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Governor of California and chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. One of the most influential Supreme Court justices in the country's history, the Warren Court over which he presided was renowned for its expansion of civil liberties in the mid-20th century. However, in 1942, as the attorney general of the state of California, Warren was a vocal proponent of forcibly removing all Japanese Americans from the West Coast. He would express regret for his wartime actions in his posthumously published memoirs.\n
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1 Before the War
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2 Proponent of Exclusion
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3 Postwar Governor of California and Supreme Court Justice
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4 Legacy
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5 For More Information
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6 Footnotes
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Before the War

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Earl Warren (1891–1974) was born on March 19, 1891, in Los Angeles, California, to Erik Methais \"Matt\" Warren and Christine \"Crystal\" Hernlund. Both of his parents had come to America with their families as young children, his father from Norway, his mother from Sweden. His father lost his job when Earl was three and the family moved to Sumner, a town just outside of Bakersfield, California, located in the desert east of Los Angeles. His father found work repairing railroad cars and eventually made a living in real estate. Earl grew up in Sumner and moved to Berkeley in 1908 to attend the University of California, earning an undergraduate degree and continuing on to law school at Boalt Hall, earning his law degree in 1914. While in school, he worked on the gubernatorial campaign of Hiram Johnson, a progressive Republican.\n

Upon graduation, he practiced law, but found it unsatisfying. When the U.S. entered World War I, he volunteered, and rose from private to first lieutenant, exiting in December 1918. In 1920, he was hired as a deputy district attorney by Alameda County and, when a vacancy for the top job came in 1925, he was appointed to fill it. He won reelection in 1930 and 1934, gaining a national reputation for effectiveness and incorruptibility. He also started to become active in Republican Party politics by the late 1920s and was elected chairman of the State Republican Central Committee in 1934. He ran for state attorney general in 1938 and won by an overwhelming margin.\n
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Proponent of Exclusion

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After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Warren emerged as one of the leading western political figures advocating the mass removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast states. As attorney general, Warren had demonstrated a preoccupation with preparedness and with civil defense; as a native Californian, he could not help but have absorbed some of the state's anti-Japanese attitudes, though he never showed such sentiments outwardly. He was a member of the American Legion and Native Sons of the Golden West, organizations that had often expressed anti-Japanese sentiments.\n

As was the case with other exclusion proponents, his advocacy became more extreme between December 1941 and February 1942. One of his first acts actually came in support of Japanese Americans, when he fought the California State Personnel Board's attempt to prevent Japanese Americans from taking the civil service exam and suspending all Japanese American civil service employees. But over time—and through frequent meetings with General John DeWitt, the military leader charged with the security of the West Coast—he moved towards a position advocating mass removal of all Japanese Americans, including American citizens.\n

His argument for mass eviction had three main components. He had convened a meeting of state law enforcement officials and asked them to map local Japanese American land holdings in their areas. The resulting maps showed concentrations of Japanese American owned lands near sensitive areas such as power lines, railroads, military bases, and oil fields leading Warren to conclude \"Such a distribution of the Japanese population appears to manifest something more than coincidence\"; indeed, \"the Japanese population of California is, as a whole, ideally suited… to carry into execution a tremendous program of sabotage on a mass scale should any considerable number of them be inclined to do so.\"[1] The fact that coastal land was well suited for farming and the scraps of land along railroads and power lines were relatively undesirable—and thus available to Japanese—didn't seem to occur to him. His presentation of these maps before the Tolan Committee was so convincing that DeWitt lifted much of it for his Final Report, Japanese Evacuation From the West Coast, 1942.\n

A second component was the idea that there was no way to determine the \"loyalty\" of Japanese Americans, and that there was some racial predisposition to supporting Japan, a belief shared by many people at that time. While it was possible to determine the loyalty of German or Italian Americans, \"when we deal with the Japanese we are in an entirely different field and we cannot form any opinion that we believe to be sound.\"[2]\n

The third and related component was what historian Roger Daniels sarcastically dubbed the \"Invisible Deadline for Sabotage\" theory: the idea that the complete lack of espionage or sabotage activity by Japanese Americans was not an indication there wasn't going to be any, but rather a sign that some massive coordinated activity was coming at an unknown future date.[3]\n

Warren's actual influence on the exclusion policy is debatable. As a California state official, he had no direct impact in formulating that policy. However, he no doubt influenced officials like General DeWitt who did help to form policy as well as newspaper columnist Walter Lippmann, whose influential column advocating mass removal espoused the \"invisible deadline\" theory.\n

Elected governor of California in November 1942, Warren—like most West Coast politicians—continued to oppose the return of Japanese Americans to his state. He told the Dies Committee in 1943 that \"we don't propose to have the Japs back in California during this war if there is lawful means of preventing it.\"[4] But when Japanese Americans were allowed back to the West Coast in January of 1945, he urged Californians to respect their rights in the name of the war effort.\n
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Postwar Governor of California and Supreme Court Justice

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Warren enjoyed great popularity as governor of California and won reelection by large margins in 1946 and 1950 in a state with a Democratic majority. Given his popularity along with his ideal family—he had been married since 1925 to Nina Palmquist Myers and had six children—national political office came calling in the form of being the vice-presidential running mate of Thomas Dewey in 1948. Though the ticket lost, he gained greater national exposure and was briefly a candidate for president in 1952 before supporting Dwight D. Eisenhower's campaign. Upon Eisenhower's election, the new president promised Warren the first vacancy on the Supreme Court. However when Chief Justice Fred Vinson died in 1953, Eisenhower hesitated to name Warren chief justice, considering, among others, Japanese American exclusion architect John McCloy for the post. However, after heavy behind the scenes lobbying, Eisenhower eventually did name Warren to the post in late September 1953.\n

One of his first decisions was his most momentous: in May 1954, the Court delivered a unanimous verdict authored by Warren in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which ruled racial segregation in the public schools unconstitutional. Split prior to Warren's appointment, he used his political and persuasive skills to unify all nine justices behind the verdict, which was seen as particularly important in such a politically sensitive case. Over the next decade and a half, the Warren Court greatly expanded civil rights and civil liberties and the rights of the accused.\n

After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, President Lyndon Johnson asked Warren to head an official investigation. Reluctant to do it, the President appealed to Warren's patriotism and the potential danger of all the rumors and conspiracy theories circulating. Warren agreed. However, the Warren Commission's report—which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone—was greeted with great skepticism by the public and did little to quell conspiracy theorists. \n

