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The groundbreaking of a new home at the Mary Cariola Children’s Center in Penfield took place on Wednesday.
The $1.5 million residence will become the new home for medically fragile children and youth as well as those with complex disabilities.
The previous home was built in 1979.
The new residence will house eight residents and will include an extra room for respite services.
“All the kids will have beautiful windows to look out — almost 6,000 square feet,” said President and CEO of Mary Cariola, Karen Zandi. “We will have parking for staff and families who come visit their kids. We’ll just have great space for people to enjoy each other.”
The hope is that residents will be able to move into the new building by Christmas.

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Georgiyev Dagoberto,Tuesday, February 07th 2017, 15:55:10 PM. Here, besides selecting the right exterior deck lighting , you need to know the right place to install the lighting. There is some great area or space where the lighting can really make the appearance of the deck design to be more enchanting. You should know where the outdoor step lighting will be installed. The right installation and placement of the lighting gives the scene of the deck to be more precious and fantastic. But sure, it is not easy job to do.
Roderic Pouliquen,Wednesday, February 01st 2017, 12:33:08 PM. Commonly the people put the dining table of centerpieces over the dining table. The centerpieces commonly are placed in the middle of the dining table. One of the functions of the table centerpieces is to boost the decoration of the dining room. However the dining room certainly will be much beautiful with the presence of the beautiful table centerpieces. The dining table of centerpiece actually can prettify the table of the dining room.
Georgiyev Dagoberto,Friday, February 03rd 2017, 14:16:46 PM. Outdoor landscape lighting has the role to illuminate the landscape at night. The ideas can be what the lighting fixture design, the placement of the installation, the number of the lighting and the right installation method. Here, you need to be more creative in applying the ideas of the lighting. Lighting color can also make the appearance of the landscape to be more fantastic. The creative ideas can make all things look fabulous. This is the key on decorating the landscape.>Here also, you can also use led outdoor landscape lighting for a better lighting appearance. Led lighting has more benefits than other lighting designs. It has brighter color and wider coverage but sure it has more economical rice of energy consumption. But sure, this outdoor landscape lighting design has higher price and has modern design that make the landscape look to be more awesome. You can look at some pictures on the internet to get the inspirations.
Jozua Guillaume Kitchen Sunday, December 11th 2016, 02:07:04 AMKitchen cabinet is important thing in kitchen. Kitchen is busiest room the house which offer you spacious room for you who want to cook or teach match your kid in the kitchen table but to allow you to do many things in your kitchen you need storage which will save your kitchen appliances. IKEA kitchen cabinets will give you more option in choosing suitable cabinet since it has many types of cabinet which in many varieties of price and feature. Therefore you do not have to be worry about where you want to put your kitchen appliances because it has many kinds of types.
Damario Zelenko Furnitures Saturday, December 10th 2016, 21:30:46 PMThere are several types of softwood leaves, one hundred times more than wood. Therefore, different styles, types and finished products available. The reason for being so popular is the ease of cleaning and maintenance and adding more value to the home. Especially in subtropical regions. It is persistent and heavy with a compact texture that makes it very useful. The typical use of this material in furniture, floor coverings and other fine interior finishes.
Georgiyev Dagoberto Furnitures Wednesday, December 07th 2016, 18:54:50 PMIf you can find the right place to install these outdoor fans with light, it can be more wonderful. The number and placement of this lighting and fan design can influence how it will be looked like. If you install at the center of the ceiling space of the patio, it looks great and ensure the color of the ceiling and the lighting and the fan is in good scene.
Toshihiro Motozawa Bedroom Tuesday, December 06th 2016, 09:09:16 AMThe decoration can be unique for look with colorful and cute theme inside. In addition, do not forget to make the space is not complicated with more furniture inside. Just let the space free in the middle. And then, find cute wall paint color scheme with wall stickers for best complement. The wall paint will depend on your choice, the wall sticker must fit to the theme. Well, it’s the right baby girl bedding decor!
Louredes Borichevsky Furnitures Monday, December 05th 2016, 02:41:13 AMWicker outdoor furniture is also can you find in comfortable for you use. Wicker design can make you are get best design that can make you are enjoy your time in your backyard. You can use the wicker furniture in comfortable because the material can combine with other material in soft and comfortable. With chose this one kind of outdoor furniture you will get best design for your house and you will get perfect looking for your house and outdoor.
Georgiyev Dagoberto Exterior Sunday, December 04th 2016, 22:52:51 PMTo make the party jazzier and more festive, you are better to select the outdoor light strings with cheerful colors and in different colors. It will be installed in outdoor space where the party or celebration will be held. You can install in the trees, home rooftop and other ceiling space that looks good and perfect. You may find more inspirations of where and how this light will be installed.
Damario Zelenko Kitchen Sunday, November 27th 2016, 17:58:27 PMThe cost of a new set depends to a large extent on the quality of the wood used and the amount of effort made for the craftsman. More details in the design will increase the cost because of the extra effort required to do so. Add to this the fact that the shipping cost for large and solid wood items will not be cheap and you can start to see that the purchase may require a considerable initial investment.
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Stand by for a social media blast coming your way from the NSWNA’s 67th annual conference, being held this week at Rosehill Racecourse in western Sydney. We will have an information stand in the exhibition hall – if you’re attending either the Professional Day and/or conference, please drop by and say hello.
We’ll be blogging, Facebooking (on the NSWNA page) and Tweeting on a special conference hashtag (also from the NSW Nurses account): #NSWNAconf12.
Don’t understand what hashtags are? This is your chance to find out!
[Basically, if you put that hashtag onto every Tweet you make about the conference, they all get pooled in one place that can be read by attendees, followers and journalists – so it becomes a big conversation. You can download a Twitter app on your smart phone for free.]
Linda Silas, President of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions will be a guest speaker.
Taking the lead: Organising for safe patient care is the theme of this year’s conference. Discussion will continue on the implementation of the new minimum nurse-to-patient ratios, which were secured last year for most NSW public hospitals.
A key issue for this year’s conference is the use of ‘special’ nurses to deal with patients in general wards who require individual monitoring and attention for extended periods. At the moment nurse staffing arrangements are not fully covering patients who require this special attention and nurses from the existing roster are usually left to cope with the situation.
There are motions before the conference seeking additional nurses when these situations arise. Each roster should actually provide one extra nurse for each patient requiring special attention. This and other staffing issues will be raised with the State Health Minister, Jillian Skinner, when she addresses conference on Thursday morning.
Another key issue is the NSW Government’s workers compensation changes. Aged care funding will again be a major topic and the Federal Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, Mark Butler, will address the conference on Thursday afternoon.
Another issue to be discussed is the excessively high cost of housing in parts of NSW, especially in parts of Sydney, and the impact this has on key service workers such as nurses and midwives.
Tomorrow’s Professional Day will have a heavy emphasis on the international campaign to protect and improve the quality of patient care, against the relentless push to cut costs and reduce taxation and government revenues available for health and aged care.
So stay tuned for our conference reports and photos!
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The Ritz-Carlton is teaching educators in Georgia how to roll out the red carpet for parents. The Ritz partners with the Georgia Department of Education as part of a broad plan to create more family-friendly schools. Research shows that when parents are involved with school staff, students perform better and have better social skills.
A jury has found a former Atlanta educator not guilty after the first trial connected to Atlanta's school cheating scandal. The verdict clearing Tamara Cotman of wrongdoing was announced around 11 a.m. Friday. Cotman, a former area director for Atlanta Public Schools, had been accused of trying to influence a witness.
The president of one of Georgia's largest teachers unions is on the campaign trail. But she's not running for office. Calvine Rollins of the Georgia Educators Association is traveling to different parts of the state urging lawmakers to restore state funding for 180 days of school.
Cobb County school officials say a report of a man armed with a knife at Lindley Middle school was a hoax. The school was locked down while officers searched for the alleged suspect.
Technical College System of Georgia officials have appointed a new president for a school in northwest Georgia. The system's board members unanimously approved Pete McDonald to serve as the next president of Georgia Northwestern Technical College.
A Georgia school system is considering the idea of storing rifles in school offices in case they're needed to defend students in a school shooting. Gainesville City Schools Superintendent Merrianne Dyer says the rifles would be placed at Gainesville High School, Gainesville Middle School and Wood's Mill Academy.
Teachers in coastal Georgia say they've been back to work for nearly a month and haven't seen pay increases reflected in their paychecks.
Georgia State Police said they were searching for two drivers accused of fleeing the scene of a crash in Walton County that left a 16-year-old boy dead Tuesday morning.
Georgia Tech sophomore Nicholas Selby says he was surprised by the reaction to his convocation speech welcoming freshmen to the Atlanta university. The video quickly went viral on the Internet. It had more than 1.8 million views on YouTube by Friday morning.
Georgia’s Board of Education plans to discuss a request next month by Governor Nathan Deal to review the Common Core. Common Core is a set of standardized benchmarks of academic progress that several states voluntarily adopted. Georgia signed on in 2010 and implemented the standards beginning with the 2012-2013 school year.


