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Trump used Section 232 to impose tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum after a Commerce Department investigation showed the imports posed a threat to national security.
"That was intended only when there is an emergency, a security issue. Clearly, we are in nothing like that situation in respect to Canada and Mexico," he said. "The administration openly admitted the reason they used the tariff was that it gave them leverage with the Canadians and Mexicans to renegotiate NAFTA. In my opinion, that is a misuse of (Section 232)."
Toomey said he believes the president should be able to impose tariffs under special circumstances.
But this wasn't one of those times, he said.
What's more, months after the United States signed a new North American trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, steel and aluminum tariffs remain in place.
Getting rid of those tariffs should be one of the country's top trade priorities, Toomey said.
"They should never have been imposed in the first place," he said. "That is an important priority."
Toomey, who serves on the Senate banking, budget and finance committees, is generally more supportive of the tariffs Trump has imposed against China.
"I put China in a separate category because of the geo-political rivalry, to put it mildly," he said. "I think the administration is right to focus on the most egregious behavior — the theft of intellectual property, the coerced transfer of American technology."
The Chinese economy has taken a hit as a result of tariffs imposed on China, but U.S companies have paid a price as well, he said.
"They are reluctant to make an investment they would like to make," he said of some Pennsylvania businesses. "They have concerns about their supply chain."
Toomey, who believes another U.S. priority should be establishing trade agreements with Japan and the United Kingdom, said other Senate Republicans have shared their concerns with President Trump.
"He has been willing to hear me on a variety of occasions," Toomey said. "I can't say I have persuaded him on my point of view. There have been moments when the president was going to take even more draconian steps. I think it could have been much worse. I have to give them credit for at least being willing to listen."
Thursday October 1st, drop-in letter writing for Individuals at Risk at The Falcon Hotel, Chapel Street, Stratford-on-Avon between 10 a.m. and 12 noon, all welcome.
Wednesday October 14th monthly meeting at the Friends’ Meeting House, 37, Maidenhead Road, Stratford on Avon at 7.30 p.m. A return of an old friend, Trevor Trueman speaking on Ethiopian refugees in Egypt.
A day to come together to learn, share ideas and take action with keynote speakers, personal stories of Human Rights Defenders, Group Action to Defend the Human Rights Act, updates from AIUK staff, a question time panel on Asylum and refugee rights, workshops and lots else including opportunities to meet other local members.
(Reuters) - A former Toronto stockbroker failed to persuade a U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence for causing more than $55 million of losses in an international stocks scam.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday rejected defendant George Georgiou’s argument that the trades in question were not “domestic,” having been processed for foreign accounts and involving stocks not listed on major U.S. exchanges, thereby excusing him from U.S. prosecution for fraud.
“Obviously we are disappointed and respectfully disagree with the court’s conclusions,” Scott Splittgerber, a lawyer for Georgiou, said in an email. Georgiou will review whether to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, Splittgerber added.
A federal jury in February 2010 convicted Georgiou, now 45, of securities fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy over trades in Avicena Group Inc, Hydrogen Hybrid Technologies Inc (HYHY.PK), Neutron Enterprises Inc and Northern Ethanol Inc, which were listed on the OTC Bulletin Board or Pink Sheets.
Prosecutors said Georgiou and others traded the stocks from 2004 to 2008 in accounts they controlled in Canada, the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, and artificially inflated prices by creating a false appearance of an active market.
Georgiou was arrested in an FBI sting. He had been banned as a broker in Canada in 1995.
In his appeal, Georgiou said Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd, a June 2010 Supreme Court decision that limited the use of U.S. securities laws to fight deceptive non-U.S. conduct, justified reversing his fraud conviction.
While agreeing that the Bulletin Board and Pink Sheets were not national securities exchanges, Circuit Judge Joseph Greenaway wrote for the 3rd Circuit that Georgiou had conducted “domestic” trades in all four stocks because he had incurred “irrevocable liability” for them in the United States.
Greenaway said this was because the trades involved working with U.S.-based market makers, or purchases or sales at Georgiou’s direction involving entities in the United States.