Warren retired from the Supreme Court in 1969. Despite his stated intent to appoint someone who would reverse much of the work of the Warren Court, President Richard Nixon's choice, Warren Burger ended up actually expanding some of what Warren had started.\n
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As his legacy as a civil libertarian grew, the seeming anomaly of his wartime support of Japanese American exclusion remained a black mark on his record. Yet despite having had many opportunities to admit error, he never did so publicly. As chief justice in 1962, he defended the court's decisions in the Hirabayashi, Yasui, and Korematsu cases, arguing that \"there are some circumstances which the Court will, in effect, conclude that it is simply not in a position to reject descriptions by the Executive of the degree of military necessity.\"[5] Japanese American activist Edison Uno was among those who fruitlessly wrote Warren seeking an apology starting in the late 1960s. At a presentation at Boalt Hall in 1969 titled \"Observations on Human Rights and Racial Discrimination,\" he faced a group of Japanese American students. Afterwards, one asked him \"Is it true that you, of all principal figures involved, are the only one who has refused to admit error?\" to which he replied, \"Yes, that is true. I never apologize for a past act. Besides, that is just a matter of history now.\"[6]\n

At the urging of his son, he agreed to lend his support to late 1960s efforts to repeal Title II of the Internal Security Act. In a letter to Japanese American Citizens League president Jerry Enomoto, he wrote \"I express these views as the experience of one who as a state officer became involved in the harsh removal of the Japanese from the Pacific Coast in World War II, almost 30 years ago.\"[7] In a 1972 oral history interview, he stated, \"I feel that everybody who had anything to do with the relocation of the Japanese, after it was all over, had something of a guilty consciousness about it, and wanted to show that it wasn't a racial thing as much as it was a defense matter.\" According to Edward G. White a former Warren clerk, tears rolled down his face when he mentioned the faces of children separated from their parents and the interview was temporarily stopped.[8] In June 1974, he told former inmate Morse Saito that he felt the \"greatest regret\" for his support of mass eviction.[9]\n

His posthumously published memoirs finally fully acknowledged his error, repeating some of the language from the 1972 interview:\n
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I have since deeply regretted the removal order and my own testimony advocating it, because it was not in keeping with our American concept of freedom and the rights of citizens. Whenever I thought of the innocent little children who were torn from home, school friends, and congenial surroundings, I was conscience-stricken. It was wrong to react to impulsively, without positive evidence of disloyalty, even though we felt we had a good motive in the security of our state.[10]\n
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Warren suffered his third heart attack in July 1974 and died a week later in Washington, D.C. at the age of 83.\n
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For More Information

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Newton, Jim. Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006.\n

Warren, Earl. The Memoirs of Earl Warren. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1977.\n

White, G. Edward. Earl Warren: A Public Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.\n

__________. \"The Unacknowledged Lesson: Earl Warren and the Japanese Relocation Controversy\" Virginia Quarterly Review (Autumn 1979): 613–29.\nhttp://www.vqronline.org/articles/1979/autumn/white-unacknowledged-lesson/.\n

New York Times obituary by Alden Whitman: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0319.html.\n

Record of the Earl Warren Papers at the California State Archives. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf4b69n6gc/.\n

A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress.\nhttp://international.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2000/ms000012.pdf.\n
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↑ Jim Newton, Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made (New York: Riverhead Books, 2006), 131.\n
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↑ Newton, Justice for All, 136.\n
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↑ Roger Daniels, Concentration Camps, North America: Japanese in the United States and Canada during World War II (Malabar, Fla.: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co., 1981), 76.\n
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↑ Greg Robinson, By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001), 193.\n
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↑ G. Edward White, \"The Unacknowledged Lesson: Earl Warren and the Japanese Relocation Controversy\" Virginia Quarterly Review (Autumn 1979).\n
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↑ Newton, Justice for All, 139.\n
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↑ Newton, Justice for All, 140.\n
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↑ G. Edward White, Earl Warren: A Public Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), 76–77.\n
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↑ Alice Yang Murray, Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008), 189.\n
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↑ Earl Warren, The Memoirs of Earl Warren (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1977), 149.\n
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I just wanted to write a quick update.
Closer to the edge's publication date has been pushed back a few months. My new expected date is August 23rd, 2018. I was very disappointed that I couldn't keep with my May date, but I would rather work on the book and make it as good as it can be before I publish it.
Interred has been nominated for a Top Shelf Indie Book Award. I'm so chuffed. The winners will be announced in their December edition. This came as a total surprise as someone who read Interred and loved it nominated it. So whoever you are, and wherever you are, THANK YOU!!