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Vacationing is a thrilling experience which provides an easy escape from the ordinary and the mundane. But when travelling, the hassle needs to be cut down upon effectively. Otherwise it may affect the overall enjoyment you wish to obtain from the getaway. One of the biggest hassles is the problem of effective transportation.
A Car makes a journey beautiful and easy. From taking you from one destination to another to carrying your entire luggage wherever you go, a car provides easy solutions to travelling. Get in touch with a travel company with the best car rental in Siliguri. A car can be your key to a hassle-free getaway.
Factors On What Makes Car Rental A Good Option
Booking a car can prove as the best decision you make while you travel. The car can take you places you love with ease and dexterity. Along with that, you can also say goodbye to the hassle of carrying your luggage and just leave it to the car. Plus, it also proves to be a safe and reliable form of travelling. And it also serves as the perfect solution for a cost-effective means of travel.
There are a lot of important factors that make traveling by car the perfect choice for your next tour. Take a look at some of the reasons as to why you may want to choose a car.
Flexibility And Freedom While Travelling
Whenever you travel via vehicle, you are on your timetable and have unlimited oversight over your outing. You can go at your own speed and stop at whatever point and any place you like. You additionally have the opportunity to change your course if necessary to stay away from jams.
Solves The Luggage Problem
One more magnificent thing about choosing a car is that you have no stuff problems with your luggage. The size of your vehicle might be your only limitation, but if you're leasing a vehicle for your excursion, you can pick a vehicle that is open and spacious.
Bonding And Memories
Travel is better with companions, and this is especially obvious when you travel via a car. Traveling by a car offers you an opportunity to bond with your fellow travelers . Going on a car tour together is a splendid method for getting to know one another on a more profound level and create memorable moments.
So by now you might have a very clear idea of how important choosing a car while travelling can be. Since you will have to start your journey from the airport to your destination, choose a travel expert who offers Bagdogra airport car rental services. This will make your journey better and sweeter.
If you want to enjoy a hassle free and lively vacation experience, then taking a car will the ideal course of action. You can choose from a wide variety of cars and whatever fits your budget well. You can also choose whether your ride will be a normal one or an air conditioned one.

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Exciting developments in the world of payment
Director of Legal and Business
Payapps, an ECA Commercial Associate and industry leader in construction payment management technology, recently announced their acquisition of WebContractor Holdings Limited, a UK-based construction software company specialising in subcontractor applications for payment.
This move is more significant than it may seem at first glance.
This is an exciting time for our industry: to watch the two main players in digital payment come together to combine and collaborate. Whilst competition breeds innovation, collaboration strengthens the market and prevents the supply chain from being forced to operate with multiple incompatible systems with needless duplication of cost.
What makes this doubly exciting for our sector’s payment landscape is the new Procurement Bill, which was granted Royal Assent this month and has become an Act of Parliament. The new Act will be a huge help to construction sector SMEs, which includes the majority of ECA Members. It will simplify UK procurement and make it more efficient than ever.
Key features of the Act include:
- Changing the criteria from ‘Most Economically Advantageous Tender’ to ‘Most Advantageous Tender’ in order to ensure value, and avoid a ‘race to the bottom’ approach
- Ensuring that 30-day payment terms are an implied term in every public sector contract.
- Ensuring that all public and private sector large organisations must report on their payment performance
Payment is a key issue, and we work with government and those in the industry supply chain to ensure that they understand the often-severe impact of poor payment practices on our members. Furthermore, we have been invited to 10 Downing Street to discuss matters such as these within our Cabinet Office advisory role.
Research from ECA has found that many local authorities are still not ensuring their supply chain was paid on time, in contravention of their legal obligations. The ECA is working to ensure greater public sector compliance.
With Payapps currently processing applications for payment worth over £40 billion per annum globally, this acquisition represents a strategic synergy between two key industry players and affords Payapps the ability to provide even greater value to ECA Members and the wider sector.
Combined, these recent developments are set to ease more of the pains suffered by construction in the field of payment processing technology.
ECA’s Legal & Business team provides support and advice relating to key aspects of contractual business matters in both commercial and domestic settings. From pre-qualification, tendering, contract reviews, to conditions of payment, ECA provides guidance for its Members with templates, guides and a dedicated helpline. Learn more here.
Director of Legal and Business
Having joined ECA in 2018, Rob qualified as a solicitor and mediator with extensive construction and FM experience, obtained in private practice and trade associations. He is widely known in the industry for his active contribution to dialogue between industry players and Government on a range of business-related issues, on behalf of the engineering services sector.
Rob is also an SME Business Advisor to the Cabinet Office/Crown Commercial Services. He is an active advocate of digital business solutions and, based on his personal experience, a passionate advocate of the commercial benefits of mentoring, diversity and wider inclusion in industry.
Six things you need to know about the Procurement Bill
Government funds incentives and digital training for small businesses
CHAS: Ten issues that will affect construction supply chains in 2022
Construction looking to August for relief from COVID requirements
The story behind the headlines: the Prompt Payment Code
Prompt Payment Code: the story behind the headlines
Coronavirus: risk, uncertainty, and the supply chain
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18 Aug Ascent Spivi Launch – Free Event
Cyclists can create their own profile on Spivi and receive a detailed performance analysis after each class, using information from heart rate monitors and cadence sensors on the bike.
Join Ascent Fitness in the new 3D cycling experience! The only cycling studio in Houston to use Spivi Studio, a 3D virtual indoor cycling race simulator, is opening up the experience for free on Aug. 29.
From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., try a Spivi class for free for a little friendly competition between your friends and neighbors at our Montrose location. All while enjoying the musical listenings of DJ Motai!
Spivi Studio was created to encourage competition and motivation in your spin class! Cyclists can create their own profile in Spivi and receive a detailed performance analysis after each class, using information from heart rate monitors and cadence sensorson the bikes.
With Spivi you can:
Compete against others
See your rank
Train on real courses
Ascent Fitness will be joined by:
Town in City Brewing Company
Breakfast Burritos Anonymous
Kind Snacks & Granola Bars
Liz Keels, Licensed Massage Therapist
Ashley Ansley-Holistic Body Therapies
Piazza Wellness Center

