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Autonomous Weapons Systems And The Procedural Accounta- Bility Gap, Afonso Seixas-Nunes Dec 2021
Autonomous Weapons Systems And The Procedural Accounta- Bility Gap, Afonso Seixas-Nunes
The development and well-established principles of Internationla Humanitarian Law have been progressively establishing limits to the means and methods of warfare. Those principles and rules are necessarily applicable to future autonomous weapon systems (AWS), but questions regarding liability for violations of IHL caused by AWS have been looming the international debate. This article has two parts. The first part aims to identify a technical dimension of AWS that has been neglected by international lawyers: States responsibility for IHL violations caused by errors in AWS' software. This article argues that "errors" can neither be identified with "malfunctions" nor attributed to human ...
Oversight Riders, Kevin M. Stack, Michael P. Vandenbergh Dec 2021
Oversight Riders, Kevin M. Stack, Michael P. Vandenbergh
Notre Dame Law Review
Congress has a constitutionally critical duty to gather information about how the executive branch implements the powers Congress has granted it and the funds Congress has appropriated. Yet in recent years the executive branch has systematically thwarted Congress's powers and duties of oversight. Congressional subpoenas for testimony and documents have met with blanket refusals to comply, frequently backed by advice from the Department of Justice that executive privilege justifies withholding the information. Even when Congress holds an official in contempt for failure to comply with a congressional subpoena, the Department of Justice often does not initiate criminal sanctions. As ...
Delegation, Administration, And Improvisation, Kevin Arlyck Dec 2021
Delegation, Administration, And Improvisation, Kevin Arlyck
Nondelegation originalism is having its moment. Recent Supreme Court opinions suggest that a majority of Justices may be prepared to impose strict constitutional limits on Congress's power to delegate policymaking authority to the executive branch. In response, scholars have scoured the historical record for evidence affirming or refuting a more stringent version of nondelegation than current Supreme Court doctrine demands. Though the debate ranges widely, sharp disputes have arisen over whether a series of apparently broad Founding-era delegations defeat originalist arguments in favor of a more demanding modern doctrine. Proponents—whom I call "nondelegationists"—argue that these historical delegations ...
Broken Nest: Deterring China From Invading Taiwan, Jared M. Mckinney, Peter Harris Nov 2021
Broken Nest: Deterring China From Invading Taiwan, Jared M. Mckinney, Peter Harris
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
Deterring a Chinese invasion of Taiwan without recklessly threatening a great-power war is both possible and necessary through a tailored deterrence package that goes beyond either fighting over Taiwan or abandoning it. This article joins cutting-edge understandings of deterrence with empirical evidence of Chinese strategic thinking and culture to build such a strategy.
Staccato Warfare, Matthew H. Ormsbee Oct 2021
Staccato Warfare, Matthew H. Ormsbee
Boston College Law Review
"Staccato warfare" describes the prevailing characteristic of modern American warfare, which features military operations that are increasingly characterized by frequent, disconnected offensives in the battlefield of cyberspace rather than a physical battlefield. Stakeholders in political and military circles will benefit from a better understanding of the President's cyberattack arsenal as the executive branch gradually turns to cyber operations over traditional kinetic options. Historically, the President's legal advisers have construed the unilateral war powers of the executive branch very broadly, foregoing robust and traditional notions of congressional scrutiny and public review. Nevertheless, staccato warfare remains a powerful and lawful ...
Sufficiently Judicial: The Need For A Universal Ethics Rule On Attorney Behavior In Legislative Impeachment Trials, Joshua E. Kastenberg Oct 2021
Sufficiently Judicial: The Need For A Universal Ethics Rule On Attorney Behavior In Legislative Impeachment Trials, Joshua E. Kastenberg
St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics
In assessing an ethics, rule-based prohibition against New Jersey governmental attorneys representing clients against the state for matters the state had previously assigned to them, the state supreme court noted: "In our representative form of government, it is essential that the conduct of public officials and employees shall hold the respect and confidence of the people."
In the beginning of 2020, the United States Senate held an impeachment trial to determine whether former President Donald J. Trump had committed offenses forwarded by the House of Representatives. A U.S. Senate trial, much like state senate trials, is both judicial and ...
Baby & Bathwater: Standing In Election Cases After 2020, Steven J. Mulroy Oct 2021
Baby & Bathwater: Standing In Election Cases After 2020, Steven J. Mulroy
Dickinson Law Review
The current consensus among commentators is that the flood of cases challenging the 2020 presidential election results was almost completely meritless. This consensus is correct as to the ultimate result, but not as to the courts' treatment of standing. In their (understandable) zeal to reject sometimes frivolous attempts to overturn a legitimate election and undermine public confidence in our electoral system, many courts were too quick to rule that plaintiffs lacked standing. These rulings resulted in unjustified sweeping rulings that voters were not injured even if their legal votes were diluted by states accepting illegal votes; that campaigns did not ...
Biden Administration U.S. Space Force Policy Literature, Bert Chapman Sep 2021
Biden Administration U.S. Space Force Policy Literature, Bert Chapman
Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations
Provides details on U.S. Space Force policy literature produced by the Biden Administration during its first eight months. Includes announcements that the Biden Administration will continue this new armed services branch begun during the Trump Administration. Features congressional testimony of Biden Administration officials such as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Wilson and Air Force Space Command leader General James Dickinson, the text of Space Force's 2021 Digital Force Vision document, congressionally approved FY 2022 space force budget figures, congressional committee comments and report requirements contained in emerging defense spending legislation, the emergence of collaboration between Space Force and universities ...
How Biden Began Building Back Better The Federal Bench, Carl Tobias Sep 2021
How Biden Began Building Back Better The Federal Bench, Carl Tobias
Washington and Lee Law Review Online
In October 2020, Democratic presidential nominee Joseph Biden famously expressed regret that the fifty-four accomplished, conservative, and young federal appellate court jurists and the 174 comparatively similar district court judges whom former– Republican President Donald Trump and the recent pair of analogous Grand Old Party Senate majorities in the 115th and 116th Congress appointed had left the courts of appeals and the district courts "out of whack." Lamentable were the numerous detrimental ways in which President Trump and these Republican Senate majorities attempted to undercut the appeals courts and district courts, which actually constitute the tribunals of last resort in ...
Crisis Management Lessons From The Clinton Administration's Implementation Of Presidential Decision Directive 56, Leonard R. Hawley Aug 2021
Crisis Management Lessons From The Clinton Administration's Implementation Of Presidential Decision Directive 56, Leonard R. Hawley
Drawing on personal experience, the author asks what the current administration can learn from the Clinton administration's implementation of Presidential Decision Directive 56, examines the real-world application of the directive during the Clinton administration and the pitfalls of its agency-centric successor during the Bush administration, and identifies recurring problems and best practices for successfully responding to current global crises.
National Security Rules: America's Constitution Of Law And War, Kyle L. Greene Jul 2021
National Security Rules: America's Constitution Of Law And War, Kyle L. Greene
Maine Law Review
Contemporary debates over the appropriate allocation of war powers between the political branches overemphasize the rigidity of the Constitution's framework. This style of academic discussion sacrifices the lessons of practice in search of steadfast, yet empty, principles. Even beyond the practical failings of this approach, there is no constitutional basis for the notion that either Congress or the President has a singular, fixed role when dealing with national security issues. In fact, the Founders developed a constitutional structure capable of continually reshaping—within parameters—the government's division of national security power to match the nation's security challenges ...
