How Blockchain is Revolutionizing the Supply Chain Industry
Benefits of Blockchain for the Supply Chain
A supply chain is a network of people and businesses involved in creating and distributing a product or service. It includes everything from the extraction of raw materials to the end consumers who purchase the product or service.
A basic supply chain system involves suppliers of materials, manufacturers who turn it into a commodity, the logistics companies that manage the transportation of the raw material and commodities, as well as the final retailers that sell goods to consumers.
As supply chains have become global, the simple network of suppliers, manufacturers and retailers described above has developed into a complex environment where various products and materials move through multiple stages managed by different parties and geographically distinct processes.
Thus, supply chain management involves integrating sourcing, procurement, manufacturing, distribution, and logistics into a cohesive system. This requires cooperation among a multitude of stakeholders and plays a critical role in the success of a business.
However, today’s supply chains are inefficient, expensive, and inflexible when compared to new and innovative technologies that are impacting business around the world. The reason is that while economics and business have transformed globally, the technologies used in supply chain have stayed the same. In particular, e-commerce and the global uptake of hand-held devices have dramatically changed the way people shop.
There is increasing demand for custom products, easy shopping experiences, and transparency about where goods come from. These demands pose challenges for current supply chains, which are complex, inefficient and struggle to provide data transparency over the entire flow (i.e. to track goods from raw material to end consumer).
Benefits of Blockchain for the Supply Chain
Some of these most urgent issues facing supply chains can be addressed through blockchain technology, as it provides novel ways to record, transmit, and share data.
In essence, a blockchain is a unique database system created and maintained by participants in a decentralized network. It offers a secure and reliable architecture for conveying information and transactions (e.g. the exchange of data and assets among participants in a supply chain), which can be recorded digitally.
As the distributed ledger is decentralized, each stakeholder maintains a copy, which prevents a single point of failure or data loss. This also means blockchains are highly resistant to altering or tampering.
Such accurate and tamper-proof records secure data integrity and can be accessed to make regulatory compliance easier. Ultimately, blockchain can increase the efficiency and transparency of supply chains and positively impact everything from warehousing to delivery to payment.
Below are some of the top blockchain projects that I have come across that have significant potential to improve global supply chains through advanced traceability, transparency, efficiency, and security.
- Insolar is the first platform in the supply chain industry to support simultaneous public and private blockchains. This means it can integrate with existing enterprise systems and even enable migration from other blockchains. Insolar is also the first to allow for amendable smart contracts. Traditional smart contracts are immutable, which is good in many ways but they do not suit the needs of business because they do not offer remedies similar to those available under traditional contracts. For example, under a traditional contract a business can engage in an “efficient breach,” i.e., knowingly breaching a contract and paying the resulting damages if it determines the cost to perform is greater than the damages it would owe. This option is not available under traditional smart contracts. Thus, amendable smart contracts are essential to business-ready blockchains because they reflect the reality of how contracting parties actually act. Insolar’s enabling of amendable and terminable smart contracts gives it an edge over the competition. The company is in talks with Fortune 500 companies in the transportation industry about developing blockchain applications for their operations, and recently joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance, which brings together leaders in transportation, finance, and technology with the aim of building the first set of transportation industry-specific blockchain standards. Insolar also recently released a proof-of-concept video that illustrates how its supply chains could work.
- Hyperledger Fabric is a private blockchain network designed for business applications. Recently, it launched a Special Interest Group (SIG) to facilitate technical and business-level conversations related to use cases for blockchain technology in supply chain management. Hyperledger’s architecture offers features such as distributed ledger frameworks and smart contract engines. These characteristics allow for a broad range of business applications, including supply chain. However, Hyperledger only uses private blockchain technology. This means it is less decentralized than a project like Insolar. It is also less versatile since it can’t interact with other chains and does not allow for amendable smart contracts. While Hyperledger supports large transactions it does not have long (more than a block time) transaction support.
- Skuchain is another private blockchain network designed specifically for business supply chains in international trade. Its platform provides tools for control in inventory procurement across all stakeholders. The platform combines blockchain technology with the internet of things (IoT) innovations such as radio-frequency identification (RFID). However, the fact Skuchain depends on a private blockchain and does not allow for amendable smart contracts means it lacks decentralization and some versatility. Similar to Hyperledger, it lacks the interoperability of a hybrid platform like Insolar.
Traceable and Immutable Records
Blockchain data is immutable and digital signatures are required to confirm information ownership. If multiple companies work together they can use a blockchain system to record data about the location and ownership of their materials and products.
