel like I am a member of the Savannah Mafia or something. Actually, it's more like a Nazi regime. My first realization came when I had to deal with the Communications Dept. Now, I understand that the school wants to have an "image" and I completely grasp and support the notion of "branding". But to tell me that I cannot print out a flyer that would -- gasp! -- help students find something in the library because that's not the "look" they want in the library is pretty ridiculous. Last time I checked, it's pretty difficult to operate a library without any frigging signs or information for its users.
Now, this goes for everything. Signs, handouts, flyers, bookmarks we make -- everything has to get "approval" from about 3 people. Then it has to be designed by someone else (who has no idea how I need it to look in order for it to work). This process takes three weeks. If I'm lucky.
This is the same department who printed up my business cards and told me I had to pick them up at their office. The stupid part is that they are open the same times I am at work. So that meant I had to go pick them up on my lunch break. Fine. Whatever. Screw interoffice mail, right? So I spend half my lunch break walking over there, only to be informed that they have sent the cards to the library already, via interoffice mail. "Well, don't you think that as the Communications Department, you should have communicated that to me before I spent my lunch break walking all the way over here?" I said. The girl just stared back at me and blinked. I turned and walked out.
The IT department is just as bad. I am not allowed to download so much as a plugin on my computer without -- again -- getting approval and submitting forms. Heck, I can't even pick my own desktop background or screensaver. I have to use theirs. If I want Microsoft 2007 installed on my computer, I have to submit an approval form, get approved, then attend a mandatory 3 hour training session, and then they would install it on my computer. Are. You. Kidding. Me.
It took me 3 weeks to get a key to my office. Three weeks! It was just sitting around somewhere. All I had to do was sign for it. Sounds simple, right? Not really. It was held in a building so far away that I had to drive to it. And, as usual, the building was only open during the same times I have to be at work. So I had to scramble over there, the whole time wondering, "Why don't they just keep the library keys in the library, since that's where they are just going to be going to anyway??" I tell ya, the state agency I used to work for aint' got shit on the major inefficiencies going on at this private school.
I still haven't gotten my code for the photocopier (each person gets a personal code, which is odd to me, as it seems a departmental code would be sufficient) or my code for dialing long distance on my desk phone. This also is odd to me, as it's the type of phone which operates over an internet connection, so there is no such thing as a long distance number. I soon realized that this is because they want to know what numbers I am calling. Whoa.
But Big Brother goes far, far beyond my little long distance code. If you are a new employee, you are often put in touch with a particular real estate company -- they have some sort of a deal worked out. This seems like a potential conflict of interest to me. I have heard that they also have their fingers in other pies: with the police force, with city concil...
If you do a google search for my school, you will find absolutely nothing negative about it. Not a blog, not a news article, not a press release. Everything out there is positive. Don't you think that is kind of odd? Especially when the girl who had my job before me sued the school for firing her improperly? (I have yet to find out why this woman was fired. No one is giving me a legitimate answer. It sounds very fishy to me.) And the guy who used to have my boss's job was fired for stealing thousands of dollars worth of items from the library? Or that last week the president's husband, who is the CEO or something for the college, was brought up on embezzlement charges or something? And that there was a group of students who sued the school, too? How the hell is this stuff not reaching the press???
The only thing I have found that even hints at being negative is an interview between the local paper and the president of the school a couple years back. The reporter asks if she thinks the school has moved past all its problems in the early '90s. She doesn't want to talk about it. She just says she wants to focus on the future. I have no idea what all these problems were in the early '90s. Neither does anyone else -- almost everyone at my library is new. Apparently, when the last director was busted for stealing a bunch of shit, a lot of people went down with him. They bascially cleaned house. Only a couple of people made it out of the fray -- and one of them was demoted in the process. And of course, the old timers aren't saying a word about what really went down. So to say there's been a lot of turnover is putting it lightly. (And as you can imagine, makes everything that much more difficult for the new people -- we are all trying to fix departments that have been screwed up for some time.)
Anyway, that's a glimpse into the type of work environment I am dealing with. I'm sure there will be more. I will share with you then.
Let's talk about the rest of things in my life. I havent' been blogging, because I can't afford to have internet at my place, and let's face it: I would be pretty stupid to blog from work in this job. But CN is moving in very soon (the 2nd week of April!!), so we will get it then. Yay!
As far as my apartment goes....it sucks. I have very little storage and a lot of wasted square footage. Since the house is old, it doesn't heat or cool evenly, leaving me shivering on the couch most of the time. (MJ got me a snuggie, which rocks for this particular problem!) And since the windows are old, any noise made outside sounds like it is actually inside.
Which brings me to my neighborhood. Thus far, I have had to deal with the college kids next door who like to throw parties in their backyard. This would be totally fine with me if their backyard was not underneath my bedroom window and if they threw their parties on nights when I didn't have to go to work the next day. The morning of St. Patrick's Day (my only day off from work until further notice), I was awoken at 6:50am by firecrackers just outside my bedroom window. WTF. I got up, jerked up my window blinds, and scared the crap out of the college kid next door. I yelled, "Can you please stop that?!!!" He gave me a deer-in-headlights look and apologized profusely and then went inside. (Yes, I heard what he said. That's how much I can hear through these old windows.) He's lucky I didn't kick his ass for throwing a kegger in his backyard only 2 nights previously. On a Sunday night. I ended up sleeping in my bathroom that night -- it's the only quiet room in my place.
But this is child's play compared to the other stuff I have had to deal with. There have been fist fights in the street, drunk people yelling at all hours of the night, domestic violence disputes, all kinds of crazy and loud noises, lots and lots of sirens, a car chase, trash thrown in my yard and my own personal favorite: the gunshots in my backyard the other night. Yeah, my neighborhood is super fun.
