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The coronavirus affects us all and for many people this will lead to changes in working conditions. Some employees will find that they have to prolong their stay in Norway and for others there is restrictions in travel to Norway. We understand that you as employers have a lot to think about and that the safety of your employees come first. This paper is an attempt to address some of the issues you should consider, as a foreign employer with employees in Norway.
Everyone who has travelled from outside the Nordic region should be in home quarantine for 14 days after arrival, regardless of whether or not they show symptoms, retroactive from 27th February.
The employee can work during the quarantine-period (if he/she is not sick), for instance from his/her place of accommodation (hotel, apartment) in Norway.
Having seconded employees quarantined and simultaneously working in Norway may prove difficult and complicated. Some employees might therefore decide to allow the employees that should have been sent to Norway, to stay in their home country and work from their "home office" there,- if possible.
Working from home, in Norway or abroad, have certain implications, see below.
Travel insurance policies will typically contain limitations regarding validity, linked to actual stay in a country, the duration of the travel (time-period away from home) and/or if the travel goes to countries or territories that have been classified as a "risk area" by a public authority or the insurance company itself. It is important to make sure that the travel insurance are updated if the stay in Norway is prolonged, and to verify that Norway, or the employees' home country is subject to restrictions.
We recommend to make sure that the application for A1 or social security membership in home country are updated if the work pattern change, or the employees' stay in Norway home country is prolonged.
In order to reduce the spread of coronavirus, all tax offices are now closed to the public. However, it is still possible to book an appointment for ID-control. We do not need to know how long they will continue to keep this service open.
The Service Centre for Foreign Workers (SUA) is also closed and we do not have any information on how long this will last. It means that no work permit applications can be submitted until they open again or until there are other alternatives set up.
Changes in work-rotation or work location might have an impact on the tax liability to Norway.
For instance if an employee will stay in Norway during time off, this might lead to that the individual will become tax resident in Norway and therefore they will have a tax liability to Norway for their global income and wealth.
If the employee work from their home abroad or the stay at home is prolonged, they will most likely be taxable to their home country.
We recommend to keep track of all days in Norway, both work days and non-work days to make sure that you have all relevant information available to make an evaluation of tax liability to Norway.
We will revisit some of these issues in more detail below.
A lot of companies in Norway are now following the recommendation that the employees shall work from home office in order to reduce the risk of getting, or spreading the infection. Foreign companies with operations in Norway, where personnel is seconded to Norway, may also decide to follow these recommendations; either by letting the employees work from home (in their home country), or by letting them work from where they are accommodated in Norway.
As a main rule, the Working Environment Act (WEA) applies, also for work from home. If the working period is temporary, then all the regulations concerning working hours, overtime, work on holidays, work at night, etc. are applicable.
If the work-from-home arrangement becomes more permanent, the Regulation regarding work that is carried out from the employees' home, comes into effect. The regulation is not applicable for seconded personnel,- only local employees. This Regulation sets out some obligations for the employer and specific rules regarding working time etc. and the parties (employer and employee) shall formalize the arrangement in a specific agreement. In our opinion, this Regulation is not applicable in the current situation, where employers are implementing immediate measures to remedy a potential crisis, but it might come into play if these arrangements is protracted.
Salaries etc. shall be reported as normal.
If the stay in Norway are prolonged and the work in Norway will last for a longer period than estimated, it is important to make sure that the reporting of salary and period in Norway reflects the actual situation. The period in Norway might also have an impact on the tax liability to Norway and the calculation of tax withholding in Norway.
In the following, we look at two likely scenarios:
If you have employees working from home (outside Norway), but for the benefit of the Norwegian operation, the employee will most likely be taxable to their home country for salary earned during workdays at home. It is therefore important that salary earned during workdays abroad be reported to the Norwegian tax authorities as "income earned abroad".
The salary cost should be allocated to the Norwegian operation.
Furthermore, we recommend to evaluate if there will be a reporting obligation in the employees home country and any tax implications for you as the employer in the country where the employee resides.
The high number of foreign employees potentially affected by the quarantine provision implemented by the Norwegian government may increase the strain on the employees that are currently working on projects in Norway. This may for instance regard companies applying a rotation scheme for their workers whereby the employees work longer hours than normal while in Norway, against receiving time off later on in accordance with a rotation to be in their home country.
Due to the strict quarantine provisions, this new situation may entail that the workers already in Norway will have to work longer than originally anticipated or be imposed to work overtime work in order to meet project schedules etc. It is important to assess whether this may be done legitimately within the current agreements/approvals regarding rotation schemes (applying average calculation of working hours) or if overtime with the right to separate overtime compensation have to be imposed. During this period, it is also important to observe the mandatory provisions in regards to the maximum use of overtime and the total number of working hours/overtime per day, per week etc. Further, the employer must observe the general requirements regarding the working environment and the actual working hours, implement and document safety considerations, and not expose the employees to adverse physical or mental strain.
The Norwegian Working Environment Act contains an exception from the applicable working hour provisions in case of work that, owing to natural disasters, accidents or other unforeseen events, must be carried out in order to avoid damage to life or property. In such case, the employees shall be ensured corresponding compensatory rest periods or, where this is not possible, other appropriate protection. Whether this exception may apply or not in regards to the current situation, will have to be assessed on a case by case basis.
In this section, we will first explain the rules as they are now, and then present the new (temporary) regulations presented by the Norwegian government on 20 March 2020.
Since the Corona-disease situation currently is of temporary character, there is a possibility of temporary lay-off (NO: "Permittering") of the redundant personnel. A temporary lay-off means that an employee is temporarily relieved of his/her duty to work, at the same time as the employer is temporarily relieved of its duty to pay wages, either partial or in full. Temporary lay-offs may be used to some extent when the company has to curtail its operations for a period of time, limited to a maximum period of 6 months within a 18 month period.