This data is stored in the blockchain, which offers a full history of all items in the supply chain. Any member of the supply chain can see what is going on as materials move from company to company. These data records cannot be altered and are highly traceable.
In the event of a defective product, the source of the problem can be identified more quickly, which improves the efficiency of product recalls and disruption resolution between stakeholders in the chain.
Having a transparent and complete inventory of product flow helps businesses make better decisions. It gives stakeholders and customers more confidence in a product’s quality. The improved transparency is also a tool for fighting fraud and counterfeiting.
There is a lot of waste created because of the inefficiencies of supply chains. This is especially prevalent in industries that have perishable goods, such as the food industry. The improved tracking and data transparency that blockchain offers can help business identify these wasteful inefficiencies so they can implement targeted cost-saving measures.
The use of blockchain can also eliminate fees associated with funds passing into and out of various bank accounts and payment processors. Such fees cut into profit margins, so being able to take them out of the equation is significant.
One of the problems with current supply chain technology is not being able to integrate data across every partner in the process. In contrast, blockchains are built as distributed systems that maintain a unique and transparent data repository. Each party in the network contributes to adding new data and verifying their integrity.
This means that all information stored on a blockchain is accessible to all parties involved in the network, so one company can easily verify information being broadcasted by another.
Replacing Electronic Data Interchange Systems
Many companies rely on Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) systems to send information to each other. However, this data goes out in timed batches rather than in real-time.
Thus, if a shipment goes missing or pricing changes, other participants in the supply chain will only get this information after the next EDI batch goes out. With blockchain, however, the information is updated in real time and quickly distributed to all parties involved.
Looking to the Future
Several large players in the supply chain industry are already embracing blockchain-based distributed systems and setting up resources to encourage its use.
For example, Walmart uses blockchain to keep track of the pork it sources from China, including where each piece of meat came from, where it was processed and stored, as well as its sell-by-date. Unilever, Nestle, Tyson and Dole also use blockchain for similar purposes.
The world’s largest mining firm, BHP Billiton, will use blockchain to track and record data throughout the mining process with its vendors. Diamond-giant De Beers also uses blockchain technology to track stones from when they are mined up to when they are sold to consumers.
As time goes by, more global supply chain platforms will be leveraging blockchain technology to streamline the way they share information as products and materials move around.
Blockchain technology is transforming business in lots of different ways, from production and processing to logistics and accountability. Supply chain management is one particularly important use case, as every stage in the process can be registered and verified to create transparent and immutable records.
Therefore, the use of blockchain in supply chains has the potential to eliminate inefficiencies that are common in the traditional management models.
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Reports coming out of the Express Tribune tonight say that the United States is close to finalizing a secret deal with the Zardari government which would allow them to resume drone strikes against Pakistan’s tribal areas, but under new conditions.
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Despite concerns about leaking pipes, people in Estonia ignore the warning signs[Dagmar Gilden | 29.06]
An insurance survey conducted by Seesam has revealed that the type of water-related damage most feared by people in Estonia is that arising from pipes, followed by incidents involving household appliances and devices. For those who live in apartment buildings, the greatest fear is accidents caused by their neighbours.
Dagmar Gilden, the product manager for Seesam’s home insurance, says statistics show that these fears are justified: the most common types of damage caused by water are leaks from pipes and hoses. Such incidents account for a fifth of household damage claims each year on average in Seesam and for a third of payouts. They are followed by rainwater damage, leaks from appliances and cases of human error.
Gilden says the biggest single payout last year was caused by a relatively small device. “A handheld shower coming apart led to more than 50,000 euros in damage,” she reveals. “In an apartment, the highest amount that was paid out for water damage was 15,000 euros when a pipe burst in a neighbour’s massage bath and caused quite the flood. A broken washing machine valve caused almost as much damage, with a claim for 12,000 euros. Water-related accidents in private homes tend to lead to losses twice the size on average of those in apartments, up to 2800 euros.”
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The average losses incurred due to leaky pipes are around 1700 euros in the case of apartments, with an average of 2000 euros having to be paid out to downstairs neighbours. “Any losses incurred by people in downstairs apartments are liable to be covered by the owner of the upstairs apartment in which the damage started whether or not said owner has insurance,” Gilden explains. “The final amount depends on how long the water continues to flow and on the quality of the finishing in the neighbour’s apartment. If you know they have herringbone parquet and the like and that it cost them a lot of money, then you should review your insurance policy and how much liability cover it provides.”