I have to say, though, that the cops have a really great response time. It's impressive, actually. I know, because I peek out of my window blinds when stuff happens, and I dont' stop looking until a cop shows up. And when the cops arrive, it's not just one car. It's like, four. So that does make me feel a little bit better. But not much.
I do not go outside when the sun goes down. I might go to Target or something, but never late. and I definitely can't take walks or anything like that after it gets dark. That would be a really bad idea. Have you ever had to live like that? Let me tell you what, you feel like a prisoner. For the most part, I get home from work and do not go back outside until I leave for work the next day. It is stressful and boring and frustrating.
I know it all sounds negative, but I do love seeing all the beautiful buildings and I love walking to/from work. During the daytime, it's totally safe, even in my neighborhood. And most of my problems with my neighborhood have more to do with noise than safety. I am getting used to the noise, and the sound machine CN got me helps, too.
As soon as either CN or I can find a renter for our house(s), we are moving to a safer and quieter neighborhood. A house with enough room for both of us and storage for our stuff. And electrical outlets. (I have one outlet in my living room. It is a royal pain in the ass.) And a backyard, rather than an alley full of dirt and overflowing trashcans.
It is probably no surprise to you that I have been wondering if I made the right decision. But I think I will end up really liking my job and liking Savannah. I think that like some first dates, you just get off on the wrong foot. I've gotta give it a second chance. And that will take some time.
Thanks for reading, guys. I will hopefully be back to blogging on a more regular basis soon.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
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"Education For Freedom, Demystify Propaganda"
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This week "GET LIT" Saturday 3pm Central, Rebecca and I will be discussing "Education For Freedom, Demystify Propaganda" with reference to Aldous Huxley's Book "Brave New World and Brave New World Re-Visited". Excerpt from Book:
"In it's present form, the social order depends for its continued existence on the acceptance, without too many embarrassing questions, of the propaganda put forth by those in authority and the propaganda hallowed by the local traditions. The problem, once more, is to find the happy mean. Individuals must be suggestible enough to be willing and able to make their society work, but not so suggestible as to fall helplessly under the spell of professional mind-manipulators. Similarly, they should be taught enough about propaganda analysis to preserve them from an uncritical belief in sheer nonsense, but not so much as to make them reject outright the not always rational outpourings of the well-meaning guardians of tradition. Probably the happy mean between gullibility and a total skepticism can never be discovered and maintained by analysis alone. This rather negative approach to the problem will have to be supplemented by something more positive-the enunciation of a set of generally acceptable values based upon a solid foundation of facts. The value, first of all, of individual freedom, based upon the facts of human diversity and genetic uniqueness; the value of charity and compassion, based upon the old familiar fact, lately rediscovered by modern psychiatry-the fact that, whatever their mental and physical diversity, love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; and finally the value of intelligence, without which love is impotent and freedom unattainable. This set of values will provide us with a criterion by which propaganda may be judged. The propaganda that is found to be both nonsensical and immoral may be rejected out of hand. That which is merely irrational, but compatible with love and freedom, and not on principle opposed to the exercise of intelligence, may be provisionally accepted for what it is worth." Aldous Huxley


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This is a must read scrutiny hearing.
So is ILM saying its to late to bring disciplinary proceedings against Graham Power?
He says Wiltshire are embarrassed ( well thats fine, but where does that leave Graham Power who is still suspended under a neutral act)
He gives the JEP a 'scoop' instead of telling scrutiny
He wants to bring the infamous met report to the house (lets hope its the one warcup received on the 10th and not one from a year later.
Are we now entering the cherry picking season
This is about finding the truth 'nothing more nothing less'
The Abuse survivors deserve the truth and after the 'SCR' & 'Blanche Pierre' my god they deserve it
Education and Home Affairs Scrutiny Panel
TUESDAY, 30th MARCH2010
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier of St. Saviour(Chairman)
Deputy T.M. Pitmanof St. Helier(Vice-Chairman)
Deputy M. Tadierof St. Brelade
Senator B.I. Le Marquand(TheMinister for Home Affairs)
Deputy J.A. Hiltonof St. Helier (Assistant Minister for Home Affairs)
Ms S. Power (Scrutiny Officer)
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier of St. Saviour (Chairman):
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, I will formallystart this session. First of all, before I
explain what we are about, we will just introduce ourselves.
Scrutiny Officer:
Sam Power, Scrutiny Officer.
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
Roy Le Hérissier, Chairman, St. Saviour.
Deputy T.M. Pitman of St. Helier (Vice-Chairman):
Deputy Trevor Pitman, St. Helier No. 1
Deputy M. Tadier of St. Brelade:
Deputy Montfort Tadier of St. Brelade.
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
Our 2guests …
The Minister for Home Affairs:
I am Senator Ian Le Marquand, the Minister for Home Affairs.
Assistant Minister for Home Affairs:
I am Deputy JackieHilton, Assistant Minister for Home Affairs.
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
Thank you. I will not read the witness requirements because you are obviously
familiar with them and we can leave it there. The purpose of this fairly short meeting
is to examine the reasons as to why the Minister is proceeding with the appointment
of a Chief Officer of the States of Jersey Police as per P.33 and, as a result of our
discussion this afternoon, we will submit comments to the States and see what
transpires. At the moment, this proposition is due to be debated on 20th April. I
would like to thank you all for coming. We have got the refreshments organised, we
will start the questioning.
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
Okay. The first question I will ask the Minister and, basically, my colleagues will
really provide supplementaries from there on. Mr. Minister, could you explain why
you are moving ahead with this appointment at that particular date?
