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This blog was compiled with research and content from Tricia Walding-Smith, project manager – Research & Policy, Workforce Intelligence Network.
The White Stripes would like to announce that today, February 2nd, 2011, their band has officially ended and will make no further new recordings or perform live.
The reason is not due to artistic differences or lack of wanting to continue, nor any health issues as both Meg and Jack are feeling fine and in good health.
It is for a myriad of reasons, but mostly to preserve What is beautiful and special about the band and have it stay that way.
Meg and Jack want to thank every one of their fans and admirers for the incredible support they have given throughout the 13 plus years of the White Stripes’ intense and incredible career.
Third Man Records will continue to put out unreleased live and studio recordings from The White Stripes in their Vault Subscription record club, as well as through regular channels.
Both Meg and Jack hope this decision isn’t met with sorrow by their fans but that it is seen as a positive move done out of respect for the art and music that the band has created. It is also done with the utmost respect to those fans who’ve shared in those creations, with their feelings considered greatly.
While the future seems uncertain for both Meg and Jack, we can only hope for the day they decide to reunite to melt the faces of their feverish fanbase. We here are Nonstop Sound would like to say thanks for the ride, good luck in all your endeavors and we’ll be waiting – albeit impatiently – for your return.
Single Gunshot Reportedly Ends Dramatic California Manhunt : The Two-Way As investigators work to determine whether the charred body inside a California mountain cabin is that of former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Jordan Dorner, dramatic reports are emerging about what authorities hope were the last hours of the massive manhunt for the accused killer.
Police blocked roads Tuesday leading to the mountains near San Bernardino, Calif., where accused killer Christopher Dorner was thought to be hiding.
We most recently updated the top of this post at 1:25 p.m. ET.
While authorities have canceled the "tactical alert" that had been in place during the manhunt for accused killer Christopher Jordan Dorner, the case has not been closed because it's not absolutely certain that Dorner is dead, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman just told reporters.
So, Los Angeles police officers and their families who have been under protection while Dorner was on the run will continue to get that protection until his death has been confirmed.
Dorner, who was fired from the Los Angeles Police Department in 2009, had threatened many current members of that department in an online manifesto. He's suspected of killing four people — two of them police officers — over the past 10 days.
The crime spree — and Dorner's life — appeared to come to a fiery end Tuesday in the mountains near San Bernadino, as we reported earlier.
Also Wednesday, as the Los Angeles Times reports, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said of the more than $1 million reward for information leading to Dorner's capture and arrest, "if someone's earned it, they'll get it."
As investigators work to determine whether the charred body inside a California mountain cabin is that of former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Jordan Dorner, dramatic reports are emerging about the last hours of the massive manhunt for the accused killer.
-- A key break in the search for the 33-year-old Dorner came Tuesday morning, when two maids entered a home in the Big Bear resort area and were confronted by a man who fit Dorner's description. The man tied them up and fled in a stolen vehicle, the Los Angeles Times reports. But one maid was able to free herself and call police.
Soon after, the Times says, "a hulking African-American man" hijacked another vehicle — after allowing the driver to take a dog from the truck. The suspect soon encountered state Department of Fish and Wildlife officers, exchanging shots with them.
-- "The stolen pickup ended up in a snowy ravine, a sniper rifle in the backseat, according to sheriff's dispatchers," California's Press-Enterprise reports. "It was found off Glass Road, a steep, winding paved street that drops into a canyon. The driver took off on foot, igniting smoke grenades as he fled, dispatchers reported. He barricaded himself inside a vacant, 1929 cabin on Seven Oaks Road. Countless rounds of gunfire between the suspect and police echoed off snowy hillsides in Seven Oaks, a small community of church retreats and fishing camps northeast of Angelus Oaks."
And during the standoff, the gunman killed a sheriff's deputy. That brought the death toll associated with the more than week-long crime spree to at least four. Two were police officers.
"The shootout in the San Bernardino Mountains capped a mammoth nine-day manhunt for Dorner that had Southern California police and residents fearful and on edge. He is charged in a Feb. 7 ambush that killed Riverside police officer Michael Crain, 34, who will be buried Wednesday. Crain and a trainee, who was severely wounded, were sitting in their patrol car when they were shot. Dorner also is suspected of killing an Irvine couple and injuring a Los Angeles policeman."