“We now hold that irrevocable liability establishes the location of a securities transaction,” Greenaway wrote. He said three other federal appeals courts have used that standard.
Georgiou in 2010 was also sentenced to pay $55.8 million of restitution. He is housed at a low-security facility in Milan, Michigan, and eligible for release in December 2031.
The case is Georgiou v. U.S., 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Nos 10-4774, 11-4587, 12-2077.
There are so many times when strengths serve as a new language to pull together individuals, teams, organizations and even people from different countries and cultures. However, as powerful as the language of strengths is, not all of our concepts translate with ease. In early May of 2015, Curt Liesveld and I were teaching a group of future strengths coaches from Japan, through the help of translators. It was day three of our four and a half day Accelerated Coaching Program and we were recapping the concept of Name it/Claim it/Aim it. It’s an idea we considered to be simple, a way to explain how individuals move from awareness to application of their themes. In English, it sounds poetic and simple. But as I could tell from the confused looks on our students’ faces, something was getting lost in translation.
And that’s when everything changed. Each student let out an audible exhale, as if they had solved the world’s most puzzling challenge. Curt and I both chuckled, and we immediately wrote it on the board. Quickly, most of the students were out of their seats, scrambling to take pictures of what was written.
There are more than 12 million people who have completed the Clifton StrengthsFinder to learn their strengths. But how many have continued the journey? Loving your themes is critical with your own top five. But this can also highlight the importance of seeing value in themes that we do not possess. Curt would often say that we need to find a “poster child” for all 34 themes, someone who brilliantly portrays the value this theme brings to the world. Living our themes is about purposefully integrating your talent into your daily actions. As Curt would often say, it is when your soul aligns with your role, when your being is demonstrated by doing, and when a raw talent becomes mature and beautiful. May we commit to both teach these principles around the world, and integrate them into our own practices.
Curt Liesveld passed away on May 16, 2015, a great loss for his family and friends, as well as for the strengths community. It is fitting that one of his final moments of wisdom and clarity was the concept of “Learn, love, live.” Curt guided so many of us along this path, because he so fully represented it.
Learn: Curt was always learning, always curious. His passion was to discover what was unique and valuable about every strength and every person. Through his discovery process, we all discovered our own authentic selves.
Love: Curt would often say that you have to fall in love with all 34 themes. He did just that, and his love extended to each and every human being who possessed them.
Live: Curt spent every day of the past 15 years living strengths. He embodied the strengths philosophy. He anchored it. He shone his example for all to see.
Curt is the soul of the modern global strengths movement. His soul will live on forever, touching millions more lives just as he so profoundly touched each of ours.
Our mission, as coaches and teachers, is to help move people along in their own journey. Many of you were touched by Curt’s work. In honor of Curt and in service to others, consider a specific action you will take today to help someone learn, love, or live their greatest strengths.
I will encourage the medical exec team that I am working with to focus first on their own strengths, then on their team strengths, and then the work they must accomplish. Curt taught us that in my Accelerated Coaching course. Don't jump to the tasks, which feels productive and is also highly valued by most companies. The fasted path to success runs along the strengths depot. Know thy strengths first, and then attack the work to be done, leveraging the talents of the group.
I will reinforce this message with my clients.
Beautiful article Jeremy and Benjamin. Well done.
I'm so thankful to have known Curt Liesveld as my brother-in-law. His legacy to his family offers strength even in his absence. Curt surely found and lived his passion helping others to find theirs through his position at Gallup. Thank you for this tribute.
How memorable! Learn, Love, Live is how I will always think of Curt. He certainly left me with that passion to learn, love and live my strengths. I remember in training with him that he would just say the most prolific things, they rolled off his tongue so easily and effortlessly. Everyone in class commented on how much he embodied strengths and we wondered, How will we ever be that greatHe will always be my role model for what it means to BE our strengths.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful memory.
Beautifully said! Curt was indeed a brilliant man. I never got to know him personally but always admired the passion I saw in the videos that I have seen of him.