The Minister for Home Affairs:
Yes. The position is that, even if Mr. Power had been going to remain in office until
the end of this year -which, of course, he was entitled to do under the terms of his 3-
year extension-I would have been proceeding with the process for the appointment
of a new Chief Officer at roughly the timing that I am doing it. The reason for that is
simply this: that we have to have certainty as to whether or not Mr. Warcupis going
to be the next Chief Officer of Police. The process which occurred when Mr. Warcup
was initially appointed as Deputy Chief Officer was also that he was assessedas to his
suitability to be the Chief Officer Designate; I have with me, for instance, a copy of
the advertisement that was sent out which makes that clear. Indeed, all the
documentation relating to this makes this clear. What had happened was that it was
recognised that there was a need for succession planning. A numberof senior officers
were going to go within a short period: Mr. Power was indeed, of course, due to go 3
years before, at the end of 2007, his deputy was due to go in the summer of 2008 and,
number3 in theforce, the role of Superintendent, was also due to go about the same
timeso there was an urgent need. There was an urgent need for a plan which would
not just give a new Deputy Chief Officer of Police but also a Chief Officer of Police
Designate so that there would be continuity. That was the basis of the initial process
and the initial interviews and Mr. Warcup was the successful candidate as a result of
that. Clearly, that being so, it was necessary for me to move sometime in 2010, and
preferably early, towards the process of putting the matter before the States of Jersey,
who make the ultimate appointment. The point being that if, hypothetically, "par
impossible"I might say, the States of Jersey were to decide that Mr. Warcupwas not
a suitable person, then a new process would have to be put in train to find the next
Chief Officer of Police other than Mr. Warcup. Towards the end of last year, and
earlierthis year, it was explained to me that it was important that we start to proceed
with this process so that there could be certainty for the future. Of course, once Mr.
Power gave the 6 months notice of termination of retirement, effectively, that became
even more urgent in the sense that his date nowof retirement is 20th July. I hope I
have answered the question; I have probably given you far too much detail.
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
Were there any circumstances under which you think you could have delayed the
process, given that there is obviously a highly-sensitive processgoing on in regard to
Mr. Power himself?
The Minister for Home Affairs:
The process was, in fact, initiated in early January. It was initiated for the reasons I
said and it was initiated before I got the letter from Mr. Power. Mr. Power's letter
then came in and dates had already been fixed for the formal meeting. What I want
you to understand is, because he was initially appointed, obviously subject to States
approval, but initially appointed as Chief Officer of Police Designate, the process in
terms …
Deputy M. Tadier:
Sorry, can I stop? I do not wish to be photographed, so if the J.E.P. (Jersey Evening
Post)photographer wishes to photograph then I would certainly have to just leave the
room. I object to being photographed by the accredited media when they have not
given notice, I am afraid.
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
Do you want to go to the side, then? Sorry, kindly …
The Minister for Home Affairs:
Sorry, I have forgotten where I was; if you could just remind me or ask me the
question again andI will try again.
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
What I was asking you, Mr. Minister, and you have gone a certain way to answering
it, is when you re-examined the situation in the light of the very sensitive issues
surrounding Mr. Power-which have yet of course to come to some kind of resolution
-why did you not delay it?
he Minister for Home Affairs:
Yes. Because for the reasons I have just said: (a) there needs to be certainty in terms
of the future and indeed, of course, alongside the issue of certainty for the Island in
terms of who the next Chief would be, there needs to be a degree of certainty for Mr.
Warcup himself who, after all, was appointed on the basis of the expectation that he
would become the next Chief Officer. He needs to know for himself because there
are issues that arise in his life in terms of his ability just to settle down, potentially
buy a house, or whatever. At the moment, all he has is a 3-year contract which ends
at the end of this year, so there are issues there. But my primary issue was the need of
certainty of the process because, if the States, "par impossible", decided not to
appoint him then we have to go back through an assessment process. We then have
the issue of what does he do, does he remain on as Deputy, et cetera, et cetera. We
have had a great period of uncertainty in the police force caused by the lengthy
suspension of Mr. Power and one thing that the States of Jersey Police will need for
the future is certainty and one of the certainties they will need is certainty as to who
will be the next Chief Officer.
Deputy M. Tadier:
Mr. Chairman, could I come in? You can let Trevor, I think, if he wants to go first.
Deputy T.M. Pitman:
Thanks, Montfort. You have talked about the need for urgency but it seems like this
is an indecent urgency, if I can put it this way. Many of the public think Mr. Power's
political corpse is not in the ground and here we are replacing him with someone who,
like it or not, is intrinsically involved in the situation. It looks appalling to the public.
I have got no axe to grind, I must point that out, with Mr. Warcup, it looks appalling
and what people are saying out there, if there is not a conspiracy, it looks like it.
What is the harm, Minister, in delaying this?
The Minister for Home Affairs:
Are you putting to me that there is a conspiracy?
Deputy T.M. Pitman:
I am saying if there is not one, it looks like it and this is just making that even more
The Minister for Home Affairs:
It is a conspiracy to do what?
Deputy M. Tadier:
Can I come in because I think my point is very much related to what Trevor has just
raised? I think you have given us some straw men, if I may say that. First of all, you
have said that, even if Mr. Power was not suspended and even if he were currently in
his job then you would be looking to appoint Mr. Warcup, but the point is we are not
in that scenario, we are in a scenario where Mr. Power is suspended and that is the
whole point, it is a completely different scenario. This is not the ordinary event of
things and it is exactly because of this suspension, because there is a suspension going
on with the relevant review and the inquiry pending by the Chief Minister, that there
is this sense of: "Let us find out whether Mr. Warcup" … As to the matter of
certainty, we all have sympathy for Mr. Warcup, we know that obviously he does not
want to be left in limbo but I think there are 2 points: first of all, you talked about an
expectation that he will become the next Chief Officer; I mean, that is not necessarily
the case. He was appointed to be an Acting Chief Officer. We know, for example in
education circles, just because a deputy head teacher - if I can use the analogy- is
acting as the Head Teacher does not necessarily mean that person will go on to be the
Head Teacher. I would maintain that it is exactly the same for the Chief Officer of
Police. The third point I would make, when it comes to certainty, we need certainty
from States Members and the public that Mr. Warcupis the correct person for the job
but also that this is the correct time to appoint him. As I say, a lot of people maintain
that this is not the correct time to be appointing Mr. Warcup.