Partisan Or Precedent: The History Of Nominating Supreme Court Judges In Presidential Election Years, Hattie Jefferies Jul 2021
Partisan Or Precedent: The History Of Nominating Supreme Court Judges In Presidential Election Years, Hattie Jefferies
Helms School of Government Undergraduate Law Review
Influence Through Intimidation: Evidence From Business Lobbying And The Regulatory Process, Alex Acs, Cary Coglianese Jul 2021
Influence Through Intimidation: Evidence From Business Lobbying And The Regulatory Process, Alex Acs, Cary Coglianese
Interest group influence in the policy process is often assumed to occur through a mechanism of exchange, persuasion, or subsidy. Here, we explore how business groups may also exert influence by intimidating policymakers—a form of persuasion, but one based not on the provision of policy information but of political information. We develop a theory where a business firm lobbies a regulator to communicate political information about its capacity to commit to future influence-seeking activities that would sanction the regulator. The regulator assesses the credibility of this message by evaluating the firm's commitment to lobbying. Guided by our theory ...
Abdication Through Enforcement, Shalini Ray Jul 2021
Abdication Through Enforcement, Shalini Ray
Indiana Law Journal
Presidential abdication in immigration law has long been synonymous with the perceived nonenforcement of certain provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act. President Obama's never-implemented policy of deferred action, known as DAPA, serves as the prime example in the literature. But can the President abdicate the duty of faithful execution in immigration law by enforcing the law, i.e., by deporting deportable noncitizens? This Article argues "yes." Every leading theory of the presidency recognizes the President's role as supervisor of the bureaucracy, an idea crystallized by several scholars. When the President fails to establish meaningful enforcement priorities, essentially ...
The Deregulation Deception, Cary Coglianese, Natasha Sarin, Stuart Shapiro Jun 2021
The Deregulation Deception, Cary Coglianese, Natasha Sarin, Stuart Shapiro
President Donald Trump and members of his Administration repeatedly asserted that they had delivered substantial deregulation that fueled positive trends in the U.S. economy prior to the COVID pandemic. Drawing on an original analysis of data on federal regulation from across the Trump Administration's four years, we show that the Trump Administration actually accomplished much less by way of deregulation than it repeatedly claimed—and much less than many commentators and scholars have believed. In addition, and also contrary to the Administration's claims, overall economic trends in the pre-pandemic Trump years tended simply to follow economic trends ...
The President And Individual Rights, Mark Tushnet Jun 2021
The President And Individual Rights, Mark Tushnet
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
The Emerging Lessons Of Trump V. Hawaii, Shalini Bhargava Ray Jun 2021
The Emerging Lessons Of Trump V. Hawaii, Shalini Bhargava Ray
In the years since the Supreme Court decided Trump v. Hawaii, federal district courts have adjudicated dozens of rights-based challenges to executive action in immigration law. Plaintiffs, including U.S. citizens, civil rights organizations, and immigrants themselves, have alleged violations of the First Amendment and the equal protection component of the Due Process Clause with some regularity based on President Trump's animus toward immigrants. This Article assesses Hawaii's impact on these challenges to immigration policy, and it offers two observations. First, Hawaii has amplified federal courts' practice of privileging administrative law claims over constitutional ones. For example, courts ...
Executive Unilateralism And Individual Rights In A Federalist System, Meredith Mclain, Sharece Thrower Jun 2021
Executive Unilateralism And Individual Rights In A Federalist System, Meredith Mclain, Sharece Thrower
Presidents have a wide array of tools at their disposal to unilaterally influence public policy, without the direct approval of Congress or the courts. These unilateral actions have the potential to affect a variety of individual rights, either profitably or adversely. Governors too can employ unilateral directives for similar purposes, often impacting an even wider range of rights. In this Article, we collect all executive orders and memoranda related to individual rights issued between 1981 and 2018 at the federal level, and across the U.S. states, to analyze their use over time. We find that chief executives of all ...
The Original Meaning Of The Habeas Corpus Suspension Clause, The Right Of Natural Liberty, And Executive Discretion, John Harrison Jun 2021
The Original Meaning Of The Habeas Corpus Suspension Clause, The Right Of Natural Liberty, And Executive Discretion, John Harrison
The Habeas Corpus Suspension Clause of Article I, Section 9, is primarily a limit on Congress's authority to authorize detention by the executive. It is not mainly concerned with the remedial writ of habeas corpus, but rather with the primary right of natural liberty. Suspensions of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus are statutes that vest very broad discretion in the executive to decide which individuals to hold in custody. Detention of combatants under the law of war need not rest on a valid suspension, whether the combatant is an alien or a citizen of the United ...
Destructive Federal Decentralization, David Fontana Jun 2021
Destructive Federal Decentralization, David Fontana
This Article—written for a symposium hosted by the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal—focuses on the efforts by the Trump administration to relocate federal officials outside of Washington to reduce the capacity of the federal government. Federalism and the separation of powers are usually the twin pillars of structural constitutional law. Locating federal officials outside of Washington— federal decentralization—has been an additional tool of diffusing power that has started to gain some scholarly attention. These debates largely focus on structural constitutional law as constructive—as improving the capacity and operation of the federal and state governments. The ...
Who Constrains Presidential Exercise Of Delegated Powers?, Rebecca L. Brown Jun 2021
Who Constrains Presidential Exercise Of Delegated Powers?, Rebecca L. Brown
Building on the work of administrative law scholars who have identified and illuminated the several components of the problem over the years, this Article will seek to show what has happened when a cluster of separate circumstances have come together to create a new and serious threat to individual liberty when the President exercises expansive delegated authority. Several doctrinal components lead to this confluence: First, the moribund "intelligible principle" test has evolved to provide little or no constraint on this or any other delegation. Second, a delegation to the President, specifically, is not subject to the procedural requirements of the ...
Dark Matter In The Law, D. Carolina Núñez May 2021
Dark Matter In The Law, D. Carolina Núñez
Not all law is written down. Sometimes, informal norms and expectations about what the law is or ought to be constrain behavior. Lawyers and legal commentators instinctively understand this concept and have written about it, but none have discussed the interaction or relationship between these unwritten norms—which I refer to as law's "dark matter"—and traditional formal law, like case law and statutes—which I refer to as law's "ordinary matter." I venture into this overlooked relationship to reveal a fascinating and important dynamic that shapes the development of law. In this Article, I explore law's ...
United Nations At 75 And The Challenges Facing International Law, Ved Nanda May 2021
United Nations At 75 And The Challenges Facing International Law, Ved Nanda
Pace International Law Review
On September 21, 2020, the Member States celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. In the Declaration marking the occasion, world leaders recounted the achievements of the body, including catalyzing decolonization, promoting and protecting human rights, working to eradicate disease, helping mitigate dozens of conflicts, and saving lives through humanitarian action. They also enumerated challenges the world faces, such as "growing inequality, poverty, hunger, armed conflicts, terrorism, insecurity, climate change, and pandemics." These challenges, the Declaration said, are interconnected and can only be addressed through reinvigorated multilateralism, which, it emphasized, "is not an option but a ...
The Constitution, Covid-19, And Civil Disobedience: Federalism In Flames And The Slippery Slope To Socialism, Savannah Snyder May 2021
The Constitution, Covid-19, And Civil Disobedience: Federalism In Flames And The Slippery Slope To Socialism, Savannah Snyder
Helm's School of Government Conference
Our Constitution has been devastatingly corrupted from its original design and vision amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Governors usurped authority in the name of crisis mitigation. Our unalienable rights have been macerated and pulverized by droves of executive orders, each delivering a calamitous blow to the integrity of the American republican framework. Socialized medicine is on the horizon as our compliance is coerced. Conventional civil disobedience has been regulatorily revoked. We have succumbed to the decrees of depraved men who maintain that education, religious expression, and pursuits of happiness can be invalidated by whatever transgressions the state deems necessary. For the ...