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To paraphrase the BSBI's national web site, axiophytes are "worthy plants" - the 40% or so of species that arouse interest from botanists as indicators of habitat that is considered important for conservation, such as ancient woodlands, clear water and species-rich meadows.
They are not the same as rare plants: species that have only ever been recorded in one or two sites in a county may have relatively low statistical significance when considering vegetation patterns as a whole. (Actually this is a debatable point, as their constancy in a particular habitat in the wider world may count for more than their frequency in an arbitrary geographical area.)
Lists of axiophytes are one technique for determining conservation priorities. Sites with many axiophytes are usually of greater importance than those with fewer; and changes in the number of axiophytes in a site over time can be used for monitoring the outcome of management practices.
The BSBI nationally has identified three criteria for defining an axiophyte.
In Hampshire we have considered these criteria and made some adjustments. We have retained the rarity criterion for the present, although we do not consider it particularly meaningful. Of more concern is the 90% restriction. There are several species which are indicators of good habitat but also make an appearance in other situations considered less conservation-worthy. To include these indicriminately in a list would result in an undesirable number of 'false positives', even at the 90% / 10% level. On the other hand, to exclude them would be to lose information of value in many situations.
As a result, we have defined two categories of axiophyte:
Strict axiophytes are therefore listed together with the habitats for which they can be considered valid. The habitat classification is based on the Broad Habitat Classification developed for the UK Biodiversity Action Plan (2000). Habitats relevant to Hampshire vascular plants are listed at the link below.

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Atlanta Falcons look to add to their defense in this 2023 NFL Mock Draft after finishing the 2022 season with a 7-10 record
The 2022 season was always going to be a transition year for the Atlanta Falcons. Prior to the season, the Falcons traded long-time quarterback Matt Ryan to the Indianapolis Colts and then during the season traded Deion Jones and Calvin Ridley.
It seemed like this was the first year that head coach Arthur Smith really got to put his stamp on the team and the results were mixed as they finished the year 7-10. However, there was a lot of positives to build off of as rookies like Desmond Riddler and Tyler Allgeier got valuable experience and showed serious promise.
Atlanta Falcons improve the defensive side of the ball with five players drafted on that side in this 2023 NFL Mock Draft
One of the areas the Falcons really struggled last year was on defense after allowing the sixth most yards per game (362.1) and 10th most points per game (22.7). However in this 2023 NFL Mock Draft, run on Pro Football Network’s Mock Draft Simulator, the Falcons should improve on those by adding players at all three levels starting up front with the eighth overall pick.


- Poor Air Quality– Are your having allergies out of season? It could be because you need duct cleaning! If your ventilation for your HVAC system hasn’t been maintained in a while, it can collect dust and other contaminants that get distributed through the air.
- Loud Sounds– Not every furnace can be whisper-quiet, but it also shouldn’t be making banging sounds or other strange noises during normal operation.
- Higher-than-Average Bills– Have your heating bills been going up each month? It could be because the weather is getting colder…or there may be something wrong. If you start to notice a huge jump in the price of your energy bills, consider an inspection.
- Uneven Heating Between Rooms– If you experience insufficient heat or heat that is unevenly balanced between different rooms, you may have issues with your ventilation or your insulation. Either way, you should have a professional come and perform a check up on your furnace.
- Not Matching Thermostat– Should you notice that your home feels colder that the temperature on your thermostat, call JD Service Now. It may not be your thermostat’s problem! JD Service Now can inspect your furnace and deliver solutions quickly.
Think that you might need furnace repair? Don’t hesitate to call today. And if your furnace is past its warranty or even its life expectancy, remember that there is no better time than now to order furnace replacement. With over $1500 worth in rebates available, this could be the year that you get the high efficiency furnace your home needs!


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This site is dedicated to horoscope enthusiasts everywhere. I love reading horoscopes, and typically begin my day with a cup of coffee and quick tour around my favorite astrology sites. So, I created this site to share my finds with others.
This site is by no means comprehensive. I tend to look for sites that I feel are well-written, easy to use, and backed by an astrologer. I tend to avoid commercial or computer-generated sites because, well, there’s usually too many ads, it’s often hard to navigate, and I just don’t enjoy them as much.
The sites listed here offer some form of free horoscope. Some of these sites provide additional horoscopes for subscriber members, and most provide additional services and readings.
I hope you enjoy this site. If you have a favorite site that you’d like to submit for consideration, please contact me.


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For World Mental Health Day on October 10, I decided to stop reading any story that had the name of our 45th president in the headline. My outrage at the amount of violence and injustice in the world had reached a level where hearing any more news about the latest hate spewed by the current presidential administration would only cause me unnecessary grief. Reading liberals repeatedly urging people to vote for Democrats as a response —with the inevitable associated shaming of progressive third-party voters and abstainers — did not help either.
I just needed a break from the onslaught, and short of avoiding news coverage and social media altogether, this was my chosen method of self-care. I knew I couldn’t avoid reading about current events for long, though. My self-imposed news break ended when the New York Times reported this week that the current administration was planning to legally deny the existence of sex and gender variance. Members of the trans, non-binary, and intersex communities and our allies immediately condemned this latest attack on our rights and dignity.
At first I refused to read the news report, and just suggested that friends and allies share stories written by and about trans folks. I offered my own profile from the New York Times “Transgender Today” column (published in 2015), posting on Facebook that my story might be of historical interest if I got hauled off to a concentration camp (which I don’t see as a far-fetched scenario, sadly). But later I did read the NYT story about the trans-antagonistic memo, as well as various reactions to it (particularly those written by trans people), as I felt it was important to be informed about exactly what was being proposed.
Here’s the thing: I respect other trans, non-binary, and intersex people reacting to this aggravating and genuinely frightening news in whatever way feels appropriate to them. But I am not going to respond by urging people to get out the vote (though I certainly don’t oppose voting, and will be voting next month as I have in virtually every election since I first became eligible in 1988). Instead, I am going to focus on…

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1. Most of the new oil dipsticks on recently manufactured cars are electronic sensors only accessible to the vehicle's computer.
How do you know when you run out of oil if the computer malfunctions?
2. Many of the election results are tabulated nowadays by computerized voting machines.
How do you know if an election was stolen?
3. All estimates of the world's petroleum reserves are held in proprietary databases by powerful oil interests.
How do we know when we go empty?
"Pay no attention to Caeser. Caeser doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on." -- Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle


Since it’s so nasty and dreary outside today, I thought it’d be a good time to start a new custom. I love doing the VW’s, but I was really hoping to try something different this time, I just couldn’t decide which direction to go. So, instead of overthinking it, once I knew that I couldn’t make a quick decision, I picked up VW T2 truck and started giving it some thought. A lot of people use this casting for customs, so I don’t want to do what somebody else has already done. I’m not 100% sure of where I’m going with this one, but I’m going to start heading that way now. First, the basic stuff, removed the body from the chassis by drilling out the mushroom post on the front and back. I used a 2-56 tap and drill to drill the post down to accept the 2-56 x 3/16″ button head screw when the project is finished. It’s easier to do this before you disassemble the vehicle. Once the post is drilled and tapped, I use a 3/16″ drill bit to remove the remaining mushroom on the post. This is where a lot of people make mistakes. You need to drill slowly and straight, only removing enough of the mushroom to pry the body from the chassis. The base of this vehicle is plastic, so patience is mandatory. Once I drill enough of the mushroom away, I use a curved pick to slowly pry the chassis from the body. I really wish the windows on this casting were clear, but we’ll have to work with what we have. So once the vehicle is completely disassembled, I start looking over things that need to be added, changed or removed. This particular casting has those 6 intake holes in the front along with a indention. Once the paint is stripped, I’ll fill this area in with super glue and baking soda, then sand.
I use Rust-Oleum Aircraft Paint Remover to remove the paint from the casting. Of course, read the directions, but I just give the body a pretty thick coat of the remover, let it sit for about 10 minutes, then use the air compressor to blow off the paint that’s pulled away from the metal. Takes about 10 minutes. Some times, you may have to do this twice or take a small brass brush to get into the grooves of the casting. Once the paint is removed, I start working out the imperfections on the body and filling in areas with the super glue/baking soda mixer. I hope to get some video of this process soon, but it’s super easy and the excess sands away easily. After the first application of the super glue/baking soda mix, I file away the excess with diamond encrusted mini files (found at Amazon), then give the area a good sanding with 600 grit sandpaper. After a light coat of primer is applied, I can easily see the areas that I missed and will have to fill in again. This is where I’m going to stop on this part of the project. Part II coming soon! If you have any questions, please feel fee to ask.