The Minister for Home Affairs:
Can I just say, that is more of a speech than a question but I will try and deduce
questions from it, nevertheless. Firstly, he was appointed as Chief Officer Designate,
not just as Deputy;that is the whole point of what I am saying. That is clear from the
documentation in terms of the advert and various other things. There was a clear
indication that after the initial appointment, provided that his service record was
appropriate, that he would move on. Obviously, also, subject to States approval; there
is a very clear difference between those 2 different situations. Secondly, you started
to ask me a different question. The question I was asked by Deputy Le Hérissierwas
in fact a question in relation to why I was taking the matter forward when I was taking
it forward. The actual meeting took place in January in terms of the assessment of his
ongoing capacity and so on. You must understand that, unusually, we have had a
situation here that we are not just assessing that in relation to his functionality as
Deputy but we have been able to see him in operation as the Acting Chief and
therefore we have had a better ability to gauge that. There was then a delay in relation
to the decision, coming back to a decision, which was caused by illness of the
Chairman. There then had to be a process in relation to the putting together of my
proposition. My own personal view-you may say I was wrong in this, you may say I
was naïvein this-was that once I had the firm recommendation from the Board with
which I agreed it was my duty to put that before the States as soon as possible. The
issue as to then precisely the proposition is to be debated is a quite separate issue.
Indeed, I am still formulating an opinion as to how soon that can happen because, of
course, the issues quite properly raised by the Deputy of St. Martin, Deputy Bob Hill,
in relation to the outcome of the report of … I cannot think of the name, the
gentleman who has been appointed.
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
This is the gentleman who has come to review the whole process?
The Minister for Home Affairs:
Yes. The Deputy of St. Martin has been very much involved in setting this up. We
have got that issue and I am being told that the outcome of that is likely to be
available towards the end of April, early May, and that the terms of reference are
sufficiently wide to look at issues like the involvement of Mr. Warcupin that process.
But, quite independently from that, you must understand there are matters that I
would want to put before the House myself in relation to this. I particularly would
want to put before the House the contents of the interim Metropolitan Police Report
and I particularly would want to put before the House issues such as the ultimate
recommendations of the Wiltshire Police. I cannot do all those things at this moment
in time because of confidentiality issues which still exist, but I would hope to be in a
position to do that before a debate. Indeed, one of the things I was going to do is to
start talking to Deputy Hill as to a possible date to adjourn the matter to on the
understanding that I would not be seeking to have a debate of the matter until such
time as we had the outcome of the report that he has an interest in and also had the
availability of the materials that I have an interest in. Because I think the States
Members should have a maximum amount of information available.
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
Do you not think the issues are getting conflated, Mr. Minister? Because what we are
seeing is you are saying that some documents that are germane to the suspension and
the disciplinary issue, you want them to be put before the States and, presumably, the
whole idea of that is that the States will make some kind of assessment of these
documents. But, surely, that suspension of disciplinary procedure should come to an
end on the basis of correct procedure and then we should look at this appointment.
Deputy T.M. Pitman:
The Minister for Home Affairs:
That may well be so. Can I handle this very simply? As I understand it, the concerns
that are being expressed by individuals are not in relation to the competence of Mr.
Warcup, per se, or to his ability, per se. The sort of concerns which have been
expressed are in relation to the role which he played in connection with providing
information to the former Minister for Home Affairs which then led on to the initial
suspension process. That is my understanding. If I can put this very simply in the
vernacular, as I see it, there are 2 possibilities here: there is the possibility that he
exaggerated things, that he had made things up, that he had some motivation for so
doing and that he is effectively a snitch. That is not my opinion but that is effectively,
if I may put it, where people are coming from who have a concern; I think that is not
unfair. The alternative possibility is, of course, that he was fullyjustified, that there
were serious issues that he, in fact, had advice from the Metropolitan Police which
fully backed this up and that his concerns are justified and have been backed up by the
outcome of the Wiltshire Police. In which case, he has done his duty as an officer, a
painful duty, but nevertheless a duty of a senior officer discovering that things have
gone seriously wrong in termsof bringing that to the attention of the officer'sseniors.
That, it seems to me, is the crux of the matter and the crux of the concerns. Am I
being unfair or are there other issues?
Deputy M. Tadier:
Could I point out, I would suggest there must be a third possibility there, must there
not? It is very polarised the 2 options that you have given. Presumably, the third
option of anywhere in between would be that Mr. Warcupis essentially an honest
man but that he was leaned upon and he was manipulated in such a way so that he
thought the information he wasgiving out was correct and that any behaviour he was
partaking in was quite correct when, in fact, he was being led by some higher power.
That is not necessarily my opinion, that is obviously a third possibility and that is
probably a possibility which many individuals have concerns about.
The Minister for Home Affairs:
Okay. I had not thought my way through to that possibility that somehow he was
misled into acting in a particular way. Yes. Okay.
Deputy M. Tadier:
I think the point is, the concernis that, even if he is a good individual-and we are not
here really to discuss that -the fact is, some would say that he is already so involved
in the issues and, in fact, it is not really appropriate for him to be appointed. That is
why, I think, we would at least appreciate more time as States Members.
The Minister for Home Affairs:
Can I say, with respect, that does not make sense at all because constantly we are
hearing, and I am-andDeputy Pitman is one of those to cry this the most loudly, if I
may say so, and that is no criticism of him- that if things have gone wrong, why is
nobody being held accountable for it? If things had gone fairly wrong in relation to
this and if it came to his attention, how can he possibly be blamed if he brings that to
the attention of those above him? I really cannot see that is logical at all; he was
under a duty to do that so there is no question about it. It is no different to any other
situation in which a number 2 in an organisation might hypothetically find that the
number one was doing something very wrong.