It may be in both the employer's and employee's interest not to permanently terminate the employment relationship with a dismissal with notice. In case of a temporary lay-off, the employment relationship continues to exist. Although temporary lay-offs have been common in working life for a very long time, there are no statutory rules that expressly give an employer the opportunity to temporarily lay off its employees, but applying temporary lay-offs in situations as described above have generally been accepted in case law provided the other conditions are fulfilled. The opportunity to temporarily lay off employees is also authorised in a number of collective bargaining agreements. The Basic Agreement between the Norwegian Federation of Trade Unions (LO) and the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO) contains provisions concerning temporary lay-offs in chapter 8. This agreement has to a large extent been the pattern for other agreements and for case law.
In addition, there is an act relating to the duty to pay wages during a temporary lay-off period which is described further below.
Although the right to temporarily lay off employees is not regulated by law, we can upon case law stipulate certain conditions that have to be complied with:
Temporary lay-offs must be based on reasonable grounds. These may be the curtailment of operations due to difficulties in the market or obstacles with suppliers, which in both cases means that the employees cannot be employed in a rational manner. One must however do an individual assessment of each employee's function is affected by the relevant situation. As a rule, a temporary lay-off will not be lawful if the function in question is not affected by the relevant situation.
In the situation we are currently facing, it should be fairly easy to argue that the company have experienced a sudden change in market activity, which have led to a reduction
in the amount of workhours. Our general assessment is that the COVID-19 situation, and the impact it has on the company's operations, most likely fulfils the condition on reasonable grounds.
It is a key prerequisite that the temporary lay-off is due to a temporary situation, e.g. a temporary curtailment of operations or production stoppage. If there is reason to believe that the curtailment of operations is permanent, a dismissal with notice will normally be the correct measure.
At this current stage, it is reasonable to assume that the COVID-19 situation is of a temporary character, and that the condition of temporary grounds is fulfilled.
When the conditions to reasonable and temporary ground are met, the employer must select which employees that are to be laid off. Based upon case law and the Basic Agreement (LO-NHO), seniority should be the most important condition, but other criteria's may also be used for the selection process on the basis of the employer's requirements, e.g. the employee's experience and qualifications.
In all collective bargaining agreement areas, temporary layoffs are a measure that the employer must discuss with the employees, or employee representatives before it is implemented. Topics that should be up for discussion with the employees include the conditions for temporarily layoffs, other measures taken to avoid temporarily layoffs, as well as the selection criteria's.
If the employees have not organized themselves in a local union, we recommend that you discuss the temporary layoffs with all employees, or an employee representative, e.g. the safety representative (ref. the personnel manual) if one has been elected, and take minutes from such meeting.
As a main rule, the employees are normally entitled to a 14 days' notice before temporary layoff is initiated, and this notice is to be in writing and given to each employee. However, WEA paragraph 15-3, section 10 states that "if operations must wholly or partly be suspended owing to accidents, natural disasters or other unforeseeable events and employees are laid off for that reason, the period of notice for laying off employees engaged in the work suspended may be reduced to 14 days counted from the date of the event. If the period of notice in force is less than 14 days, the shorter period shall apply. " According to the Basic Agreement and case law, in situations as described in the WEA paragraph 15-3 section 10, the layoff notice period may be reduced from 14 to 2 days.
The COVID-19 may be such other unforeseeable event, and this also been confirmed by NAV in recent information (only available in Norwegian): https://www.nav.no/no/bedrift/innhold-til-bedrift-forside/nyheter/permitteringer-som-folge-av-koronaviruset. In such case, the notice period for informing of temporary layoff can be reduced from 14 to 2 days, depending on how sudden the operations have been affected by the COVID-19.
Please note that the notice must be dated, include the appropriate notice period, the reason for the temporary layoff, whether the layoff period is full or partial (if partial – to what extent), layoff period, and for how many days the employer have a statutory obligation to pay salary.
There is also a statutory obligation for the employer to give notice of the temporary layoff to NAV on form NAV 76-08.03, where the minutes from meeting with employees/ employee representatives must be attached.
On 13 March 2020 The Norwegian government announced that the number of days for which the employer is liable to pay salary when temporary layoff has been initiated was reduced from 15 to 2 days.
The employee is normally entitled to daily unemployment benefit for up to a total period of 26 weeks (corresponding to the maximum period of temporary lay-offs). Thereafter, the employee must either; return to work, or be permanently laid off through dismissal / workforce reductions. Daily unemployment benefit normally constitutes 62,4% of income during the previous 12 months, but is subject to further conditions. In the case of a partial temporary lay-off, the employee may be entitled to graded daily unemployment benefit, but subject to further conditions.
Please also note that an employee who is temporarily laid off has a duty to take other suitable work during a period when he/she is receiving daily unemployment benefit, and that employees who are fully or partially temporarily laid off may resign from their jobs by giving 14 days' notice. The right to this shortened period of notice only applies during the period when one are temporarily laid off. In other words, one cannot make use of this special rule during the period covered by the lay-off notice.
On a final note, the employer may also dismiss an employee with notice while the temporary lay-off is in force, but naturally only provided there are reasonable grounds for a dismissal with notice. For instance, if the COVID-19 situation will have a long term effect on the activity level that exceed the maximum period of 6 months of temporary layoff, an alternative may be dismissal and permanent layoffs. If so, the employer's duty to pay salary resumes during the applicable notice period as from the date when the dismissal notice is given. The duty to work resumes as from the same date, so the employee must correspondingly go back to work during the notice period if you wish so.
