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Quantum Tuba argues that, contra Warren Buffett, we should not focus on raising taxes on the rich, but rather on smashing elite privilege that favors the rich – an argument I've made a variety of in the past on several occasions, though I've never used the term 'smash'. Tuba delves into the holdings of Buffet and digs up Wells Fargo and its involvement in the private prison industry:
The number two corporation in Warren Buffet's stock portfolio is Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo is a major beneficiary of corporate welfare. For instance, they received $43.7 billion in federal taxpayer bailout money. But far more destructive is Wells Fargo's investment in prison profiteers. Wells Fargo owns 4 million shares in the Geo Group, the second largest private prison corporation in America, and 50,000 shares in the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the largest private prison corporation in the country. These shares combined are valued at more than $120 million (Source: http://www.cjjc.org/en/news/50-immigrant-rights/215-wells-fargo-divest-from-prisons ).
Companies such as the Geo Group and CCA do not earn their money by providing goods or services to customers. Rather, they make their money solely from the government, and solely for locking human beings in cages, mostly for non-violent offenses. Further, these companies actively lobby for unjust laws, largely using the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporatist conservative political group.
He then cites this Nation piece on ALEC:
ALEC helped pioneer some of the toughest sentencing laws on the books today, like mandatory minimums for non-violent drug offenders, "three strikes" laws, and "truth in sentencing" laws. In 1995 alone, ALEC's Truth in Sentencing Act was signed into law in twenty-five states. (Then State Rep. Scott Walker was an ALEC member when he sponsored Wisconsin's truth-in-sentencing laws and, according to PR Watch, used its statistics to make the case for the law.) More recently, ALEC has proposed innovative "solutions" to the overcrowding it helped create, such as privatizing the parole process through "the proven success of the private bail bond industry," as it recommended in 2007. (The American Bail Coalition is an executive member of ALEC's Public Safety and Elections Task Force.) ALEC has also worked to pass state laws to create private for-profit prisons, a boon to two of its major corporate sponsors: Corrections Corporation of America and Geo Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections), the largest private prison firms in the country. An In These Times investigation last summer revealed that ALEC arranged secret meetings between Arizona's state legislators and CCA to draft what became SB 1070, Arizona's notorious immigration law, to keep CCA prisons flush with immigrant detainees. ALEC has proven expertly capable of devising endless ways to help private corporations benefit from the country's massive prison population.
Along with the defense industry, the criminal justice system in this country is one of the hallmarks of class divide and state privilege. Of course, it's not just private prisons that profit from the mass incarceration of America's poor. Prison guard unions are also big supporters of tough-on-crime policies, and opponents of policies that would lead to fewer criminals, fewer prisons, and fewer prison guard jobs.
ALEC may be behind some very pernicious legislation aimed at enriching private prison operators (honestly, it's hard to say - they are membership only so much of this is speculation) but I can't help but feel like when it comes to elite privilege, state favoritism, the war on drugs, and criminal justice writ large, we're staring down a decidedly bi-partisan abyss. Tuba is basically making this point, and arguing that the typical progressive response – to tax the rich more – is insufficient. I tend to agree. Taxing the rich more won't end the war on drugs or get nonviolent offenders out of prison. It may be a good idea on its own merits, but it won't get down deep to the roots of our problems.
Steve Owen of the CCA writes in:
In the interest of maintaining an accurate public record, we are writing to note that an opinion piece, "Elite Privilege and the Prison Industrial Complex," that appeared in an Aug. 23 posting on Forbes.com cited an erroneous passage from The Nation that falsely linked The Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) to an immigration enforcement law in Arizona.
It is CCA's clear policy and practice not to engage in legislation involving crime or sentencing policies. CCA has never lobbied or had any role in passage of Arizona's or any state's immigration laws, as the bill's sponsor and Arizona's Governor have publicly affirmed repeatedly. Any statement to the contrary is false.
I can't speak for the Nation piece itself. I'm excerpting here from a major publication whose journalism is usually reliable. It's always good to take everything with a grain of salt, obviously. But there's simply no doubt that in every industry there is some sort of political lobbying going on. I'm not sure the extent to which the CCA or any of its members lobby or pursue political ends in each state or at the federal level. I will try to find out more.
