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Prosecutors had asked for jail sentences of up to 25 years. They had accused the men of giving names, ID numbers, pictures and home addresses to security forces who hauled the workers off the floor of Ford’s factory in suburban Buenos Aires to be tortured and interrogated and then sent to military prisons.
The trial that began last year is part of a series of prosecutions focused on corporate support for the brutal military dictatorship of 1976-1983, when about 30,000 people were killed or disappeared, according to human rights groups.
“Seven per cent of civilians accused of crimes against humanity are businesspeople,” said the Center for Legal and Social Studies, a human rights group in Argentina.
About 5,000 workers were employed at the time by the Ford factory in suburban General Pacheco, producing the Falcon — a car that became a symbol of state terror because it was often used by military and police squads to carry off alleged subversives and move them between secret detention centres.
Ford said in a statement that it was aware of the sentence against the men but would not comment since the verdict is not final and can be appealed.
“Ford Argentina is not a party to the case, but is aware of the verdict on the alleged participation of Ford Argentina employees in facts related to human rights issues in the ’70s,” the company said in a statement to The Associated Press.
Associated Press journalists Almudena Calatrava and Leo La Valle contributed to this report.
No, Chipotle isn’t paying workers too little.
A stock analyst downgraded Chipotle for paying its workers too much. That tells you everything wrong with the economy right now.
Chipotle restaurant workers fill orders for customers in 2015 in Miami.
Chipotle had its stock downgraded on Wednesday by an analyst at Bank of America. It makes sense. The chain has endured a tough time. Health-safety issues that had scared customers away resurfaced this summer. Bill Ackman—the erratic, hypomanic hedge-fund manager—has amassed a large stake in the company, which is often ...
So, yes, an analyst might question Chipotle’s prospects. But this one had another problem: the wages of the generally low-paid people who staff Chipotle’s locations. While the company has aggressively cut down on the number of hours per employee as its sales have fallen, analyst Gregory Francfort noted, “We believe fur...
Which tells you everything that is wrong about our economy. There is a widespread mystification about why wages have failed to grow in the past several years even as the labor market has tightened. Technology and automation and the decline of unions are of course partially to blame. But the underplayed, unspoken, and o...
But the labor market is a market in which people have to compete for resources. As with any market, supply and demand fluctuate, which influences prices. When there’s a glut, you can get what you want for very little. When there’s a comparative shortage, you have to cough up more and start thinking of how you can do mo...
The most damaging thing about the deep recession was the sharp rise in unemployment. Millions of people were thrown out of work in 2008 and 2009, and the unemployment rate spiked to 10 percent in October 2009. The competition for jobs was Darwinian: In July 2009, there were 6.6 unemployed people for every job opening i...
But that was supposed to be temporary. The economy and the labor market move in cycles. And as the economic expansion gained its footing in 2009 and 2010, the economy began to add jobs at the same time that companies began posting higher numbers of new jobs. (Thanks, Obama and Bernanke and Yellen!) In fact, the economy...
In a world in which employees should have the upper hand over employers, you’d expect those fishing in the shallow end of the labor pool to confront the most difficulty. People with skills are largely able to put them to work in today’s economy. Despite the retail apocalypse, there are hundreds of thousands of open ser...
Chipotle’s inability—or unwillingness—to drive labor costs proportionally lower may actually be a positive sign.
In fact, given what is going on in the marketplace, managing only a small increase in labor costs may show a high level of competence, or at the very least, recognition of reality. Indeed, when you look at the actual numbers, it seems like Chipotle is doing a pretty good job of doing so. In the most recent quarter Chip...
There’s another thing that analysts have forgotten: There are no winners in the race to the bottom. When companies with large numbers of employees raise wages (either because they’re responding to regulations, or to the market, or because they want to differentiate themselves), they push their competitors and those in ...
CLEVELAND -- A Cleveland woman and her boyfriend pleaded guilty in the murder of a 5-year-old boy.
Investigators found the remains of Jordan Rodriguez, who was nonverbal and had numerous health issues, behind a house on West 80th Street in Cleveland on Dec. 19.
On Thursday, his mother, 34-year-old Larissa Rodriguez, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder. Her boyfriend, 36-year-old Christopher Rodriguez, was sentenced to 28 years.