These are difficult times, and the complexity is multiplied for a foreign company with little experience in Norway. As shown above, there are many, and complicated issues that may be relevant to consider, and we can only hope that this information is useful for you.
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If you cannot bowl them out, bore them out.
That is England’s plan against Australia this summer – so much so it was dubbed the ‘Bore-Me-Army’ by the Brisbane press last week.
It doesn’t bother the players, though, with England villain Stuart Broad stating Australia should expect more of the same through this Ashes series.
“We know the Australians like to score quickly,” Broad said last week.
“If we can restrict them from scoring a lot of boundaries then we will have periods of taking wickets.”
It is easy to forget, given Australia’s 10-wicket win in the first Test at the Gabba, but those dour tactics worked very well during the first two days of the series opener.
England had Australia on the ropes at 4-76, in response to its first innings of 302, only for a Steve Smith-led rescue mission to save the hosts.
Former Australia batsman Simon Katich hailed England’s tactics with the ball and said the onus is now on Smith’s men to adjust.
“England had some very good plans to the Australian batting line-up and part of Test cricket is to absorb those plans and make them not pay off for the bowling teams,” Katich told The New Daily.
“It is about adapting your game to the situation.
“Batsmen have to be prepared to wear England down, get in partnerships, rotate the strike and be patient.
“Most Australian batsmen have now had a sighter on what they are going to expect in Adelaide and they should be better prepared.”
Katich urged the rest of the Australian batsmen to study Smith’s patient innings in detail and believes many players will need to curb their attacking instincts against the well thought-out plans.
“There will be some guys that can take the game on and put the pressure back on [captain] Joe Root and the English bowlers, but they have to decide the right time,” he said.
“I think they [Australian batsmen] would have learnt from this Test that the England attack is very experienced and successful for a reason and they will have to show that respect in Adelaide where the conditions could be helpful for them.
Steve Smith showed there are times to hang in there, find the right time to attack and combat those plans and that is exactly they should play in Adelaide.”
The Australian captain admitted after his century that while the tactics employed by England were pessimistic, some of his teammates fell into the trap.
“It felt like they were waiting for us to make a mistake, unfortunately [our] top four made those mistakes,” Smith said.
“It might be a series where boundaries might be hard to come by but if you bat for long enough and rotate the strike you will get runs when the bowlers get tired.”
David Warner and Cameron Bancroft might have made England’s bowlers look second-rate in the second innings in Brisbane but Katich feels life will be much tougher for the pair in Adelaide.
“[They need to] have a think about how they have been attacked and come up with a plan technically as well as tactically,” he said.
“That is the beauty of Test cricket. You have to be mentally strong and be ready for anything that the opposition is going to throw at you.”
The second Ashes Test starts on Saturday.

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A MULTI-SCALE EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF FOREST HARVESTING FOR WOODY BIOFUELS ON MAMMALIAN COMMUNITIES IN A NORTHERN HARDWOOD FOREST
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Abstract: Forest harvesting and subsequent effects on forest structure have been shown to influence mammalian community assemblages and the abundance of individual species, however less attention has been paid to the implications of how harvested timber is used. This is particularly relevant in the Northern Forest, where a considerable portion of the forest harvesting is used to produce biofuels. Biofuels harvesting typically involves the process of whole-tree chipping which may lead to a dramatic reduction in the amount of woody material in the form of slash and coarse woody debris (CWD) left in harvested stands. The goal of our study was to assess the effects of biofuels harvesting on forest structure and subsequent effects on mammalian community structure and abundance. To address this goal, we focused on a ~35 Ha area of partially-harvested northern hardwood forest in the northern Adirondacks, New York. To sample mammals we used a combination of Sherman traps and track plates established at two scales across stands within this area. Our results showed that the response of small mammals to changes in forest structure is both species and scale specific. At the individual trap scale, CWD, slash, and understory cover were important drivers of the occurrence of individual species of small mammals. At the larger “grid” scale, small mammal relative abundance was driven by canopy cover and the density of woody stems. Our results indicate that the current harvesting practices used for biofuel production in the Adirondacks are unlikely to result in declines in abundance of common small mammal species. However, the retention of some slash post-harvest may be beneficial to some species, thus foresters may want to include slash retention when developing silvicultural prescriptions.
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Soil and Vegetation Characteristics of High Elevation Wetlands in the Adirondack Park
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Abstract: Wetland ecosystems are finally being understood for their true importance. Wetlands in the past were misunderstood and thought to be disease carrying burdens on our way of life; however this mentality changed during the mid-19thcentury. These ecosystems are important for biodiversity and act as natural water purification systems. This study was undertaken to help understand, the high elevation wetland characteristics. Our goals were to analyze the soils and describe the vegetation in high elevation wetlands. The soil and vegetative surveys helped define the characteristics of these ecosystems and create a better understanding of them. The combination of vegetation species that are wetland indicators were found in each site, the soil pH, and nutrients show that each site had signs of being a wetland community.
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Hampton Senior High School excels in Drama. A strong program is offered from Year 7 Specialist Performing Arts Drama to Year 12 Drama. The Performing Arts is embedded firmly in the culture of Hampton Senior High School.
Performing on stage in a variety of roles, forms an integral part of the Specialist Performing Arts (Drama) program. Students perform in innovative productions directed by experienced staff and qualified tutors to a variety of audiences. Students are able to enrol in the Performing Arts (Drama) Program as a specialist subject from Years 7-10 and participate in class and performance work as part of the curriculum.