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Mark's experience at West Hill includes:
• £2.1m EIS equity round for Humio, a leading cyber security and big data analytics software business. Leading US VC, Accel Partners, subsequently invested $9m in Humio at a 284% premium to the West Hill Offer.
• £5.7m equity funding for Tiller, an algorithm based ROBO advisor platform that has superior functionality to market incumbents and caters to professional investors.
• £2.8m EIS equity raise for Datamaran, the developer of the first fully automated big data analytics software of its type with 50 blue chip customers and backed by high profile investors.
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SIMON BLACKBURN on Heidegger.
SIMON BLACKBURN on Eco.
JERRY FODOR on Christopher Hughes on Kripke.
LEFT2RIGHT: Quite possibly the most impressive collection of (leftish) clever people on the web. [Appiah, Cohen, Velleman, Railton, MacMahan, Darwall, Lichtenberg]
STUART HAMPSHIRE on John Rawls.
NIMU's new website is here.
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Trekking , Marrakech & Essaouira
Trekking , Marrakech & Essaouira OverviewTrekking in Style is a new concept in trekking that allows visitors to stay in luxury accommodation without all of the hardships traditionally associated with trips to this spectacular region. Combine your visit to the mountains with a stay in the exotic city of Marrakech and the sleepy coastal town of Essaouira.
Trip reference: MEDLD
For the first part of your holiday, you will stay on a B&B basis in hotel or riad accommodation in the exotic city of Marrakech. As your accommodation in Marrakech is on a B&B basis you may choose to dine at some of the many superb restaurants in the city.
Marrakech is a fascinating city that is high on the list of places to visit by the discerning traveller. It comprises the medina, the old Arab quarter, and also the new town of Gueliz, which boasts modern restaurants and bars, fast-food chains and big brand stores. Gueliz also plays host to many arts events, sports events and several high-profile international conferences.
The medina of Marrakech is built around the 12th century Koutoubia Mosque whose beautiful minaret dominates the skyline and can be seen from almost every approach to the city. Any visit to Marrakech must include a shopping trip to the colourful souk (marketplace) where you can barter for rugs, leather goods, jewellery, lanterns and spices.
The beating heart of the old city is the legendary Jemaa el Fna, the busiest and most famous square in Africa where snake charmers, storytellers, acrobats, medicine men and musicians compete for your attention before open-air footstalls.
Marrakech also has many other attractions for visitors. These include the Majorelle Gardens, the Yves Saint Laurent Museum, the Saadian Tombs, the medieval Ben Youssef Madrasa (Koranic university), the Secret Garden and numerous museums dedicated to the history of the city. You can even take a hot air balloon ride over the beautiful countryside near Marrakech or trek by camel through the ancient palm groves. There are many options available to you in this exotic city.
For the second part of your holiday, you will visit the coastal town of Essaouira.
Essaouira, which lies approximately 105 miles from Marrakech, is a magical fortified coastal town on the Atlantic Ocean, built by the Portuguese in the 16th century. In total contrast to Marrakech, the pace of life here is relaxed and slow. Essaouira was made famous by Orson Welles who filmed Othello here, and more recently by Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones who stayed here in the 1960s.
Unlike Marrakech and Fez, there are no single places of major historical note to visit, but Essaouira in itself has become an historic location and is not to be missed. The fishing port creates a lively backdrop to the white painted buildings of the Medina. The souk is small when compared to that of Marrakech and easy to navigate without a guide.
Essaouira is a haven for artists and as such handmade works of art are to be found in abundance. Being a fishing port, fresh fish is readily available and lunch on the port is a must as the day's catch is cooked in front of you. The wide sweeping beach offers windsurfing, kite surfing, camel and horse riding and quad bike excursions.
The High Atlas Mountains
For the third part of your holiday, you will visit the High Atlas Mountains
The High Atlas Mountains, which dominate the skyline to the south of Marrakech, have always played an important role for the city, not least with regard to commerce.
With several peaks above 4000 metres, the Western High Atlas is part of a larger chain of mountains that spreads from the Atlantic Coast in the west to Tunisia in the east. The mountains are home to the indigenous Berber people who have inhabited Morocco for at least 5000 years. The Berbers live in small clusters of earthen adobe houses which cling precipitously to mountainsides and are often only accessible by mule or foot.
Guests will stay on a full-board basis in our luxury accommodation at Kasbah du Toubkal in the trailhead village of Imlil (just 40 miles from Marrakech, but seemingly a thousand miles from the hubbub of the city!), and also in our Trekking Lodge in the remote Azzaden Valley where peace and tranquillity prevail. All trekking is fully supported with a mule and muleteer to carry your luggage whenever required.
Our Trekking in Style package also provides each couple with their own personal mountain guide who will be on hand for the duration of your stay to help with planning treks. You can choose to walk as little or as much as you like!
Our treks take us from the village of Imlil along footpaths and mule tracks which mount through the lush, irrigated terraces, apple orchards and walnut groves to other villages where you will have a glimpse into a way of life that has barely changed for centuries, and where traditional values and hospitality have been largely unaffected by the outside world.
First, two nights in the city of Marrakech
Day 1.
Private transfer from Marrakech Menara Airport where you will check in at your 4* hotel or luxury riad (a traditional Moroccan house with an interior garden or courtyard). Accommodation is on a bed and breakfast basis, giving you the opportunity to dine at some of the superb restaurants that Marrakech offers.
Day 2.
After breakfast the day is free for you to explore the fascinating and vibrant city of Marrakech. Luxury accommodation at your hotel or riad is provided.
Followed by two nights in the coastal town of Essaouira
Day 3.
After breakfast, your driver will take you to the seaside town of Essaouira, 105 miles from Marrakech, a journey of approximately 2.5 hours' duration, where you will check in at your luxury riad. Accommodation is on a bed and breakfast basis, giving you the opportunity to dine at some of the superb restaurants that Essaouira offers. This magical fortified coastal town is in total contrast to Marrakech and offers many photographic opportunities.
Day 4.
After breakfast, the day is free for you to explore the seaside town of Essaouira. Luxury accommodation at your riad.
Followed by five nights in the High Atlas Mountains, fully inclusive and fully supported
Day 5.
After breakfast, you will be taken to Imlil, a journey of approximately 4.5 hours' duration. Accommodation will be provided at Kasbah du Toubkal. Depending on your arrival time there will be an introductory walk in the area and you will have the opportunity to discuss your preferences for walks and treks with your personal mountain guide. Dinner will be provided at the Kasbah du Toubkal.
Day 6.
A day to relax and enjoy free time in the Imlil area, or a chance to explore the Imlil Valley with your personal mountain guide. This can be separate morning and afternoon walks or one full day walk. Alternatively, you may wish to venture further afield to an outlying valley. A picnic lunch will be provided if required or lunch will be served at Kasbah du Toubkal. Dinner and accommodation at the Kasbah.
Day 7.
A supported trek of 3-4 hours' duration (longer routes available) with guide, mule and muleteer to our remote trekking lodge in the Azzaden Valley, a beautiful setting barely touched by the modern way of life. A picnic lunch en route with dinner and luxury accommodation at Azzaden Trekking Lodge is provided. You may wish to enjoy a relaxing hammam (steam bath) on arrival.
Day 8.
After breakfast, a day to explore the stunning Azzaden Valley with your personal mountain guide. There are several treks of varying lengths to choose from. You may choose a moderate walk amongst the villages of the Azzaden Valley or a taxing 7-hour circular route passing the Lepiney refuge hut and the Tizi n'Tzikert col at 2930 metres, or indeed anything in between. Other options of a similar length include the slightly easier and very beautiful 7-hour circular walk passing the cols Tizi n'Teouti at 2450 metres and Tizi n'Tougdalt at 2700 metres. A picnic lunch en route will be provided on full day walks, otherwise lunch will be served at the Lodge. Dinner and luxury accommodation at Azzaden Trekking Lodge.
Day 9.
After breakfast, depart Azzaden Trekking Lodge and trek back to Imlil via a route of your choice with your personal mountain guide. A picnic lunch en route will be provided. Dinner and accommodation at the Kasbah.
Day 10.
After breakfast, return by private transfer to Marrakech Menara Airport for your departure.