Prosecutors said Jordan showed signs of abuse, weighing just 15 pounds with several broken bones. His body was placed in a bag with mothballs before it was buried.
Christopher Rodriguez's brother led authorities to the body. Prosecutors said the brother, while serving in the military and stationed in Pakistan, called police to report the child had died.
In April, Larissa Rodriguez pleaded guilty to trafficking in food stamps, telecommunications fraud, grand theft and money laundering, and was sentenced to six years in prison. Prosecutors said she sold $10,000 worth of food stamps to a family social services workers from Catholic Charities.
Larissa Rodriguez gave birth to her 10th child in May. The baby girl was placed in foster care.
Jack Baldermann (right) was recently hired as the principal of Westmont High School.
Westmont High School’s new principal has skills and experience, but is he the right man for the job? Hiring a proven talent often leads to improved performance, but personal baggage also can create new problems to replace the old ones.
Community Unit School District 201 hired Jack Baldermann this week to be the new principal at Westmont High School. He formerly served as superintendent/principal of Riverside Brookfield Township High School District 208 and left under questionable circumstances.
Baldermann has shown he can be a very effective academic administrator. Riverside Brookfield High School saw significant increases in PSAE scores and graduation rates when he was there. And it ranked in the top 150 schools in America by Newsweek for his last four years.
However, Baldermann resigned in 2009 after admitting to an inappropriate relationship with a staff member. The affair, which he originally denied, led to a 10-day suspension.
He also allowed his state certification to expire while he was employed with the district. He failed to fulfill guidelines to renew the certification as required by state law. His certification was reinstated in 2008.
He now comes into a district that has had its share of leadership issues in recent years.
Former Superintendent Steve Baule and other district officials were criticized for not involving parents in crucial decisions, such as closing South Elementary School in 2007. Residents whose children were in the special education program at Manning Elementary School also expressed concerns over why they were never inf...
In addition, district officials came under fire in 2009 for not releasing the superintendent’s contract until instructed to by the Illinois Supreme Court. Baule abruptly resigned in 2010.
District 201 School Board President Marie Charlton was the only member who voted against hiring Baldermann for the Westmont High School position. Charlton has not publicly said why she cast a dissenting vote, offering only that she trusts the process and hopes the board got it right.
But Charlton has long been an advocate for openness and ethical leadership at District 201. She was a member of an organization called A Better 201 before joining the School Board, a parents group that raised questions over various district decisions. Charlton has a history of keeping her eye on district operations and...
1) Second chances only come once.
2) Your contract is for one year.
The phasing out of the Bush administration’s tax cuts, changes in reporting of 1099 income, and tax increases related to the health care bill are just around the corner. Will these have a negative effect on the fledgling real estate recovery?
Regardless of where you stand politically, there are big changes coming that can have a significant impact on the real estate industry. The biggest challenge is that thousands of pages of legislation have been signed into law, but the rules and regulations that determine how the law is administered are still being writ...
For example, the health care bill changes how "miscellaneous income" is reported. The original bill seems to require anyone who purchases $600 or more of business products to issue a Form 1099-MISC to the company from whom they purchased the product. In other words, if I buy $600 of office supplies at Staples, I have t...
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on July 14, 2014, on page 5.
Lebanon will once again postpone the gas auction which was scheduled for Aug. 10 as some ministers expressed their dissatisfaction over the state's share stated in the decrees, insiders said.
But the ministerial committee designated to review the decrees has apparently agreed to open all the offshore 10 blocks for auction so the bidding oil companies can select one or two of these blocks.
Some of the ministers wondered why Israel, for example, has set higher royalty and taxes on the oil companies than Lebanon, claiming that the state is giving a making of unnecessary concession to the firms.
According to one of the decrees, royalties were set at 4 percent and oil between 5 to 12 percent, which is seen by some experts as far lower than the ceilings set by other countries which have invited oil companies to explore in its territorial waters.
Citing an example of other countries that set higher royalties and taxes on oil and gas revenues, the analysts stressed that Israel has an average royalty of 12.5 percent.