Students develop their performance skills & knowledge with four contact hours per week. Students will perform in a variety of genres and contexts and Performing Arts students are encouraged to participate in the Annual Hampton Senior High School Production.
Application Process –
Frequently asked Q&As are available to view via the enrolments page.
Specialist and Enrichment Program expression of interest forms are also located at the back of the brochure.
The Specialist Performing Arts (Drama) program provides students with a solid foundation in Drama. Year 7 and 8 students are provided with a solid introduction to movement, vocal skills and improvisation work. During Years 9 and 10 students broaden their knowledge base with the introduction of form and style. Political theatre, stage combat, Commedia dell’arte, melodrama and documentary drama styles have all been favourites of students in the past. A strong integration of media and IT is utilised in many performance tasks to ensure that students are exposed to the most recent and up to date theatre and acting techniques. Design and Production roles are also taught in our fully equipped theatre, containing a full lighting grid, sound board and data projector.
Our students’ talents in drama and performance are enriched through experiences in acting, developing their vocal, improvisation and characterisation skills. They have opportunities to develop self-devised and scripted performances for both stage and screen and build knowledge and experience in production roles, including lighting, stage management and design. Through increased confidence and experiences in performing, your child will shine both on and off stage in this fantastic program.
Specialist Performing Arts (Drama) courses are designed to hone life skills and develop a broad range of knowledge for students to succeed in Performing Arts. Many of our students participate for enjoyment, whereas others further their performing arts education at institutions such as WAAPA or further their acting careers on stage or screen.
Whilst in the Specialist Performing Arts (Drama) program, students will have many opportunities to perform in events such as arts festivals, year assemblies, drama nights and school productions. To enhance the depth of learning in the program, students will be required to participate in before/after school programs and workshops that are sometimes scheduled for the weekend.
Students can select to continue to study Drama in Senior School. Year 11 and 12 Drama provides students with the opportunity to further extend their skills. Our new ATAR and General Drama courses offer students exciting prospects such as theatre excursions, specialist direction from guest directors, play-building, script-work and group ensemble and solo performances.
Our Performing Arts teaching staff have all moved into teaching from highly successful careers in the Performing Arts industry. They have enjoyed success in gaining numerous lead and supporting stage, film and TV roles, both in Perth and Eastern states productions. These include roles on stage for the Australian Shakespeare Company as well as large film/TV productions such as The Knowing and City Homicide working alongside actors Nicholas Cage, and Daniel Macpherson, among others. Their passion for the performing arts can also be seen with the nurturing and development of new Australian writers through numerous script writing groups.
Several of our students have gone on to further success in careers and education, including performing on stage or TV, signing by US casting agents, admission to WAAPA and into secondary Drama teaching

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Money managers under the microscope
The vexing question of how much to tell retail investors about what exactly they are buying has been exercising industry participants at the Reuters European Funds Summit. Although the sentiment is for more transparency and simplicity, as exemplified by the EU’s new two page marketing document, some managers feel this won’t fully reflect the risks and processes involved in a product.
The Key Investor Information Document (KIID), to be rolled out under UCITS IV, will replace the little loved ”simplified” prospectus as the primary document via which fund promoters communicate with prospective clients – something that makes some managers very uneasy.
Noel Fessey, managing director of Schroder Investment Management in Luxembourg, admitted he had a bee in his bonnet about KIID, which requires managers to be very concise in their descriptions. “Under UCITS IV the fund prospectus becomes the subordinate document but that’s the main document in which you can set out all the risks.”
He agreed that the KIID would allow investors to compare products – something the simplified prospectus had failed to do, but added, “There’s a significant degree of optimism by the regulator about what the KIID can do.”
It is early days at the Reuters fund summit in Luxembourg, but already a few themes are building. For one thing, no one seems to be too negative about the investment climate.
For the most part, however, the attendees are focused on how the industry will recuperate from the battering it has suffered during the financial crisis. Again, there appears to be a degree of optimism. Most of the talk is about UCITS IV, which is fundspeak for a new kind of pan-European fund that is easier to distribute.
from Summit Notebook:
By Neil Chatterjee
The U.S. has promised it will hunt down tax evaders.
And it seems tax evaders are on the run.
DBS bank, based in the growing offshore financial centre of
Singapore, told Reuters it had been approached by U.S. citizens
asking for its private banking services. But when told they would
have to sign U.S. tax declaration forms, the potential clients
Swiss banks also approached DBS on the hope they could
offload troublesome U.S. clients to a location that so far has
not been reached by the strong arms of Washington or Brussels.
DBS said no thanks. In fact many private banks and boutique
advisors now seem to be avoiding U.S. clients.
Will this spread to other nationalities, as governments
invest in tax spies and tax havens invest in white paint?
Is this the end of offshore private private banking?
from Global Investing:
Even though the former Nasdaq chairman is under arrest thousands of miles away from this discreet financial centre nestled between Belgium, France and Germany, his presence was omnipresent. Fund managers just can't stop mentioning him.


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A molecular scale atomic force microscopy study of friction and elasticity is presented on a one-component lipid bilayer system - a model boundary lubricant. With a real area of contact on the order of the lattice spacings of the sample, the elastic compliances of single lipid molecules are recorded - the first report of a molecularly resolved elasticity map. The anisotropic and highly ordered structure of the lipid bilayer has been observed to cause contrast information in friction on molecularly flat areas, and to be dependent on the sliding direction. This anisotropic behavior of friction has been measured to be independent of normal elastic compliances. Only asymmetric indentation which causes in-plane compliances leads to heterogeneities in the elasticity map. In this fundamental study of friction, the effects of adhesion and elasticity are discussed.