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Angela Richardson Keel
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Angela Richardson Keel, 46, of Grenada died at her home on Monday, Nov. 5.
She was born on July 16, 1972, in Jackson to Steve and Shirley Pullen Baham. She was a waitress and bartender and recently graduated from Holmes Community College in Grenada, where she earned an Associates Degree in English and was inducted into Phi Theta Kappa. She attended Elliott Baptist Church in Elliott.
She was preceded in death by her father and her first husband, Robert Richardson.
Mrs. Keel is survived by her husband, Earnest Keel of Grenada; daughter, Kaitlind Richardson of Winona; son, Jacob Keel of Grenada; stepdaughter, Kathryn Rodgers of Elliott; mother Shirley Bridges; and her brother, Jason Baham of Pearl.
No services are planned at this time. An online guestbook may be viewed and signed at www.ofhwinona.com.


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The Böker Barberette Shavette has the stylish feel and handling of a straight razor but without the hassle of regular cleaning and stropping as the blades are changed much like a safety razor.
The blade holder is made from Stainless Steel and a moisture-resistant synthetic material, designed to be used with either standard DE razor blades snapped in half or the 65 mm long standard blades.
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Teacher-Librarian Links
California Dept. of Education
Organizing your library and Accelerated Reader
School libraries, K-12, should be organized according to Dewey Decimal Classification System. Students need to be able to have the same information as their counter-parts around California, the United States and the World. Arranging a school library according to Accelerated Readers is not best practice and does not follow the national standard for libraries in Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning.
North Carolina Department of Education - Segregating a collection according to commercially produced reading programs is a violation of privacy.
Other libraries and links to Information Literacy lessons
- Booktalks and more by Joy Millam- Teacher-Librarian/District Library Coordinator at Valencia High School/Placentia Yorba Linda USD


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We are moving! (for real this time!) To California!
I started a rumor last week when I started gushing about how much we love LA on Facebook. The truth is, we DO love it there and we DO plan to move in the next few months!! Logistics are just the first piece of the puzzle (driving, cars, apartments, jobs so much to do!) First, look how pretty it is:
We've been wanting to move for a long time. We've talked about LA and then Austin and then back to LA. The west coast makes the most sense for JCPE with his job right now and I have always enjoyed it there and have a great network of friends & colleagues to plug into! This is the perfect time for us. JCPE's second feature film, Know How, is almost complete. I'm looking for jobs after recently leaving my Assistant life (hopefully for good). Why not start to look for jobs in LA?!
I don't have many answers, and it's likely that this will take longer than we anticipate but we are really excited about the new chapter in our life!
Here are some FAQs from family and friends:
Why are you moving exactly? (Mama Stirek) – We've been in NYC for almost 13 years which is a really long time! For me personally I have done SO MUCH of what I wanted to do while I was here. Recently my book club read Rules of Civility a novel about women in the 30′s in NYC. While reading it I was so moved by all of MY NYC memories. JCPE and I went out for late night Jazz and I started drinking just gin! If I hadn't ever lived in NYC a book like that would have made me SO sad. Instead it made me SO happy and grateful for all of my experiences here. I will treasure them always and never say never we might hate it out there and come back!
What happend to Austin? (Sister Blair) – At behest of my therapist we went to visit the places we were considering living. Austin was really high for a long time, we have great friends and a great sister there! After going to visit it affirmed our love but we wanted to see LA as well. LA just felt right for where we are in our lives right now. We want to take a chance (a serious earthquake might dump us into the ocean chance!) on living the dream there for a while! I anticipate we'll move to Austin or somewhere similar in a few years when we start to have expensive children! It's not out for the count at all.
What about all your non-profit work in NYC? (Everyone we are on boards with) – Right now I'm continuing my work as is, because you never know and the worst thing would be to be here in April with nothing to do! A lot of we both do can be done digitally and over the phone for a while during transitions etc. We never want our passion for our projects to suffer so when we anticipate it being a real issue we will act accordingly!
What do YOU (Tay) want to do in LA? – Right, it makes sense for JCPE to move there obvs. For me, it's not just following him to the west coast it's also been a dream of mine to move somewhere warmer and closer to my family for years now. I'm grateful to have been let go from my former position in such a way that I'm able to job search from home for the next few weeks. I recently went to PA for the Obama campaign for just two weeks but I absolutely loved it. I'd love to do some sort of political organizing in the Los Angeles area. I have a few contacts there that I will be talking to and sharing my resume and applying for jobs that I might love! I'm thinking organizing, social media, progressivism are my key words. California is a fun state politically and I think I can do a lot of good there!
What is the timeline like? – I'm looking for jobs starting now. If I get something I will go and sublet and search for apts while JCPE finishes up work here. We understand that this could take months, but are hoping for Jan/Feb.
How will you get your stuff there? (Dad Stirek) – well! I have no desire to drive a U-Haul across country so Mama Pineiro and JCPE will do a mama/son road trip! It'll be adorable.
What neighborhoods are you looking at? – Silverlake, Los Feliz, and Echo Park probably. We want something walkable for dinner/drinks and we have no concept of where we will be working so these places are the best NYC transplant starter-kit 'hoods.
When can I come visit? (Gugs) – Soon! Let's go to the beach all the time and hide under umbrellas and full body sun proof suits!
Can we go to Spago in LA? (Gugs) – yes! haha let's do everything LA fancy! Including star-maps and possible the TMZ bus tour!
Got more questions? I can try to have answers!!


