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California is one of nearly a dozen states that allows 16- and 17-year-olds to pre-register to vote, automatically adding them to voter rolls on their 18th birthdays.
Low’s proposal also follows other recent efforts by California Democratic leaders to expand voting access, including automatically registering voters when they apply for or renew drivers’ licenses.
“By lowering the voting age from 18-years old to 17-years old, ACA 8 will promote youth becoming involved in matters that affect them personally and promote early civic engagement,” according to a statement from Low’s office.
Hemp legalization in Idaho just cleared its first hurdle. But will officials here allow it?
Two administrators, Antonio Rosales and Laura Brady, are taking over the leadership at the new B Street Elementary and Lorena Falasco Elementary schools in Merced County, Superintendent Mark Marshall said.
VILNIUS - Lithuania and Luxembourg plan to sign on Thursday a deal on the renewable energy quota, President Dalia Grybauskaite said, adding that this will be the first such agreement in Europe.
The deal will be signed during Grand Duke Henri's official visit to Lithuania.
"Lithuania exceeds the requirements. Renewable energy already accounts for almost 25 percent (of our total electricity supply) and we target 30 percent, which is well above the minimum requirements in Europe," Grybauskaite said on LRT Radio.
"Luxembourg, a small country, does not have the potential, and we will sign a certain agreement on Thursday to sell a part of that quota and we will use the money, over 10 million euros, for further development of renewable energy in Lithuania," she said.
The president added that this would be the first such agreement in Europe.
"We see that we can not only expect help from others, but we can also help Luxembourg in such an interesting form -- this will be the first such European agreement -- and, at the same time, use these funds for our benefit," she said.
Lithuania's updated national energy strategy, to be discussed by the government shortly, sets the target of increasing the share of renewable energy in total electricity production to 30 percent in 2020, 45 percent in 2030 and 80 percent in 2050.
IBM is aiming to be a bit more aggressive in the processor business.
The IBM Microelectronics Division, to give the department its full name, has recently been making a quiet success of its remit to make Big Blue a success selling to third-parties.
The firm claims it sold over 500,000 CPUs to indigenous European PC vendors in the fourth quarter of 1996 alone. Together with its chip designer Cyrix, it believes it accounts for about five per cent of all X86 processor sales in the world. Under terms of their agreement, IBM provides manufacturing capability for Cyrix...
Now, like Cyrix, the firm hopes it can capitalise on a leap in sales of cheaper PCs. In the US, sub-$1,000 PCs were 23 per cent of units sold in the first half of 1997, compared to seven per cent a year ago. It plans to bid for a large slice of that pie by stepping up marketing and advertising activity in order to bett...
Interestingly, IBM claims that many clone brands prefer to buy from IBM than Cyrix itself. "The Tottenham Court Road guys get a free ride from the IBM brand and we're recognised for testing parts very carefully. We've displaced Cyrix in Granville and we're seeing a lot more of that type of success," said Steve Wainwrig...
Wainwright said he was unconcerned that IBM had chosen to build some PCs based on chips from rival AMD. "In a way it helps as no-one could accuse us of nepotism," he said.
Large South Salem home on large lot that features many updates! Dual living possibilities! Main level features open concept. Kitchen has SS appliances including gas cook top, travertine flooring, custom cabinetry. Master Bed has walkin closet and master bath includes travertine tile in shower. Lower level allows for po...
DAYTONA BEACH, FLA.—So what’s the best way to prepare to play in the NCAA Women’s Championship? Apparently it involves fighting a 103-degree fever and taking a pair of mid-term exams.
OK, so maybe if UC-Irvine’s Selanee’ Henderson had her druthers, she wouldn’t have had to suffered through sickness or school this past week. Still, the 20-year-old junior’s three-under 69 on LPGA International’s Legends course, a round that included six birdies, was the best from any of the 125 players competing in th...
Truth be told, Henderson’s performance wouldn’t have been all that surprising—she did win back-to-back tournaments this spring—had it not been for the fact that she was recovering from a bout of strep throat that came on during the West Regional (explaining her 73-80-75 performance). Returning to campus May 12, she got...
While Henderson’s focus leading up to nationals wasn’t entirely on her game, the same could not be said for the leading team after Day 1, Southern California. The Central Regional champions practiced their putting and chipping the previous Tuesday at Palos Verdes GC outside Los Angeles to get used to Bermuda greens the...