Leaking pipes can cause significant damage if, for example, a connector pipe on a washing machine breaks on a higher floor of an apartment building and the water floods a number of apartments on lower floors, damaging the interior of the apartments and property therein.
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MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki and Joy Reid both are on the shortlist to take over from Chris Matthews after his shocking exit, however, there is other name in front of both reporters. Insiders tell STRAIGHT SHUITER that the networks first choice is former presidential candidate, Mayor Pete.
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Honestly I don’t like the idea too much, because I feel like people will just cherry pick the dream maps for their civilization.
For example, when I’m playing Portugal, I could ban all maps that there is not water or ATP line on it, and effectively just get greats maps on the queue.
I’m not saying that I would do that. But I have PTSD from the old times when I used to play on lobbies and gameranger. A lot of people straight up banned you if you refused to give them a good matchup. So I don’t like any change that gives the ability to nitpick their games.
I do like the current QS. Is better than the old QS, and much better than going into lobbies trying to find a game and people just banning you from the lobby when they don’t like the matchup.
I have also not suggested that many maps are banned, but the 2/3 that may be the worst for your civilization and that clearly puts you at a disadvantage from the start. At least I see it that way to balance the confrontations
No. It can take 5 minutes currently to find a game in quick search ranked. Also as someone else said people would just pick maps that are good for their civ, even if it was like a monthly poll it’d still be bad because a lot of people are quite boring and play the same thing constantly like deccan, it’s way better that the maps just get rotated.
I’m not talking about making a pick on your favorite map, but that of the 10-12 maps that are ranked, you can veto 3 so that there is greater equality of conditions. I will also answer you with the response of another user in another forum.
"When you queue you set game mode, civ and vetos (there should be a default option of no veto) and then queue. The system can match players like it always did, collect the vetos and pick a map from the remaining pool. This operation takes no time "
In aoe2 this works because the civs are more or less identical, this would not work in aoe3, if I’m Germans I’ll just ban the two no tp maps, if I’m Dutch I’ll just ban any map that favors aggression, if I’m usa I’ll just try to get maps that are easy to wall, it just wouldn’t work.
However I do like the idea of a map pool that changes every month or so, maybe with one or two of the maps being voted on by the players like this
Well all civs have good and bad maps, I enjoy that. I play ports a bit and if I get pampas sierras or kamchatka etc then it’s obviously a bit more of a challenge because atp and water are both out, makes it more interesting and forces you to play different.
Ottoman can still do market and the mosque etc, their mosque xp is getting buffed slightly soon as well. Germany obviously like the tp in transition but they’ll just have to make do with a church.
I’m not sure how you want this to be implemented but I think it could work if you match with a player and you can then veto 1 map each like in pre-game lobby, that way the probability of a non-tp map is much lower.
There are several options, including knowing the map 30 seconds before and being able to change your civ.
The problem is not only if you have an unfavorable map, but if you face a civ that makes you counter, double unfavorable and the percentage of victories would be very low.
One of my main civs are the Ottomans and I know what I’m talking about when I get a map without TP against a civ like Lakotas or Dutch (for example) and you only have to rush or there is no way to win. Logically, the percentage of victories makes that civ, or Spain or Portugal or Germany (or any civ that depends on the tp) and if on top of that they have a counter civ, it is hardly competitive.
So if it’s water people will always play Spain port and hauds, and if it’s no tp people will always play dutch, this leads to less interesting gameplay because you will see the same civs on the same maps much more often, also keep in mind that in tournaments where players know the maps before picking the civs, hauds and ports are top tier because you know when you will get a water map.
There may be maps with more TP, with less or none, with more water, with less water or more hybrids, with cows / llamas / sheep or without those animals, but what does not exist are a majority of players with extensive knowledge of almost all civilizations.
All this without counting that I do not agree that on maps without TP only use Dutch when you have Japan, Sweden, Russia etc, or on maps with water choose only the civs you say, because also Incas, British or other civs can compete In that aspect.
Well in reality for the average player it does not matter if there’s a tp for otto. Outside of higher elo players make so many mistakes that a shipment slightly faster is meaningless because they often forget to even send it.
Same applies with water etc, france can beat ports on water easily at average levels, the small differences just don’t matter as much when you’re floating 1000 wood with 2 shipments banked.