Deputy T.M. Pitman:
But with due respect, with both scenarios you paint, it still comes to the same
conclusion that, if you are talking about certainty-and that must be certainty for Mr.
Warcup- because certainly, if this goes ahead, I for one have got no grudge against
Mr. Warcupbut I would be tempted to vote against his appointment simply because it
is entirely inappropriate to have this appointment while that other process with the
suspension has not been played out and made public. It is logical and I am really
shocked that you do not see it that way, to be honest, Minister.
The Minister for Home Affairs:
To me, the issue is simply an issue as to whether or not he was justified in relation to
the role he played.
Deputy T.M. Pitman:
He may be but we do not know that yet and that is …
The Minister for Home Affairs:
No. That is why I am agreeing with you that, before the appointment debate would
take place, I would want the Members to have access to information which would
enable an informed judgment. I am not disagreeing with you on that.
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
I think, Mr. Minister, we are partly talking at cross purposes because I think you are
changing the terms of the discussion. I think what we are suggesting, what we are
putting to you, is that there is a process in place, it has been a very unhappy process, it
is one you have to handle as having inherited. It has not come to an end, it has caused
enormous distress, obviously, tothe individual and would it not be proper, on the
basis of whatever evidence you are still accumulating- and there still seems to be
some-and decent for that process to finish before you then look at the appointment of
a new Chief Officer, even though it will lead to slight delays, given that present
incumbent, in any case, has got till the end of the year on theircontract?
The Minister for Home Affairs:
No, he has not, he has until 20th July.
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
Sorry, the present Acting …
The Minister for Home Affairs:
I am sorry, the Acting … yes, but the difficulty that arises, at what point is the process
completed? It is likely, because of the lengthy nature of the disciplinary process … I,
today, at last received the report from the Deputy Chief Executive to the Council of
Ministers which is required under the Disciplinary Code and will now be activating
the next step which is a meeting with Mr. Power to discuss issues before deciding if
he is going to face formal disciplinary charges. But the reality of the situation is that
there is a matter of complexity involved in this, and I am talking here in relation to
what is generally called Haven 1, which is the matters to do with the management of
the Haut de la Garenne Investigation, the financial issues and so on and so forth. It
would take a great deal of length of time to come to a full hearing. In addition to that,
or subsequent to that, there is an appellate process and subsequent to that there is an
issue that goes before the States. In reality, there is no way I can complete all those
stages and therefore the disciplinary process, in terms of Haven 1, is unlikely to come
to any conclusion uponthe facts by aneffluxtionof time with the resignation on the
20th. If you are talkingabout it will be over in terms of coming to a conclusion, it is
not going to come to a conclusion, in reality, via a hearing by myself because I am not
going to be conducting hearings, nor would Mr. Power want to be after a date when
he no longer is in office; that makes no sense whatsoever. Do you see my point?
Therefore, at the end of the day, the only sources of information that people are going
to have in relation to these issues are going to be the foundation reports, the report
from Wiltshire and, indeed, whatever Mr. Power may wish to say about it. Do you
see what I am saying? If you are suggesting it all has to be left over until the process
has been completed, when is that, 2020, 2025? It is not going to be completed in
terms of that, there isnot sufficient time.
Deputy M. Tadier:
That would almost beg the question, then, should we be appointing Mr. Warcupat all,
why not just appoint somebody whose hands are clean, and I say that without any
kind of …
The Minister for Home Affairs:
His hands are clean. I am sorry, Deputy, I very much resent your suggesting his
hands are not clean. Could you please apologise for that?
Deputy M. Tadier:
Let me qualify …
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
Do you want to clarify that?
Deputy M. Tadier:
Yes. I was about to qualify when the Minister interrupted. I am not inferring any
kind of wrongdoing, but what I am saying, there is a perception out there that he is
implicated. Just because a mechanic's hands will become dirty from dealing with
work that does not mean the mechanic is a bad person. All I am saying is that Mr.
Warcup is implicated in this whole affair and that is certainly the perception. There
may have been necessary things he had to do but, until there is closure of the whole
issue…and you yourself, Minister, said that this may take years and years.
The Minister for Home Affairs:
There is not enough time for there to be closure of the initial matter by the means of
hearings;that is very apparent in relation to that. I myself had estimated that the time
period that would be involved for the entire process, from the time when I got the
reports to the time when the States would deal with the matter, would be somewhere
in the order of 9 to 12 months. That is purely an estimation, it might be a great deal
longer than that. But my point is this: if people wish to believe tittle tattle and they
ish to believe innuendo, that is a matter for them; I will go on the facts as presented
to me and the objective opinions of experts who have looked at the matter. I would
hope that my colleagues in the States would do the same. If they do not, then that
casts very severe doubts on their ability and also their objectivity.
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
Just going back to the point, you said you were going to enter into discussions with
the Deputy of St. Martin while the proposition has been delayed and the date for
debate could well be negotiable. What period are you looking at?
The Minister for Home Affairs:
Absolutely. I would hope that I would have in line all the information I would need
and be able to disclose the maximum amount in terms of a debate on the second States
meeting in May, that is my hope. Certainly, the information I have got, and I am
looking towards Deputy Hill, is that the initial report will be available in late April,
early May. I think that is my understanding.
Deputy T.M. Pitman:
Could you just clarify something, because you talked about tittle tattle and innuendo?
Are you suggesting that everyone who questions what has gone withMr. Power is just
relying on innuendo and tittle tattle?