Gaston returned four of five starters from the squad that finished runner-up to Duke a year ago at Ohio State’s Scarlet Course. Her veteran team seemed to only add talent when Mozo, the British Ladies Amateur champion, arrived on campus in January, yet USC didn’t see the predicted victories come fast and furious in the...
Of course, the challenge is to keep it going for three more days.
How do you know to trust your financial adviser?
How do I know if my broker or adviser or banker is telling me the truth?
The answer: You can't ever know with total certainty. But you can call on one of two conclusions that psychologists have come to when they have thoroughly studied the topic of lying.
First, they say that in various ways we are all liars. We lie to each other (little white lies, to cite one common example) and to ourselves in numerous ways that seem to protect our concepts of who we are.
Second, psychologists have found that people are less likely to tell fibs if they have specifically committed to tell the truth. Marriage vows are a common example.
How do we apply these to our adviser?
To illustrate my point, I'll use just one important issue. The answer to the following question could make a huge difference in your financial future.
Is your adviser making recommendations based on everything he (or she) knows that is likely to get you to your goals? Or are those recommendations based on what the adviser is being pressured to sell at the moment?
If you ask that question directly, your adviser will almost certainly tell you his (or her) advice is in your best interests.
Point 1 from above: Everybody lies.
Point 2 from above: People are less likely to lie when they have specifically agreed not to.
Takeaway: Get a "truth commitment" in writing.
Here's a powerful reason this makes sense: If a professional makes a promise in writing, that promise holds the power of a contract, a contract enforceable under the law. Because of that, Wall Street and the banking industry are very reluctant to put promises in writing.
While a written promise doesn't guarantee you anything, it makes you more likely to get the very best help from your adviser, broker or banker.
You may be wondering what sort of written promise would lead to this result, and I'll give you an example that in many ways is a model of what you should expect – and get – from an investment professional.
This is called a fiduciary pledge. "Fiduciary" is a big word with a simple meaning that you should know. A fiduciary is someone who is legally obligated to always put a client's interests ahead of his or her own interests.
At www.fiduciarypledge.com, you'll learn that a fiduciary is bound to always act "with undivided loyalty, good faith and due care." I'll show you a sample "fiduciary pledge" below, and you can download it for yourself at the web site above.
As you will see, the following fiduciary pledge calls for full, transparent disclosure of all financial facts and conflicts of interest, whether real or potential.
I, the undersigned, ___________________________ ("financial advisor"), pledge to always put the best interests of ________________________________ ("client") first, no matter what.
Any other financial conflicts of interest that could reasonably compromise the impartiality of my advice and recommendations.
This is the best set of such promises that I'm aware of. Every item is worth discussing with your adviser, broker or banker. You deserve the answer to every item mentioned, and you should discuss each one with your adviser, broker or banker.
One of the best things you as an investor can do is to print that pledge and use it as the basis of a serious discussion with your adviser. Ask him to talk about each item. Ask him to sign the pledge or something similar.
If he won't do so, I suggest you find an adviser who will.
For a more detailed look at the most important decisions that investors make, check out my free video, “Financial Fitness Forever: 5 Steps to More Money, Less Risk and More Peace of Mind,” which you'll find at the top of the home page of my web site.
Polonius: Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t. [Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 193–206]Yes, our old men at the helm have wrinkled faces with plentiful lack of wit. And yes again, though this be madness, yet there is method in it. This lack of wit has caused immense harm to the national economy. This madness has re...
The method with which Pakistan ended up owing not millions but billions of rupees to foreign companies in damages for breach of contract is sheer madness. Be it the privatisation of Pakistan Steel or the electric power plant agreements, court verdicts have had a devastating impact.
A recent visit to Karachi presented a picture that is marred by destruction, and despondency among lower and mid-level businesspeople and shopkeepers. Surprisingly, the demolition of thousands of shops and the dispossession and unemployment of millions of people have attracted only scant attention in the mainstream nat...
Thousands of businesses worth billions of rupees have been crippled. This devastation is very selective and there seems to be a method behind this madness. For example, if you start from Saudabad, Malir, where I spent my childhood, you see hundreds of shops whose shutters have been dismantled even if they were within t...
Yes, encroachments on government land need to be removed but this needs to be done in an appropriate way. What obstruction does a sun-shade present? You get surprised when you see certain shops, especially those owned by certain people, spared from any damage. For most shops, even a minor outgrowth was not tolerated, b...