Emma speaks with award-winning author, Kennedy Ryan, about her books, The Kingmaker, and Long Shot, to celebrate the Bloom Books editions in print. They also discuss Kennedy's research that goes into her writing, centering women, writing with conviction, belief, her journalism background, motherhood, romance, allllll the tropes, and so much more.
CONTENT WARNINGS: Long Shot discusses issues that may be sensitive to readers. Please read all content warnings about the book beforehand. Kennedy does address these topics in broad terms in this interview.
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Following the orders of an accounting courtroom, the public sale course of is underway for the Sheikhupura property held by the Pakistan-Nawaz Muslim League (PML-N) and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
The public sale began at 7 million rupees per acre. The 88-Kanal land of the previous prime minister is being bought as a restoration within the Toshakhana reference. The primary individual within the license introduced a test for 1 million rupees to the public sale committee as a referred to as deposit. The public sale is at the moment underway on the Sheikhupura Municipal Corridor underneath the supervision of the extra DC.
In the meantime, a resident, Ashraf, who claims to be the proprietor of the land that was auctioned additionally went to the municipal corridor and added that the land had been bought and that the case is at the moment being tried in civil courtroom. Yesterday, the Islamabad Superior Court docket (IHC) dismissed the petitions of former Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif looking for judicial orders to detain the public sale of his properties.
The Islamabad Superior Court docket (IHC), comprised of Choose Amir Farooq and Choose Tariq Mehmood, has declared the petitions of the wicked prime minister inadmissible. Through the course of the continuing, the courtroom ordered the petitioner to go to the listening to in query.


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Towns & Parishes
"Thorpe Constantine is a small village and parish, near the Warwickshire borders, five miles NE of Tamworth. It has only 42 inhabitants, and about 1000 acres of land, belonging to Captain William Inge, who resides in the Hall, and is lord of the manor."[From History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire, William White, Sheffield, 1851]
"The church is a small building dedicated to St Constantine, and having a lofty spire. Captain William Inge is patron of the rectory and the incumbency has been held since 1824 by the Rev George Inge, MA.
[From History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire, William White, Sheffield, 1851]
Church of England Registers
The register of St Constantine commenced in 1539. The original registers for the period 1539-1812 (Bapt), 1539-1750 (Mar) & 1539-1812 (Bur) are deposited at Staffordshire Record Office. The entries for the period 1626-1667 are missing.
Bishops Transcripts for the period 1662-1879 (with gaps 1796-1804 & 1864-73) are deposited at Lichfield Record Office.
A transcription of the section on Thorpe Constantine from A Topographical History of Staffordshire by William Pitt (1817)
Thorpe Constantine parish became part of Tamworth Union following the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834.
[Last updated: 25th August 2014, Mike Harbach. © 1998 - 2014]

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text: The first look at the live-action “Mulan” doesn’t include any singing, talking dragons, or cultural inaccuracies. Disney released the trailer for its remake of the 1998 movie. The live-action film stars Chinese American actress Liu Yifei and is directed by Niki Caro. The trailer depicts iconic scenes from the animated movie, minus musical numbers, Li Shang, and Mushu the talking dragon. Some fans were upset about the exclusion of the characters, but other applauded the new tone and direction. “Hua Mulan’s story dates to as early as 386 AD from a folk song & later a transcription in the 6th century. Disney’s live action film is attempting to honor the OG version for Western & Estern (china) audiences. There is no Mushu or Li Shang in the original so please, shut up!” @IAMCINDYCHU tweeted. “For once Disney decides to stock with the original story, a more realistic remake with an amazing all-Asain cast and all you care is about mushu. Go back to watch the animated version or go off I guess #mulan,” @ULTPOSIE tweeted. Caro is the second woman director to lead a Disney film with a budget of more than $100 million. “[…] The location and the story is offering such scope to me for [an] incredible, muscular piece of girly martial arts extravaganza in China,” she told Screen Crush. “Mulan” is expected to premiere on March 27, 2020.

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Kitamae(きたまえ) Sapporo Manga Anime Festival 2014 has been opened in Sapporo Art Park, Sep, 13 to 15.
In the morning, many young people are getting together and waiting for open the building in front of Art Hall in Sapporo Art Park. They have a large shopping bag or traveling bag to bring their Kosupure properties.
Just at 10 o’clock, the door was opened and waiting cos-players were inhaled into the building. Cosplayers went to the dressing rooms and Otaku or Anime funs were staying in the hall for a special movie show and stage performance by a new anime movie ‘Tentai-no-Method'(天体のメソッド). They were looking for it.
Every cos-player accepted my taking their photos with full of smile. She dressed up a anime character cosplay as Magical girl Magika. Is she cute, isn’t she.
Three girls were dressing up their favorite anime and game characters such as Kuroko-no-Basuke, Free and Toho. I’m afraid that I am so novice for anime characters that I could not report correctly, I guess.
Another cos-play girl coming, I asked her character and she said, It’s Gugure-Kokkurisan’. Maybe, she spoke Japanese and I heard just like that, but I couldn’t identified what it is. Anyway, She’s so cute!
This is Mario! I know him. WoW.
This is Gintama. Gin is silver and Tama refers to Tamashii(魂), soul or heart. So Gintama means a soul of silver. Cool!
Wow nice girls!
Contents of Kitamae Sapporo Manga Anime Festival 2014
- A live concert of anime songs
- Kosupure/cosplay —Kospure or cosplay is the practice of dressing up as a character from manga, anime or some other video game source. The word derives from ‘costume play’. Originating in Japan, the practice of kosupure has spread to many other countries.
- Itasha display —Itasha is the customized car as the same style of manga or anime.
- Manga and Anime work shop for young creaters
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The open stage in Sapporo Art Park
Date and Hours
- Sep, 13, 14, 15