Either way, special interest groups - whether unions or private corporations and so forth - do work with government for a variety of reasons. This isn't always inherently bad, but it is a fact of life. It's worth paying attention to.


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Women's Cross Country Excels at Annual Event: Outstanding Performances Abound at Lehigh's Paul Short Run
October 5, 2017
On Saturday, September 29, Lehigh hosted the 44th annual Paul Short Run, which attracts thousands of runners from universities across the country. This race has grown to be one of the largest annual cross country meets in the nation. It was created to honor Paul E. Short, who attended Lehigh and played four sports while he was there, including football, wrestling, baseball and lacrosse. He received countless awards and recognition for his outstanding athletic career at Lehigh. Short received a degree in business administration and quickly found his way back to Lehigh to coach for various sports teams and serve as a Business Manager and Assistant Director of Athletics. Short had always been a big fan of the Lehigh track and cross country teams. Shortly after he died, a new cross country meet was being developed and was named after Short.
The first race took place in 1969 with seven men's teams competing, with the
competition opening to women's teams in 1981. The meet has grown over the years and now it features 14 races, with six college races, six high school races and two open races for men and women. There has been a wide range of champions at this event such as Villanova and Penn State on the men's side and Princeton and Georgetown on the women's side. This year, the Paul Short Run hosted 6,000 athletes from around 450
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The Colgate women's cross country team had an outstanding performance on Friday at the race. Sophomore Vicky Martinez shone for the Raiders, finishing in 20th overall place. She has been a standout runner from the beginning of her Colgate career. Furthermore, she finished with her second fastest time in a 6K collegiate race and as the fourth fastest Patriot League Runner at a time of 22:13.
The Raiders finished in 15th place, with 412 points and an average time of 23:33, out of the 24 Division 1 teams who competed in the race. First-year Elizabeth Timoney had a standout performance, finishing just after Martinez at a time of 22:59, her fastest 6K time out of the two this year. Following in third place was Ashley de Hechavarria, who came in 23:59, finishing 105th overall.
Other stars included senior captain Tina Bowers, who came in fourth for Colgate and 109th overall with a time of 24:09; this was her third fastest 6K time in her career. Junior Caroline Zaworski rounded out Colgate's top five finishers with a time of 24:24. Everyone came out ready for the big day and their zeal to succeed was reflected in the team's many successes.
"Overall the women's cross country team had a really strong performance at Paul Short and competed well against the field. Conditions were slow but the girls really gutted it out and had some great performances. With Patriots coming up we are excited to taper down and see the results of our hard work," de Hechavarria said.
The Raiders have some time off before their final race of the season at the Albany Invite hosted by UAlbany on October 14. Players report they are training hard for this event and are excited to compete again soon.
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The Ministerio de Educación Pública (MEP) – Ministry of Education – ordered the teacher investigated for the audios threatening President Carlos Alvarado and inciting violence to an administrative position. The woman, who identified herself as a teacher with 22 years of experience, has a history of unexcused absences and alleged verbal aggression.
Now she is also facing a process for the threats and breach of duties for the audios that circulated this weekend in which a female voice suggests that the president of the Republic should be shot in the head and bomb the media such as La Nación or Canal 7.
The MEP informed that the teacher will bot be in the classrooms while the Organismo de Investigacion Judicial (OIJ) continue their investigation, mainly voice analysis to determine if the woman is the person behind the threats.
For her part, the Minister of Education, Guiselle Cruz, made public her "repudiation of all forms of discrimination or call to violence."
"The job of the education system is to train comprehensively on the protection of life, institutionality and democracy, in a framework of inclusion, and in that direction the work points from administrative headquarters, regional directorates and educational centers," she declared.


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Like father, like son.
When you were small, people said you looked just like your dad. As you grew up, they said you had his sense of humor or his temper, you laughed alike, you walked alike. Today, you may be close or you may have a chasm of miles or emotion between you, but as in the new book Gay Like Me, by Richie Jackson, you're a lot more like Dad than you think.