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Days after the death of Marvin D. Scott III in the custody of detention officers in Collin County, Texas, members of his family and community gathered outside the county jail in the northern suburb of McKinney , a suburb of Dallas.
They were demonstrating to demand transparency from county officials. They wanted to know how Mr. Scott died within hours of his arrest on March 14, and they wanted the officers who held him that night to be held accountable.
Three weeks have passed since the protests began and the protesters have yet to miss a night. “I made a vow that I would be there every night until they stop these officers,” said Mr. Scott’s sister, LaChay Batts, 28.
Mr. Scott, a 26-year-old black man who lived in Frisco, Texas, was arrested in nearby Allen for possession of marijuana on March 14. He had less than two ounces of the drug, authorities said. – an offense.
Police said they took Scott to hospital because he was acting erratically. He was then taken to the county jail, where county officers detained him and used pepper spray on him. A hood was placed over his head.
Mr Scott died later that night, but the family did not learn about it until the afternoon of the next day, according to Ms Batts.
Mr. Scott was a “gentle giant,” Ms. Batts said. “You had no choice but to be happy when you were around him,” she said, “because he was such a good pure spirit.
Episodes of schizophrenia had brought Mr Scott in contact with law enforcement a few times before, Ms Batts said, and officers usually took him to specialized mental health facilities.
But after officers in Allen met him while answering a call at a shopping center last month, they took Mr Scott to hospital, where he stayed for a few hours before a doctor arrived. frees him.
He was then taken to McKinney County Jail, where he was held, pepper sprayed once and placed under a hood, county officials said. After he stopped responding at around 10:30 p.m., Mr. Scott was taken to hospital and pronounced dead.
In the weeks that followed, Ms Batts and other protesters – who usually number in the dozens, although attendance has gradually declined – gathered outside the county jail, typically from 9 p.m. to midnight.
Alejandra Bernal, 18, a high school student from Collin County who has attended the protests since they began, said the protests could end if the family’s demands, which include the arrest of the officers involved, are met. Until then, she said, “we don’t plan to move.”
Protesters sometimes positioned themselves to obstruct vehicles bringing prisoners into the prison, Ms. Bernal said. They took up posters and chanted megaphones. They arranged plastic cups along a chain-link fence to spell out messages such as “Justice for Marvin Scott III” and “Stay in Power”.
And to commemorate the Sunday holiday, they organized an Easter egg hunt.
The protests drew local organizers, church leaders, politicians and incarcerated people to join Mr Scott, said S. Lee Merritt, an attorney representing Mr Scott’s family.
“It is important to do this for a while so that decision makers and elected officials responsible for responding to community demands can hear this cohesive voice,” he said. “I think well-organized protests continue until the demands they have made are met.”
The sheriff’s office did not respond to questions on Monday about protesters outside its doors.
Last week, Collin County Sheriff Jim Skinner fired seven officers in connection with Mr. Scott’s death. “The evidence I have seen confirms that these detention officers violated well-established sheriff’s office policies and procedures,” Sheriff Skinner said in a statement, adding that an eighth officer had resigned.
At a press conference on March 19, Sheriff Skinner called Mr Scott’s death a tragedy and said he had met those close to Mr Scott. He added that the Texas Rangers, a state law enforcement agency, were reviewing video footage of the episode.
But he did not provide a detailed explanation of what happened as an internal investigation is still ongoing and the results of the autopsy have yet to be released. The Texas Rangers are leading a criminal investigation.
Ms Batts said she planned to continue protesting. “I want to see them arrested so that we can finally relax and not have to be here every night,” she said of the detention officers who held her brother before his death.
“A life has been taken,” she said, “and they have to be held accountable.”

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RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Picture perfect, a happy, healthy baby. Then at 15 months, just like every other baby, Russell Rollins got his measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination.
ROLLINS: He has a very physical reaction to those vaccines including a high-pitch scream and days of high-pitched crying and listlessness.
DORNIN: Ten years later, those problems continue. Russell Rollins is autistic. How do you describe what you go through as a parent of an autistic child?
ROLLINS: It's a living hell. It's a living hell for everyone involved. It's a living hell for my son who suffers terribly from this disorder.
DORNIN: And it's a struggle that most autistic kids go through in the classroom. We're at the ABC School for Autistic Children, classes are full. Are you seeing bigger numbers, more kids knocking at the door to get in places like this?
ROLLINS: Yes, both in our school and in our in-home services, even in comparison to last year. We probably have 15 more kids than we had the year previous.
DORNIN: And parents are asking questions. No one knows what causes the brain development disorder but Rick Rollins who has become an activist for autism thinks the vaccine is connected.
ROLLINS: Thirty-three percent of new families with children of autism believe that vaccines played a role in the development of their child's autism.
DORNIN: But a recent, well-respected Danish study found no link between vaccinations and autism. Epidemiologist and pediatrician Robert Byrd doesn't believe the measles vaccine is a problem but he says concern about what's in some vaccinations is justified. Byrd applauds the removal last year of a small amount of mercury used as a preservative in some vaccines.
DR. ROBERT BYRD, EPIDEMIOLOGIST: To have anything that's potentially harmful packaged with something that's supposed to be entirely good is a bad package. DORNIN: Byrd authored a recent study that ruled out better testing and population increases as possible causes for California's dramatic increase. He believes what's happening here is probably happening nationwide. California has the only system for registering autistic children.
There is no biological test for autism. Some researchers believe there could be connection between genetics and the environment, but Rollins says he knows vaccines are only one possibility. Do you believe there could be other factor as well?
BYRD: Absolutely. You know I don't think anyone in any area of research in autism believe there's one single cause. We worry day and night about his future and who's going to take care of him when we're gone.