Judicial Autonomy V. Executive Authority: Which Prevails In The Case Of A Postcommutation Collateral Attack?, Vincent A. Marrazzo May 2021
Judicial Autonomy V. Executive Authority: Which Prevails In The Case Of A Postcommutation Collateral Attack?, Vincent A. Marrazzo
An inmate with a commuted sentence will sometimes collaterally attack his already commuted sentence. This raises the question: Does an act of executive clemency divest the courts of authority to hear the collateral attack? In other words, does clemency moot the issues involved in the collateral attack? While multiple circuit courts have weighed in on this question, the Fourth and Sixth Circuits have developed the most robust discussions, disagreeing about whether federal courts may hear these cases. The Fourth Circuit has held that a collateral attack postcommutation is moot as the "President's commutation order simply closes the judicial door ...
Examining Executive Authority During Public Health Emergencies: Challenges To Covid-19 Executive Orders & Implications For Future Public Health Policy, Rachael Wyant May 2021
Examining Executive Authority During Public Health Emergencies: Challenges To Covid-19 Executive Orders & Implications For Future Public Health Policy, Rachael Wyant
Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy Papers
Two months after the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in Wuhan, China, state governments faced the threat of an unprecedented public health emergency caused by an unknown pathogen, and uncertainty about the efficacy of containment measures. After the WHO announced that COVID-19 had become a pandemic, the Trump Administration declared a National Emergency and issued a travel ban on March 13, 2020. Subsequently, counties in New York and Washington began issuing stay-at-home orders, followed by California's state wide order. Deriving authority from state emergency management and public health statutes, governors have relied heavily on executive orders and emergency ...
Inspectors General And The Importance Of Independence, Kristopher Phipps May 2021
Inspectors General And The Importance Of Independence, Kristopher Phipps
Amidst a global pandemic, President Donald Trump removed five inspectors general within the federal government, including the inspector general in charge of overseeing the coronavirus response efforts in health agencies and the inspector general directly involved with the whistleblower complaint that led to Trump's impeachment. The President's unprecedented actions against government oversight officials calls attention to an otherwise little-noticed institution and signals a growing need for accountability in government on all levels.
Independence is critical to the success of an inspector general in the performance of their statutory duties. Those duties are compromised, however, when the authority that ...
Gundy V. United States: How Justice Gorsuch'S Dissent And Changing Judicial Philosophy In Federal Courts May Lead To A Revived Nondelegation Doctrine And Diminish The Purpose Of The Administrative Procedure Act, Zachary Pfrang Olvera May 2021
Gundy V. United States: How Justice Gorsuch'S Dissent And Changing Judicial Philosophy In Federal Courts May Lead To A Revived Nondelegation Doctrine And Diminish The Purpose Of The Administrative Procedure Act, Zachary Pfrang Olvera
St. Mary's Law Journal
Abstract forthcoming.
The Error Of The Paquete Habana: U.S. Naval Forces In The Safe Harbor Of Commander-In-Chief Discretion And The Law Of War, T. Nelson Collier May 2021
The Error Of The Paquete Habana: U.S. Naval Forces In The Safe Harbor Of Commander-In-Chief Discretion And The Law Of War, T. Nelson Collier
Serving A Lawless President, William R. Casto May 2021
Serving A Lawless President, William R. Casto
Mercer Law Review
What does an Attorney General do when confronted with a lawless President? At first glance, the answer is easy, but on second thought, a realistic answer is complicated. The answer is complicated because the phrase "lawless president" is not necessarily pejorative. In fact, western leaders have always exercised a prerogative power to throw the law overboard when they see fit. Some of our greatest Presidents have followed this path. Thomas Jefferson did, as did Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.
So what does the President's Attorney General do? The law and principles of professional responsibility offer a clear answer to ...


: After 6 years, this nurse practitioner was told her public-service job did not qualify for student-debt forgiveness. She fought that decision, but many others are left in limbo
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Public servants, like nurses and doctors, are facing challenges determining whether their work qualifies them for a student-loan forgiveness program for public servants. Photographer: Go Nakamura/Bloomberg
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For about six years, Olivia Straw was making payments on her student loans, assuming they'd eventually be forgiven.
There was no reason for her to question the assumption that she'd qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, a program that allows public servants to have their federal student loans forgiven after 120 monthly payments.
Straw is a nurse practitioner specializing in oncology. She'd been told by her student loan servicer, FedLoan Servicing, in September 2014 that Winchester Physician Associates, a nonprofit organization employing doctors and nurse practitioners who work at a community hospital and outpatient practices north of Boston, was a qualifying employer under the program.
But in 2019, when Straw, 39, went to re-certify her employment with her servicer, she got a different answer. After several months of waiting, calling FedLoan and filing complaints with her attorney general's office and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in order to receive a response, she was told by FedLoan in February that her work at WPA didn't qualify. She asked for a second review of her case and got the same answer in March, as the coronavirus pandemic was ramping up.
Though by then, Straw was at a new employer, she was doing similar work to what she'd been doing at WPA, seeing patients with cancer, including those who had COVID-19.
Olivia Straw is a nurse practitioner specializing in oncology
"To read that and to hear that the work you're doing, they're saying it's not public health services," Straw said of the response she received from FedLoan in March. "It's not even about the money more, it just sort of hits at why you go to work every day and they're discrediting that."
In August, only after her former employer submitted a letter reiterating that they provide public health services, was Straw's six years of payments approved. In the meantime she was contemplating how she would cope if those six years wound up not counting towards forgiveness.
By then she'd paid roughly $40,000 on her student loans, but because she was using a plan that based monthly payments on her income — only these types of plans are both eligible for PSLF and provide borrowers with a benefit at the end of 10 years — payments were only hitting the interest; her six figure balance continued to grow.
"That was a long battle," she said of the experience. There are "huge financial consequences to somebody telling you your employer qualifies and reneging on that decision."
Borrowers are receiving conflicting or inaccurate information about whether their employer qualifies
A new report suggests that Straw is not alone in her experience. Since 2012, the Department of Education has told borrowers more than 50,000 times that their employer is ineligible for PSLF, according to a report released Wednesday by the Student Borrower Protection Center, a borrower advocacy group, and the American Federation of Teachers, one of the nation's largest teachers unions. And for public servants, getting a clear answer as to whether their employer qualifies them for the program can be challenging, the report found.
Having accurate information about whether their work is eligible for PSLF can be crucial for a borrower's financial future. Borrowers pay down their debt for ten years before being able to access forgiveness and any wrong guidance provided by the government or servicers could derail their progress towards that goal.
"What we found through the investigation was pretty shocking," said Seth Frotman, the executive director of SBPC, "which was just the total haphazard, ill-conceived and poorly executed manner by both which the Department of Education and the student-loan industry were making these critical decisions."
The findings come amid years of concern over management of the PSLF program. In the first year that borrowers were eligible to have their debt forgiven under the initiative, a cohort of tens of thousands of borrowers submitted applications — the Department of Education rejected 99% of them.
After seeing that rejection rate, what started to become obvious to officials at AFT was that borrowers were facing a course "full of obstacles," said Randi Weingarten, the union's president. "Any of them would stop you from getting relief under Public Service Loan Forgiveness and worse — many of them had you starting from square one."
SPBC and AFT launched an investigation into these issues in 2018. Wednesday's report is the first in a series on their findings.
There's reason to believe that a growing share of borrowers will have their applications approved in the coming years. For one, when the government first launched the program in 2007, there was little publicity or clarity around it. In addition, many of the repayment programs that borrowers can use to qualify for PSLF weren't yet available. The number of borrowers who knew of all the program's requirements in 2007 and followed them for ten years is likely much smaller than the number who learned about the initiative and its requirements a few years after it launched.