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Fires are the most common type of emergency for most companies, and many fires start out small enough to be put out with a portable fire extinguisher. But that doesn't necessarily mean that all employees need to know how to use a fire extinguisher. OSHA says that companies have three basic choices for employees if a fire breaks out:
- All employees must immediately evacuate the building when they hear a fire alarm, or
- Certain designated and trained employees are authorized to fight fires with portable extinguishers, while all others are required to evacuate immediately, or
- All employees are authorized to fight fires with portable extinguishers.
Why It Matters…
- According to OSHA, workplace fires kill about 200 and injure about 5,000 persons each year.
- In a typical recent year, there were more than 75,000 workplace fires that caused more than $2 billion worth of damage.
- One of the top 10 most frequently cited OSHA violations
What kind of training is needed?
OSHA's training requirements are not very specific, but they do call for a program that "familiarizes employees with the general principles of fire extinguisher use" as well as informs them of the hazards of fighting small fires. For companies that designate only certain (rather than all) employees for fire fighting, training should be more in-depth and encompass the use of various kinds of fire-fighting equipment that are appropriate for the workplace. For either type of training, employers must provide it both initially and at least once a year thereafter. (And don't forget to document the training!)
Sample Policy
Here's a sample policy for portable fire extinguisher use by employees that you can adapt for your workplace:
Who May Use Portable Fire Extinguishers? Portable fire extinguishers may be used only by employees who have completed training in their use. All employees who have not been trained in the proper use of portable fire extinguishers should limit their actions during a fire to activating the fire alarm system and immediately evacuating to safety. (The choices above can also be added to your policy.)
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A suspect was arrested in Athens Tuesday afternoon after exposing himself to passersby in a parking lot on U.S. Highway 31 South on Monday evening, police say.
On two occasions, shoppers walking in the parking lot say they saw the suspect sitting in a parked vehicle with his pants down. He drove away before officers arrived to the scene, but an investigation identified him as a 60 year-old Athens resident, Jeffery Crawford. He was questioned and then charged with two counts of indecent exposure.
Alabama statute 13A-6-68 says, "A person commits the crime of indecent exposure if, with intent to arouse or gratify sexual desire of himself or of any person other than his spouse, he exposes his genitals under circumstances in which he knows his conduct is likely to cause affront or alarm in any public place."
Crawford was booked at the Athens Police Department and then released on bond.
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But where, pray tell, are the candidates for the local elections? So far only the Liberal Democrat council candidates have graced by doormat with campaign literature and knocked on the door to speak to me (I wasn't in at the time).
Only just over a couple of weeks to go, and I've not ot a peep from the local Conservative council candidates so far.
Has anyone heard from them?
Has anyone heard from them?