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DORNIN: Rusty Dornin CNN, Sacramento, California.
ZAHN: And joining us now is Bernard Rimland, head of the Autism Research Institute in San Diego. He believes childhood vaccinations may be the culprit.
Good of you to join us. Welcome, sir.
Why do you think vaccinations may be part of this equation?
BERNARD RIMLAND, AUTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE: Well, I've been studying this matter for some 35, 40 years.
Way back in the '60s, I began collecting information from parents about the possible causes of autism in their kids. Even back then, there were a number of parents who said their kid was quite normal until they got vaccinated. Nowadays, of course, the evidence is very, very convincing that the autism has extremely accelerated in its prevalence.
The California study is one of many which shows this huge increase. The evidence that vaccines are a major cause of the increase comes from a number of directions. One direction that's been largely ignored are the laboratory studies. There are at least seven laboratory studies, clinical studies, of blood, cerebral, spinal fluid, biopsies of autistic children which show huge differences between autistic children and normal children in terms of the presence of things like measles vaccine virus in their intestinal tract, for example, or their neurons. So, there's one line of evidence.
Another, of course, is that we have data from thousands of parents who testify, often with videotapes and photographs and eyewitness reports, that their kid was perfectly normal. And they can demonstrate it, as I say, very conclusively with tapes until after the vaccine. The kid retreated into autism. There's just converging evidence from many, many directions.
ZAHN: But, Doctor, it's also true that not every child who gets
vaccinations ends up with autism. And there are some scientists who believe that
there is a preexisting genetic weakness that makes them almost predisposed to
contracting autism. What do you say to those scientists?
RIMLAND: Well, I totally agree with that. As a matter of fact, my autism book, "Infantile Autism," which was published in 1964, established beyond any doubt that there is a strong genetic element in autism.
In the present instance, the genetic element seems, on the basis of a good deal of evidence, that the children have a tremendously difficult time detoxifying heavy metals, including mercury. There's the differences of 10,000 percent in the sensitivity of some individuals vs. others in their sensitivity to mercury. Many of the vaccines that these autistic kids have been given contain huge amounts, very, incredibly large amounts of extremely toxic mercury, which what was put in there as a preservative.
And it's the genetic predisposition, plus the mercury, plus a huge number of increased vaccines that kids are getting which causes the increase. When my son was born -- my autistic son was born in the '50s -- kids were getting three vaccines: DPT, one shot of DPT vaccines before the age of 2.
Now, if the kids get the recommended amounts, they are getting 22 vaccine doses before the age of 2. And, as the number of vaccines the kids are given before the age of 2 has increased, the population of autistic children has concomitantly increased.
ZAHN: What is your best recommendation to parents? I think of when I had all three of my kids inoculated. When the doctor hands you this horrible pamphlet with all the conceivable things that could happen to your child, most of them bad, and you have to sign on the dotted line that you understand all that, what are you supposed to do?
RIMLAND: Well, there are some really very closely agreed-upon recommendations that the experts make.
One is, make sure the kid does not get a vaccine that contains mercury. Mercury is used in a preservative called thimerosal. And it supposedly was taken off the market. Or at least the vaccines were manufactured starting in '99, I believe, without that mercury in them. But an awful lot of the vaccines still on doctors' shelves in warehouses and in pharmacies still contain the vaccines. So, make absolutely show that there's no mercury in the vaccines given to the kids.
Another extremely important rule is, never have a kid vaccinated when the child is sick or has any sign of immune system dysfunction, a cold or anything of that sort. And still another rule which I really think should be strongly enforced as a policy matter, do not start vaccinating kids as young as they are now vaccinating them. Some kids are given multiple vaccines before they leave the hospital. Some experts say don't vaccinate before the kid is 1-year-old. Others say before the kid is six months old. But delay it as long as possible.
ZAHN: Well, you've certainly given us a lot of information to think about and to debate. Dr. Bernard Rimland of the Autism Research Institute, thank you very much for your time tonight.
RIMLAND: You're most welcome. Thank you for the opportunity.
ZAHN: We also wanted to address this dilemma parents face when they have to decide whether vaccinations are work the risk, or the alleged risk. So we asked our own medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, to give us a hand.
You are by training a neurosurgeon.
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Right.
ZAHN: And you know what it's like for any parent that sits down with their pediatrician and tries to read through these pamphlets. It is scary. And you ask yourself as a parent: "Do I want my kid to get this dreadful affliction or do I inoculate him or her and live with the possible risk of having autism be contracted?"
GUPTA: Yes. Well, I think Bernard Rimland made some good points. There's no question.
The number of vaccines that a child gets today compared to 20, 30 years ago has almost tripled, if not quadrupled, in some cases, in some of those particular vaccines. And, as a result of that, a lot of those childhood diseases, a lot of those scourges of childhood have been all but eliminated as a result.
When you think about some of the diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, actually being able to get rid of those diseases, that benefit far outweighs any of the possible associations we've seen with...
ZAHN: But you heard the same interview I just did. The doctor said that they found these traces of the measles virus in the neurons.
GUPTA: And they were talking specifically about the polyps within the intestines. And they were saying that it was possibly a way that certain bacteria and viruses could get into the body.
There's a lot of research on this. This is perhaps one of the most researched things in childhood medicine. And a lot of that, you can find papers really on both sides of the aisle. Whether or not some of these vaccines actually led to autism as a result either because of this mercury derivative that we've been hearing so much about or otherwise, has never been proven.
ZAHN: Well, that doesn't make me feel good either that any of us who inoculated our kids pre-1999 shouldn't stop worrying about this stuff. So what is the best advice you can give us tonight? GUPTA: You bring up 1999. And he made a good point there.