From the time he was small, Jackson knew two things: he "felt lucky to be gay," and he wanted to be a father someday.
"Everything good that has happened to me is because I am gay," he saysand that includes the birth of his son, born to a surrogate when Jackson was in his thirties. Since then, in the meantime, the sentiment has surely doubled since Jackson's son came out as gay.
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Still, Jackson is excited for his son, who is college-age now and who grew up at a time when AIDS isn't a death sentence, hiding isn't mandatory, and so many large battles have already been fought by people at Stonewall, in the military, in marriage equality, and in everyday life. These things give Jackson hope as he launches his eldest son in the world as a gay man, but he has advice….
Know who you are, he counsels, and "never diminish your essence." Know the heroes who went before you. Never let your sexuality shame you and never use it to shame others. Know your partner's HIV status in advance. Don't fall into the same drugs-and-alcohol trap that's ensnared so many other gay men. And "vote as if your life depends on it, because it does."
Is there a modern teenager in the world who takes his father's advice? Perhaps not, but if he's a gay young man, he might still be glad to have Gay Like Me.
Written with enthusiasm and gratitude, author Jackson also displays a lot of loving steel hidden in the things he wants his son to know. His advice is fierce, but tempered with the kind of acquired fear that traumatically becomes a part of one's DNA. In the sweetest of dadtones, he's honest, using a please-don't-do-as-I-did warning, heavy on the "please." He doesn't just write words to his son, but he penned them about his son, and they're caressing, but difficult, words that aren't only for the sake of, or aimed at, one specific, specifically-young man.
You don't, in other words, have to be young or gay or even a man to enjoy "Gay Like Me. Mothers of gay teens will want it, as well as fathers and sons.
Want more? Then look for Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States Since World War II, by Daniel Winunwe Rivers; or The Velveteen Father, by Jesse Green.


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We are interested in taking –to nearby regions and spaces– the debate on historical and subordinate memories, on the relationship between regional violence and the inhabiting groups thereof, on the invisibility of the violence taking place and the difficulties which exist in terms of representing it. We have invited figures who take on –from their respective disciplines– the breakdown of hegemonic narratives on violence and who will help us to study the aforementioned as they pertain to the traces which exist in the architectural spaces of the Basque Country. Accompanying us will be Armina Pilav, Ariel Caine, Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum, Hedoi Etxarte and Xabier Gantzarain. Apart from that, Gantzarain will be the moderator in the morning and Blanca Pujals in the round table of the afternoon.
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In today's episode Jake Minick conducts a mock voir dire of expert witness Doug Scott of Drugs & Alcohol Risk Management, Inc. Doug is a former Drug Recognition Expert and helped launch the DRE program in North Carolina. Doug regularly teaches NC CLE on Standardized Field Sobriety Testing and DWI related topics. Doug has given expert testimony more than 140 times. Doug was also on Episode 12 of the podcast so be sure to start there.
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Hello, fellow freedom fighters and welcome to episode 13 of the NC DWI Guy Podcast. Today, we have a special guest, Doug Scott, on the program. Doug talked with us last episode. So if you have not already listened to episode 12, go back and do that now prior to listening to this episode. Doug is a former law enforcement officer with more than 20 years of experience and hundreds of DWI arrests. He was the first certified DRE in the state of North Carolina, the first certified DRE instructor in North Carolina. He helped to get the DRE program off the ground here.
Doug has attended countless seminars and courses on the pharmacology of alcohol, which you will hear more about today as we go through a mock Voir dire. Doug's Curriculum Vitae is 50 pages long showcasing his credentials to speak on a number of areas that he has been qualified as an expert witness in. Today, we're excited to have Doug continue the conversation that we began last episode, and we're kicking it off with Doug offering a mock Voir dire of tendering a expert witness.
What I thought we might do, Doug, and we can do this kind of briefly in terms of some of your answers maybe being a little bit shorter, concise than they would be in the courtroom, because I feel like a good kind of expert Voir dire, depending on the kind of expertise that you're looking to tender your expert witness in can go on for hour, two hours, longer than that, just depending on the circumstances. But I thought we could just run through a kind of expert Voir dire to qualify you as a witness. So in terms of the kind of maybe just kind of going through one in terms of the pharmacology of alcohol. We could just kind of run through that briefly.