Still, advocates warned years before the first cohort of borrowers became eligible for forgiveness in fall 2017 that the complicated mix of requirements for PSLF would make it difficult to access. What's more, they say, student loan servicers have provided borrowers eager to stay on track for forgiveness with too little or the wrong information, throwing off years of careful financial planning.
Making sure that borrowers have accurate information on which to base their financial future is particularly important during this time, Frotman said.
Given the tumultuous labor market, it's likely that more borrowers than typical may be switching employers over the next several years — that raises the stakes for borrowers on getting a correct determination on whether their job qualifies them for PSLF. "What was a critical protection before, in the age of the worst economic situation that most of us have ever felt, is just even more vital," he said.
Qualifying requires checking many boxes
To qualify for PSLF, borrowers must have the right type of federal student loan, a Direct Loan; they need to be in the right type of repayment plan; they need to make 120 on-time, monthly payments; and they need to work for a qualifying employer. The report released Wednesday focuses on the fourth requirement.
To determine whether borrowers work for a qualifying employer, they can submit an employment certification form to the Department or FedLoan. Wednesday's report finds that even when borrowers took that step — essentially crossing their T's and dotting their I's — they couldn't get accurate information about their progress towards forgiveness.
In some cases, like Straw's, a borrower's employment was certified as eligible and then later rejected, according to the report. In others, borrowers working for the same organization received different determinations from the government as to whether their job qualified.
The report also revealed the level of subjectivity used when making these determinations. In one case uncovered by the report, a FedLoan employee wrote in an email that a nonprofit organization focused on care for Holocaust victims wasn't providing a public service because, "I don't see their efforts as being for the public."
In another case, an employee referenced Wikipedia when trying to make a determination as to whether a borrower's employer qualified them for the program, while acknowledging that Wikipedia "is not the most reliable source of information."
Advocates urge the government to provide more transparency surrounding rejections
SPBC and AFT are urging the government to provide more transparency to borrowers about how their determinations are made and create a clearer appeals process for borrowers whose applications are rejected. In addition, they'd like to see the agency publish a comprehensive registry of qualifying employers.
The Department of Education didn't provide a comment on the report's findings by press time. Keith New, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, which runs FedLoan, wrote in an email that as part of renewing the organization's contract with the Department, its Office of Federal Student Aid agreed to a establish a task force with PHEAA "to meet at least weekly to review and implement improvements to the PSLF program, including such issues regarding employer certification."
Last month, the Office of Federal Student Aid updated its website with a searchable employer database borrowers can use to see if their employer qualifies for PSLF. Frotman called this a "baby step," noting that it requires borrowers to log in, in order to look up information about their employer.
Instead, SPBC and AFT would like to see a completely public database of employers who have ever been approved for PSLF to provide a transparent guide to borrowers and clear standards for employees to follow when making an eligibility determination.
The goal of these recommendations is to hold the Department of Education and the student loan industry accountable, Weingarten said, and to make sure PSLF is being implemented as it was envisioned.
"That intent is if you go into the public service — whether it's teaching, or nursing, or other public-service careers — that you're not going to have your debt saddle you, particularly because public service is moderately paid," she said. "It shouldn't have been so hard to make this work and any Department of Education should have wanted to make it work when they saw problems."
Though Straw is relieved her situation is resolved, she doesn't think it should take the effort she put into the process — including regularly spending two to three hours drafting letters and making phone calls on her days off — to stay on track towards forgiveness.
"This is not appropriate, they created this program to try to help people who do public service work and yet people almost quit from fatigue because it's so difficult to access," she said.
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A last-minute guide to what the federal parties are pitching
Posted on October 21, 2019 in Governance Debates
Source: TheStar.com — Authors: Alex Ballingall, Alex Boutilier, Bruce Campion-Smith
TheStar.com – Politics/Federal/Vote 2019
Oct. 20, 2019. By Alex Boutilier, Ottawa Bureau, Alex Ballingall, Ottawa Bureau, Bruce Campion-Smith, Ottawa Bureau
VANCOUVER—The choice in Monday's federal election is clear.
At least that's what party leaders have been telling Canadians for the past 40 days. Over the course of the election, federal parties have been making their pitch to Canadians on their plans for the environment, health care, affordability, the economy and plenty more.
It can be overwhelming, we get it. But don't feel bad if you haven't had time to pore over the nitty-gritty about what each party is offering. The Star's Ottawa bureau has produced a last-minute cheat sheet for voters who have yet to make up their minds.
First and foremost: know where you're voting and know what identification you need to cast your vote. Elections Canada has an easy-to-use search for voters to quickly find their polling station, and a checklist of acceptable identification.
Once you're clear on that, here's what the parties are pitching:
The Environment: The central focus of Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer on environmental issues is to scrap the Liberal government's price on carbon emissions. In its place, they would put a cap on emissions for heavy emitters, and companies that pollute beyond that cap would be forced to invest in research and development for emissions-reducing technology. The Conservatives would also ban dumping raw sewage into waterways. Scheer says the Conservative plan is Canada's best chance to reach its 2030 emission targets under the Paris Accord — but an analysis by Simon Fraser University professor Mark Jaccard suggests emissions would actually increase under their policies.
Affordability: Scheer has proposed a personal income tax cut for earnings under $47,630, lowering the rate from 15 per cent to 13.5 per cent. The Conservatives would also reintroduce some Harper-era boutique tax credits: a public transit tax credit, tax credits for children's sports and arts lessons, and a home renovation tax credit. Scheer has also committed to removing the GST on home heating bills.
Housing: Unlike their main two rivals, the Conservatives are not proposing building more affordable housing. Instead, they would extend the amortization period for mortgages to a maximum of 30 years, allowing buyers to pay off their mortgage over a longer period of time with lower monthly payments. Scheer has also proposed reducing the rules around the mortgage "stress test," which would make it easier to borrow. They would also (temporarily) reintroduce home retrofit tax credits.
Balancing the budget: The Conservatives are the only party proposing to balance the federal books — albeit over five years. To do that, Scheer's plan is to cut foreign aid by $1.5 billion a year, cut corporate grants by another $1.5 billion annually, tax tech giants, freeze hiring in the public service, and make a number of unspecified cuts to government operations totalling $14.4 billion over five years, and push back $18 billion in infrastructure funding from 12 years to 15 years.
Government ethics: Scheer would launch a judicial inquiry into the Liberals' handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair, introduce steeper fines for politicians violating ethics rules, and give more power to the federal ethics watchdog. Scheer has also proposed strengthening protections for public service whistleblowers, offering more assurances that they'd be protected from reprisal in the workplace.
Affordability: The Liberals would implement a broad tax cut by raising the basic personal amount, a non-refundable tax credit, to $15,000 from $12,000. That will save the average family nearly $600 a year, according to the Liberals. The benefit of the change will be reduced for those making more than $147,667 and eliminated altogether for those earning more than $210,371. The tax change is one of several affordability measures that also include increased Old Age Security benefits for those over 75 and more to help students, with an extra $1,200 in Canada Student Grants and relaxed requirements to pay back loans.
Help for parents: The party would boost the Canada child benefit by 15 per cent for each child under the age of one and making maternity benefits tax-free. The Liberals credit the child benefit, introduced in their first budget, with helping lift an estimated 900,000 Canadians out of poverty, including 300,000 children.
Climate change: The Liberals have boasted continued action on environmental initiatives, notably on climate change. The Liberals imposed carbon pricing on provinces that didn't have such a plan and now take credit for a pan-Canadian strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, though the federal initiative is opposed by several provinces including Ontario. The platform also includes a commitment to net-zero emissions by 2050, a promise to plant two billion trees and strengthening existing rules to cut emissions from the country's big emitters.