In 1999, the CDC, along with the American Academy of Pediatrics, a lot of organizations came together and said: "You know what? We're going to get rid of this mercury derivative in the vaccines. It used to be at a certain level. We're going to essentially get rid of it altogether. Why? Because we believe there's enough lack of public confidence now in these vaccines because of all of this that people won't do the right thing, which is get their kids vaccinate."
They never, on the other hand, admitted liability, admitted culpability, or confirmed any association between these vaccines and any of these other things, autism being the most commonly-discussed one now. Thimerosal, the name for the mercury derivative, doesn't exist in those vaccines today. So the best advice is really to continue getting children vaccinated. That association was never proven. And now, with this thimerosal, this mercury derivative being gone, it's even less likely.
ZAHN: Thanks for the house call, Sanjay. It helps


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Kelly Cherry was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and grew up in Ithaca, New York, and Chesterfield County, Virginia. She did graduate work in philosophy at the University of Virginia and earned an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Cherry was the daughter of violinists, and her early exposure to music has had a profound affect on her work, which ranges in genre from poetry to novels to short fiction to memoir to criticism. In an interview with Kaite Hillenbrand, Cherry noted that “musical dynamics, phrasing, pitch, tone, texture, orchestration et al. provide inspiration, and sometimes a model, for a poet, as do the lives of some composers.” Cherry is the author of more than 20 books and chapbooks of writing. Her collections of poetry include Songs for a Soviet Composer (1980), God’s Loud Hand (1993), Death and Transfiguration (1997), Rising Venus (2002), Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems (2007), and The Retreats of Thought: Poems (2009). Her works of fiction include Sick and Full of Burning (1974); In the Wink of an Eye (1983); The Society of Friends (1999), which won the Dictionary of Literary Biography Award for Short Fiction; We Can Still Be Friends (2003); and The Woman Who (2010). An accomplished writer of nonfiction, Cherry has also published memoirs, including The Exiled Heart (1991), and essay collections, such as Girl in a Library: On Women Writers & the Writing Life (2009). She has also published two translations of ancient Greek drama. The recipient of numerous honors and awards, Cherry was named the poet laureate of Virginia in 2010. She has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, and Yaddo. She taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for more than 20 years. She retired in 1999 but still holds the positions of the Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and the Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities. The inaugural recipient of the Hanes Poetry Prize and the Ellen Anderson Award, Cherry was a Director’s Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 2010. She lives on a small farm in Virginia with her husband, the fiction writer Burke Davis III.
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Bella Hadid Misses Ex-Boyfriend The Weeknd? Victoria's Secret Model Spotted Staring At Their Picture
Bella Hadid and The Weekend have managed to keep reports of their breakup away from the public. However, a picture captured by Hadid's fellow model suggests that she is not yet over her former beau. The 20-year-old Victoria's Secret model was caught staring at an old photo of her and The Weekend where the two were snapped kissing.
While on a plane bound for Paris for the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, Hadid was caught on a video taken by fellow VS model Kelly Gale, who was seated behind Hadid. In the video, Hadid was seen looking at her picture with The Weekend, the Daily Mail reported.
Judging by Hadid's facial expression, fans can assume that she seems to be missing her man. The said video was shared by a fan on Instagram, probably for the sake of updating followers of the Victoria Secret Fashion Show. However, an eagle-eyed fan pointed out the discovery.
The screen-grabbed image next to the original photo of Hadid and The Weeknd was shared on Instagram. According to The Sun News, if you look closely at the image on her phone, The Weeknd was kissing her on the cheek.
Did they really call it quits? That has remained unproven by two as both stars have been battling against their own schedules. The Canadian singer´s ¨Starboy¨ and ¨Mania¨ tracks are currently topping the charts which keeps him pretty much occupied.
However, skeptics believe that Victoria Secret is only taking advantage of the pair´s popularity for the upcoming event´s promotion. The brunette beauty and "Starboy" hitmaker are still together despite the breakup reports. Whether it is a publicity stunt or not, they will see each other on the most famous fashion event, as The Weekend is slated to perform while Hadid walks the runway for as a VS angel for the first time.

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Gender differences are evident in many endocrine pathophysiologies. Like other neuroendocrine axes, regulation of the growth hormone (GH) axis is subject to prominent gender effects. Recent physiological studies demonstrate profound dependencies of mean 24-hour serum GH concentrations in men on age, body composition (e.g., percentage body fat), and physical fitness (e.g., as judged by maximal oxygen consumption). In contrast, age, body composition, and physical fitness are remarkably less significant determinants of mean serum GH concentrations in women of premenopausal age. Further investigations of the neuroendocrine mechanisms that regulate pulsatile GH release in young men and premenopausal women have shown 1.5 to 2.5 fold higher daily GH secretion rates in women. This gender difference is accounted for by a 2-fold greater mass of GH secreted per burst in women with no difference in GH secretory pulse frequency. Specific regulation of GH pulse amplitude is observed in women studied at different phases of the normal menstrual cycle with 2-fold higher serum GH peak heights in the late follicular phase. Endurance exercise training in women also doubles serum GH concentrations even in the early follicular phase. Ultrasensitive chemiluminescence and immunofluorometric GH assays capable of detecting 0.002 to 0.012 μg/L GH in peripheral blood show low basal rates of GH secretion in both men and women. Following glucose ingestion, women suppress their serum GH concentrations to < 0.70 μg/L and men to levels of < 0.07μg/L. Across a wide range of ages, the serum estradiol concentration is a strongly positive determinant of the mean serum GH level in mixed populations of men and women, as is the serum testosterone concentration in cohorts of men. Available clinical studies and data in experimental animals suggest that gender differences result from relatively increased GHRH release and/or action in the female associated with presumptively reduced somatostatin inhibitory tone. Moreover, target tissues of GH action show specific dependence of discrete responses (e.g., GH receptor, LDL receptor, cytochrome P-450, 1GF-I mRNA, etc., induction) on either a “male” (pulsatile) or “female” (continuous) GH release pattern. I conclude that prominent gender differences exist in the impact of age, body composition, and physical fitness on pulsatile GH release, and that such differences predominantly reflect the positive impact of sex-steroid hormones on the mass of GH secreted per burst and the degree to which GH release is suppressible by glucose.