Players actually seem to put too much weight on these things when they’re relatively low ranked, I watch many streamers and see people saying that a games ‘gg’ in the first 5 seconds because they over chopped 50 wood or it’s a traditionally unfavourable match up, when in reality they lose because they sacrificed 10 huss on a group of pikeman, or leave their falcs completely undefended.
I’m not referring specifically to your case, as I’m sure your high elo and these things do matter, but devs typically nerf or buff things based on the average player, that’s why civs considered weak at high level like aztec still get nerfed.
New players are one thing and average players are another, the important thing for a new player is that the game has a good playability, among other things. The important thing for an average player is that they are well balanced and improve their game, but many of them do not have enough knowledge to know if the civs are really balanced or not and the most logical thing is to balance based on what the pros and understood people says.
The players that play lower-rated players should adapt, as happens in other games.
If the average player gets frustrated, no one forces him to play ranked. In competitive games there are many players who get frustrated by not giving more, it is something inevitable.
Well what matters to developers is sales, so if all the noobs are getting smashed by aztec rush because they don’t age for 10 minutes then aztec rush will be nerfed, they want players to have as pleasant experience as possible so they stick around and buy dlc and future games.
When I started on definitive I got matches with a lot of noobs and I remember 1 guy saying how this games stupid and he’ll never play again, I explained to him a few things and he understood where he went wrong etc and hopefully kept playing, but many people will just quit which is not what the developers want. You will notice with aoe4 that it will be a lot more slow paced like aoe2 is.
I would say that ranked is actually best for average or lower players because after a few losses they will be matched to similar skill players. If you go in casual and make a new player or noob only game tons of people join to noob bash, I mean people like 1500 elo will join a lobby to go against someone new to the game which is quite sad.
I start with the last because it is not true that in custom games the level of the players against the beginners is higher. There is everything (always more deviating towards the bottom than towards the top) and you do not play ranked, in ranked you play against people of a similar level as long as you find a quick game and easy and effective strategies have always existed in RTS.
I guess you have never played a game like SC2, number 1 a few years ago and with a lot of traffic, the competitiveness of that game did frustrate many players (the games could end in 3 minutes) and still it had and has a lot of traffic, balancing in favor of High level.
Nobody forces the players to play against the players in multiplayer (being able to play and practice against the AI) or to play in ranked, having more game modes. If you cannot counter a strategy, you find a way to do it and stop crying or leave the game, since it is not made for you.
What you cannot do is balance to the liking of the low or average levels because they do not have enough knowledge (the vast majority) of the metagame.

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Iran is ready to immediately start talks with Western powers over a nuclear fuel swap deal it signed in May, Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki says.
Mottaki has told reporters Tehran will hand to the UN atomic agency its response to questions raised by the Vienna group - the US, Russia and France - on the fuel swap deal on Monday.
"Tomorrow this... letter will be conveyed to the IAEA (the International Atomic Energy Agency) in Vienna and then we can immediately start negotiations for the details of exchanging of the fuel," he said in English on Sunday.
"All the details on how that exchange should take place will come out through the discussions and talks in Vienna."
Under the deal, brokered by Turkey and Brazil in May, Iran agreed to send 1200kg of its low-enriched uranium (LEU) to Turkey to be supplied at a later date with high-enriched uranium by Russia and France.
But it was immediately cold-shouldered by world powers, which backed a fourth round of sanctions against Iran on June 9 over its refusal to halt its sensitive uranium enrichment program.
The Vienna group expressed reservations and raised several questions regarding the deal, but said they were nonetheless ready to talk to Iran to clear up the doubts.
Mottaki, who was speaking after talks with his Turkish and Brazilian counterparts Ahmet Davutoglu and Celso Amorim, said Iran would like to see both of these countries take part in the talks, but said it was not a condition.
"The Vienna group talks with Iran either with the presence of Turkey and Brazil or not," he said.
Earlier on Sunday, Davutoglu had said Turkey and Brazil were ready to contribute to the talks only if they were invited by all the parties concerned.
Mottaki gave few details on the response Iran would hand to the IAEA on Monday, saying that it would contain Iran's "own views and what we will talk about in Vienna."
Iran's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi said on Saturday Tehran's response would be ageneral one and that the technical response to the Vienna group's questions would be "discussed probably in a meeting".
He did not specify when such a meeting might take place.

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Would be nice to have a way to check for showtime updates & see changelog and even download & update via showtime itself or within install pkg file folder now that showtime has an automated build script working for ps3
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Auto update showtime -
When showtime is able to self update will be wonderful, but while this might be an option available to be downloaded from the desired version (Stable or Testing) and Installable package (Firmware not gh or Firmware gh).