It's thought that Dorner was taking some sort of revenge for his 2009 firing from the Los Angeles Police Department.
The officer killed Tuesday was from the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department. Another officer from that department was seriously wounded.
According to our colleagues at Southern California Public Radio, Los Angeles Police Cmdr. Andrew Smith said it could be days or weeks before the body found in the cabin is identified.
KINGSTON (Reuters) - Left-hander Devon Smith was recalled to the West Indies squad Friday for next month’s first test against England while Barbados opener Dale Richards earned his first call-up.
Smith, who has opened the batting and filled in a lower middle order slot, was omitted from the recent tests in New Zealand but earned his latest recall thanks to a double century for the Winward Islands in a regional game against Guyana.
Richards, a late developer at 32, has shown consistent form in the regional competitions but will have caught the eye of the selectors with his century against Trinidad and Tobago.
There is no place in the squad for Guyana opening bat Sewnarine Chattergoon.
Seamer Lionel Baker, of Montserat, retains his place after debuting in the drawn test series in New Zealand.
Slow left-armer Sulieman Benn of Barbados and wrist spinner Amit Jaggernauth of Trinidad and Tobago are the two spinners named in the 14-man man squad which will be captained by Chris Gayle.
The four-test series against England starts on February 4 at Sabina Park in Kingston.
Squad: Chris Gayle (captain), Lionel Baker, Sulieman Benn, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Fidel Edwards, Amit Jaggernauth, Xavier Marshall, Brendan Nash, Daren Powell, Denesh Ramdin, Dale Richards, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Devon Smith, Jerome Taylor.
INDIANAPOLIS – IPL crews worked long hours on Tuesday, trying to restore power to thousands of customers after an overnight storm.
At the height of the storm, there were 20,000 customers without power. On the West side of Indianapolis, several businesses did not have power because a large tree yanked down power lines near them.
Power Train employees were sent home that work at their Indianapolis office. Power Train President Joe Leffell said it costs the company $150,000 every day they are not working.
“We have 12 locations in Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re a heavy-duty truck parts distributor and service (company). We own a company called Truckers 24/7 and we service a lot of vehicles everyday,” Leffell said.
Leffell said the big issue with them losing power is that their computers are down and no one in the company can access the database.
“They don’t have access to all our inventory, which we carry about 14 million inventory,” Leffell said.
Leffell said they were going to use a generator to help them out before tomorrow’s work day. Other businesses along Production Drive, like 1-800-BoardUp, used generators to get them through the day on Tuesday.
“We’re very fortunate to have our generator, if it was not for our generator, we would pretty much be dead in the water,” Russ Futrell said.
Futrell is the director of emergency services for 1-800-BoardUp. He said the storm did not hinder their work. In fact, he said they are still helping families in the Cameron Meadows neighborhood after last week’s tornado.
“In a small way we find ourselves in a situation that a lot of people did a week ago where their lives were kind of turned upside down,” Futrell said.
IPL said power could be restored tonight, but that it was hard to predict that because of the amount of work that has to be completed. IPL said at 10 p.m. another crew will take over to continue restoring power to the businesses there along Production Drive.
As likely candidates for the accolade of Farmer of the Year go, Gillian O'Sullivan wasn't always a front runner. To start with, she started her career far from her family's Dungarvan farm, as a vet caring for small animals in Bray. And then there is the fact that only for a family tragedy, O'Sullivan and her husband Neil might not have gotten involved in farming at all.
In 2008 her brother Vincent passed away suddenly, and a short stay at home to help her father Michael around the farm turned into a longer stint. Finally, it became a full-time occupation.
"Winning Farmer of the Year is a really big deal for me, and for us here on the farm, because we've come a long way and it hasn't been easy. Vincent was the one who was destined to run the farm because he was the most interested in it, and the most dedicated to it - veterinary was my thing. But when he passed away there was a big decision to be made with regards to what we were going to do with the farm," says O'Sullivan.