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Census of Population
Detailed information for 2021
Every 5 years
The Census of Population is the primary source of socioeconomic data for specific population groups (e.g. First Nations people, Métis and Inuit, immigrants, language groups) and for detailed or small geographies. The Census of Population is mandated by law in the Constitution Act (1867) and the Statistics Act (1985) to determine the population of Canada and its' provinces and territories, every five years.
Population counts from the census have essential purposes, such as to realign the boundaries of federal electoral districts and to calculate transfer payments between levels of government. The data are needed by both the public and private sectors to support decision-making, like planning community services (e.g., schools and emergency services) or determining consumer and market demand in all parts of the country.
Data release - Feb 9, 2022 (Population); Apr 29, 2022 (Age, sex, gender); Jul 13, 2022 (Families, households, income); Aug 17, 2022 (Language); Sep 21, 2022 (Indigenous peoples, housing); Oct 26, 2022 (Immigration, religion); Nov 30, 2022 (Education, labour)
- Questionnaire(s) and reporting guide(s)
- Data sources and methodology
- Data accuracy
Statistics Canada conducts the Census of Population in order to paint a statistical portrait of Canada and Canadians on one specific day. The census is designed to provide information about people and housing units in Canada by their demographic, social and economic characteristics.
A sample of approximately 25% of Canadian households receive a long-form questionnaire. All other households receive a short-form questionnaire.
The Census of Population is a reliable basis for the estimation of the population of the provinces, territories and municipal areas. These counts are essential for maintaining Canada's equitable representation, as they are used to set electoral boundaries; estimate the demand for services in minority official languages; and calculate federal, provincial and territorial transfer payments.
The census also provides information about the characteristics of the population and its housing within small geographic areas and for small population groups to support planning, administration, policy development and evaluation activities of governments at all levels. The information provided by the census for these geographic areas and population groups is also used by the private sector as well as data users in their decision-making process.
Federal government, provincial and territorial governments, municipal governments, First Nations, Inuit and Métis leaders and organizations , libraries, educational institutions, researchers and academics, private industry, business associations, labour organizations, ethnic and cultural groups, private citizens, public interest groups are among the users of census data.
Reference period: May 11th, 2021, unless otherwise specified.
Collection period: Month of May through July, every (5) five years
- Commuting to work
- Education, training and learning
- Families, households and housing
- Immigration and ethnocultural diversity (formerly Ethnic diversity and immigration)
- Income, pensions, spending and wealth
- Indigenous peoples (formerly Aboriginal peoples)
- Population and demography
- Population estimates and projections
- Society and community
Data sources and methodology
The census enumerates the entire Canadian population, on a "usual residence" basis (de jure). The population enumerated consists of usual residents of Canada who are Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization), landed immigrants and non-permanent residents and their families living with them in Canada. Non-permanent residents are persons who hold a work or student permit, or who claim refugee status.
The census also counts Canadian citizens and landed immigrants who are temporarily outside the country on Census Day. This includes federal and provincial government employees working outside Canada, Canadian embassy staff posted to other countries, members of the Canadian Forces stationed abroad, all Canadian crew members of merchant vessels and their families. Because people outside the country are enumerated, the Census' population concept is considered a "modified" de jure census.
Foreign residents such as representatives of a foreign government assigned to an embassy, high commission or other diplomatic mission in Canada, and residents of another country who are visiting Canada temporarily are not covered by the census.
The majority of Canada's population resides in private dwellings. For residents of private dwellings, census data are collected primarily by having one adult member of the household respond on behalf of the entire household through self-enumeration using an online form.
Collective dwellings are dwellings of a commercial, institutional or communal nature. These are the usual residence of many Canadians. Examples include lodging or rooming houses, hotels, motels, tourist establishments, nursing homes, hospitals, staff residences, military bases, work camps, correctional or custodial facilities, and group homes.
Statistics Canada takes a practical and contactless approach to enumerating people living in collective dwellings, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, no enumerator will be permitted to visit or enter most collective dwellings, especially those housing residents who are vulnerable to COVID-19, such as seniors' residences, hospitals and correctional institutions. All contact will be done by phone with the administrator of the collective dwelling, who will provide them with the key information required on each resident.
Statistics Canada takes a number of key steps to ensure that each census produces relevant information for Canadians and decision makers.
Preparing for each census requires several stages of consultation, testing and test data evaluation before recommended questionnaire content for the upcoming census can be proposed to the Cabinet of Canada for approval. These steps include:
- a content consultation with stakeholders, census data users and the general public
- qualitative testing of proposed modifications and additions to the content
- quantitative testing to evaluate content and respondent behaviour on a larger scale
- an evaluation of the test results guided by a content determination framework.
Upon Cabinet approval of the census questions, the Governor in Council reviews the questions, and an order in council prescribes the questions to be asked under section 19 or 20 of the Statistics Act. Within 30 days of the signing of the order in council, the content of the census is published in the Canada Gazette. The 2021 Census content was published in the Canada Gazette on July 17, 2020.
Statistics Canada conducted extensive consultations from fall 2017 to spring 2018 using an online questionnaire and face-to-face discussions with stakeholders. More than 2,800 respondents participated in the online consultation. This unprecedented number demonstrates a high level of interest in helping to shape an important source of demographic and social information for decision making and analysis.
In addition to the online consultation, Statistics Canada met with respondents from 14 federal departments and other interested organizations in person. To understand the needs of Indigenous organizations and communities, more than 60 in-person discussions were held in 30 Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities across Canada with more than 400 contributors.
Based on the findings from consultations and discussions, Statistics Canada modified the questions asked in the census for testing purposes. In 2018, various versions were tested qualitatively through cognitive, one-on-one interviews which were conducted by Statistics Canada's Questionnaire Design Resource Centre. These interviews were conducted across Canada in both official languages.
Based on the results of qualitative testing, the census questionnaires were further revised and tested quantitatively during the 2019 Census Test. The 2019 Census Test evaluated changes to the wording and flow of some of the questions, as well as the potential addition of new questions.
After statistically analyzing the results of the 2019 Census Test and considering costs, operational factors and safeguards against quality loss, Statistics Canada made recommendations to the government, which determined the final content of the 2021 Census questionnaire.
For the short-form:
This survey is a census with a cross-sectional design.
Demographic information is collected from 100% of the population. Data are collected for all units (dwellings) of the target population, therefore no sampling is done.
For the long-form:
This is a sample survey with a cross-sectional design.
For the census long-form, a random sample of 1 in 4 private dwellings in Canada is selected systematically. The sample size was determined to ensure the dissemination of reliable estimates for small areas and small populations. The long-form sample is selected from the 2021 Census of Population dwelling list.
Responding to this survey is mandatory.
Data are collected directly from survey respondents.
The census reference date is May 11, 2021.
Collection includes response by Internet, paper questionnaire, the Census Help Line, and failed-edit and non-response follow-up.
Statistics Canada uses a wave methodology throughout the collection period to remind the majority of Canadians to complete their census questionnaires.
The first wave takes place during the first week of collection when an invitation letter is sent out to most dwellings across the country. This first letter provides instructions on how to complete the questionnaire online with a secure access code, the date by which the questionnaire should be completed, as well as the census website address and toll-free Census Help Line number for support.
During the second week of collection, a reminder is sent to households that have not yet completed their questionnaire. This letter also provides instructions on how to complete the questionnaire, as well as the census website address and toll-free Census Help Line number for support.
By the third week of collection, households that have not yet completed a questionnaire will receive a final notice informing them that a Statistics Canada representative will be visiting their household or contacting them by phone to complete the questionnaire.
Statistics Canada subsequently conducts follow-up activities with non-responding households to complete their questionnaires, either door to door or by phone.
The 2021 Census of Population questionnaires (short and long-forms) are similar to those used in the 2016 Census, with some revised and new content (see 'Instrument Design').