So I'm just going to pretend like we're in trial for a minute. Your honor, I would next like to call to the stand. Defense would next call Doug Scott. Can you tell the court your name?
Doug Scott:
Yes. Julian Douglas Scott. I go by Doug.
Where do you live?
Doug Scott:
I live in Carteret County in Cape Carteret, North Carolina.
Can you tell the court about your educational background?
Doug Scott:
Sure. I have a bachelor of arts from North Carolina State University in political science and a concentration in criminal justice. I've completed three graduate certificates, one in police management from North Carolina State University, one in forensic drug chemistry from the University of Florida, and one in addiction in the brain from the University of Washington.
Okay. Thank you. Mr. Scott, tell me what your current occupation is.
Doug Scott:
I'm a consultant in the area of drug and alcohol impairment. Been running a business called Drugs & Alcohol Risk Management Incorporated for about 20 years now.
Okay. What prior law enforcement experience do you have?
Doug Scott:
I have 20, roughly 22 years prior law enforcement experience. I began as a police officer in a small town in Wake County where Raleigh is located, Fuquay-Varina and then changed after three and a half years to the Cary Police Department where I remained for 18 years. I had various assignments in tactical teams and patrol, but spent most of my time either as a traffic officer or a commander of a 10-man traffic safety unit, focusing on crash investigations and serious crash investigations and fatalities and impaired driving enforcement.
So many of your assignments related to traffic law enforcement.
Doug Scott:
Yes. Approximately, well the entire time in Fuquay, of course I was just a patrol officer in [inaudible 00:04:59] as a patrol officer, traffic enforcement is an integral part of that, but I spent specifically approximately 12 to 13 years of my time with Cary assigned as a traffic safety officer or a traffic safety team supervisor, commander.
In terms of the training that you have related to alcohol and drug impaired persons, tell me briefly about what type of training that you have on that front.
Doug Scott:
Sure. I attended and successfully completed the IACP and NHTSA DWI Detection and Standardized Field Sobriety Team curriculum in 1992, and also the Instructor Training Curriculum in 1992. Successfully completed the IACP and NHTSA Drug Evaluation and Classification Training Program in 1995 and the Instructor Training Program in 1997. We're certified then from 1995 through 2007 as a drug recognition expert or drug recognition expert instructor.
I have attended approximately a thousand hours of training related to crash investigation, speed measurement, ride on and time-distance measurements, chemical analysis, alcohol screening test devices, and seminars specifically related to alcohol and drug impaired driving at the national level. I've attended 11 of the IACP NHTSA National Drugs and Alcohol Impaired Driving Conferences, as well as a number of other specialized schools related to marijuana or club drugs, et cetera.
Were you involved in the foundation of the current North Carolina DRE Program?
Doug Scott:
Yes. As the only DRE in North Carolina, I wrote a grant and founded the North Carolina DRE Training Program in the year 2000 and coordinated that program for the first three years that it existed, teaching officers in the first, I believe six 2-week DRE schools and all other aspects of that certification process.
Do you continue to attend training to enhance your knowledge of field sobriety testing and drug recognition?
Doug Scott:
Sure. I look forward to attending the National Drugs and Alcohol Impaired Driving Conference this year, if it is not postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic, and an example, but I have also, as another example I'm currently enrolled at Harvard Med School in an online course for doctors, PAs, pharmacists, that is a pharmacology course, and enrolling in a graduate certificate at University of Florida, which will begin the summer session, which is a medicinal pharmacology and therapeutics, which are five graduate level courses for doctors, PAs, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and researchers.
Do you still teach some of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration curriculums?
Doug Scott:
Yes. I've taught now in the past about 1,500 law enforcement officers standardized field sobriety testing, but since leaving law enforcement, I've taught NHTSA courses through the North Carolina Advocates for Justice, primarily. About once a year, I've taught either the ARIDE, Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement course for attorneys to participate and learn what the officers are taught through that course curriculum or the standardized field sobriety testing course. We've alternated years doing one course one year, and then the next we do the other standardized field sobriety testing. So yes, continue to teach those.