Then, showtime will download the pkg available in dev_usb001 / or dev_hdd0 (if usb not exist)
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My latest projects: fabric journal covers. Actually, the patchwork journal cover on the far left of this upper photo (the one with linen + flower + dots) is made by me a few weeks ago which was posted on this post, so this week I made the remaining two covers.
I will be donating all of these journal covers to the Write It Out Project, organized by a wonderful lady, Alida L. She is organizing this Project for those who lost their husbands at war... She is collecting handmade journals for the grieving military widows, and she even posted on her blog an easy-to-follow tutorial on how to make the journal covers. According to Alida, journal writing help the grieving souls in the difficult times... Please go and check out her post if you are interested. Her story is very touching.
On the other hand I wanted to show you what we received in our mail today! This was a surprise gift from my dear blog friend, Sam of Sunnysidey, and it was not for me, but for my ten year old daughter Lisa, who just picked up embroidery recently and enjoys it with great pride...
The gift is a glow-in-the-dark embroidery threads that Lisa wanted ever since we saw them on Sam's beautiful embroidery work recently. Thank you so much, Sam, for your kindness and generousity. You won't believe how our young embroiderer was delighted to receive such a wonderful gift!!!
And these glow-in-the-dark threads REALLY glows in the dark!! WOW!!
That journal project is amazing. I hope to make one or two when I get my sewing machine back.
You're more than welcome for the threads :-) I'm so happy that Lisa likes them.
Oh my goodness, those are beautiful! Thank you so much, I can't wait to see them in person!
Hi, Sam! Lisa continues to love her glow-in-the-dark threads and although she hasn't had a chance to embroider with the thread yet, every night she enjoys the "glowiness" of these threads at dark in her bed!!
Thank you for your suggestions, too. We'll try the "whipping around a backstitched ordinary floss" method that you recommended ;)
Alida, thank you for your comments. I hope you like these journal covers in person, too :)
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On a recent Tuesday afternoon, outside a firehouse on the north shore of Staten Island, Bill de Blasio slipped between a throng of sweaty, angry protesters and was quickly ushered to a microphone stand.
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“The mayor is saying to some parts of this city, ‘You’re going to be less safe,’ and somehow, you’re supposed to grin and bear it,” said Mr. de Blasio. “That’s not right and that’s not how a democracy works. That’s not the city government doing its job.” Read More


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The news on Jake Delhomme isn’t good, as he will be listed as questionable for Sunday’s home game vs the Chiefs.
Browns quarterback Jake Delhomme wore a walking boot on Tuesday, two days after injuring his right ankle in the 17-14 loss against Tampa Bay, according to a league source. But the club had no update on whether Delhomme had an MRI exam or its results. The source said that all indications are that backup Seneca Wallace could receive the bulk of reps with the No. 1 offense Wednesday in preparation for Sunday’s home opener against Kansas City. Delhomme will begin the work week probably listed as questionable.
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President Biden on Thursday mentioned that relations of people that died or are lacking in the collapse of a condo building in Surfside, Florida, instructed him that world warming may be accountable.
“Interesting to me — I didn’t raise it — but how many of the survivors and how many families talked about the impact of global warming,” Biden mentioned after spending practically three hours with the kin of people that died or are lacking.
“They didn’t know exactly, but they talked about sea levels rising and about how — and the combination of that and the concern about incoming tropical storms,” he mentioned.
Although there are experiences that the constructing’s concrete was in need of repair, some Democrats say these flaws could have been the results of or worsened by world warming.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm mentioned Tuesday that local weather change could have doomed the beachfront constructing. “Obviously, we don’t know fully, but we do know that the seas are rising. We know that we’re losing inches and inches of beaches, not just in Florida but all around,” she mentioned.
Some conservatives blasted Granholm, saying that she was flirting with conclusions for political causes, together with to push for funding in Biden’s infrastructure plan that will enhance infrastructure resilience to excessive climate.
Biden emphasised that he isn’t certain what precipitated the constructing collapse.
“I don’t think there is at this point any definitive judgment as to why it collapsed and what can be done to prevent it from happening and what other buildings may have to be inspected to determine if they have the same problems,” Biden mentioned.
Biden visited the catastrophe zone on the eighth day of rescue operations. So far, 18 bodies have been recovered from the rubble and 145 individuals stay lacking. Nobody has been rescued since final Thursday.