As was done for the 2016 Census, Statistics Canada will inform 2021 Census respondents that their earnings and income information will be retrieved from personal income tax and benefits files provided by the Canadian Revenue Agency. This use of administrative data provides better-quality, detailed information for small communities and populations and reduces program costs and response burden on Canadians. The census income and earnings data are used to develop and monitor the use and impact of income support programs.
In 2021, for the first time, immigrant status and year of immigration will be obtained from administrative files provided by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). These data provide vital information to help understand the living conditions and socioeconomic outcomes of immigrants and their children in Canada. As in 2016, Statistics Canada will collect admission category and applicant type information from administrative files provided by IRCC.
View the Questionnaire(s) and reporting guide(s).
However well a census is designed, the data collected will inevitably contain errors. These errors can occur at virtually any stage of the process, from preparing materials and creating the list of dwellings to collecting and processing the data. Census data users need to be aware of the different types of errors that can occur and of the steps taken to minimize these errors, so that they can evaluate the relevance and accuracy of the data and determine whether they meet their needs.
There are two main types of errors: sampling errors and non-sampling errors. Non-sampling error is likely to bias estimates. Efforts to minimize these errors are made at each stage of collection and processing to reduce their impact; e.g., correcting non-response and coverage errors by imputing and adjusting the weighting of the data from the long-form questionnaire. However, a residual error remains following this process.
Edit and imputation activities begin once data capture, coverage edits and FEFU operations have ended, and the RDB is deemed as complete, consistent, and as free of processing errors as possible. Edit and imputation represents the last processing step before the census data are delivered for dissemination purposes.
In its first phase, the census data from private households is run through the Whole Household Imputation (WHI), which resolves census total non-response before edit and imputation begins. Each of these dwellings either gets imputed as occupied or unoccupied based on the Dwelling Classification Survey results, leading to the provision of population and dwelling counts to Statistics Canada's Statistical Geomatics Centre. Besides the occupancy status, the WHI also imputes a household size, as well as a few demographic characteristics from administrative data if available, and searches for a donor household to donate its data for the remaining missing variables.
The second phase sees all data processed through a series of deterministic and donor modules for each topic, all run in a specific sequence using the Canadian Census Edit and Imputation System (CANCEIS). Modules detect and adjust for invalid, inconsistent or partial non-responses.
For the short form:
No weights are calculated to produce the estimates for the Census of Population short form. However, whole household imputation is performed to compensate for the cases of total non-response and the cases of under-coverage that were identified by the Dwelling Classification Survey (DCS).
One of the sources of coverage error in the census is the misclassification of dwellings on Census Day. This error can occur when an occupied dwelling is classified as unoccupied, or when an unoccupied dwelling is classified as occupied. The purpose of the DCS is to produce estimates of the number of these classification errors. A sample of dwellings for which no census questionnaire was returned is contacted, information is collected on the occupancy status and, if occupied, on the number of usual residents.
For the long form:
A weight is produced and associated with each responding household of the long-form sample. Persons, census families and economic families inherit the weight of their household. This weight is used to estimate population parameters.
A weight is first calculated for all the dwellings of the sample based on the sample design as the inverse of the probability of selection. In remote areas and Indian reserves, where the long form is used to collect the information of all households, this is the final weight and data imputation is performed for all cases of total and partial non-response.
It is essential to ensure the quality of census data. One way to do this is by conducting a variety of evaluations. Quality evaluation activities take place throughout the census process, beginning before data collection and ending after dissemination. These evaluations are based on the six dimensions of data quality presented in the Statistics Canada Quality Guidelines Catalogue no. 12-539-X: relevance, accuracy, timeliness, accessibility, interpretability and coherence. The purpose is to ensure that census data are reliable and that they meet user needs.
Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from releasing any information it collects that could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent or as permitted by the Statistics Act. Various confidentiality rules are applied to all data that are released or published to prevent the publication or disclosure of any information deemed confidential. If necessary, data are suppressed to prevent direct or residual disclosure of identifiable data.
In order to prevent any data disclosure, confidentiality analysis is done using the Statistics Canada Generalized Disclosure Control System (G-Confid). G-Confid is used for primary suppression (direct disclosure) as well as for secondary suppression (residual disclosure). Direct disclosure occurs when the value in a tabulation cell is composed of or dominated by few enterprises while residual disclosure occurs when confidential information can be derived indirectly by piecing together information from different sources or data series.
Revisions and seasonal adjustment
This methodology type does not apply to this survey.
Many census data quality evaluations focus on their accuracy; i.e., the extent to which the statistical information describes precisely what it should be measuring. The findings of the activities to evaluate data accuracy are used to validate and certify the data prior to publication, to inform users of the reliability and accuracy of the data, to improve the next census, to adjust census counts for non-response and, following coverage studies, to produce official population estimates.
- Guide to the Census of Population, 2021
- Dictionary, Census of Population, 2021
- Balancing the Protection of Confidentiality with the Needs for Disaggregated Census Data, Census of Population, 2021
- Use of administrative data to impute non-responding households in areas with low response rates for the 2021 Census
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How Corporations Have Bought Control of State Legislatures
Corporations and state legislators are working together to write new, business-friendly laws that shift the balance of power against workers across the board.
Following the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision, a lot of attention has been focused on the ruling’s impact on Washington, DC. However, the most consequential changes have arguably taken place in all 50 state legislatures.
Not coincidentally, political spending by corporations in state campaigns has grown 600 percent since 2010.
ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, is an organization made up of corporate lobbyists from the biggest businesses in the country and state officials, who meet regularly to write laws, working side by side. Since 2010, ALEC has passed over 200 bills around the country.
Gordon Lafer, a former congressional policy adviser and an expert on state legislative politics, talks to Jeff Schechtman about the impact of all of this.
Of the hundreds of laws written by corporate lobbyists, the majority have been to weaken public- and private-sector unions, ease discrimination laws, make it harder to qualify for unemployment insurance and contribute to efforts at gerrymandering. All of this is happening, Lafer argues, while people remain totally bored by state politics.
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Jeff Schechtman: Welcome to Radio WhoWhatWhy. I’m Jeff Schechtman.
Back in 2010, with the Citizens United decision, we thought we were witnessing the beginnings of the dominance of corporations and of corporate power, but long before Citizens United, there were powerful currents of corporations within the body politic. In fact, let’s go back forty plus years and listen to Arthur Jensen talking to Howard Beale in Paddy Chayefsky’s brilliant movie, Network:
“You get up on your little 21-inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, DOW, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the missions of the world today. What do you think Russians talk about in their Councils of State? Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations and execrably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale.”
Today, add to all of this globalization, technology, artificial intelligence, the power of lobbying and so much money in politics and the stew becomes even more powerful. We’re going to talk about this today with my guest Gordon Lafer. Gordon Lafer is an associate professor at the Labor, Education and Research Center at the University of Oregon. He has served as senior policy advisor for the US Congress and has testified as an expert witness before multiple state legislatures. Gordon Lafer, thanks so much for joining us.
Gordon Lafer: Thanks for having me. It’s good to be here.
Jeff Schechtman: Clearly, this is not an issue that’s a new issue, not even one that begins with Citizens United, but the power of corporations in politics and in so many aspects of our lives as one that we’ve been dealing with for a long time.
Gordon Lafer: Yeah, I haven’t heard that clip from Network in a long time, but absolutely right. Corporations have been powerful and the rich try to make themselves richer and other people poorer, that’s not news. But there are things that are different in our time. One of them is the impact of Citizens United. Corporations already were dominant in politics, but in January 2010, when the Supreme Court said corporations can now spend unlimited amounts of cash on politics, it really created a sea-change, especially in the state legislatures. The political spending of the big corporate lobbies in the country has grown by 600% since 2010 and that’s made a huge different in the laws. They affect a lot of our economic lives.
Jeff Schechtman: Talk about that and what’s happened on the state level and the state legislative level that has made this such a more powerful voice.