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Industry 4.0 – and with it the demands for customised flexible intralogistics solutions – is being increasingly implemented within the courier, express and parcel (CEP) industry. Autonomous guided carts (AGCs) and tuggers prove to be efficient add-ons and alternatives to traditional material flow and sorter systems. This is according to Volker Glöckle, Head of Industry Cluster Intralogistics at SICK Automation.
SICK offers its modular Eco-System for AGCs with sensor solutions that make autonomous vehicles safe and efficient tools for enhanced intralogistical productivity.
Flexible logistical processes in CEP distribution centres require transportation techniques that can be adapted for the particular tasks – and also in terms of their sensor and control system technology. The aim is to exploit intelligent self-organising vehicle fleets that meet the growing need for flexibility, and thus efficiently network internal material flows in production and logistical processes.
"Whether localisation, personal safety, collision prevention or load handling – the modular Eco-System from SICK makes complete sensor solutions possible for all kinds of mobile platforms," says Glöckle. "This means it offers maximum economic efficiency, functional reliability, and future-proofed investments."
Not every package can be transported via conveyor belts
Conveying and sorting systems at CEP sites are designed mainly for objects with clearly defined dimensions. But the variety of goods to be handled has grown considerably with the boom in e-commerce. Furniture, tyres, bikes, and other items are so large in shape and volume that they need special intralogistical handling. "Self-driving tuggers are a smart solution for handling such items automatically," Glöckle says. "The efficiency of the entire goods handling system in the hub increases significantly because workers are relieved from heavy and monotonous transportation tasks, and are available for high-value skilled tasks."
Modular Eco-System for smart AGCs in warehouse logistics
As the autonomous tuggers and personnel in the warehouse work side-by-side, the AGCs are equipped with state-of-the-art SICK safety technology. Their localisation capabilities are also made by SICK – all provided as a turnkey solution that offers flexible adaptability to both the current and future needs at individual sorting facilities. Sensors and control units can be adopted to create customer- and application-specific solutions for mobile material flow technologies. "The entire Eco-System offers a variety of solution approaches for tasks involving personal safety, localisation and collision prevention, as well as for the handling and identification of transport loads," Glöckle points out.
AGCs, sensor and CEP expertise come together for ideal performance
SICK's portfolio for smart mobile automation merges the company's long-term experience in AGV and AGC applications with its intelligent sensor technologies and broad knowledge of CEP processes. The variety of solutions for vehicle guidance (optical and magnetic line detection or grid localisation via data matrix codes, for example) combined with the wide range of safety-certified scanners, sensors and control components for 2D, 3D and 360° vehicle protection prove the flexibility of SICK sensor solution packages. "Other sensor solutions allow the automatic handling and identification of pallets, mesh boxes and other loading aids. Thus goods in tuggers or AGCs remain within the closed IT cycle of the operation and can be tracked and traced at all times," Glöckle says. "Intelligent sensors also provide diagnostic functions – allowing optimised maintenance routines and the prevention of AGC failures, increasing vehicle availability as well as hub productivity."
In addition to the flexible, individual arrangement of a solution, the SICK Eco-System minimises its complexity. All components are co-ordinated with one another, interfaces are harmonised and everything is available from a single source. This reliably minimises integration and functional risks. Moreover, the information from a variety of sensors can be transferred to higher-ranking control systems in the form of pre-processed raw data – simplifying their integration in a customer-specific control environment. Finally, the Eco-System is also designed to integrate the mobile material flow solution of the CEP warehouse in the cloud.
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Following LesbianDad's lead, I'm beginning a nature v. nurture tally in our little household. An interesting topic on both gender lines and well, in her words, because us non-biological parents are "all nurture, no nature."
The most recent example ocurred the other morning which belonged to a string of such mornings that I was single-parenting it as BioMom has been travelling for work a bit more as of late. Seven and I were doing our morning routine and she was chatting to me while getting dressed. The previous night had been a bit chilly and we had resurrected an old standby snack: warm honey milk.
Big was beside himself with this sweet treat, sucking it down at light speed and practically pounding his fingers into his hand using the sign for 'more'!
In fact, we ran out of milk. There was not a drop left in the house by bedtime.
So, here we were, the next morning.
Seven: Can I have some honey milk?
Me: No, Honey, (get it? 'honey' I called you 'honey'?) remember, we ran out of milk? Plus, that's really an after school snack.
Seven: Oh. . . I just thought maybe you would have gotten some by now?
Me, mustering patience and thinking that after they were in bed the previous night I lasted all of 30 more minutes before following them. I practically BEAT them to sleep. Even had BioMom been home I would have NEVER made it to the store to buy milk: Remember, Mom's not home. How could I go to the store?
A few minutes goes by.
Seven: Can I have some honey milk tonight after school?
Me: I dunno, honey (again with the pun!). We'll see if I get to the store and get some milk.
Seven: Okay. Let's make a SCHEDULE for snacks!
Me, stomach and neck muscles begin to tense: Schedule?
Seven: Yeah! Honey milk on Tuesday. . .
Me, interrupting: But we may not HAVE milk today.
Seven: Okay, honey milk on Mondays. . . Goldfish on Tuesdays. . .
This sort of schedule-making goes against all of my personal sensibilities. It feels like fingernails on a chalkboard.
Plus, it just adds another thing to my 'to do' list.
I imagine what the teacher at our Early Childhood and Family Education class would do in my shoes. She's the picture of patience, empathy and democratic-style parenting. She is focused, engaged, and intentional. When, for example, parents in class ask what to do with the toddler who hits or bites, she models holding the young one and praising them for their power and strength, all the while, redirecting their zealous energy to more appropriate outlets.
I'm sure she'd sit down and help Seven write out a schedule, let her go through the process of this. Help her choose healthy snacks and then, once she was neatly tucked back into the routine of her school day, she'd go to the store and fulfill the list.
When, say, a couple of weeks later, after the list had been forgotten for some time, and then was rediscovered by Seven in a moment of distracted boredom in which the schedule was noticed, peaking out from underneath the stove, and then re-taped to the refrigerator and, accompanied with an enthusiastsic announcement "It's Thursday! Time for our soy-nut milkshake!" she would eagerly pull out the extensive ingredient list and, happily, whip up the snack of the day.
I think: what would BioMom do?
BioMom would lovingly take part in the process of creating the schedule. It would be neatly written, lined with a plumb, and, ultimately, laminated.
She may even have the best intentions of helping to fulfill this wishlist. However, as soon as her right foot hits the accelerator, and her thumbs meet Blackberry, all thoughts of a snack schedule are vanquished. She feels comfort knowing that this, too, will happen to her clone-like daughter.
By the time after-school rolls around and I'm busy checking the list and trying to match it up with what's in our cupboards, they look at me quizzically: snack schedule?
Instead, I can only think in terms of Meyers-Briggs acronyms: Damn, she MUST be an ENFJ, where I am all INTP.
I guess we'll always have "N."
Saturday, November 10, 2007
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Grade/Status: $8.98
Department: Parks and Recreation
The Facility Aide position is a custodian position that provides a clean, safe environment for customers. Assists in the administration of the standard operating policies and procedures of the department.
Manager is assigned.
- Maintains cleanliness of indoor and outdoor facilities.
- Provides set-up and take-down of rooms for classes, special events, and activities.
- Operates floor buffers, vacuums, carpet cleaners, and other mechanical sweepers.
- Assists with citywide special events and works with contractors to provide facility support.
- Maintains work records and service records of all equipment.
- Maintains a cleaning schedule that will include cleaning of floors, wastebaskets, windows, furniture, equipment and restrooms.
- Keeps building and grounds neat and clean.
- Assists in maintaining an inventory of cleaning supplies and equipment as needed.
- Performs preventive maintenance to ensure the comfort, health, and safety of staff.
- Regulates heat, ventilation, and air conditioning systems to provide appropriate temperatures and ensure economical usage of fuel, water, and electricity.
- Performs normal maintenance activities such as changing light bulbs and unclogging drains as needed.
- Inspects machines and equipment for safety and efficiency.
- Operate tools and equipment according to established safety procedures.
- Follows established safety procedures and techniques to perform job duties, including lifting, climbing, etc.
- Provides professional and friendly customer service for all age groups.
- Plans and prepares for activities according to the activity calendar.
- Maintains materials and supplies, stocks and restocks items for customer use, presents a clean professional facility.
- Follows proper opening and closing procedures for facilities.
- Follows departmental policies and procedures.
- Follows all safety and sanitation policies.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Education and Experience:
Graduation from a high school or GED equivalent
Education and Experience:
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, and ABILITIES
- Ability to analyze safety situations.
- Ability to anticipate problems.
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates.
- Ability to follow written and oral directions.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Ability to operate cleaning equipment and lift heavy equipment.
- Ability to properly handle cleaning supplies.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to reliably and predictably carry out duties.
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
- Knowledge of cleaning chemicals and equipment.
- Knowledge of departmental programs, policies and procedures.
- Knowledge of facility maintenance, sanitary cleaning procedures, and equipment maintenance.
- Knowledge of minor repair techniques and building maintenance.
Valid license to operate motor vehicles in the state of Missouri.
Cleaning and floor care equipment. Janitorial equipment and including floor buffers, steam cleaner, carpet cleaners, washers, vacuums, mops, brooms, and dusting equipment. Painting equipment. Light handtools. Phone; fax, copy machine, postage machine, and motor vehicle.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and talk and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential duties and responsibilities of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works in outside weather conditions. The employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, or risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet in the office, and moderate to loud in the facility and outdoors.
The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position.
The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee.
Regardless of any provision above, the employee remains an employee at-will as that term has been defined under the laws of the State of Missouri.
This job description is intended to indicate the kinds of tasks and levels of difficulty that will be required of positions that are given this title and shall not be construed as declaring what the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position shall be. It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct and control the work of employees under their supervision. The use of particular expression or illustration describing those duties shall not be held to exclude other essential functions, responsibilities or duties not mentioned in this description that are of similar kind or level.
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KIEV - President Petro Poroshenko said here Monday a referendum will be held to decide whether or not Ukraine should join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
"Only the people of Ukraine will decide whether to join NATO or not during a referendum," Poroshenko said at a joint press conference with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite.
Ukrainian authorities have been working out certain criteria, which the country should meet within the coming years to obtain NATO membership, Poroshenko said, who nevertheless insisted that the attempt to join the alliance now "will bring more harm than advantages."
Ukraine and NATO established their partnership in 1991, shortly after Kiev gained its independence from the former Soviet Union. Ukraine closely cooperates with the alliance and actively participates in NATO's Partnership for Peace Program.
In March 2010, the Ukrainian parliament approved a law which bars the country's membership in any military blocs but allows cooperation.
Amid a crisis in eastern Ukraine, where government troops had been fighting against independence-seeking insurgents, Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk has called on the parliament to promptly pass a bill on the abolishment of the nonaligned status of Ukraine to pave the way for the restoration of the country's course towards NATO membership.