Biden additionally mentioned that the families are “realistic” in regards to the chance of discovering survivors greater than per week after the collapse, however added that “hope springs eternal” with the rescue mission.
“I want to compliment FEMA and I might add all those folks who are risking their lives to save lives, but also holding out hope that those will be fine. Hope springs eternal,” he mentioned.
Biden added later of the families: “They’re all realists. They all look and they see those floors, just literally cement upon cement upon cement.”
Rescue efforts had been paused Thursday because of what authorities mentioned had been security considerations.
“The whole nation is mourning with these families. They see it every day on television. They’re going through hell,” Biden mentioned.
Biden mentioned that assembly with the families reminded him of the aftermath of the 1972 automobile crash that killed his first spouse and daughter, however not his two sons.
“It just brought back so many, so many memories. It is bad enough — it’s bad enough to lose somebody. The hard part, the really hard part is to not know whether they are surviving or not, just not having any idea,” Biden mentioned.
“The accident that took my wife and my family, the hardest part was, ‘Were my boys going to get out? Are they going to make it?’ Not knowing, not knowing when you’re flying home from Washington to get the news.”
Kevin Spiegel, whose spouse Judith is lacking, instructed The Post that “I thought [Biden] did a good job” in his talks with families.
“He was well received, both by Democrats and Republicans,” Spiegel mentioned. “He took time and he met with family members. He was not familiar with the rescue operation. He just was explaining stories about his own personal experiences with tragedy, and how he was relating to what happened here.”
Louisiana resident Ashley Dean, whose sister Cassie Stratton remains to be lacking, didn’t meet with Biden, however instructed The Post, “I just hope him being down there isn’t hampering any of the efforts. I appreciate him going down there. I just don’t want anything to get in the way of the search and recovery efforts.”
Cava mentioned at a Thursday morning press convention that Biden’s go to would don’t have any operational impression on the seek for potential survivors.
Biden was joined by first woman Jill Biden and a various group of elected officers who additionally met with the families.
The group included Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez (R-Fla.), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, a Democrat.
Biden “stayed until everyone had a chance to speak with him,” the White House mentioned. The conferences started at 12:26 pm and concluded by 3:12 pm.
Earlier, round midday, Biden thanked police and emergency personnel who’re sifting by means of particles for our bodies and victims, telling them the work was “hard as hell,” however that “I truly appreciate what you do.”
Although the nonpartisan nature of the rescue operation was obvious, Biden framed it as something “good” to emerge the catastrophe throughout a morning briefing with native officers.
“We’re letting the nation know we can cooperate — and when it’s really important,” Biden mentioned.
At that briefing, DeSantis — a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2024 — thanked Biden for what he mentioned was an environment friendly federal response.
“You guys have not only been supportive at the federal level, but we’ve had no bureaucracy,” DeSantis instructed Biden. “When we’re dealing with FEMA, we’re literally getting requests routed from local to state to federal in no time and the approval is happening.”


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A crowd rallied on the steps of the Hall of Justice today to denounce District Attorney George Gascon’s decision not to file charges against the officers involved in two police killings.
After the mother of Mario Woods and the brother of Luis Gongora Pat made impassioned speeches – Woods saying that the decision felt as if her son had been killed all over again – Public Defender Jeff Adachi called Gascon’s decision “horrifying and outrageous.
“The DA says this is a clear-cut case of self-defense,” Adachi said. “But self-defense only applies when you act reasonably.”
He said that Gascon’s staff asked the cops if they were afraid and needed to defend themselves, and they said yes. “Can you imagine if everyone who said they acted in self-defense took a walk?” Adachi asked.
Gascon’s decision not to file charges against the officers who killed Woods and Gongora Pat made national news – as it should. The lack of criminal charges means that the officers involved with all be back on the streets, armed, with no apparent disciplinary action against them.
They killed Mario Woods and Luis Gongora Pat with impunity.
There is so much wrong with this I don’t know where to start – so let’s start with this:
According to Adachi, no police officer in modern history has been charged with a crime after shooting and killing a suspect in San Francisco:
In both the Woods and Gongora killings, officers were not in immediate danger when they fired their weapons. The San Francisco District Attorney’s decision not to prosecute any officer on any charge is mindboggling and fails to hold police to the same laws we, as citizens, are expected to abide. To date, not a single officer in San Francisco has ever been criminally charged as the result of shooting a citizen, yet citizens are charged with crimes every day despite prosecutors being unable to prove their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. It is clear prosecutors are using a different standard in judging police officers’ conduct. The reforms proposed by the Department of Justice’s review are empty promises without officer accountability.