The Minister for Home Affairs:
No, I am not. It is a question for your colleague who is basically trying to say that if
somebody out there thinks that there may be some suspicion of somebody they are
therefore guilty. That is simply not correct.
Deputy M. Tadier:
I think you are putting words into my mouth, there, Minister.
The Minister for Home Affairs:
Mr. Warcupis entitled to be dealt with objectively and fairly;that is all I ask.
Deputy T.M. Pitman:
As is Mr. Power.
The Minister for Home Affairs:
As is Mr. Power. That is all I ask.
Deputy M. Tadier:
I think, Minister, you have missed my point. I am not inferring any kind of
wrongdoing on Mr. Warcup, I am simply saying that there isa perception out there
and it is correct because Mr. Warcup has been involved in the process of the
suspension of Mr. Power; one way or the other, he is there. If we were simply in a
scenario where we hadsuspended a Chief Officer, he had been removed and his
contract had come to an end then after that, completely separately, we bring in
somebody else who is not implicated in any way, who has got no knowledge of the
case that is ongoing, we would not be in this scenario. That is all I am saying.
Unfortunately, we are not in that position.
The Minister for Home Affairs:
I think there is going to be an abundance of evidence, if I may say so, that Mr.
Warcup acted fully properly in this matter.
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
Sorry to interrupt, Minister, but surely the issue is that that evidence should be fed
into the disciplinary and suspension process, should it not? The idea of the States
acting as some kind of assessor of evidence, some of which will form part of this
other process, do you not think that this is rather odd?
The Minister for Home Affairs:
Are you suggesting that the disciplinary process should continue after 20th July
because that, to me, does not make sense, with respect?
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
No, I am not. It is all highly regrettable, obviously, where it has all ended up and
where you have had to end up and it is very unfortunate. But it seems very odd that
what you are suggesting is there is going to emerge, very shortly, some very powerful
evidence which is apparently going to address one side or the other in this issue. But,
yet, the process where this evidence should have played a key part is somehow just
going to fritter out. It just seems very sad and very unfortunate.
The Minister for Home Affairs:
I can only agree with that. I think that it is fair to say that the Wiltshire Police are
embarrassed by the length of time that the processes have taken and, indeed, the costs.
As you know, when we started out on this road,or when my predecessor started down
this road, hewasbeing told that he would have reportsas early as March 2009, and I
was being told the same when I arrived as Minister in December. In fact, I have just
recently given an interview to the Jersey Evening Post explaining the various reasons
for variousdelays upon the way. I do not want to expand on that because I promised
the reporter that she would have a scoop.
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
Okay. Are there any further questions? Can I ask you, Mr. Minister, okay, you have
argued that there is this substantial evidence coming along and I suppose, without
putting too many words in your mouth, you have inferred it is going to sort of start
clarifying things, indeed, maybe clarifying them. But would you be prepared to defer
-given what you have heard today and having had the benefit of reflection-a debate
on the appointment of Mr. Warcupuntil Mr. Power's situation has resolved itself, be
it through his end of service, through retirement or be it through the unlikely event of
completing the disciplinary process?
The Minister for Home Affairs:
No. The answer to that is no. I have considered the possibility of putting back a
debate until July. By coincidence, there is a States meeting in July, I consider that too
late. As said if, hypothetically, the States were to decide against Mr. Warcup, for
whatever reason, it is simply much too late for us to be going through a process of
finding somebody. We are then going to be in a situation of having a Deputy Chief
Officer, Acting Chief Officer, who has not got the support of the States of Jersey,
hypothetically, and his position is going to be extraordinarily difficult and the position
of the States of Jersey is going to be extraordinarily difficult. I am content to put
things back by maybe a month, till May, but I will not put it back any longer, because
then that really does start to create difficulties. I cannot personally see why, if I am
able to put before the Members the guts as it were, if I may put it that way, of the
Wiltshire Report and recommendations and the guts of the Metropolitan Report, why
Members would not then be able to formulate a view as to whether or not Mr. Warcup
acted properly, because that is the issue:either he did or he did not.
Deputy T.M. Pitman:
I have to ask, Minister, are you prepared to stand or fall by those beliefs? You are
quite happy that all will be revealed: Mr. Warcup, the whole process that has gone on
will be proven to be entirely correct. If it is not, and you cannot give us that evidence,
are you prepared, as a Minister, to take those consequences?
The Minister for Home Affairs:
If the outcome of the Wiltshire Reports does not effectively demonstrate that the
behaviour of Mr. Warcupwas proper and appropriate, I would not have been bringing
a proposition to the States. Remember that I have known since October of last year
what those reports say.
Deputy T.M. Pitman:
If only we knew.
The Minister for Home Affairs:
If only I could tell you at this stage but, although its confidentiality has, in myview,
been substantially liftedon a variety of different areas which has allowed me to speak
more freely, I still do not feel completely free.
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
Okay. Are there any final …
The Minister for Home Affairs:
If it helps you, if thevote were to go against Mr. Warcup, I would resign, it would be
the only matter of integrity available to me;of course, I would.
Deputy T.M. Pitman:
Do you feel it to be fair that you are putting Mr. Warcupin a fair position because,
certainly, some States Members I have spoken to probably will not support his
appointment for this very lack of concern and, on the other hand, the very issue this
fact is going on before the Power situation is resolved. Is that fair on Mr. Warcup?
The Minister for Home Affairs:
I think that Members must be fair to him by waiting to see the contents of the
information I can put out first, I expect people to judge him and his performance in
relation to his role in relation to the initial suspension, on that. I think when people
see that theywill see that the other arguments just fall away. I have discussed this
with him on a number of occasions and, frankly, he would like things to move
forward as soon as possiblebut he also would like me to be in a position to put the
maximum amount of information before the House; as I said, those are the 2aims that
I am trying to achieve.