In terms of your time as a law enforcement officer, did you have opportunity to arrest impaired drivers?
Doug Scott:
Yes, both as a patrol officer and even as a traffic sergeant and a traffic lieutenant. I continued to arrest impaired drivers throughout my law enforcement career. Arrested somewhere over 500, 500 is a conservative number. We didn't have digital records back in the '80s and early '90s so I can't give an exact number, but I continued to arrest impaired drivers on through to the year 2003.
Have you received training in the pharmacology of alcohol?
Doug Scott:
Yes. Go ahead.
Yeah. Just describe what that was.
Doug Scott:
Well, originally there's a block of instruction on pharmacology alcohol in the training received from the state of North Carolina to be a certified chemical analyst, but I've received training on pharmacology of alcohol in the training I received both in standardized field sobriety testing, and then again in DRE school, there is an entire block of training on alcohol pharmacology. Again, I studied alcohol pharmacology in my graduate training at the University of Florida in courses on the medicinal aspects of drugs of abuse and in forensic toxicology there, as well as the entire, virtually the entire three semesters that I studied addiction in the brain through the University of Washington Nursing School, [inaudible 00:11:37] in great depth to alcohol pharmacology.
As a normal course of your occupation and as an expert witness, do you routinely consult with other professionals in your field?
Doug Scott:
Sure. It's not necessarily often, but I do maintain close ties professionally to discuss topics and share literature with who are experts in toxicology, pharmacology, vision science and topics like that.
As a normal course of your occupation and as an expert witness, do you routinely conduct independent study and research on topics related to your field as well?
Doug Scott:
Yes. I maintain a library of scientific literature that I've acquired from independent research. I do that by going to the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Health Science Library, or the library in the past at Campbell University, which is near my last residence and accessing their accounts with a number of scientific peer-reviewed journals and download those articles for future use.
Have you previously been qualified as an expert witness and given expert testimony regarding the detection and recognition of drug and alcohol impaired persons?
Doug Scott:
Yes. I've been qualified as an expert in that area over 225 times in five states now.
Have you previously been qualified as an expert witness and given testimony regarding drug recognition evaluations and the DRE program?
Doug Scott:
Sure. In North Carolina superior courts and district courts, I've been allowed to give expert testimony on that topic well over a hundred times.
Have you been previously qualified as an expert witness and given expert testimony regarding the pharmacology of drugs and alcohol and approximately how many times?
Doug Scott:
Yes. In North Carolina's superior and district courts, the state of Virginia, in West Virginia and federal district court in Ohio as well, I've been qualified in that area and allowed to give testimony over 80 times.
That is why as I said at the beginning of this podcast that I was not doing you justice in terms of my opening reading and introduction, because there is just a plethora of different studies and fields that you can give expert testimony on. I think, for our purposes, we will kind of stop there. If we going to continue, it probably would have been something that I might have elaborated on a few of those topics a little bit more. If this was in-court, would have kind of closed with asking, have you reviewed any of the documents or video related to this specific case that is in the courtroom? Were you present for the testimony that was presented earlier, whether by the state or by the defendant? As a result of the preparation and testimony you've heard, would you be able to have your testimony be based upon sufficient facts and data? Is your testimony going to be the product of reliable principles and methods? Have you applied those correctly to this case?
So would have kind of gone further into that, and the reason why I think it's helpful to go through a sample of that Voir dire is that I honestly think that one reason why we as defense attorneys don't utilize more expert witnesses is because we are not tasked generally with having to put on evidence. So in terms of having to lay a proper foundation, we're not used to having to do that, and it sometimes feels uncomfortable. But your expert hopefully would be able to kind of showcase here is what I am equipped to give testimony on, here is my Curriculum Vitae, here are the questions that can be used to lay the proper foundation so that you can then tender me as an expert in this particular area.
So it's not rocket science. It's actually pretty easy to kind of walk through that, walk down that path, even for an expert that is not used to testifying in court. So again, that's why I wanted to go through that because I think it's helpful to just see the… Again, it's very little work on my end to ask those questions. All of the work is on you to kind of explain why it is that you're an appropriate witness for the particular case.