You move to Saddar and see Empress Market free of encroachments. Good. But what encroachment are we talking about? Those bookshops where I used to buy my college books and stationery in the 1980s. Those pet shops, where we as children were fascinated by furry puppies and parrots and parakeets. The tea shops where my fa...
This is not to justify unlawful and illegal occupation of land. The point is that the old men with wrinkled faces should have thought about the livelihood of thousands of families. There should have been a plan for their relocation and resettlement. They should have been compensated for their goodwill and for their run...
The regularisation verdict takes into consideration the money spent by the buyers of apartments in those towers. Most of the buyers are serving or retired government and state functionaries. The officials of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) are blamed for negligence but no responsibility has been fixed. It has o...
The same question is not asked of the KMC and Sindh government officials. When 50 or 60 years ago, the markets surrounding Empress Market were being built, who were the officials? Is it difficult to find the names of these officials from government records, since they were the ones responsible for preventing such encro...
The destruction is selective because in case of certain alleged corruption by politicians, records from decades-old businesses and properties are sought and produced by the state. But no record can be found against government and state officials.
Can’t we ask if the justice system was asleep when these encroachments were allowed to be set up? Can’t we question the negligence shown by the building control authorities and their responsible officers who were supposed to have stopped such transgressions? If the Bhuttos and Sharifs and Zardaris can be punished again...
Now we come to the thousands of shops around the Karachi Zoo that have been razed to the ground, despite the fact that they were lawfully built and the traders had been paying rent to the government for decades. In one fell swoop you go with bulldozers and demolish their livelihood and nobody blinks an eye. The same is...
The prime minister has time to visit temporary shelters purportedly being developed for the homeless but he has no time to visit Karachi and meet those who have been rendered unemployed and unable to pay their basic expenses. The PM deems it appropriate to check the quality of mattresses and quilts being placed in thos...
Donations for dams can be collected in London but we can’t take a look at Karachi, which is being crippled like no other city in Pakistan. Pakistan’s economy is teetering but you reduce the number of taxpayers by destroying their businesses. You beg and borrow from the world but beat and bruise your own potential savio...
University of Birmingham, UK and works in Islamabad.
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Mr. Wheeler looks at the concept of stereotype threat and discusses ways to confront and combat it in a diverse society. He proposes some simple solutions within the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and the law librarianship profession to help diminish the effects of this psychological barrier.
Ronald Wheeler, Stereotype Threat and Law Librarianship, 106 Law Library Journal 483 (2014).
It's not unusual for donors to lend their planes to candidates, but this donor has the national spotlight.
He's never granted an interview. He's rarely been photographed. He has the president's ear.
And, according to campaign finance reports and state business filings, it appears he is loaning a private plane to Ron DeSantis as he campaigns across the state.
Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter, the chairman of Marvel Entertainment, and his wife, Laura, are fiercely backing Ron DeSantis for governor, though they are doing so on their own terms: quietly and with a boost from their vast fortune.
The couple owns a condo in Palm Beach, which, according to property appraiser records, is less than three miles away from Mar-a-Lago, the "winter White House" for President Donald Trump. Perlmutter has been spotted there on many occasions, and according to ProPublica, is a member of the "Mar-a-Lago crowd," a trio that ...
Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene, who ran an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination for governor this year, similarly lives "two doors down" from Mar-a-Lago, of which he is also a member.
In an interview with the Times/Herald, Greene said he's only met Perlmutter once, when they were both at the ritzy Palm Beach golf club.
Who introduced them? Trump, of course, who Greene said was dining with Perlmutter at the time.
Greene noted that the Perlmutters are known "mega-donors" to Republicans nationwide, and said their interest in DeSantis likely stems from his ideology as well as the fact they own property in Florida, and thus have a vested interest in the state's future elected leader.
"I just assumed that … Donald Trump said, 'Congrats, Ron. How much do you need?'" Greene said of DeSantis after his primary victory. "He has his team around the country to give whatever money DeSantis needs."
Campaign finance reports from DeSantis' campaign show that he expensed $25,555.80 to TOT Funding Corporation August 27, for "transportation." That company's director is listed as Perlmutter in the state business filings database, and is also listed as an owner of a Cessna jet in the Federal Aviation Administration regi...
For candidates who, unlike Gov. Rick Scott, aren't wealthy enough to own a plane, it's not uncommon for them to rent planes, even from donors.
But to follow the law, the candidate must pay a comparable rate for each passenger on the flight which is equal to the lowest price of a commercial flight to the same destination on the same day.