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I have been rereading parts of one of my favorite books, by Arnold Patient, called "You can have it all" and I loved some of his thoughts in his chapter on giving and receiving.
One concept he talks about is what "true" giving is. He offers that true giving follows these 3 criteria:
- The giver sincerely wishes for the recipient to have and to enjoy the gift.
- The gift is something the giver sincerely believes the receiver wishes to have.
- There are no ulterior motives or strings attached by the giver, and the recipient is free to do with the gift as she or he wishes.
This is so simple and at the same time we all can find a giving/receiving exchange we have been in that is missing a point or two. Any of you give something but expect a certain response from the receiver? That's an ulterior motive, right? Expect NOTHING in return; not even a thank you? Wow, that might take some practice. How do you feel when you're nice and let a car into your lane ahead of you and you don't receive a wave or nod back? Do you give a compliment to someone you think is "cool" or "important" and it's not quite genuine or you can find an ulterior motive why you gave it? Yes, there are lot's of ways giving and receiving comes into everyday life, not just traditional gift giving.
Any of you feel obligated to give a gift to a certain person or at a certain time? You aren't sincerely giving, right? If you're obligated, what is the energy of the gift like? Positive? Likely not and likely neutral at best. Some say that when the conditions above are not met, the giving and receiving energy in us is kinda "stuck" and not free. What do I mean free? Well, I view this as when I have a practice that meets the above criteria I am creating energy in the movement of giving and receiving. Mr. Patient says this energy is really love, when you get down to the core. I'd have to think about that a bit more, however sounds good to me right now. I believe, whatever the energy that is created will attract more of that same energy. If it's positive, you attract more of that positive energy around giving and/or receiving gifts. Maybe you end up getting more gifts in some way. Money comes unexpectedly, a compliment comes or just a smile at the checkout isle. Again, no fair giving just to receive later. Ulterior motives, right?
How about this one? Anyone receive a gift and feel you have to keep or use it? Will you stick a gift from mom in the closet and bring it out for display when she comes over? I bet you see now that while your trying to be nice to mom and not hurt her feelings (or other stuff), that energy is NOT clean. Now, I'm not saying we say to mom, "mom that gift stinks" when she gives it to us. That to creates "negative" energy around receiving and, over time, a closet full of stuff you don't use! A good practice is to always take "in" the gift as positive, no matter what you think of it.
Of course, most of us honestly know that all are gifts we give aren't going to be perfect. That is, perfect, in the stuff we give. However, giving with positive intentions and that energy (love?) and the criteria above that gift of "energy" IS perfect and allows for more.


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In early 2012, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) issued an non-precedential decision in the case of an NIJC client represented by a pro bono attorney. This client sought asylum based on fears of formed marriage and FGM, but did not file her application within one year of her entry into the United States. The immigration judge granted withholding of removal, but denied asylum, finding that the client had not established an exception to the one-year filing deadline. On appeal, the BIA vacated the judge's decision and held that the client had established both changed and extraordinary circumstances, and had filed within a reasonable period of those circumstances.
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New circular letter on stock options (L.I.R. no. 104/2)
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Jean Schaffner
Patrick Mischo
Julie Carbiener
Franz Kerger
Senior Associate
Luis Munoz
Senior Associate
29 November 2017
On 29 November 2017, the Luxembourg tax administration published its new circular letter on stock options. It has raised the market value of freely negotiable options (warrants) which are not listed on the stock exchange to the value of 30% of the underlying from 17.5% in the past.
The tax treatment of warrants has been intensively debated over the last months by political parties and business actors. On the one hand, incentive schemes for top earning and highly qualified employees are necessary to attract and retain talent in the country; on the other hand, a system which discriminates among employees may be potentially difficult to justify on the grounds of equal treatment of taxpayers.
As a compromise, the Luxembourg finance minister announced, when presenting the 2018 finance bill, that the tax treatment on warrants would be increased to bring it in line with the tax treatment of extraordinary income. Basically, extraordinary income, such as non-speculative capital gains, is taxed at half the usual rate applicable to the taxpayers' ordinary income. A similar system also applies to extraordinary employment income, in case the item of income pertains to more than one fiscal period.
In practice, it is difficult to reconcile the rules of the circular on stock options, which determine a tax base for the advantage resulting from the grant of the warrant with those of the income tax law, which set a specific rate for the taxation of extraordinary income. To achieve this result, the authorities have proposed to raise the valuation of the advantage resulting from freely negotiable stock options. For options granted before the end of 2017, the advantage is set at 17.5%. As of 1 January 2018, it will be raised to 30%. This means that, currently, the advantage resulting from the grant of warrants is taxable at a rate of approximately 13% and, as of next year, the average tax burden on the grant of warrants will amount to approximately 21%, which corresponds to half of the top individual income tax rate.
The circular letter also includes certain other rules in relation to stock option plans, which were included in the past in service notes and in ministerial responses in front of the Luxembourg Parliament.
In particular, the taxable advantage resulting from warrants cannot exceed 50% of the total annual remuneration to a given beneficiary. This limit is appreciated for each beneficiary and not for the plan as such.
Warrants can only be attributed to executives, as determined by labour legislation. Basically, this category covers employees who have a remuneration which significantly exceeds the average salary paid by a given employer, and provided this salary is the counterparty of managerial functions, of a large autonomy in the organisation of work and of the absence of fixed working hours (hence without specific remuneration of overtime).
The warrant plan has to be designed so that the option price does not exceed 60% of the value of the underlying securities.
Finally, the circular letter addresses filing obligations. For options granted in 2016 and 2017, the employer has to inform the tax administration about the existence of the option plan prior to 31 January, respectively 31 March 2018. In the absence of information, the stock option tax regime cannot be enjoyed anymore for the future.
The Circular letter specifically states that, as of 2018, the communication to the tax administration has to be made at the time the advantage is put at the disposal of the employee, and not at the time the stock option plan is created.
This communication to the authorities has to be made via electronic means.