Doug Scott:
Yeah, I think that you've made me think of a couple of cases. One, and it goes back to preparation, and two, it has to do, you mentioned ego for your profession. I've walked into cases before into the courtroom and had an attorney look at me just minutes before their case call and says, "I'm really nervous. This is the first time I've ever tried a case." But they didn't tell me that and they didn't ask me for information or they'd say, "The case is literally getting ready to be called. What kind of questions should I ask you to get you qualified? What should I qualify you as?" And they're waiting till… So I actually, and you know this, James, I have a go by that I send now of a minimum sort of a bulleted questions to ask me in a somewhat… I mean, you asked a great deal of them.
Because I nearly got left out to dry on the stand several times several years ago because the attorneys just didn't prepare. They didn't know what they ask me. You can't just say, "Have you been to college? Have you been a police officer? Well, your honor, I'm going to qualify or tender Mr. Scott, or the expert in," because, and I really liked hearing you say this, James, remember the Daubert standard and make sure that you hit those three prongs during your Voir dire in trying to tender each of your witnesses, and then go back and subjected to by the other side, and remember to argue those and how you've met those three.
Knowledge, experience, training, education. You don't have to have a PhD to be an expert. I'm not. If you had sufficient facts and data to review and to form your opinions, and if you applaud those in a way that's generally accepted by the scientists or the community that you're within giving a testimony. That's so important and I see so many attorneys that don't do that. Again, I think they're hurried, nervous, a number of things. But those are all great points you made.
I think that it's really been one of the things that's been helpful about the times that we've used you as an expert witness is it's not as much been about kind of here is this person that's going to kind of come in at the last second and offer testimony in the courtroom. You just are constantly helping us learn what the issues are and learn about the case, and in terms of like preparation for court, you take the time ahead of being in the courtroom for trial to say, "Ask me. Tell me what you want to ask me in terms of testimony. If you have concerns or questions about how to walk through the process of tendering me as an expert," which I know that I probably paid you the first few times to kind of almost go through that process, because again I just didn't have enough situations, courtroom situations where I was actually tendering a witness in the courtroom that just didn't feel very comfortable.
So to have the ability to practice that before being in the courtroom, it just made things more smoother and made me feel more confident about being able to present that in the courtroom. So you've done an incredible service in terms of you're not charging hourly to kind of give that level of preparation. That was all just kind of, "Hey, just spend whatever time you want to spend," making sure you're comfortable with the issues and questions and how you're going to kind of frame your direct examination. So yeah, very much appreciate that. I really appreciate, Doug, you taking the time to come on and help us to learn how to improve our practice and how to better utilize expert testimony in the courtroom.
Doug Scott:
Oh man, it's been a pleasure. I hope I didn't ramble too much.
Not at all. No. I love the stories. The war stories are always fun.
Doug Scott:
We've become friends, I think over, I don't know, 10 years, eight years, something like that. I enjoy helping. It gives me purpose. I can't do it all for free, but you know that. I can't say that for all expert witnesses, but don't be afraid to ask for help upfront and think about it. What was hard for me, and I'm kind of rambling here, closes to be asked, well, what's your fee to do this case? So I figure, well, based on time and district court or superior court and then the attorney comes in and asks me for a lot of extra things. I do, I have helped, and I do try to do that, but I'm sort of an exception maybe. So think about as should prepare for a case and use an expert witness, ask upfront, "How much are you charging? I would like for you to help me make a list of direct and cross examination questions for this case."
It's a felony. This case is not a misdemeanor appeal, so I will need an expert report that I can provide to the district attorney. How much extra do you charge for that? Or at least make the expert aware that this is an appeal case. It's already in superior court. It's going to take longer than district. The expert may not be experienced enough to ask these questions or they just forget to. So have a good conversation upfront and it makes it all easier than go back again.