Gordon Lafer: I think it’s really important and I think almost everybody in America is bored to death by state politics, so nobody pays attention and then a lot of things happen while we’re not paying attention. The corporate organization that does the most to coordinate corporate politics at the state level is called the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. ALEC is made up of several hundred of the biggest corporations in the country, some including those named in Network as being the giants in the 1970s: DOW Chemical, IBM, General Motors and a lot of companies that we all know: Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, McDonald’s, Coca Cola. The way ALEC works is that one-quarter of all state legislators in America are members. They just pay fifty bucks a year in dues; the corporations pay all of the rest of the expenses. They meet several times a year in fancy resorts and they sit in committees that are made up of half elected legislators and half corporate lobbyists and they write bills together. All of the bills have to be approved by a corporate board and then those bills get introduced in cookie cutter fashion in state after state around the country. The same companies that write the laws give money to those candidate’s campaigns, spend their own money on Internet, radio, TV ads and also spend money hiring people to be right up it and be experts on TV or on the news to promote their policies. So, it’s a very well-funded, very smart 50 state agenda to change the rule of the economy.
Jeff Schechtman: And what impact has that had? What are the areas that so much of this effort has gone into?
Gordon Lafer: Almost everything, especially that affects the two-thirds of Americans that who are in jobs that don’t require college degrees. So, that means a lot of anti-union laws, both doing away with public sector unions, undermining private sector unions through so called right- to-work laws, lowering wages in the construction industry, but a lot of things that have nothing to do with unions: lowering the minimum wage, lowering the wage for waiters and waitresses, increasing the hours that teenagers can work in order to substitute teenagers for adult labor, making it harder to sue over race and sex discrimination, making it harder to recover wages that are stolen out of your paycheck, making it harder to collect unemployment insurance. When you have unlimited money, you can be very ambitious and in all these nooks and crannies of economic regulation that most people are too bored by to pay attention to, they’ve been at work and you only see it when your own personal runs into one of those situations and then you’re suddenly like, how come I don’t qualify for unemployment insurance or how come my wage is lower than it’s supposed to be? But, it has a tremendous effect. ALEC estimates that it passes 200 bills a year around the country of bills that were written by corporate lobbyists.
Jeff Schechtman: Does it matter whether we’re talking about red states, blue states, etcetera?
Gordon Lafer: It matters a lot. It’s not entirely a partisan issue and it’s certainly not like democrats have been God’s gift to working people so I don’t want to pretend that it’s just partisan, but in general, the places where the laws that are most aggressive in promoting the economic interest of the elite at the expense of other people have been in states where Republicans control all branches of state government, meaning both houses of legislature and the governor’s office.
Jeff Schechtman: Which is, in fact, the majority of states.
Gordon Lafer: Well, it is. That itself is partly a result of corporate activism. Just a couple of months after Citizens United was passed in early 2010, the US Chamber of Commerce helped create a new initiative called Project Redmap. The goal of that was to raise corporate money in order to flip state legislatures in the fall of 2010 into all Republican control. There were 11 states that newly became entire Republican controlled, including Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and what we see in the states – one of the places where you can see how corporate power is so powerful at the state level is in almost all of those states, in presidential elections, they’re toss ups. The population is more or less evenly divided between democrats and republicans, but the state legislatures in all the states are very hard right wing and in many cases, super majority right wing. The fact that we have so many states like that is partly the result of corporate money in politics and Citizens United.
Jeff Schechtman: Where, if anywhere have we seen any pushback to this?
Gordon Lafer: Well, the place where pushback has been the greatest is in places where citizens have the right to vote on a single law. People vote for candidates for all different kinds of reasons – you see this in polling but you also see it in ballot initiatives or referenda, that the corporate agenda, while they’re very powerful at buying off politicians at the state level, what they have not succeeded in doing is convincing people that their ideas are good ideas. So, there’s a strong majority of both republicans and democrats who support raising the minimum wage, who support the idea that everybody should have the right to paid sick leave, who support affordable healthcare. So, we see places for instance, in Arizona last fall – Arizona is a very conservative state. It voted for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, but by a much wider margin, in the same election, they voted to raise the state’s minimum wage and create a right to paid sick leave. So, some hundreds of thousands of people both voted for Donald Trump and voted for minimum wage and sick leave. I think that’s where we’ve seen the effect of pushback and to me is also the most hopeful grounds for thinking about how to move forward.
Jeff Schechtman: To what extent did this change dramatically in terms of the success of these efforts, post Citizens United. Clearly some of this was going on before. How did Citizens United really amp this up?
Gordon Lafer: I think two ways. We only have one statistical study so far that’s really done in an academically rigorous way that estimates that the impact of Citizens United is to increase the chance of a republican winning a state legislative election by four points. A whole lot of political elections are won and lost by less than four points, but you can also see things like the attack on public employee unions, which was started famously in Wisconsin in early 2011 and then other states took off from that. That comes from ALEC and it comes from the Koch brothers: Americans for Prosperity. It doesn’t come out of the head of any individual politician or right-to-work laws, which are laws designed to do away with private sector unions was really dead before Citizens United. Most of the states that have those laws passed them in the 1940s and ‘50s and the most recent one had been 2001. It wasn’t a live issue at any place. Suddenly, when they were able to flip all of these legislatures, things that that had been on the corporate wish list but not real possibilities became real possibilities and started being enacted in a bunch of states.
Jeff Schechtman: When we look around the country, do we see any states that have been more successful than others in resisting this and is there something that we can learn from that?
Gordon Lafer: Well, I think that California is a state that a lot of people look to for another kind of model, for a more progressive and more humane model. I think that we’re in a time of downward mobility that has been for most people in the country, for forty years, not a cliff but a slow, steady downhill in terms of the ability of people to earn a decent living and support their families and anything like a middle class style of living. That cuts a lot of different ways but it makes people hungry for opportunities to make the economy fairer. So, there are states that have an active progressive legislation. There are states that have overturned their own state legislators: in Idaho and South Dakota, both deep red states. Voters voted by referendum to overturn laws that their legislators passed that did away with teacher tenure and had merit pay based on test scores. But I think we also see something like the Fight for Fifteen, where the first place fifteen dollar minimum wage was won was in Seatac, where the Seattle Airport was but then as soon as they won there, people started thinking well, if you get fifteen bucks for working in the Seattle Airport, maybe we should get that at LAX or maybe we should get that at other airports. So, we’ve seen that wins in some places galvanize the imagination and raise people’s expectations in other places.
Jeff Schechtman: Have unions been a plus or a minus in fighting this battle?
Gordon Lafer: Oh, absolute plus. For the most part not successful, but when you think about what it would be like without unions – you know, one of the things that I look at in this book is trying to understand why are unions so under attack? When we look at something like ALEC, this is not individuals making decisions; this is not personal ideology. These are corporations, each of which at some point – government affairs committee or executive committee – decided in was in their rational interest to put time, money and energy into promoting this agenda. It’s not so clear when you look at the year that Wisconsin public employees lost their right to collective bargaining, the head of ALEC’s labor committee was Kraft Foods. So you think, what does Kraft Foods care about public employees in Wisconsin or Ohio? When you look at what they actually say in some private meetings, what it looks like is one of the main reasons that the big corporations want to get rid of unions is not because of what they do for union members, but because of what they do for non-union workers, which of course is the vast majority of our economy. They say unions even in their shrunken and weakened state are the main opposition to corporate lobbies on things like minimum wage, sick leave, not having more NAFTA style treaties, protecting Social Security, having affordable healthcare – none of these are union issues per se because union members get those things in their contracts, but unions are the only significant political counterweight to the corporate agenda on all those issues and I think that’s the primary reason why unions have been so under attack. So, even though unions continue to shrink and it’s a very difficult time for the labor movement, when we think what would this political battle be like if there was no labor movement, it’s a scary thing to contemplate.
Jeff Schechtman: When we look at it in the context of globalization today and more jobs not so much being outsourced, but really being replaced by mechanization or artificial intelligence, talk a little bit about how this might continue to play out.