Oh, and I read the reports on the investigation; it took more than two years, with a new team of well-paid staff, to do this?
Gascon declined to talk to me. But Max Szabo, his spokesperson, said that the DA would have had to charge the officers with murder, and the legal standard for that is too high.
I talked to John Burris, attorney for both families, at the event, and he told me that murder wasn’t the only option. “If you kill somebody and you say at the time that it was the only option, but it turns out that you were wrong, that whatever your intentions you made a mistake and somebody died, that’s the definition of manslaughter,” he said.
Burris said he was going to ask the state attorney general to look into the case. There are two civil suits going on.
And as Adachi pointed out, the standard for murder clearly wasn’t that high when Gascon charged Jose Ines Garcia Zarate with murder in a case where the evidence was, at best, weak and the charges, at best, a stretch.
Let’s look at the larger picture here.
There’s a reason so many activists have been focused on the DA and pushing for him to file charges: Gascon is an elected official, he operates (at least a little bit) in public – and he is apparently the last and only person who has any ability to hold cops accountable.
Which is a problem.
Sure, it’s hard to prove in court that a police officer acted beyond what a “reasonable” officer would do in that situation. It’s hard to send a cop to prison.
But firing an officer doesn’t require a murder charge.
San Francisco has clear standards and training on de-escalation. In both of these cases, there’s a strong argument to be made that the cops violated the department’s rules. And two people died.
As far as anyone knows, not one officer has been disciplined, much less dismissed. The Chron reports that they are looking forward, after a period of paid leave and desk duty, to going back out on the streets.
Now the Police Officers Association says the cops have been “vindicated.”
Not true: The officers aren’t facing jail time, but that in no way means they acted that way police officers are supposed to act in San Francisco.
“The standard for holding a police officer accountable for killing someone as an employment issue is very different from the standard for getting a criminal conviction,” John Crew, a longtime police accountability lawyer, told me. “The fact that an officer isn’t convicted of a crime doesn’t mean they have the right to carry and gun and stay on the job. That’s not the standard we should use in San Francisco.”
But it’s been the standard in police shootings for decades.
Suzy Loftus, former president of the Police Commission, who has announced she will challenge Gascon in 2019, told me that after the Woods shooting, the commission began a process to update the 20-year-old rules for use of force. That process took a while, in part because the POA demanded the right to “meet and confer” on the changes, then sued the city over them. In the meantime, Gongora Pat was killed.
But Crew argues – and if you watch the video and follow the evidence, you get the point – that even under the rules in place at the time, the officers should have faced at least some level of accountability. When that didn’t happen – when Chief Suhr and the Police Commission failed to take action – the demands shifted to Gascon.
Gascon at least supports a change in state law, AB 931, that would make it easier to prosecute killer cops – and he’s the only DA in the state who does. He’s facing a challenge in 2019 from two candidates who are going to run to his right – Loftus and Joe Alioto Veronese.
Veronese wouldn’t comment on whether charges should have been filed in this case, saying “I haven’t seen all the evidence.” Actually, at this point all the evidence – or enough to make a decision – is public. The video of the Woods case alone is pretty clear evidence; the cops statements are all in the DA’s report.
But he accused Gascon of “acting like a public defender,” which in my mind is a complement for a DA.
Loftus also declined to say whether she would have filed charges: “I’ll let George Gascon defend that decision.” She said she doesn’t know if she supports AB 931 since she hasn’t read it. (She’s currently a lawyer in the Sheriff’s Office, and running for DA. She’s a former head of the Police Commission. This bill is hardly a secret.)
Why is there so little accountability in the Police Department?
One reason: Most of the SFPD management, the ones who are supposed to keep things under control, are members of the POA. All the way up to captain. The infrastructure that exists to hold cops accountable is part of the same organization that exists to prevent cops from being held accountable.
Another: It’s been a long time since we’ve had a director of what is now the Department of Police Accountability who is willing to push the envelope and demand serious discipline – and a mayor and a Police Commission willing to defy the POA and support that position.
So we wind up with the only possible accountable public official – the DA – as the only one who can discipline killer cops. And he has declined to do it.
At the rally today, we heard chants of “Gascon has got to go.” Several speakers said that San Francisco needs a new DA.