Yeah. I love that very much, Doug. That's helpful to kind of think through that. Again, I think at the end of the day, you're shooting yourself in the foot if you have the perfect witness on the stand to help communicate to the jury an issue that they need expert testimony on, but then you don't know how to present that person as an expert, and now all of a sudden that there is questions about whether or not this person is able to be qualified or is actually going to be qualified in the particular fields that you need them qualified in to give the expert testimony. So it's not fun to discover how to make that happen in realtime during trial in the courtroom. You see that, I've seen that many times on both in my own practice. I've seen it with defense attorneys. I've seen it in young prosecutors, that moment where it's kind of like, "How did I not… Why was this officer not able to talk about horizontal gaze nystagmus?" It's like you didn't ask the five questions that need to be asked in order to tend to this person as an expert.
So spending that time, preparing for that and letting your expert know, with you, this is not like a point of concern, but for an expert to kind of be able to go over with you their Curriculum Vitae in addition to just going over the facts of the case, because you want to make sure that that person is going to be able to actually testify in the courtroom and be able to get that helpful information about the facts into the actual record. So again, Doug, thanks very much for coming on and taking the time with us. We really appreciate it.
Doug Scott:
Thanks, James. Have a good day and stay healthy and safe, okay?
You too, Doug, take care.
Doug Scott:
All right.
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I'm a Jewish white boy who was raised in an upper middle class suburb outside of New York City where almost no black people lived. I say almost, because there was one black student by the name of Sam Houston in my class in grammar school.
The Houston family lived at the north edge of town on a road running through some parcels that had been part of a land grant made to former slaves after the civil war. The only families who lived on that road were black, and few of the white residents in our town were aware that such a neighborhood even existed. The houses were old and, compared to the type of homes lived in by most residents, looked run-down and dilapidated. The land in question was low-lying, located in an area that in the past had been swampy and not particularly desirable.
Sam was the youngest of several sons, and his older brother Thurman preceded him in my school and had been in the same class as my older brother, Jeff. By all accounts, Thurman was a superb athlete, tall and well-liked, and Sam followed in his brother's footsteps, except in height; Sam too was exceptionally strong, with huge shoulders and powerful legs, which made him popular in gym class. Having Sam on your team usually meant winning.
The Houstons were poor. I can't pretend to fully grasp the experience of being black, and poverty was not something I experienced growing up. To the contrary, I lived a privileged life, free from wants. From time to time I'd run into some antisemitism, but that's as close as I ever got to bigotry. Sam, on the other hand, despite his athletic talents, was a boy apart, and there were those who took pleasure in making racist comments behind his back.
The reality of Sam's life was impressed upon me during class one day in fifth grade. Like all of us, Sam had to finish and turn in his homework each day, which was collected by our teacher. We all used blue-lined paper, three-hole punched, for our homework, on which we diligently printed our name, date, and class information in the upper right-hand corner. On this particular occasion, as he handed his homework to the teacher, she stopped, quickly looked at it, turned it over, and examined the other side.
"Mr. Houston," she proclaimed to Sam and the entire class, "this will not do. As you know, your homework must be completed using a fresh, clean sheet of paper. This sheet of paper has been used before by your brother, Thurman." She slapped the paper back on Sam's desk. "F," she brusquely stated, and moved on to the next desk.
We students went deadly silent, embarrassed for Sam and sharing in his humiliation. The reality was that Sam's family, unlike our own families, could not afford to buy nice, fresh packages of new blue-lined paper, and were making do with what they had. We all knew it, and were stunned that our teacher was so blind to the economic reality of Sam's life. By the end of the day, a stack of unused blue-lined paper had accumulated on Sam's desk; for me, the lesson in systemic bias was never forgotten.
Mid-high school, in 1964, Sam joined the U.S. Navy. I never saw him again.


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Bit of a weird one this week really, I was hoping last week to have a successful test week for you. Unfortunately that wasn't the case and last week was a let-down! Training wise was pretty much non-existent and a massive disappointment. So Ray put in the exact same test week this week, hence my title of the blog, haha.
After such consistent training leading up to this test week I was really annoyed with myself that I fluffed it! So I was determined to give it my best shot this week and really perform well and at least get all greens! To do that I need to start with the 2 hour run, this, like I've mentioned in other articles this has been consistent for months now. It was pretty warm evening again here in the UK and performed pretty well on this (considering the heat). A good start to the week and hoping after that the test sessions will follow!