Gordon Lafer: One of the things that I think marks our time as different from the 1970s or earlier times is the degree of globalization. The president of GM famously said in the 1950s: “what’s good for GM is good for America.” I don’t know if that was ever exactly true, but it was closer to true when all of GM’s cars were made by American workers and bought by American consumers. Right now, a majority of GM employees and two-thirds of the cars they sell are overseas. They sell more cares in China alone than they do in the United States. They’re still a very big player in American politics. They’ve been active in ALEC and the Chamber of Commerce and the Association of Manufacturers, but their interest increasingly diverged from the interest of the American population. When people sometimes say, why do corporate lobbies want to cut education funding? Don’t they know that they have to rely on these people to be their workers in the future or why do they want to cut the minimum wage? Don’t they need people to buy their cars? Now, America is still important but it’s less important than ever before for many of these big corporations because increasingly, their interests are overseas. So, we’re in a new and weird situation where a foreign corporation, it’s illegal for them to donate money to political campaigns in America but a corporation that is legally American, because it’s headquartered here even if 80% of its business is overseas, can spend unlimited amounts of money. That’s one of the things where we see what looks like disinvestment in America of corporations not wanting to pay for infrastructure or social infrastructure that I think is because their interests have changed by dent of globalization.
Jeff Schechtman: Is there then, a plus in looking at this, although this is, as you say, where so many of the attacks have taken place, but a need to look at this on a more local or at least on a statewide level in terms of addressing some of these issues, because certainly from a globalization point of view, that genie is not going back in the bottle?
Gordon Lafer: That’s right. I wouldn’t look to the federal government right now as a great source of hope and the federal government, even in good times tends to pass a very small number of significant laws in any two- year period, whereas the states pass a ton, partly because there’s no filibuster in the states. I think you’re absolutely right: that the opportunity to move forward lies a lot in local action at the state level and also at the local level. Some of the most important initiatives started as city initiatives: in San Francisco, raising the minimum wage, the right to paid sick leave I think first started as only in the city of San Francisco. It turned out to be okay; it didn’t cost jobs, it didn’t make businesses go out of business and then other places started saying, look it worked there, let’s do it here and then states started adopting it. So, I think it’s crucially important to be active at that level.
Jeff Schechtman: What is the impact, when you look at that level, to what extent do you see the power and impact of money and economic influence from corporations?
Gordon Lafer: Well, it’s always a battle between people and money. I mean, the progressive side of things is not going to outspend the corporate lobbies, even if they’re sometimes sympathetic billionaires who throw money in. In general, there’s just more money on the other side. There’s a lot of popular support for these things. We have been seeing money coming in especially to school board elections because there’s a lot of money to be made in privatizing schools and in the technology to be made in privatizing schools. We’ve seen Wall Street interests putting in money in city elections or even school board elections. That didn’t used to be true. I think this makes local level organizing all the more important because that side is not going to be outdone by somebody outspending them in ads, but in many cases they have been outdone by being out-organized on the ground.
Jeff Schechtman: Does organization still make a significant difference today, particularly with younger voters that tend not to participate in that kind of organization?
Gordon Lafer: You know what, I don’t have any data. I try not to say things that I don’t actually have numbers on, but I think that we have seen places where organizing has worked and not just organizing in the sense of online activism, but actually people meeting each other, people forming real human organizations on the ground. It feels very slow and very local but a lot of things have been won that way.
Jeff Schechtman: Talk a little bit about Citizens United and the ways in which, arguably even some of that hasn’t been tested entirely yet, that there’s even more potential danger there.
Gordon Lafer: It’s made a huge change in state and local politics. Legally, Citizens United said that both corporations and labor unions can spend unlimited money on politics, but there’s no union that I know of that was sitting on a big pile of cash that was just waiting for a legal okay to be spent on politics. But corporations were. Just the Fortune 500 alone has revenues that are 350 times the size of the entire national labor movement, so it’s a very unequal context. Citizens United has unleashed all of that money. We have also seen a privatization of politics itself, not just spending on things, but you see both organizations like Karl Rove’s and the Koch brothers’, which are all based on having huge amounts of money that can be raised from private corporations and spent secretly that is doing things that only parties used to do. They’re recruiting and training candidates, they’re training field organizers in the staff, they’re doing their own polling, they have their own electronic voter file, which usually is the backbone of any political party. Things that not very long ago, only the Republican or the Democratic party could do. Now, the budget of the corporate lobby is larger than either the national Republican or Democratic party and so we’re seeing things move in a direction that is not only more money being given to candidates, but more of a question of who really controls who the candidates are and what they do in office shifting from party to private hands.
Jeff Schechtman: It’s interesting because you see it as kind of an extension of the disruption that we see in so many other sectors of the economy.
Gordon Lafer: Yes, I guess it does look like that and it is disruption in some kind, although it is highly coordinated. It’s not disruption of the kind saying: “We want 1000 little local startups to get working on politics.” That’s not what’s happening. It’s a very high level of coordination through very big corporations. I would say another thing that has happened at the state level as a result of Citizens United is that redistricting and gerrymandering of districts is even more intense at the state level than the federal level. That affects not just who’s in office, but what kinds of pressures they’re under when they’re in office. When most Republicans, just to talk about that party are running in districts when there’s no real chance of a Democrat ever winning and it makes the primary election be the real election. The threat of being primaried from the right is a very realistic threat and we’ve seen that threat be used in places like Michigan. When Michigan’s right to work law was passed, which is the law that destroys private sector unions, the Senate majority leader was a pro-labor moderate Republican who was opposed to that law and he got taken to a back room with a bunch of big money donors who essentially told him if you don’t do what we say, this is going to be your last term in office because we can pull money from you and give it to your opponent. And nobody is really paying attention to state politics, so even in a big state, you can often buy state legislative races for a fifty or hundred thousand bucks, which means the private interests have increasing power because of this, over being able to control what people do in office even when the politicians disagree with the principle.
Jeff Schechtman: Does this leave you totally pessimistic about where this is all going?
Gordon Lafer: This is always the question. How do you talk about this without saying it’s hopeless, start drinking now? It’s bleak. It’s a hard thing to look in the eyes. I think it’s important for us to look in the eyes. I think it’s especially important to not just get caught up in the drama of Donald Trump or other personalities but to be able to see behind the individuals, behind the parties even to what’s the real power that is making things happen, but I don’t think it’s all bleak. The reason I don’t is because when you look at public opinion, there’s a very strong – this is part of what I said before – a majority of people in America say to pollsters that we should redistribute wealth through heavy taxes on the rich. I’m not expecting that to happen anytime soon but it’s a kind of shocking thing to read those polls and realize oh my god, that’s what the majority of people in the country think. A majority of people think that there should be limits on how much corporate executives can make. Through the healthcare debate, most people in the country not only thought there should be a public option, but that there should be single payer. When there’s economic decline, like there’s been for 40 years for most people in the country, it produces a ton of insecurity, of anxiety, of rage, and those things obviously can cut either right or left. So I think it’s a chaotic and dangerous time, but also a time with a lot of opportunity.
Jeff Schechtman: Politicians and electeds tend to be very slow to react. Is there the potential, do you see, for corporations to realize that public attitudes, public opinion has shifted in the ways that you’re talking about and that they need to make changes?
Gordon Lafer: Unfortunately, I think a lot of corporations have realized that. Of course, it’s a big world, so there’s anecdotally things on every side, but the main response of the corporate lobbies to realizing that their policies are unpopular is to try to stop people from having the right to vote on them. A big initiative of the corporate lobbies is to use their influence over state legislators to pass laws at the state level that make it illegal for any city or county within the state to do things like what San Francisco did or what Portland did and say we’re going to vote, whether it’s the city council or the citizen referendum to have a higher minimum wage or a living wage or a right to sick leave or regulate plastic bags or regulate fracking. They’re pushing legislation and have passed it in a number of states that say: “We’re going to take away your right to vote on those things.” In this way, I think that their economic agenda has led to a political agenda which involves the shrinking the scope of democracy so that you may still have fair elections, but the things that are important to them, they’re trying to place in a category to say: “This you don’t get to vote about.” I don’t think we should wait to think there’s going to be a kind of moral awakening among corporate executives, are they going to make their calculations differently? That change needs to come from below.
Jeff Schechtman: Gordon Lafer, the book is The One Percent Solution: How Corporations are Remaking America One State at a Time. Gordon, I thank you so much for spending time with us.
Gordon Laffer: Thank you for having me on.
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