Pharmacare: The party's platform says a Liberal government would take the "critical next steps to implement national universal pharmacare so that all Canadians have the drug coverage they need at an affordable price. The platform does not put a timeline on making that a reality or a price tag.
Gun control: The Liberals have promised to tighten gun control, including bringing in a ban on all military-style assault rifles. The Liberals also propose giving municipalities the power to ban handguns though that falls short of the nationwide ban sought by some gun control advocates and municipal officials. The platform also promises $250 million over five years earmarked to help cities combat gun crime.
Health and dental care: The NDP plans to spend $10 billion in 2020 to start a universal pharmacare program, and $5 billion over the next five years on public dental coverage for Canadians who earn less than $70,000 per year. Then the party says it would use savings from the bulk-buying power of national pharmacare to expand the public health-care system in new areas over the next 10 years, including mental health, addictions services, and vision and hearing care.
Climate change: The party would earmark $15 billion to fight climate change, with $6.5 billion going to new public transit and $3 billion to a fund for green developments. It would give out $15,000 rebates for the purchase of zero-emission vehicles that are made-in-Canada, increase the federal carbon price for heavy emitters, cancel government subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, and stop the multibillion-dollar expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline.
Housing: The NDP vows to pour $17 billion on top of billions in federal spending already earmarked for affordable housing. This would help build 500,000 new affordable housing units over the next decade, the party says. It would also provide $5,000 subsidies each year to people who spend more than a third of their income on rent.
Tax the rich: To help cover tens of billions of dollars in new spending, the NDP is promising the to hike the corporate income tax rate from 15 to 18 per cent, and increase the top personal income tax bracket — more than $210,000 per year — from 33 to 35 per cent. It would also increase the portion of capital gains earnings subject to personal income tax, and introduce a "super wealth tax" of 1 per cent on the portion of an individual's fortune — assets like stocks and private property — that exceeds $20 million.
Cap cellphone and internet bills: Accusing "big telecom" companies of gouging Canadians, the party wants to place a hard cap on cellphone and internet bills, claiming this could save families $250 per year. It would also force companies to provide "affordable, unlimited data plans" for cellphone coverage so people don't get dinged with surprise surcharges on their monthly bills.
Aggressively reduce emissions: The Greens would double Canada's emissions target for 2030 — to 60 per cent below 2005 levels — as it takes on what party leader Elizabeth May has called the "climate emergency." It would ban all new fossil fuel development and phase out Alberta's oilsands by 2035, spend $550 million per year to retrofit all buildings in Canada over the next decade, and ensure the country's electrical grid uses 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030. The Greens are also the only party vowing to increase the national minimum carbon price after 2022.
Guaranteed minimum income: While the Greens would spend $400 million per year supporting workers forced to leave the fossil fuel industry, the party wants to transform Canada's social safety net to be based on a "guaranteed livable income." The party says it would negotiate this with the provinces, but it would be designed to replace a suite of programs such as employment insurance and provincial support programs.
Pharmacare and dental care: The Greens would crank open the federal coffers to rapidly set up a national pharmacare program across the country by spending $145 billion over five years. The party would also extend public coverage to provide dental care for low-income Canadians.
Increase taxes: The Greens expect to rake in tens of billions in new revenues by hiking the corporate income tax rate by twice as much as the NDP, from 15 to 21 per cent. The party would also create a new 0.5 per cent tax on financial transactions, slap a new 5 per cent tax on commercial bank profits, and introduce a 1 per cent tax on the portion of a family's wealth that exceeds $20 million — similar to the NDP's "super wealth tax" proposal.
Eliminate post-secondary tuition: In time for the 2020 school year, the Greens vow to make college, university and technical schools tuition-free by increasing education funding to provinces and territories by more than $10 billion per year. The party would also forgive outstanding student debt for people earning less than $70,000 per year.
Alex Boutilier is an Ottawa-based reporter covering national politics.
Alex Ballingall is an Ottawa-based reporter covering national politics.
Bruce Campion-Smith is an Ottawa-based reporter covering national politics.
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31 Horrors: Sssssss (#8)
Wherein I attempt to watch 31 horror films over the course of October. 31 horror films that I have never seen before, from obscure to acclaimed classics. We'll see how well I go in actually finding the time to watch and then write about them in some way.
Let's ignore the, quite frankly, ridiculous title of this 1973 killer snake flick Sssssss (also known as Ssssnake in the UK), and move on to the fact that, ya know, it's actually kinda good!
The film begins with a warning label slash thank you card to the cast and crew, stating that the animals used in the making of Sssssss were not defanged and that the people involved in the production genuinely put their lives on the line to make it. "It" being a film that was one of the last films ever made specifically for a double feature - it played alongside The Boy Who Cried Werewolf - which is a nifty lil fact to know. As I watched it I actually thought the movie had the visual aesthetic of a TV movie. It was directed by Bernard L. Kowalski, whose previous film was indeed a TV one, and it shows, although he definitely amped it up with the lovely use of widescreen. Still, it has a pale wash over it that lacks a certain cinematic quality, and yet one that befits a film of this kind.
Anyway, I'm getting a bit sidetracked. I really enjoyed Sssssss! I had trepidations to watch it, after discovering it hidden amongst my flatmate's DVD collection, as snakes give me the willies. Oh sure, they're not quite as bad as, say, the spiders in Arachnophobia, but they're still creepy. There's a disturbing nature to the creatures, and seeing the flaky, scaly flesh of these reptiles meant I have no trouble believing the filmmakers' claims that they're the real deal is true and not some made up wannabe urban legend that they invented for notoriety sake.
Written by Hal Dresner and Daniel C. Striepeke, Sssssss does a good job of setting up the mechanics of a "killer snake" movie without merely relying on - oh, I dunno - a truck transporting a collection of deadly snakes overturning, unleashing the hissing horror upon a small town of unsuspecting victims. Strother Martin is quite deliciously sinister as snake expert Dr Carl Stoner and Dirk Benedict is also surprisingly fine as his milquetoast assistant/experiment subject. I particularly enjoyed Heather Menzies, too, whose Diane Keaton shag revealed a shoulda been scream queen (she also made Piranha, but that's about it as far as Menzies and genre fare go). Knowing she was one of the Von Trapp kids in The Sound of Music just adds to my fondness for her performance. She's especially impressive in the film's final 30 minutes.
And, look, can I mention this? Yes, of course I can. You've come to expect it, haven't you?
Yes, that Dirk Benedict was quite a good looking man back in the day. He wasn't cast as "the faceman" on The A-Team for his brain. That last shot is a from a skinny dipping scene that was presumably to feature more nudity that it eventually did. It's quite obvious throughout the scene that some particularly fake-looking foliage had been superimposed over the image of Benedict and Menzies' bare bottoms. Bless 'em. Shame though, amiright?
What I didn't expect from Sssssss, however, was that about half way in it would become a homage to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho! In a turn of narrative events that had me guffawing (at 1.30am, mind you!), several nods to the masterful 1960 film become obvious. No more so, of course, than this film's own rendition of the famed shower scene that sees Strother Martin's character, initially a protagonist until his obvious evil deeds became known, enter the bathroom of a character and sets a black mamba snake into it behind the curtain. A flurry of edited reaction shots later and the Doctor takes back and snake and exits the bathroom, and the apartment, leaving the victim to collapse onto the bathroom floor, dead. Hello! It certainly helps that the victim is the incredibly good looking cult beefcake Reb Brown. What's that you say? Screencaps... oh sure!