Due to difficulties getting to the pool on Thursday this week I swapped the CSS set to Wednesday and the FTP to Thursday. To be honest the CSS swim test was the only test I actually completed last week, so wasn't exactly expecting a massive improvement. I had in my head if I can improve on that by a second or two that will do. The lane was completely clear swim only me in it so no excuses this week. Last week I did 400m in 6:31 and 200m in 3:04. This week I went probably a touch too hard on the first 400m as I went 6:18 but then only went 3:03 on the 200m. Maybe the freedom of a clear lane got the better of me on the 400m! Anyways I'll take it and it is an improvement!
Onto the FTP test, I dread these and even more so after the disaster attempt last week! Cut a long story short I was hoping to at least maintain the previous best which was 260w way back in November! I've had previous tests since then and still haven't managed to get up to the Holy grail I set back in November. It really annoys me this as when Ray prescribes the sessions off the 247w ftp I can manage them. But as soon as the test is put on I go to pot and really struggle! This time was no different. I managed 232w for the 20 minute test and a ftp of 220w. 27w down from my best! Will see what Ray says about that as I could potentially really affect my training zones. Coach knows best so I'll go with what he recommends.
Then onto the 5k TT. After the last couple of test sessions this week I really wanted to put in a good one on this. My all time PB for 5k is 23:56 and I wanted to really put in a good one for this. I'm pleased to say I managed a PB! Only by 2 seconds but its a PB. 23:54, I'll take it!
It is now 5 weeks till my next race, I've set a mini goal to just complete all green sessions! 35 sessions all green! Whatever Ray throws at me, it's going to be getting completed, it's been said here and I'm determined to let the sessions do their job.
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The number of real estate transactions in the first half of 2021 reached the highest number since the launch of the Belgian Notary Federation's (Fednot) real estate barometer in 2007.
Fednot's latest barometer published on Thursday showed the number of real estate transactions increased by 30.6% compared to the first six months of 2020, and by 16.7% compared to the previous year, during which the transactions were not impacted by the coronavirus crisis.
"Our real estate market is in an exceptional phase. Perhaps there is even a FOMO effect (fear of missing out), which makes buyers extra eager for real estate," Notary Bart van Opstal, spokesperson for Notaris.be, said.
The highest increase in real estate activity was reported in Wallonia, where the number of transactions increased by almost 20% in comparison with the first half of 2019. In Flanders and Brussels, there was an increase of 16.1% and 8.8% respectively.
Meanwhile, property prices once again increased in the first six months of this year, but not as sharply as during the second half of 2020, whilst the price increase for sold houses, land and flats was the highest in Flanders in comparison with Wallonia and Brussels.
A residential property in Belgium was on average 4.5% more expensive in the first six months of 2021 compared to the annual average for 2020, which when taking into account an inflation rate of 1.3%, represents a real price increase of 3,2% and an average additional cost of €9,000.
According to van Opstal, the rise in house and flat prices is the result of particularly high demand for real estate.
Flats are slowly gaining market share, but houses, of which the average price in Belgium now stands at around €290,000, still accounted for 72.6% of transactions in the first six months of 2021.
Why is there such a demand?
Aside from the FOMO effect, the fact that interest rates remain quite low has played a role in activity increasing, according to Renaud Grégoire, spokesperson for the Belgian Notary Federation, who added that, across the economy, there is strong demand for all types of assets, including real estate.
"Many individuals or investors are refocusing on real estate and are ready to invest money that has been tied up elsewhere for some time in order to buy a property," he added.
The high level of activity results in average prices continuing to rise, and according to van Opstal, buyers are advised not to buy too quickly or make rash decisions, as he hopes the market will cool down during the summer months.


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In anticipation of the historic crewed-dragon capsule launch, planned for May 27, Jim Bridenstine, NASA administrator, tweeted a sneak peak of a cool custom Model X. This isn't some simple civilian vehicle, it's actually going to act as a shuttle, carrying astronauts down the runway before launch.
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