Both Governors Charlie Crist and Rick Scott have faced questions over their use of planes in the past, with Crist having to answer to an ethics investigation over his use of Donald Trump's plane in the past.
The DeSantis campaign did not respond to requests for information about how the use of Perlmutter's plane was priced.
In addition to loaning their plane, the Perlmutters have also donated $2 million to DeSantis, making them one of his largest donors.
While the Federal Election Commission shows no federal donations from either Isaac nor Laura Perlmutter before 2015, after that year they quickly achieved the "mega-donor" status by writing checks to everything from the Wyoming Republican Party to Trump's campaign. They spent millions to help get Trump elected.
In Florida, they've donated a considerable amount to U.S. Rep. Brian Mast this cycle. Their hefty support of DeSantis is the first time they've contributed to a state election in Florida, according to the state's campaign finance records. Their donations to DeSantis have always been under Laura's name.
That fact could serve as a hint for why he is backing DeSantis, who is an ardent supporter of Israel and a magnet for pro-Israel donors like casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.
Susan MacManus, who recently retired after a long tenure as a political science professor at the University of South Florida, said DeSantis' use of Perlmutter's plane is yet another example of how Florida's race for governor is being closely watched by voters, journalists and donors from across the country.
"This is a nationalized race," she said. "The governor plays a part ultimately in what party can win seats in Congress nationally and having a governor of your party always helps in the presidential election … So national money is pouring into Florida — it's gushing."
In addition to Perlmutter, campaign finance records also indicate the campaign is using a plane from another donor, Ronald Howse, who is a retired civil engineer in Cocoa, near Titusville.
In addition to several thousand dollars, Howse gave DeSantis an "in-kind" donation, meaning a donation of something other than cash, of "transportation" worth $1,703.70 in late August, according to campaign finance reports. Then, on Sept. 7, the campaign paid Howse's registered company $2,555.55 for transportation cost...
Howse's company is also registered as an owner of a Pilatus PC-12 private plane in the federal registry. He said in an interview with the Times/Herald that he supported DeSantis' U.S. Senate run in the past and is a big fan of his politics.
"I gave money and then I asked, 'What else can I help the campaign with?' They said, 'Do you have access to a plane?'" Howse said. He has partial ownership of the plane as part of a timeshare-like service and donated hours of flight.
"A lot of people with airplanes they choose to fly to with the candidate to have some face time with the candidate," Howse added. "I don't choose to do that because he has my support and I'd rather him be doing his job than listening to me."
And in Napa Valley in 1968, Jed Steele got introduced to winemaking. He has been at it ever since. Over the past 50 years no California winemaker may have introduced more consumers to more variations of fine wine than Jed Steele. This past year, as I scanned through my wine-related notebooks and clippings for the previ...
That said, his most dramatic early success at pleasing customers came about more by happenstance than strategy. In 1982, while winemaker at Kendall-Jackson, he struggled with a batch of chardonnay that refused to fully ferment, leaving it sweet. He bottled it anyway, then watched the style – round, fruity, sweet – beco...
Today, in addition to his eponymous brand, Steele oversees three other labels – Shooting Star, Writer’s Block and Stymie. In all, he’s turning out around 65,000 cases per year, releasing as many as 40 varietal wines and blends each vintage. Almost invariably, his wines are lean, supple, savory and true to varietal. Occ...
Steele continues to draw grapes from 16 vineyards as far south as Santa Barbara County and as far north as Washington state, but he’s more and more at home with fruit from Lake County, where he established his own brand in 1991. Then, about a third of his wines were made with Lake County fruit; today, more than half ar...
During his tenure he’s watched Lake County’s standing for fine wine, especially cabernet sauvignon and sauvignon blanc, rise with little fanfare, though that is starting to change as other growers and winemakers discover the power and authority that the area’s iron-rich and obsidian-sprinkled volcanic soils can yield.
In turbulent 1968 Steele was living in lively San Francisco but eager to escape to the country. He’d earned a degree in psychology at Gonzaga University of Spokane, which he attended on a basketball scholarship, but was working as a railroad brakeman out of Oakland. His father suggested that he talk to a neighbor about...
After two seasons at Stony Hill he resumed his structured education, and in 1974 earned a master’s degree in enology at UC Davis, shortly after which he joined Edmeades Winery in Mendocino County’s Anderson Valley as winemaker and vineyard manager.

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