"I came down to help my father out in the Springtime of 2009 because it was very busy, and the love affair with the place started then. Initially I went back to work and my father decided to start milking the cows once a day, just so he would be able to manage and cope for the year without having additional work pressures on him."
That decision kept the farm afloat and gave the family the space and time to make decisions. The following year, after much thought, O'Sullivan and Neil, also a vet, decided to move home and give farming a go full-time.
"We had to see if we could learn the basics. Obviously we didn't know whether either of us would be suited to it because at the time, neither of us could even milk cows," she says.
"We didn't know anything about grassland management. Neil had been working in a large animal practice over in Wales for a couple of years, so he had some experience treating cattle, but that would have been the extent of his expertise, while I focused on general veterinary and small animals."
While all this was happening, three children came along: Fionn (7), Hannah (5) and Tim (2). But when it came to the business of running a farm, O'Sullivan laughs to think back on how green the couple were.
"It is a completely different thing. We said we'd give it two years and Dad took it upon himself to teach us everything he knew. In the meanwhile we got married, started a family and we stuck at the once-a-day milking methodology, because originally in that second year it gave us just a little bit of extra time to gather ourselves, to cope and to learn the basics," she says.
Milking once a day is still an unusual approach in Ireland, but as time went on it became obvious it was working for this farm.
"We could see that some cows were more suited to it, so we decided to focus our breeding policy towards that. After three or four years, we could see that we were back up to producing the exact same kilos of milk solids once a day as they had been producing twice a day," says O'Sullivan.
Around this time, O'Sullivan's father Michael stepped back a little to allow the young couple to take over more of the running of the farm.
"That's why this award means so much to us. We started out so clueless and it's been a massive journey. We're really proud of what we've achieved and this year we put our farm out there by hosting lots of farm walks and by speaking to lots of people," she says. "We've grown in confidence in the system that we have here and we're happy with the lifestyle it delivers."
Today, the farm's milking platform is around 41 hectares and around 100 cows are milked each day. Because of the unusual make-up of the farm - it's exceptionally hilly - the choice of cow for optimum milking was important. O'Sullivan favours smaller cows that can carry their weight a little more easily on hills, essentially a crossbreed made up of Jersey crossed with Holstein-Friesian.
The main part of the farm, where the couple's house is located, has around 17 hectares and the farm's replacements are reared here. The main milking platform is located around two miles away, and around 50 per cent of the land used is rented.
O'Sullivan credits her father with the support and guidance needed to bring them to where they are today.
"He took on the task with relish, he brought us to discussion group meetings, he got advisors involved with the farm such as our local advisor Brian Hilliard through Teagasc. Anything new and current with regards to research, he was giving it to us," she says.
"As well as that, Neil was fantastic at picking up the practical and technical aspects of farming so now the grassland management is done by him. I do a lot of the breeding, both of us milk the cows and my father does a lot of the tractor work - it's a real team effort."
Each day, the cows are milked first thing in the morning and the rest of the day starts with a cup of tea and a conference at the kitchen table.
"We put our heads together as to what's needed that day because it would be rare for all three of us to be on the farm at the same time. We have so much going on in the house with the three kids but our roles are very much interchangeable," O'Sullivan says.
She is a huge fan of farming as a career and lifestyle that compliments family life, and she would love to see more women involved in the business.
"I'm a big believer in encouraging women to get into farming. It's a big focus of mine, to have a positive influence on young women and to show them that farming is a very attractive career, even with a young family. There is nothing better in the summer than to head out with the kids to the field doing a bit of fencing or pulling some ragwort," she says.
"The kids have freedom to run around and it's safe for them. There are no animals around and there's no tractors out in the field and they can see the pure enjoyment of being close to nature and living on a farm, seeing the seasonal nature of things."
O'Sullivan is active on social media and sees technology as an enormous enabler for people engaged in farming.
"I have found using Twitter to be a very positive experience. I've met loads of people through it both online and in person. It's opened up a lot of new avenues for making links with other women who farm and I think that's very positive," she says.
"The ability to stay in touch with other people when you're out and about is quite empowering, because you can feel quite isolated or lonely working on your own farm. Sometimes when you turn around and are greeted by a shining sun, green grass and happy cows, you want to be able to take a picture and share it. Likewise, it's inspiring to see those pictures when other farmers do the same."
ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 3 (AP) —The Walnut Hill Farm's Dedi cated to Sue forced the pace and won the $100,000 Match maker stakes by a length and a half from Alfred G. Vander bilt's Cold Comfort at the At lantic City track today.
The Raritan Stable's Helen Jennings was third under the wire, but was disqualified and placed fourth. Stephen A. Cal der's Office Queen was ad vanced to third.
The Florida‐bred winner, who had scored in two allow ance races here, finished the mile and three‐sixteenths in 1:56 2–5 under Mike Hole, and returned $33.20, $15.60 and $6.80 for $2 across the board.
MIAMI, Oct. 3 (AP) ‐ The heavily favored entry of Be lieve You Me and Always Here finished first and third, respec tively, today in the $5,950 Dinner Key Handicap at Trop ical Park. Count Needles was second.
Believe You Me scored by two lengths and ran 5½ fur longs in 1:09 2/5. The entry paid $3.40, $2.40 and $2.80.
This week President Trump angered environmentalists and other groups by reducing the size of two large national monuments in Utah—Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante. Using Presidential Proclamations and invoking the 1906 Antiquities Act, he slashed these monuments by about 1 million acres. While groups of Utahns and especially the state’s Republican politicians applauded these executive actions, lawsuits alleging the president exceeded his powers were filed quickly.
These lawsuits claim that while presidents have the power under the Antiquities Act to designate national monuments, they do not have the power to reduce them in size. Courts have not directly addressed this question, but the claims rest on fairly shaky ground. In reality, courts are quite likely to uphold this exercise of presidential power (perhaps with one exception).
So, will Trump’s actions stand? Let’s get to know this issue a bit better.
What is the Antiquities Act?
Through this law, almost every president since Teddy Roosevelt has designated national monuments. And even since its inception, presidents have used this power to protect massive tracts of land. In fact, one controversy that has been adjudicated in the courts involves the size of land a president can designate a national monument. Courts have consistently ruled that when it comes to the designation of national monuments, size doesn’t matter.
President Trump sparked controversy in reducing the size of two monuments established by Presidents Clinton and Obama. Formally, that move is labeled “diminishing” the size of the monuments. Critics claim that the Antiquities Act does not formally grant the president the power to undo what a predecessor has done. Instead, it grants to president power to do something. Specifically, he can designate new monuments or expand existing ones. However, it does not grant the power to diminish.
On its face, that is correct. The Antiquities Act does not engage the issue of diminishment. However, that does not mean that such power cannot be implied.
Others argue that a 1976 statute, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, limits the president as it engages diminishment directly—noting limitations on the Secretary of the Interior to modify existing protected areas. Two challenges emerge from this argument. First is that the law is explicit in limiting the Interior Secretary’s powers and not the president’s power, even though Congress had constitutional authority to limit the president’s powers explicitly. Second, Congress, in engaging limitations broadly, listed numerous areas of law in which the executive branch would be restricted from diminishment (or abolition) and failed to include the Antiquities Act in that list.
It is true that the first part of the law grants the president the power to establish national monuments. The second part of that grant could easily be interpreted to imply the power to diminish. That section notes, “the limits of which in all cases shall be confined to the smallest area compatible with proper care and management of the objects to be protected.” Here, a president is charged to make this area as small as is needed. Courts have ruled several times on cases involving the Antiquities Act without once challenging the president’s discretion on the grounds of the size of the monument—even as cases dealt with some of the nation’s largest national monuments. (See discussions of relevant case law, including Cameron v. United States (1920) from the Congressional Research Service and in the Cornell Law Review.) As part of that discretion, presidents could consider mistakes.
Let’s take a hypothetical. Imagine President Reagan designated a 2,000 acre space in Michigan as a Native American burial site. Obviously, there is no question of the historical import of such a site. After designation, the National Park Service began to oversee the site and in surveying it, realized that the burial site is only 100 acres. Would it be within President Reagan’s powers to diminish the size of the national monument to those 100 acres or slightly more to include a reasonable perimeter? One could argue that he is required by law to do so. Given that Congress has charged the president to confine such spaces “…to the smallest area compatible with proper care and management…” What if that survey were not conducted and completed until 1995? Would it have been in President Clinton’s powers to diminish the size of the monument established by President Reagan? Again, the law charges the president to consider such issues.