There's more, but none quite as overt as that shower scene. Even the music attempts to bring back memories of Hitch. It's a strange scene for sure, but one that made many innocuous moments thereafter look like sly references. Unrelated to Psycho, but there was even a scene with echoes of Saw a whole 30 years prior to that movie's inception!
So, yes, I was quite impressed with Sssssss. Despite its flaws (1970s transitional visual effects do not look good, you guys!), it ends up a rather effective chiller that doesn't necessarily play in to the regular tropes of the killer animal genre. I mean, how many movies do you know feature a final sequence where in a king cobra snake and a mongoose fight it out to the death before an ambiguous ending on the protagonist's fate? Not many I presume. B
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In 2007 Charlotte founded Hipsinc, the largest belly dance school in the UK and over the years has trained and influenced literally thousands of dancers, from absolute beginners through to international professionals. She is also a major event producer, having organised several large scale international bellydance festivals as well as numerous student and professional shows.
In recent years, Charlotte has been driven by a desire to create a more dramatic, theatrical form of the dance – one which could thrill and inspire audiences and take them on an emotional journey. She also wanted to help the art form she loved to be taken more seriously by the wider dance community.
In 2013, aided by an Arts Council grant, she developed her own unique style of dance, blending her own initial training in ballet, jazz and contemporary with the sinuous movements of bellydance. She went on to invite some of the best, most technically proficient and most versatile oriental dancers in Europe to join her in what was to become Company of Dreams.
Charlotte is passionate about raising standards in the middle eastern dance sector and teaches a challenging advanced/professional class in central London, which attracts dancers from every corner of the world. Many of the best dancers in this class go on to become members of Company of Dreams.
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"Memes to dreams!" Popeyes meme kid is now a college football player with a HUGE endorsement deal
Dieunerst Collin, the viral Popeyes meme kid has signed a NIL deal with the chicken brand after winning a college championship for his school.
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The Popeyes meme kid, Dieunerst Collin, who became a household face over the last decade, is now a very successful football player and has recently signed a name, image, and likeness deal, or NIL deal, with Popeyes. Collin might not be popular with everyone by his name, but anyone who uses the internet has seen him at some point or the other.
At 9, Collin went viral a decade ago with his peculiar look. In the meme that made him famous, he could be seen standing awkwardly while holding a cup at Popeyes and flashing his side-eye. That single look made him popular on the internet and he became one of the most popular reaction GIFs and images across the web for almost a decade.
The NIL deal that Collin has signed with Popeyes includes featuring him on a billboard near his hometown in New Jersey. He will turn 19 in a few weeks and currently, he is a college football star at Lake Erie College in Ohio. The deal came in handy after he played a pivotal role in winning his high school winning the state championship. He now joins other college athletes that have bagged NIL deals over the years, showing the brands' interest in their likeness after years of schools. This gives them huge leverage for marketing purposes.
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Collin expressed his thoughts after the deal and said that a lot can happen with the power of the internet behind and revealed how delighted he is to be officially sponsored by Popeyes. He expressed his gratitude to everyone who helped spread the good word about him.
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"A lot can happen with the power of the internet behind you!" Collin said in a news release. "I can't believe I can say I'm officially sponsored by Popeyes. Thank you to everyone who helped spread the good word!"
As a marketing stunt, Popeyes shared a photo of Collins standing in front of the Newark billboard in a meta display of the meme and the New Jerseyan behind it. He was seen recreating the same meme implying he has now had a full circle in life- from memes to fulfilling his dream!
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Primal Pet Foods Inc. will move its manufacturing facility from San Francisco to Fairfield, California.
Primal, a manufacturer of fully prepared, human-grade raw foods and treats for dogs and cats, has signed a lease for 50,000 square feet with landlord Sierra Pacific Properties. The new location will be twice as large as its previous building.
"We looked throughout the immediate San Francisco Bay Area and chose Fairfield because of the availability of a value-priced new building," said Matt Koss, founder and president of Primal Pet Foods. "In addition, the city's strategic location on Interstate 80 is ideal for distributing our products. Because we purchase meat, poultry and produce items from the Central Valley, its proximity to that area of the state is beneficial."
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Drew Lock's recall is usually pretty good. Missouri's quarterback can recreate drives in his mind's eye, highlights from throughout his football career.
Lock said last year's game against Purdue, though, "was kind of a blur."
A psychologist might call that repression: A trick of the brain that pushes distressing memories out of the conscious mind. Lock, after all, got a front row view on Sept. 16, 2017, when Purdue came into Missouri's domain, flipped the coffee table over and set the living room rug on fire.
The Tigers will play the Boilermakers again Saturday, this time at 6:30 p.m. in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Purdue's 35-3 victory last year triggered some serious soul-searching for the Tigers early in coach Barry Odom's second season. It was a performance reminiscent of a woebegone era of Missouri football — the Tigers hadn't lost to a non-conference opponent by that margin in 16 years.
Missouri lost the next week to Auburn 51-14.
It lost its next game to Kentucky 40-34.
It lost the week after that to Georgia 53-28.
All the while, the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Purdue game stood as a point of reference.
It was personal for Missouri cornerback Adam Sparks. His brother, Jared, is a wide receiver for the Boilermakers, and a large number of family members road-tripped to Columbia for last year's throttling.
The holidays were tough, Adam said.
"Of course my brother is going to bring up the game again," Sparks said. "My cousins watched it, so that wasn't a help. They brought it up, as well."
But that contest did serve a purpose. Odom and his staff used it the only way they could, to teach a lesson that only a vicious beating could bring to the surface.
They brought up the game, Odom said, "so many times last year and some in the offseason on looking at the reasons why at times we had success and times we were so poor."
The most shocking development from last year's Purdue game was that Missouri eventually recovered from it. The Tigers looked and played like dead men against the Boilermakers, but less than three months later they were bowl-eligible.
"For me and my approach to our team this week, we've already addressed that one so many times that you don't really need to go back there," Odom said. "They know what's back there. They know what happened that Saturday afternoon and the lessons that came from it."
Lock did will himself to watch the game one more time. He revisited the buried memory early Monday morning on the condition that Missouri wasn't the same team now it was then. Its offensive and defensive schemes have changed, and there's confidence now ("A different feel," Lock said) from a 2-0 start.
He isn't going into Saturday with revenge on his mind. The Tigers have already gotten their house in order from Purdue's raid last year.
"Having built up aggression and anger going into this week is the last thing a quarterback needs," Lock said. "We'll let the big guys use that if they feel like they need to use that. I'm just going to keep a level head."
This year Purdue is the team in crisis. The Boilermakers are 0-2, having self-sabotaged their way out of two perfectly attainable wins.
In Week 1 against Big 10 rival Northwestern, Purdue clawed its way back from a 14-point deficit in the first half and looked poised to do so again in the second half. But two late penalties — one that killed an offensive drive and one that extended a Wildcats drive — and three turnovers proved to be the difference in a 31-27 Boilermakers loss.
Last week, Purdue paid Eastern Michigan $550,000 to show up at Ross-Ade Stadium and the Eagles left with a 20-19 victory as a parting gift. An excessive celebration penalty cost the Boilermakers a chance to go up three points, and a flag for roughing the passer allowed Eastern Michigan to kick a game-winning field goal at the horn.
"Right now, I'm sure some people's confidences are not at the highest point," Purdue coach Jeff Brohm said during his weekly press conference Monday.
Still, they have a game-breaking freshman in Rondale Moore, a wide receiver who ranks ninth in the nation in all-purpose yards. Moore turned down offers from Missouri, Ohio State and Texas to feature for the Boilermakers.
"Wherever he is on the field, we better know about it because he can go from anywhere and they try to give him the ball," Odom said.
Revenge might not be on the mind of Missouri this week, but only because the Tigers have learned from their last matchup against Purdue.