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Groups are concerned about the future of the North Woods
BY RAMONA DU HOUX
December 16th, 2011
“Drastically changing the membership of the Commission and allowing planning and permitting to be taken over by other entities could lead to a loss of the character of the North Woods that has been cherished by Mainers and visitors for generations,” said Jenn Gray, of Maine Audubon.
Planners, conservationists, and citizens throughout Maine are concerned about the impact of proposed changes to Maine’s Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC) on Maine’s North Woods, and are urging the Legislature to examine the proposal carefully and think long and hard about the importance of Maine’s signature natural resource.
“We are pleased that the LURC Reform Committee backed away from abolishing LURC, but a number of the provisions of their proposal could result in the same outcome depending on how the details are worked out,” said Cathy Johnson, North Woods project director for the Natural Resources Council of Maine. “The full impact of the LURC Reform Committee’s proposals has not yet been evaluated. Implementing the recommendations could have very serious and problematic unintended consequences.”
The report does not require legislative approval of the commissioner appointments and does not specify what the criteria will be to allow counties to opt-out of LURC.
“While we are pleased to see that the board abandoned the extreme proposal to abolish LURC, we have concerns about the provisions for appointing commissioners and a new opt-out provision for counties,” said Rep. Jeff McCabe, the lead Democrat on the Agriculture Committee. “This is an area where Democrats hope to make changes to the commission recommendations.”
The way in which commissioners will be appointed has worried others.
“Allowing county commissioners to appoint themselves as LURC commissioners, as the LURC Reform Committee has proposed, without review through the normal process of gubernatorial nomination, legislative committee hearing, and Senate confirmation, would undercut LURC’s ability to be responsive to statewide perspective and legal commitment,” said Sean Mahoney of the Conservation Law Foundation.
LURC oversees the planning and zoning for 10.4 million acres of largely undeveloped land in the northern part of the state. Key highlights from the report also include changing the scope and purpose statement of the commission; shifting some LURC responsibilities to other departments; relocating staff closer to the Unorganized Territory; and changing the appeals process.
The study commission was formed to evaluate ways to improve LURC after legislation, sponsored by Senate President Kevin Raye, to completely eliminate the body failed to pass out of the Agriculture Committee. Raye is running for Congress against Congressman Mike Michaud.
“No other Maine State regulatory board has members elected by local constituencies because of inevitable conflicts between pressures to respond to local politics and the legal duty of LURC commissioners to make decisions based exclusively on the law and facts in a legal record,” said former Maine Deputy Attorney General Jeff Pidot.
These deep concerns stem from the reality of how other states have lost pristine land to developers not concerned about the natural beauty and asset of forest lands. Thousands of people from around the world visit Maine just to sees its natural wonders.
“The ‘county drop-out’ proposal would allow counties to withdraw from the currently unified system that should consistently apply to the entire unorganized territories,” says Bryan Wentzell of the Appalachian Mountain Club. “Such a ‘drop-out’ could result in increased unpredictability for applicants, inequity for landowners, and confusion for the public when divergent standards emerge.”
The report was accompanied with draft legislation.
“It was surprising to see draft legislation come out from the group since they were not given authority to do so,” said Representative McCabe.
“We are surprised and troubled that the Administration already has prepared draft legislation, given that the reform commission explicitly decided not to prepare legislation,” said Cathy Johnson of NRCM. “The reform commission concluded that drafting a bill would be the job of the Legislature. We support that conclusion and note that the draft bill released today is not consistent with the commission’s work. We urge lawmakers to reserve the right to consider the reform commission’s proposals and make their own decisions about what changes make sense in Maine’s laws.”
“The draft legislation that was submitted by the Department of Conservation makes additional changes to LURC that would further undercut LURC’s ability to protect the North Woods,” sais Cathy Johnson of NRCM.
The proposal would allow land currently zoned for forestry uses or recreation to be rezoned for development even if it would have an undue adverse impact on existing uses and resources. Currently any rezoning is required not to have an ‘undue adverse impact.’
“DOC’s proposal also would allow municipalities and counties to drop out of LURC and provide less protection than LURC did for Maine’s natural, recreational and historic resources,” said Johnson.
Current law requires municipalities to have in place zoning and rules which provide an equivalent level of natural, recreational and historic resource protection as is provided under LURC law.
“LURC currently provides one-stop land use planning, zoning, permitting, and enforcement in Maine’s North Woods,” said Emily Figdor of Environment Maine. “The LURC Reform Committee’s proposal will result in a fragmented and complicated system that is far more unpredictable, inefficient, and expensive than the existing LURC approach.”


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