I will definitely use "Learn! Love! Live!" in my next coaching sessions. Thank you.
Thanks of this Jeremy and Benjamin.
This is so beautiful and a perfect tribute! I don't have anything profound to add, other than Curt was my coach and the leader of all my Strengths courses, and he made an enormous impact on me. I hope his family knows how important he was (and is!) to people around the world. I feel so grateful to have known him. What a special soul.
“Somebody horked our seats!” cry the Conservatives.
“The time to hesitate is through! No time to wallow in Stephen Harper’s mire,” Canadian voters announced yesterday with a landslide victory for the Liberal Party and its leader, maple-flavored Jim Morrison clone Justin Trudeau. Harper will step down as Conservative Party leader and, as is Canadian custom, will be stripped of his holdings in Canadian Tire money and jeered in all Tim Horton’s for the next nine years. The other interesting Canadian, Drake, celebrated election day by putting on a baggy turtleneck sweater and doing the Carlton Dance in Don Johnson’s neon spaceship, which everyone loved because, as Kara Brown explained, Drake is the best at being a dork.
Amazon, in the form of ex-White House press secretary and book fancier Jay Carney, picked a fight with the New York Times over the paper’s August exposé of the difficult working and pooping conditions faced by the dystopian online conglomerate’s future ex-employees. Carney quoted from one source’s employee review and alleged fraud on the part of another, in what probably didn’t seem to him like a vindictive and bullying response given the company’s notoriously vicious corporate culture. Dean Baquet replied that the Times has confidence in its reporting and that none of Carney’s points were particularly relevant or damning. Carney responded to the response, but added nothing. Ravi Somaiya and Nick Wingfield at the Times got a story out of it, and John Herrman transcribed some of his by-now permanently ongoing interior monologue on the future of media. The winner of the dispute was Medium.
In ever more futuristic and utopian Europe, Oslo is moving to ban cars entirely by 2019. Back home in America, on the morning of Canada’s overwhelming shift to the center, embarrassing nitwit David Brooks is “sensing a loss of confidence in the center. . . .,” and a judge in Alabama is literally squeezing blood from the poor.
Rembert Browne joined NY Magazine yesterday, continuing the ongoing disassembly of Bill Simmons’s Grantland. CNN is getting into the viral video and native ad game. “will only awaken in prison for the next 78 months. “The kebab cat tweet is old; it predates humanity by billions of years. Nobody wrote the kebab cat tweet. It just hid, biding its time until it found its perfect host.” Play Toph Tucker’s Trading Game on Bloomberg.
Thanks to Casey Kolderup for remembering that incredible Jay Carney story from the Daily Mail. Today in Tabs used to call you on your cell phone. Late at night when you need Fast Company. We’ll call you on your email. Late at night when we need your subs.
A rider takes on the terrain while snowboarding at Whistler Blackcomb.
It seems British Columbia and Alberta are agreeing on one thing, Family Day should be the third Monday in February. Premier John Horgan has opened the door once again for the B.C. government to move the statutory holiday one week later to align with Alberta and a majority of the other provinces in the country.
British Columbians will celebrate Family Day next Monday, Feb. 12. The holiday was first marked in 2012.
The NDP government has been pressured to align the holiday. A poll released in November found 71 per cent of British Columbians are in favour of moving the Family Day holiday to align with seven other provinces in the country.
Green Party leader Andrew Weaver and NDP Attorney General David Eby have been vocal supporters of moving the holiday. An online petition launched three years ago has received more than 22,000 digital signatures to change the date.
The B.C. ski industry has benefited from having back to back long weekends in February. The previous government settled on the holiday date on the second Monday in February after extensive consultation across the province.
Watch: Why isn’t B.C.’s Family Day on par with rest of Canada?
BUFFALO. Oct. 4—Almost symbolically, the only noise above the hushed voices in the Jets’ locker room was the hiss of water in the shower room.