"If we bring everything we did last week and the week before into this week," Sparks said, "then we're gonna be fine."
djones@columbiatribune.com


Home » Misc » Featured News » Jack Daniel's continues Kelly support
Jack Daniel's continues Kelly support
By Speedcafe.com
Thursday 21st January, 2010 - 3:34pm
Video from the announcement can be found below this article
Rick and Todd Kelly stand alongside their 2010 Jack Daniel's Racing Commodore VE
Todd and Rick Kelly have unveiled their 2010 V8 Supercars Championship Series war-paint, with the news that Jack Daniel's has re-signing with Kelly Racing.
After competing its inaugural season last year under a one year deal with Jack Daniel's, the Kelly Racing squad has secured an extension on its support from the iconic whiskey brand, said to be one of the 'largest team sponsorship deals in Australian sport.'
The extension of the relationship will see the Kelly brothers race in the colours of Jack Daniel's Racing well into the future.
Team co-owner and Jack Daniel's Racing driver Todd Kelly said that he and the entire team enjoy a special relationship with Jack Daniel's.
"The relationship that we've built with Jack Daniel's has been awesome," said Todd Kelly.
"To have a sponsor that is so involved with the team and is not just a sponsor, but a friend, is great for us."
"Having Jack Daniel's confirmed is fantastic. It gives us real security and stability and that's incredibly important when you are building a team.
"We've got a long way to go, but this is certainly a massive step towards getting there."
The team took big strides towards the end of last year's V8 Supercar Series, taking three podium places in the last six races of the year (two for Rick at Phillip Island and one for Todd at Barbagallo).
Dual Bathurst champion and fellow Jack Daniel's Racing driver Rick Kelly said that the team's improved results toward the end of the year was a great incentive for Jack Daniel's to remain on board with Kelly Racing.
"To have Jack Daniel's show this level of support and commitment following our first year is simply awesome," Rick said.
"We are truly lucky to have Jack Daniel's onboard as well as lots of other great sponsors, which also highlights the job that the team has done so far."
Michael McShane, Managing Director for Brown-Forman Australia (owners of the Jack Daniel's brand), said that the relationship between Jack Daniel's and Kelly Racing is "a great fit."
"Everyone at Jack Daniel's is extremely excited to be continuing our great relationship with Todd and Rick Kelly and everyone at Kelly Racing," said McShane.
"Kelly Racing is a great fit for Jack Daniel's, with Rick and Todd as key ambassadors for our brand.
"We see V8 Supercars as a great platform for the Jack Daniel's brand and the promotion of our 'Pace Yourself, Drink Responsibly' message.
"We look forward to promoting our social responsibility message and our brand with the team well into the future."
Jack Daniel's Racing also welcomes several new sponsors for the 2010 season, including SuperMax Razors, Powerbuilt Tools, Mack Trucks and Harley-Davidson.
The Kelly brothers took the wraps off their Holden Commodore VE at the Docklands, Victoria, today, and will get their first test in the car at Winton Motor Raceway (February 8).
Jack Daniel's Racing will run an interim livery at the first two events of the season in the Middle East before giving the new design its race debut at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide on March 11-14.
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Fylde coast golf round-up: Open final qualifying at St Annes Old Links, Open week at Knott End, Blackpool winner of Senior Masters
Callan Barrow of Royal Lytham and St Annes in final qualifying for The Open at St Annes Old Links Picture: DANIEL MARTINO
Andy Moore
Published: 09:05 Wednesday 03 July 2019
Englishmen Garrick Porteous and Jack Senior were the joint-winners of final qualifying for The Open Championship at St Annes Old Links.
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The unattached Porteous and Senior from Carus Green carded 67s in both rounds on the Fylde coast links for 10-under totals of 134 on Tuesday.
Also qualifying for The Open at Royal Portrush, Northern Ireland, in a fortnight is Matthew Baldwin of Royal Birkdale, who finished a shot back in third (65, 70).
Among those missing out by one shot was the Leigh amateur Callum Blinkhorn.
Royal Lytham and St Annes amateurs Callan Barrow and Nicholas Peoples won through regional qualifying at Fairhaven last week but neither threatened the leaders.
Barrow tied for 30th place on level par (75, 69), while Peoples finished nine over (75, 78) in a share of 54th place.
Good weather ensured a highly successful Open week at Knott End Golf Club.
Eighty eight ladies played in a team of four stableford competition won by the team of Dorothy Scholes (Walmersley GC), Rita Tower ( Hardwood), Christine Burrows (Bacup) and Barbara Pilling (Rochdale) with a score of 84 points (acpo).
Runners-up were Sheila Anderson (Formby), Alison Green (Childwall), Jacki Slack and Carole Farnsworth (Lytham Green Drive), also on 84, and third Linda Collinson, Moe Hayhurst, Julie Shorrock and Sally Tyrer (all Longridge) with 81.
This was one of several competitions played during the week ahead of Sunday's Wyreside Trophy.
This is Knott End's major competition over 36 holes for men with a handicap no higher than nine.
Sixty players took part and winner Ryan Lake of North Shore with a nett 71 + 66 = 137. Second was I. Martin of Herons Reach (70 + 70 = 140) and third Wayne Mayman of Knott End (78+68=146).
The best gross score was recorded by C. Boyes of Fleetwood (77 + 74 = 151)
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The first-round best gross winner as A Riches (Herons Reach, 75) and the best nett J Plant (North Shore, 72).
The second round best gross went to H Talarczyk (Royal L&SA, 74) and best nett P Hay (Herons Reach, 71)
As Royal Lytham and St Annes prepares to stage the Senior Open presented by Rolex in three weeks, a player from Blackpool has won one of the country's most coveted senior titles.
David Brunton won the Senior Masters at Leeds Golf Centre, finishing an impressive nine-under-par after round of 67 and 68 in the two day tournament.
He was given a run for his money by Mark Ashworth from Manchester, who played an astonishing second round to finish just two shots behind.
Ashworth equalled the course record with a 64 and almost holed his tee shot at the short 13th.
Tied in third place three shots further back were Craig Ronald, Michael Watson and European Senior Tour player David Shacklady, last year's champion.
Other notable names in the 51-man field were Tim Thelen and Jose Romero, European Senior Tour players from America and Spain respectively.
Nigel Sweet, Leeds Golf Centre's manager and creator of the event, said: "Despite not always having the best conditions, we've once again witnessed some spectacular golf at The Senior Masters, with high-spirited performances from all the players. Congratulations to David for his winning display.
"We're proud to have brought this internationally renowned tournament to Yorkshire for a third consecutive year."
The Captain's Prize to the Ladies at Fairhaven was won by Gill Morris with a two-round score of 70+82=152, beating runner-up Karen McLeon by one shot (82+71=153). Carole Waddington had the best gross with 87+90=177.
The Men's Centenary Vase was also contested over two rounds and was won by John McCombe with 71+73=144. Again it was closely-fought, with Kieran Hogarth and Simon Long just one shot back, both scoring 70+75= 145.
Members of Lytham Cricket & Sports Club held their 12th annual golf day on Friday at Lytham Green Drive Golf Club.
Sixty past and present members competed for the Keith Cartmell Trophy in glorious sunshine and the winning team were The Chippers comprising Jimmy Leach, Bernard Crosby, Guy McDonnell and Mike Greenwood.
The evening presentation buffet saw £2,666 raised for the Motor Neurone Disease, taking the total raised to £35,500 over the last 12 years.
Herons Reach have a two-point lead over Lancaster at the top of the Fylde Senior League after 6-0 wins for both teams against North Shore and Fairhaven respectively.