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
Have you tested with him whether he indeed would be agreeable to the kind of
suggestion we are making, that the debate be deferred until the situation with the
current chief is resolved?
The Minister for Home Affairs:
If we are talking about July, it is too long. It is unnecessary and too long, provided I
can put the information in. If I could not put the information inby then, then I might
have to consider that. I do not want to go with the debate without the Members
having had the opportunity to effectively see what Wiltshire and the Met. were
Deputy T.M. Pitman:
Just for clarity, is it correct that you have already accepted that the Deputy of St.
Martin's proposition will be heard before the proposition to appoint Mr. Warcup, is
that correct?
The Minister for Home Affairs:
Yes. That is logical. But I hope that we can reach an accommodation by which I
would simply agree to put the matter back to a date and undertake that I would not
bring it forward until after the matter. Can I just make a comment on that? I had not
anticipated that the terms of reference in relation to that report would be quite as wide
as they were, and that may be my fault or my misunderstandingbut initially I had not
expected that they would cover the issue of the role played by Mr. Warcup. I now see
that that is so and that issues can be looked and dealt with within that context and that
there will be access to the Metropolitan Report and so on. As I said, I have slightly
changed my attitude. Initially, when Mr. Hill was lodging it, I thought it was going to
be irrelevant because the report would not cover it but I now see that it is not because
the terms of reference have been widened.
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
Are there any final words?
Deputy T.M. Pitman:
Just for clarity, obviously you were ill at the last States session, unfortunately, but I
did ask the question when areMembers likely to see this interim report; could you
just clarify that for me, when are we likely to see that?
The Minister for Home Affairs:
Yes. Thank you. You did ask that question. Can I just explain the nature of it, and
this is dealt with in great depth in the written answer that I put in. The trouble is that I
have now discovered the best way of keeping a secret is to put it in the written answer
because nobody seems to read them. (WRONG I DO ) But if you would like to read the very lengthy
and detailed written answer which I made to the question of Deputy Hill, you will see
that I explained that the Metropolitan Police report was produced on the
recommendation of the A.C.P.O. (Association of Police Chief Officers) Homicide
Working Group and it was produced as a general management report, it was a report
in relation to where are we in relation to the investigation generally and where are we
in relation to specific investigations. The difficulty that arises is that there is highly-
sensitive information contained therein relating to individual matters. But I would
expect that there would be some parts of the report which would contain general
comments in relation to the management, et cetera, et cetera, and those are the parts
that I would hope to be able to put into the public arena fairly quickly. My own
personal view at the moment is that they do not impinge on the disciplinary matter at
all because they were not used by me or anybody else for disciplinary purposes but
they are highly relevant to the issue as to whether Mr. Warcup had grounds for
bringing matters to the attention of the Minister of the time.
Deputy T.M. Pitman:
Getting back to the question, when was the date that you said that you hoped that
Members would be able to see it for themselves? Go on, you know you want to tell
The Minister for Home Affairs:
I am hoping before the next States sitting but why I am being my normal cautious self
though is because there are issues of discussions with the Met. themselves in relation
to use of the document. I cannot personally see that they could have any objection for
the document to be used for the purposes of demonstrating what Mr. Warcup had
before him when he gave his letter of advice, and so that could be quite soon. But I
am in theprocess of taking advice.
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
Will it be quick advice or …
The Minister for Home Affairs:
I hope so. But at the moment I cannot see a problem in relation to that. But it would
only be those parts and the document would have to be redacted to confine it to those
parts that did not relate to individual investigations. But I do not know if that is a
complex or simple process because I have not seen the document. I have seen the
document in terms of the existence of a document but I have not seen it in terms of its
contents because it was decided that it is not appropriate for me to look at it in the
context of the disciplinary matter. It is quite a different matter if the credibility of Mr.
Warcup is being put into play as to whether it existed or not because that is a different
purpose. Thank you very much.
Deputy R.G. Le Hérissier:
Okay, Mr. Minister. Are there any final comments that you or your Assistant
Minister wish to make? What we will do, we will produce some written comments.
We will look at the issue of whether the thing can be delayed, if we have any power in
that delay; there seems to be a debate about that, so we will look at that. I would like
to thank you very much for coming. Thank you.
The Minister for Home Affairs:
Okay. Thank you very much indeed.


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On May 18th, shortly before 5:00 pm, patrol officers responded to the 5400 block of Temple Hills Road for the report of a crash involving a car and a county school bus. Todd was the only occupant in the involved car. He was pronounced dead on the scene. Two adults were on the bus. Prior to striking the bus, Todd's car also struck an additional car on Temple Hills Road. No one in that car was hurt.
The preliminary investigation reveals Todd had been shot outside of a business in the 6400 block of Allentown Road a few minutes prior to the crash. Following the shooting, Todd left the scene. Detectives are working to identify and locate another man who was also at the scene of the shooting.
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GMTA (German Machine Tools of America) represents various top-quality German metalworking machine builders, including Wera Profilator, Pittler, Praewema and WMZ. These machines are sold to the North American market by GMTA primarily for gear and spline production, as well as other power transmission applications. The company's target markets include automotive, off-highway, energy and other heavy equipment manufacturing. Machines are provided for gear honing, gear grinding, the patented Scudding process for gearmaking, polygon milling, turning, gear tooth pointing and multi-task machining operations.
GMTA recently announced the addition of Stefan Kloos as product manager. Kloos will handle the Pittler vertical turning lathes and WMZ centerdrive lathes. He will be based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, North American Headquarters for GMTA.