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Republicans have expressed a lot higher levels of belief throughout Republican than during Democratic presidencies, while Democrats’ attitudes have tended to be more consistent, no matter which celebration controls the White House. American Indians and Alaska Natives have the same rights as different residents to hold public office. Over the years, American Indian and Alaska Native women and men have held elected and appointed places of work at all levels of federal, state, and native authorities. Charles Curtis, a member of the Kaw Tribe of Kansas, served in both houses of Congress before holding the second highest elected workplace in the nation – that of Vice President of the United States beneath President Herbert Hoover. American Indians and Alaska Natives also serve in state legislatures, state judicial systems, county and metropolis governments, and on native faculty boards.
Eugene Volokh of the UCLA School of Law notes that the United States exemplifies the various nature of a constitutional republic—a rustic the place some selections (often local) are made by direct democratic processes, whereas others (typically federal) are made by democratically elected representatives. As with many giant methods, US governance is incompletely described by any single time period. It additionally employs the concept, for example, of a constitutional democracy in which a court docket system is involved in issues of jurisprudence.
Winters has posited a comparative concept of “oligarchy” by which the wealthiest citizens – even in a “civil oligarchy” just like the United States – dominate policy concerning crucial issues of wealth- and income-safety. The form of government instituted in Sweden under King Charles XI and passed on to his son, Charles XII is often referred to as absolute monarchy; nevertheless, the Swedish monarch was by no means absolute in the sense that he wielded arbitrary energy. The monarch still ruled beneath the regulation and could only legislate in agreement with the Riksdag of the Estates; rather, the absolutism introduced was the monarch’s capability to run the federal government unfettered by the privy council, contrary to earlier apply. The absolute rule of Charles XI was instituted by the crown and the Riksdag so as to carry out the Great Reduction which might have been made impossible by the privy council which comprised the excessive nobility.
A democratic republic is a type of authorities operating on rules adopted from a republic and a democracy. Rather than being a cross between two totally separate systems, democratic republics could perform on rules shared by both republics and democracies. It found that wealthy individuals and organizations representing enterprise pursuits have substantial political influence, whereas common citizens and mass-primarily based curiosity groups have little to none.
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Since the Seventies, belief in government has been consistently larger amongst members of the get together that controls the White House than among the opposition party. However, Republicans have been much more reactive than Democrats to changes in political power.
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Background: Treatment of myocardial infarction with bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells and recently also adipose-derived stem cells has shown promising results. In contrast to clinical trials and their use of autologous bone marrow-derived cells from the ischemic patient, the animal myocardial infarction models are often using young donors and young, often immune-compromised, recipient animals. Our objective was to compare bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells with adipose-derived stem cells from an elderly ischemic patient in the treatment of myocardial infarction, using a fully grown non-immunecompromised rat model. Methods: Mesenchymal stem cells were isolated from adipose tissue and bone marrow and compared with respect to surface markers and proliferative capability. To compare the regenerative potential of the two stem cell populations, male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomised to receive intramyocardial injections of adipose-derived stem cells, bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells or phosphate-buffered saline one week following induction of myocardial infarction. Results: After four weeks, left ventricular ejection fraction was improved in the adipose-derived stem cell group and scar wall thickness was greater compared with the saline group. Adipose-derived as well as bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells prevented left ventricular end diastolic dilatation. Neither of the cell groups displayed increased angiogenesis in the myocardium compared with the saline group.Conclusions: Adipose-derived stem cells from a human ischemic patient preserved cardiac function following myocardial infarction whereas this could not be demonstrated for bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells, with only adipose-derived stem cells leading to an improvement in left ventricular ejection fraction. Neither of the stem cell types induced myocardial angiogenesis raising the question whether donor age and health have an effect on the efficacy of stem cells used in the treatment of myocardial infarction.
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Watch: Prankster Brilliantly Tricks Colonoscopy Patients by Showing Them Weird Objects He “Found” in Their Bums
This is brilliant. YouTuber Jack Vale teamed up with the Colon Cancer Alliance to hilariously prank patients, while at the same time promoting Colon Cancer Awareness Month.
The famous prankster met with patients who were waking up from anaesthesia and dressed as a doctor informed them of the rather unusual objects that he “found” in their bums.
Their reactions are pretty priceless!
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Also this prologue takes place two weeks before Gem Glow, so yeah. Also this story revolves around my OC while still being Steven Centered.
Steven ran down the beach, to the Big Donut. He tried to get there right as it opened, so he could get a Cookie Cat and the first donut of the day.
"Sadie! Are the donuts ready yet?" Steven asked.
"Patients, Steven! Not even Lars is here yet!" Sadie chuckled, "Why don't you get a Cookie Cat in the meantime. I'll get you your donut. Now, what would you like?"
"Chocolate with pink icing and sprinkles!" Steven exclaimed, taking a Cookie Cat from the freezer.
"Roger!" Sadie said playfully, while giving a salute.
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