Third-place Lytham Green Drive slipped further behind the leading pair after a 4-2 defeat at Ashton and Lea, while bottom club Fleetwood held Knott End to a 3-3 draw.
The semi-final of the Bernard Butler resulted in a win for North Shore over Knott End.


Who is the pro-coal Democratic senator Joe Mansin who is polluting the life of Joe Biden?
Arzu December 23, 2021 6 min read
A coal in Joe Biden's shoe. Democrat Senator Joe Manchin has overturned the US president's primary reform. On Sunday, December 19, the elected representative of West Virginia, a rural state in the eastern United States, by refusing to support the mega text of the "Built Back Better" Act, which includes social, economic and environmental measures, aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which are essential to the global effort to combat global warming. He absorbed the confidence of his party to establish.
With Democrats gaining a majority in the Senate, Joe Mans became the most powerful politician in the United States under President Biden: a roaring Kingmaker "I 'The other president* " In the corridors of the Capitol. Coal Baron in a former region with "black mouths" that has become a staunch defender of Trumpist breeding and bilateral cooperation, immediately firing against his camp to defend the interests of Joe Mans's fossil fuel sector. For good reason, coal – the most polluting fuel ever used – flows through his veins and into his wallet.
"Where you grow up, by whom, how you were raised, that is what makes you who you are", Announced by Joe Manzin in June New Yorker*. "If I haven't changed, it's because I'm from Farmington." This small town of a few hundred souls, located in a corner of the Appalachians drilled by coal mines, saw him born in 1947. Manjin's family had a foot in the mine, a heart in business and a head in politics. After switching to coal, "Papa Joe" splits his time between the activities of his grandfather, the local grocery store and the mayor. The father, John Mancin, is the owner of a furniture store, in charge of Town Hall. One of his uncles was an influential local elected official, and the other, a trade unionist, was one of 78 victims of the 1968 mining disaster that mourned Farmington.
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Joe Manchin embraced local politics in 1982. In 1988, he abandoned the carpet industry to invest in coal, or the remnants of it: waste from abandoned mines, which his company, EnergySystems Inc., processes and sells as fuel to local power. Stations. In the early 2000s, politics prevailed over entrepreneurship. Joe Munch established his son as head of the family business, and four years later became governor of West Virginia and senator in 2010. "I'm very proud of the role the people of West Virginia have played in energizing the nation." He starts During his first speech above*. "Without Virginia Charcoal, the light would be very low."
Democrat Senator Joe Mansin chats with minors on March 31, 2017 in Madwann, West Virginia. (Phil Pugliano / Getty Images North America / AFP)
West Virginia is no longer its childhood. The state, which had more than 140,000 minors in the 1950s, will have only 13,000 in 2019. It is aging, empty, and changing political pages. Joe Mancin became the last Democrat in the strong Republican stronghold – by 2020, 68.6% of voters voted for Donald Trump. Self-proclaimed "Conservative Democrat", A fan of Kennedy, he demands a pragmatism guided by the sole interest of his members. "The people of West Virginia sent me here [à Washington] Common sense will help solve our budget problems through bilateral solutions. ", He said briefly in 2012*.
Against raising the federal minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, restricting the sale of firearms, and increasing aid to unemployed people affected by the Govt-19 epidemic … Joe Manzin will not explode in the opposite camp. . "Technically he's a Democrat. But really he's a non-party man.", Wrote Politician in 2018*, Recalled that in 2017, Mansin was briefly approached to join the Donald Trump administration as Secretary of State for Energy. He presents himself as an ardent defender of compromise and debate.
After being elected referee for Joe Biden's upper house, the senator uses his skills as a mediator to inject his conservatism into the more progressive "Built Back Better" program. He was newly elected Chairman of the Senate Commission on Energy and Natural Resources, redefining the definitions of this Titanic text. He made more phone calls to both camps and arrived at his home in a luxury yacht parked on the Bodomac River by elected Democrats and Republicans. "The hottest club in Washington is Joe Manzin's boat." Observed in August Washington Post*.
On September 29, 2021, protesters on the Potomac River in front of a boat carrying Democratic Senator Joe Munch in Washington (United States). (Alison Bailey / Norphoto / AFP)
In November, his two-party efforts paid off: he received half of the funding for Joe Manz's law, which went from $ 3.5 trillion to $ 1.7 trillion in 10 years. It threw out the entire project's clean electricity performance program, which provided financial incentives and fines for electricity operators to phase out fossil fuels in favor of carbon-free energy.
This is not the first time Joe Mans has fired on a law against the fossil fuel industry. Really. In a 2010 campaign clip, Democrats threw live bullets at a law promoted by the Obama administration to combat global warming. "Because it's not good for West Virginia.".
The first bill he brings to the Senate seeks to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from revoking surface mining permits. In Washington, he fights for pensions and health insurance for former miners, defending the industry like men and women downgraded. But, his own financial interests.
In 2016, he upheld legislation restricting the management of mining waste, and more precisely, ash – one of the by-products of the operation of his company EnergySystems – has a more rigorous structure. "More jobs will be lost in West Virginia and the country unnecessarily threatening important industries". If you write the rules with one hand and play with the other hand, is there a conflict of interest? "Absolutely not"The senator responds to reporters who continue to question him on such matters New York Times* In 2011, the Democrats reiterated that his assets had been placed in a blind pension fund as proof of his good faith.
However, if he sends a hand to his son when he becomes governor of West Virginia, he will continue to benefit from the operation of Joe Mans Energy Systems. According to Washington Post*, In 2020 alone, the company paid him a minimum of $ 492,000. Its shares in the company are valued at between one and five million dollars. The blind man, who often works as a joker, says daily that the fund ranges from $ 500,000 to $ 1 million.
According to OpenSecrets* Joe Manzin, who oversees political finance, is also the Democrat senator with the most donations from the coal sector. Keith McCoy, chief campaigner for the oil group Exxon Mobil, said in an interview in July that Unearthed, the intelligence arm of the Greenpeace NGO, was filmed on a hidden camera. "Someone" Particular attention in the Arcana of Power: Joe Mancin. "I talk to his office every week.", He is proud.
After he refused to support Joe Biden's infrastructure law, progressives attacked the house, stunned, believing that "bit back Better" and especially its important social component would benefit residents of West Virginia. The Miners' Union also called on Joe Manzin on Monday, December 20, to reconsider his position. Because of its pro-coal struggle it is causing loss to the people living in this state, to the poorest people in the United States. Although the share of electricity generated by coal increased from 52% in 1990 to 19%, Joe Mansin explains that the rate is 89% in the state. CNN*. Power plants, many of which are dilapidated and unable to meet new environmental standards, require investment, which destroys the competitiveness of the coal and mining waste sold by Energy Systems. Over the years, Americans connected to these types of plants, like West Virginia, have had higher electricity bills.
However, as a senator, he was not always opposed to renewable energies, which created jobs that he knew were invaluable to his state. He did not deny the reality of climate change or the responsibility for human activities. Climate-discount figure, playing Joe Mansin watch. "We are not in a hurry", Announced in November*. Gregory Wheatstone explains that direct destruction of coal is a problem for him, and he is the regular speaker of Joe Mancin, the leader of a voluntary organization campaigning in favor of renewable energy. "In all our conversations so far, he has not wanted to impose fines on fossil fuels, but his line is that he agrees to put pressure on clean energy.", He confirmed New York Times*.
Similarly, the senator wants to bet on the emergence of new technologies "Clean Coal", A hand-held chimney, or carbon capture by Donald Trump, is still a testing process. In this context, Joe Mancin's policy of releasing the world's second largest greenhouse gases will leave the entire planet behind in its climate objectives. A butterfly wing flap in Farmington, West Virginia, which contributes to floods, storms and other fires around the world.
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