In addition, German Language and International Careers (LIC) students from Eastern Michigan University visited GMTA on March 12, 2014. Students were given a tour of GMTA facilities and a presentation in German by GMTA President, Walter Friedrich. As EMU Department of World Languages Professor Margrit Zinggeler Ph.D. pointed out, "Eastern Michigan was one of the first universities to combine foreign language with a practical business component. The EMU major in language and international careers (LIC) is designed to integrate the study of modern foreign languages and cultures with preparation for an international business career. The major objective of the program is to provide students with the skills, knowledge and understanding needed to function in a foreign environment and in professional dealings with people and clients who speak a foreign language. It is a very useful course of study in today's global economy, especially with so many foreign companies setting up shop in the U.S."
After the presentation and questions, students were invited to a typical German "Brotzeit" (evening meal of German bread and coldcuts) and, of course, ample quantities of German beer Reissdorf Koelsc.GMTA is proud to support young people in the community and help provide them with (German) language opportunities in a business environment.
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FBI and Apple
This is a complicated story that basically NO ONE is reporting correctly on.
First, its important to remember that there were 3 phones in the case of the San Bernadino shooters. Two personal phones, which the shooters distroyed before they were killed in a shootout with officials and the infamous iPhone 5C that was actually issued to one of the shooters by his GOVERNMENT job. Yea, he worked for a US govermnet agency. I can't remember which one, and I don't feel like looking it up. The probabily that there was ANY sensitive or relevant information on his iPhone issued by his government employer was very VERY low.
Second, encryption. Yes, the data on the iPhone is heavily encryped but the pass code to get into the phone is only 4 digits (in all likelyhood) and that means in 10,000 tries you can get into the phone. Not to secure, but because we want to CONVIENTLY get to our data most people choose the 4 digit code.
Apple on the other hand has a failsafe that only allows 10 tries to get into the phone for EXACTLY this reason and that was what the FBI wanted Apple to disable.
By some accounts the FBI has nearly 200 iPhones that they wanted Apple to unlock and it is MY estimation, as well as many others believing, that THIS phone, or rather, THIS case was the one that would garner public support and rally the public behind the FBI and get Apple to "do the right thing".
For the record, I'm 100% with Tim Cook on this and I don't want the Goverment to be able to crack my phone, not because I have some terrorist plots hidden in it but because of the 4th Amendment which is part of the Constitution which, I for one, still believe in.
I think that when the public and tech community started backing Tim Cook the FBI Director James Comey realized they were fighting a lame battle and that they were going to back off. So on Sunday March 20th they request a delay in the court proceedings and said, "we may have another way into the phone".
Why? Because the FBI doesn't want to look like they allowed a corporate giant to stand them down and win. That's bad PR for the US government.
Instead they come up with the other story… "uh… never mind, we found some company in Israel… got into the phone", which, read above, MORE THAN LIKELY had no good intel in it anyway, "and we don't need to bother Apple about this".
So… in doing so, the FBI saves face and they simultaneously "shame" Apple becaue now Apple's secure iPhones seems much less secure. But hey… its an older 5C… right?
So… What now?
I don't really know. But I sincerely don't think that the FBI is either A. IN the shooters phone, or B. that there was any actionable data in the phone either way.
I do know that Apples hardware AND software is more secure today then the 5C was and that the FBI will rear its ugly head again, probably after a school shooting where a bunch of children die and the shooter was more tech savy and had a iPhone 7ex or something… This case is not over. They'll be back.


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Built Environment conference critically explores Africa's construction 'renaissance'
Africa's construction industry is booming, but where are the Africans within this building renaissance?
This is the question that will be asked by Dr John Ebohon, one of the international keynote speakers at the Association of Schools of Construction of Southern Africa's (ASOCSA's) 10th Built Environment Conference, which takes place in Port Elizabeth from July 31 to August 2.
Themed "Towards a Renaissance", it is one of only two construction-related conferences in South Africa that has been fully accredited by the Department of Higher Education. This year's conference is being hosted by Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
Speakers include academics from universities across South Africa, including several from overseas.
In his keynote address on August 1, Ebohon, who is Director of the Developing World Built and Natural Environment Research Unit at De Montfort University in Leicester, United Kingdom, and is highly-regarded by the international academic community, will talk about his concerns relating to trends within the renaissance taking place in Africa's construction sector.
"Everywhere one chooses to look on the continent, one is confronted with evidences of a booming construction sector. For example, in 2015, the value of total construction works was estimated at US$375 billion (R5 400 billion), and the number of major construction projects valued above US$50 million (R720 million) increased by 15% on the previous year across Africa.
"In addition to the 95 energy-related projects currently on-going, it is estimated that by 2025, spending on African roads will reach the US$200 billion (R2 900 billion) mark with another US$7 billion dollars (R100 billion) projected for African airports.
"It comes as no surprise, given current trends, to have Africa's construction sector described as experiencing a renaissance.
"This assumes current periods of revival or renewed and sustained interests in the sector, but the near conspicuous absence of Africans from the renaissance of its construction sector, albeit at the higher added-value end of the construction delivery process, raises some important questions that should be of concerns to all stakeholders in Africa's construction sector."
Among the various objectives of the conference are to provide a forum for multi-disciplinary interaction between academics and industry practitioners, and to disseminate innovative and cutting-edge practices that respond to the conference theme.
Speakers from NMMU will include Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research and Engagement Prof Andrew Leitch, and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment and Information Technology (EBEIT), Dr Oswald Franks, with Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Quantity Surveying, Prof Gaye le Roux, delivering one of the keynote addresses.
Le Roux will also receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the conference's gala dinner on August 1. At the same event, Vikashnee Harbhajan, from KwaZulu-Natal's Master Builders Association, will receive an inaugural Leadership Award.
Since the inception of the ASOCSA Built Environment conference series in 2006, the peer-reviewed conference proceedings have been referred to by private and public sector policy and decision makers. The series also produces a conference edition of the sought-after Journal of Construction, which is on the list of journals approved by the Department of Higher Education for subsidy.
The series is endorsed by the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB), one of the largest global built environment research organizations.