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'Make ship happen': How Virgin Voyages hopes to reinvent the cruise holiday
The ceremonial steel-cutting for the much-anticipated first vessel in the Virgin Voyages fleet took place in Genoa late last month.
Counting down to the big reveal, via video link, Sir Richard Branson himself led the countdown to "Make ship happen!". A flash of fireworks and the churning of blades on steel signified the beginning of this long-awaited journey.
Fincantieri shipyard in Genoa, where Virgin I – or "hull number 6287", as she will be known in the industry – will take shape over the next three years, is by day a hive of activity, where engineers weld and form gigantic seafaring steel jigsaws by hand (a legacy for this particular shipyard) with rigor that that exudes Italian craftsmanship.
By contrast, our corner of the shipyard reverberated to a throbbing bassline: somehow one expects nothing less than a DJ-hosted launch from a company that – as articulated by president and CEO Tom McAlpin – promises to bring "true sea change" to cruising.
Interior design details won't be released until November but it is clear that Virgin Voyages intends to fly firmly in the face of cruise convention. Its "creative collective" includes New York design firm Roman and Williams – of Ace Hotel notoriety, and Design Research Studio, headed up by trailblazer in lighting and interior design, Tom Dixon.
Also on board are London-based Softroom – which previously redesigned the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse at Heathrow, and Pearson Lloyd, the team behind the recently updated Lufthansa economy cabins.
It's not just the aesthetic that is receiving an overhaul. 'Sailors' – for the term 'passengers' is just too mainstream – are invited to adventure, explore and express their free spirit on trips that will be tailor-made with the millennial in mind. Virgin promises a pared-down experience; an "escape from the chaos" previously attributed to the casinos and kid-filled creches of cruise experiences.
We're not sure what this means, but we just hope they don't take away the Wi-Fi.
But why the secrecy? Could resisting the pressures and regulations of the industry prove too difficult for the new cruise line to realise its vision? Not according to vice president of operations, Frank Weber. He professed, rather: "We are not resisting anything; we are creating something new and setting our own precedent".
Virgin Voyages might not be giving us much to go on yet, but we like the cut of their jib.
Virgin Voyages' first ship is expected to arrive at PortMiami in 2020, for Caribbean itineraries. (virginvoyages.com).


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In an article for Realcomm, Navigant describes the role artificial intelligence can play within the commercial buildings industry
Public awareness of the Internet of Things (IoT) and acceptance of artificial intelligence (AI) is prompting commercial building owners to invest further in smart building technologies.
In an article for Realcomm, Casey Talon, research director at Navigant Research, points out that familiarity with connected devices has set the stage for technology-enabled productivity and convenience. Expected buy-in and realization of benefits to the bottom line has primed executive decision makers to explore enhanced alternatives to initial investments in building energy management systems (BEMS).
"Now, more than ever, the buildings industry is set to adopt smart building technologies and AI is on deck to further disrupt the status quo of facilities management and real estate strategy," said Talon.
In the past, BEMS transformed building operations by improving performance and, as a result, saved energy costs. Now, the evolving energy market can use technology-driven operations to produce smart building analytics that change the conversation with potential customers. Smart building technologies improvements speak to the C-suite in compelling ways, offering metrics tools that track energy costs, space use, and sustainability. The smart analytical tools help executives understand facility management in a broader sense, to drive system performance and investments for long-term strategy decisions.
There is a future for AI in the intelligent building market to reduce the burden on facilities staff and executive decision-makers when translating system diagnostics, prioritized by business needs, into action," Talon said.
The public's willingness to welcome AI into their homes, including through virtual assistants, and the amount of their interaction with AI in providing important feedback to the tech industry is helping define expectations of technology-driven capabilities for commercial building owners. AI can transform the commercial building experience through machine learning and self-healing buildings, according to Talon.
Among the key benefits AI offers is that it enables continuous changes in settings and operation of major energy loads and can continually sense and change the environment for comfort and cost reduction.
Although Talon believes it is unlikely that robots will take over for building engineers and facility managers, AI can automate routine processes and boost the value of analytical output.
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By Qiu Miaojin
Translated by Bonnie Huie
304 pp. New York Review Books. $15.95.
"One day it dawned on me as if I were writing my own name for the first time," the narrator of "Notes of a Crocodile" declares in the early pages. "Cruelty and mercy are one and the same." This way of reframing dualities within a binary system — and pummeling that system — is the soul of this thrillingly transgressive coming-of-age story by the Taiwanese writer Qiu Miaojin. Bonnie Huie's translation is nothing short of remarkable — loving, even; one gets the sense that great pains have been taken to preserve the voice behind this lush, ontological masterwork.
Set in Taipei in the late 1980s, directly following the cessation of martial law, the novel follows a wry, soulful and somewhat miserable young woman nicknamed Lazi, who spends much of her time alone, reading, writing and decoding her obsessions deep into the night while somehow scraping by at one of Taiwan's most esteemed universities. Lazi falls in love with her slightly older female classmate Shui Ling, a love she strains to resist and equates with a crime. The two embark on a tantric, mostly agonizing battle of wills, alternately courting and rejecting each other. "My world is one of tainted sustenance. I love my own kind — womankind," Lazi contends in one of many letters to Shui Ling. "You were like a realm that exposed me. … You tore me open and exposed the man inside." Qiu Miaojin's energetic prose leaves a gratifying welt, marking the reader with the violence of her intelligence. Lazi makes a series of friends — all of them quick-witted, mournful and queer, but each uniquely so. Qiu rejects the notion of queerness as a single experience, showcasing its multitudes instead. Labels are never used to identify the desires of these characters; we are forced to think beyond them — to see the self as something of an abyss: "Hey, we should found a gender-free society and monopolize all the public restrooms!" This idea of the unfixed, fragmented self is mirrored by the structure of the book, which hovers between genres. Composed of Lazi's eight notebooks and described as a survival guide, an array of literary forms conspire together: aphorisms, fragments and allegorical interludes about crocodiles who wear human suits when they go outside and symbolize the queer body. These sections depicting a world in which straight people are deeply attracted to those who deviate from the heterosexual paradigm, while also fearing and ultimately wanting to kill them. Qiu deftly exposes the interplay between hate and desire, illustrating how the compulsion to prey on queer and gender nonconforming people is often born of repressed desire.
First published in 1994, "Notes of a Crocodile" is in many ways a futuristic text, as it contains conversations about identity that are happening now — and ones that have yet to. It is refreshing to read a novel that so frankly examines patriarchy, misogyny, homophobia, gender normativity and capitalism — especially one that howls so freely with pain. Lazi and her friends are philosophers who feel. They convey the rich and vital role of emotion in any revolution. Like gender and sexuality, the depths of pleasure and especially of sorrow are revealed here on a spectrum. Qiu reminds us that "positive" examples of the homosexual in literature and pop culture can be neutering and dehumanizing, as they often speak more to the institutions that despise them. Lazi exhibits moments of bliss and epiphany in a more complicated emotional terrain — the joy is in her mind, her pleasure in thinking, talking and writing — especially writing what she is unable to say.
An open lesbian, Qiu Miaojin took her life at the age of 26, after which she shot to fame — "Lazi" became slang for lesbian. Suicide has a distinct way of dominating the biographies of artists, particularly young, queer ones, but it would be wrong to view this book through the lens of Qiu's suicide. While the novel depicts self-harm and a sometimes burning temptation to die, it is in some deeper way about finding the will to live, both through creative means and the sheer vulnerability of being intimate with another person — or even with oneself. You risk a lot in that act, Lazi suggests. You really do risk your life.