Sitting dejectedly In front of his locker, Matt Snell was crying. The 220‐pound running back had been crying ever since he entered the locker room today after hearing Dr. James A. Nicholas, the Jets' orthopedist, diagnose his heel injury as a ruptured Achilles tendon.
Consoled, but not con vinced, Snell continued to stare at the floor.
Snell nodded. Eventually, he dressed slowly. Hobbling across the room, he noticed the Rev. Michael Thornton, a priest who had said mass for the Catholics among the Jets in the morning.
“I guess your prayers weren't long enough, Father,” he said.
They spoke for a few mo ments. Then Snell hobbled out of the locker room. Ac companied by Dr. Nicholas, he was flown in a private jet to New York where he underwent surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital.
Seminary in crisis after board ousts president.
Asbury Theological Seminary officials say the school is in crisis after the board forced president Jeffrey Greenway to resign.
The Wilmore, Kentucky, school has formed a "peacemaking task force" and brought in a consultant and "crisis teams" to help heal divisions caused by Greenway's ouster.
"We're moving forward with a process of healing, renewal, and reconciliation," said Asbury spokeswoman Tina Pugel, labeling the uproar "an internal crisis."
"Conflict is healthy, and good can come from it," she added.
Thus far, trustees aren't saying precisely why they dumped their leader after barely two years on the job. Pugel said Greenway did nothing immoral or illegal, but that he and the trustees differed over the school's direction. Greenway has said little publicly on the dispute, which has shaken one of the nation's largest evangelical seminaries.
After the president and the board clashed last fall, more than 80 percent of the school's faculty gave Greenway a vote of confidence. Hundreds of students and alumni also signed petitions supporting him. But the board voted overwhelmingly to seek Greenway's resignation. He stepped down October 17.
Critics say the board of trustees didn't give Greenway a fair hearing and circumvented its own bylaws to improperly oust him. A complaint has been filed with the Association of Theological Schools (ATS), the agency that accredits Asbury. ATS gave Asbury until mid-January to respond.
Greenway's removal has triggered outrage among some students, alumni, and faculty. Officials shut down an internal online forum after critics used it to lambaste the board.
Dubai government has announced plans to install solar rooftop panels on buildings and residential villas across the emirate following the success of its flagship Safaqat project, whereby 640 villas were retrofitted with photovoltaic panels in the Hatta region.
Safaqat (Arabic for transaction) is the solar revolution enabler for the UAE and falls under the Shams Dubai initiative which aligns with Dubai’s integrated energy strategy (DIES) 2030, the UAE National Energy Strategy 2050 and UAE Vision 2021.
The green deal platform for the UAE, Safaqat leverages the power of crowdsourcing to provide economically viable low carbon solutions. It also offers energy and resource-efficient smart products, which will enable buyers to ‘pay with their savings’ whilst decreasing their environmental footprint.
Under Safaqat, eligibility is only possible when the savings are more than the cost of the hardware over its usable life. Each Safaqat deal will cost less for the end user by comparison to their pre-purchase scenario, said a statement from Dubai Carbon, a key provider of advisory services to facilitate the transition to a low-carbon, sustainable, green economy.
The Safaqat programme will support the implementation of solar rooftop panels on buildings across the UAE, with demand coming from Hatta and residential villas in Dubai, it stated.
The solar rooftop panels are PV panels, which generate electrical power by using solar cells to convert energy from the sun into a flow of electrons. Solar cells produce direct current electricity from sunlight which can be used to power equipment or to recharge a battery.
When installed on the villas, the PV panels will result in the reduction of 50 tonnes of carbon emissions, equivalent to the planting of 500 trees, whilst installation on the buildings results in the reduction of 130 tonnes of carbon emissions, equivalent to planting 1300 trees.
Dubai Carbon CEO Ivano Iannelli said: "Historically, sustainability has had associated cost considerations. Through crowdsourcing, we have sourced products which offer long term savings as well as being energy efficient, made available on the Safaqat platform."
“The provision of solar energy to more buildings and villas via the Safaqat platform shows there is a demand for energy from natural resources. We are excited to meet this demand and also encourage more people to embrace solar energy through the Safaqat platform,” he noted.