Is President Trump the first “diminisher-in-chief”?
One way to consider open legal questions about presidential power involves practice. Courts rely on precedent, but so, too, do presidents. Informal rules and norms within the presidency can be looked at by courts when legislative language is vague and a new issue arises. President Trump is the 20th president to serve since the passage of the Antiquities Act. If none of his predecessors ever sought to diminish a national monument, that could signal an expectation among presidents about the continuity of national monuments and their own interpretation of the statute.
So, what’s the verdict? President Trump is in pretty good company. John Yoo and Todd Gaziano note in a compelling article on this topic that in addition to there being “many other reductions or adjustments to boundaries,” Presidents Eisenhower, Truman, Taft (on multiple occasions), Wilson, and Coolidge reduced national monuments significantly. None of those diminishments were reversed by courts.
It is presidential practice to assume office and begin reconsidering the choices of your predecessors. Every president does, whether they share the party of that predecessor or not. The argument that a Presidential Proclamation cannot be undone by another Presidential Proclamation unless explicitly forbidden by law is ludicrous. Executive Orders, Presidential Proclamations, Executive Memoranda, presidential appointments, and especially regulations are reconsidered and reversed by new presidents all the time.
There is nothing sacrosanct about one president’s Proclamation that would preserve it in perpetuity (without Congressional intervention). Given that reality, it’s easily argued that Congress could have put in such a limit in the legislative language in 1906 or subsequently. Congress asserts such control in other areas. For example, there are numerous presidential appointees with fixed terms. Unlike the Secretary of Defense, who a president could fire at any time, a member of an independent regulatory commission can only be removed from office for cause, prior to the expiration of her term. Congress has chosen not to extend a limitation on these existing presidential determinations.
That is not to say that Congress has never stepped in when it comes to the Antiquities Act. In 1950, Congress explicitly limited future presidents’ ability to designate national monuments in Wyoming. This amendment occurred after numerous presidents designated massive tracts of land as national monuments and after several presidents diminished the sizes of other national monuments.
While it appears clear President Trump has the power to diminish national monuments that were designated either by him or one of his predecessors, his proclamations from this week could run into a snag. Congress has constitutional authority over federal lands and delegated a share of that power to the president through the Antiquities Act. However, Congress reserves the right to expand, diminish or abolish national monuments—even ones the president designates, and it has. However, given the constitutional primacy of Congress’ power and the delegated nature of presidential authority, it does not seem likely that a president could change Congressionally-designated monuments.
The Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument creates an interesting context. In 1998, Congress passed the Automobile National Heritage Area Act, a law seemingly unrelated to a geological site in southern Utah. However, part of that law changed the boundaries of the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. That redefinition of boundaries—including diminishing part of the monument and expanding another part—could be interpreted as a Congressional designation of its national monument status, thus placing it in the category of monuments the president could not diminish. At a minimum, that law should protect the area extended by Congress in 1998 from the Presidential Proclamation diminishing large parts of the monument.
Ultimately, presidential power can be a complicated and difficult area of law. Presidential decisions, regardless of topic or the avenue by which presidents carry out those decisions, make some people happy and infuriate others. The issue of diminishment of national monuments under the Antiquities Act has been laden with significant controversy. Yet, much of the disagreement with presidential authority ignores reality, relies on a selective reading of the original statute and creative reading of subsequent statutes. President Trump’s decisions to reduce the size of two national monuments is consistent with federal law, historical precedent, and presidential power.
There could be questions about the legitimacy of a president’s determination of the historical or scientific importance of land. In fact, some question President Trump’s argument of using scientific information in choosing to diminish Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante. However, courts have given significant deference to presidential discretion in determining what is “significant.” In discussing Wyoming v. Franke, Klein (2002) argues, “the court suggested that anything short of a barren prairie might be a suitable candidate for monument status if the President were willing to declare it as such” (1350).
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