On the advantages, Iannelli said the solar-in-a-box kit can easily be dismantled and refitted when moving house or country, and it also enables residents and business owners to access solar energy, realise savings towards their electricity bills and effectively pay with their savings for the kit.
"Zero per cent financing is available for the kit, which includes 14 solar panels, a mounting structure, inverter and sun shade, cables and Shams Dubai fees and approvals," he stated.
The leader in TV measurement cites significant bingeing in its new SVOD data on the streamer's hit.
As promised, Nielsen is releasing more and more viewership measurements it has mined from Netflix data — including for Stranger Things 2.
The company released its latest, and most interesting, SVOD measurement to date on Thursday afternoon, citing an audience of 15.8 million viewers, nearly 11 million of them adults 18-49, watched the sophomore season premiere, "Chapter One," within three days of its launch. (Eat your undead heart out, The Walking Dead.) Both of those numbers, by Nielsen standards, are equivalent to the live-plus-3 ratings data you see from traditional TV.
These numbers are not authenticated by Netlfix, which has kept mum on the subject, and don't yet include mobile. But they do paint the most vivid picture yet of who's viewing the streamer's biggest pop culture hit. Nielsen also said that 361,000 subscribers streamed the entire nine-episode season within 24 hours of its release. "Our approach is using the exact same framework and methodology that we do for all of television," Brian Fuhrer, senior vp product leadership at Nielsen, recently told THR. "You can put these Netflix and broadcast numbers right next to one another and understand the relationship."
Other compelling data includes the fact that at least 4 million U.S. viewers have already watched every episode of Stranger Things 2. See below for a full breakdown of episodic tallies, all of which fall into the three-day window.
Note that TV's key demo, adults 18-49, means nothing to the advertiser-free Netflix. It's just an interesting comparison to what else is out there.
Bill Hilf, the ex-IBM and ex-Microsoft man who now oversees cloud services at HP.
Anyone can now run their software on Google's worldwide network of computers – perhaps the most advanced computing system on earth – and Google believes that, eventually, everyone will be happy to do so.
The tech giant is betting big on Google Compute Engine and Google App Engine, the cloud services that let outsiders run websites and other applications on its global computing infrastructure. Urs Hölzle – the man who oversees this vast system – says the company's cloud services allow businesses to run operate software more easily and more cheaply, without having to set up their own hardware, and though he acknowledges that many businesses are still wary of using the cloud, due to security concerns and regulatory issues, he argues that the computing world will evolve to the point where this is no longer the case.
But other big tech outfits see things quite differently. They believe that – for security, regulatory, and other reasons – some businesses will always run at least some of their software inside private data centers. "I think there will always, forevermore, be a balance between the public and the private," Lucas Carlson, who oversees cloud computing at internet service provider CenturyLink, recently told us.
HP – the venerable Silicon Valley tech giant – takes the same stance. So, in addition to offering public cloud services to the world at large, it has built complex software that businesses can use to run Google-like services in their own data centers. Google's services let you treat a vast collection of machines much like a single computer – a more efficient way of handling things – and HP's software is designed to operate in at least a similar way.
On Wednesday, HP took another important step down this road, saying it would open source two new software platforms, making them freely available to the world at large. These closely resemble the software platforms that underpin HP's own cloud service. The idea is that you can run applications in both places – in the public cloud and in the private data center – and maybe even move them from place to place, as need be.
The company is just one of many outfits promising much the same thing, including Rackspace, which helped build and open source popular software called Openstack, and Pivotal, which offers a platform known as CloudFoundry. HP's two software offerings are actually based on Openstack and CloudFoundry, but the company has expanded and enhanced them in recent years. "We have learned a lot about how to run Openstack at scale," says Bill Hilf, a longtime open source guru at IBM and Microsoft who now oversees cloud services at HP.
HP is releasing the two tools under a new brand name – HP Helion – and it promises to protect users from any intellectual property claims against the open source software. It also offers to help businesses setup and use these tools through a new professional services program.

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