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Ripper Street: Season 2. Haunted by the failure to catch Londons most evil killer, Jack the Ripper, Inspector Edmund Reid is charged with keeping order in the blood-stained streets of Whitechapel, Reid and his men find themselves fighting to uphold justice and the rule of law; but always in the background lurks the fe...
Seven-year-old Baylor Fredrickson loves math, sports and Greek mythology. His mom says he’s “the sweetest boy you’ll ever meet.” But Baylor is also battling for his life. He has an acute form of leukemia, and he needs a bone marrow transplant to keep the blood cancer at bay.
Unfortunately for Baylor, that’s easier said than done. The second grader is half Japanese and half German, and in order to find a match, he needs a mixed race donor who is also Asian and Caucasian. But racially diverse bone marrow donors are hard to find. Just two percent of the people registered with the National Bon...
Finding a bone marrow match is even more difficult than finding a match for other types of organs. Seventy percent of patients can’t even find a match within their immediate family. That’s because all of the immune system’s cells come from bone marrow. So if a patient receives a transplant that isn’t a good enough gene...
Baylor isn’t the first mixed race American to struggle to find a blood marrow donor. Every year, over 30,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with potentially fatal blood diseases like leukemia. But as the country’s population becomes increasingly diverse — between 2000 and 2010, the number of Americans who co...
Now, advocacy groups like Mixed Marrow and Asians for Miracle Marrow Matches (A3M) are dedicated to reaching out to more racially diverse Americans to encourage them to donate. A3M conducts over 500 annual donor recruitment drives in the African American, Chinese, Japanese, Hispanic, Korean, Filipino, South Asian and V...
This isn’t the only example of racial disparities within the medical field. Clinical trials are overwhelmingly white, which prevents researchers from developing effective health treatments for diverse patients. For example, Asian patients suffering from lung cancer are more likely to possess a certain genetic mutation ...
Baylor’s family is doing everything they can to spread the word. They set up a Facebook page, and they’re holding donor registration drives in their California area this week. Baylor’s dad, Rob Fredrickson, told a local ABC affiliate that the seven-year-old understands it could be difficult to find a match. “He’s spoke...
Very sad. Good luck, Baylor.
The USA is a melting pot for all races. Medical science cannot keep up. We are similar but not the same.
I'll bet that most people who read this article wish they could help, I know I do. --This situation is certainly unfair and worry for millions of people. --I pray that a donor for Baylor will be located very soon and that they will be an exact match..
I can't imagine any kid and their family going through this. Best wishes to everyone in this situation.
Good luck Baylor, I sincerely hope you find your match soon.
Today, for your surfing pleasure and to buy Your Humble Blogger a little time to get her own students ready for a new school year, we offer links to items of interest, with annotations.
First, from ever-alert reader Ray Schoch, comes a terrific story in Slate about Michele Bachmann’s education philosophies and what they portend. Namely that the Republican right has catapulted right past education reform as an agenda item to a flat-out assault on schools.
Next, for anyone who has followed the back and forth over the state Department of Education’s efforts to close Blue Sky Online, an entirely virtual high school with a bricks-and-mortar office in West St. Paul, an update.
According to two articles in the Reading Eagle, there’s a remarkably similar tug-of-war unspooling in Reading, Pa. According to the paper (via Education Week, which seems to leave stories up longer), seven of that state’s 11 online schools failed to make the grade on standardized tests.
What’s interesting about this is that the arguments offered by the schools’ defenders are pretty much the same as those made by Blue Sky: Unlike traditional schools, online programs attract students who don’t fit in elsewhere. While some are high-fliers, a disproportionate number have issues that make it impossible for...
Also problematic, they are comparably expensive, which you might not think if you assume, as most people wrongly do at first, that doing away with the classroom creates big efficiencies.
Dr. Jim Hanak, CEO of Pennsylvania Leadership Cyber Charter School, “also said cybercharters are impacted by the types of students who choose to attend. For the most part, he said, they are either the top performers or the bottom.
“Hanak said he believes the increasing pressure of [Pennsylvania’s version of the No Child Left Behind tests] is leading some districts to push their struggling students to cybercharters.
Crazier allegations have been launched. Pennsylvania is one of a number of places where ranking school administrators are suspected of encouraging teachers to alter test scores to cope with the dramatic increase in pressure as it becomes harder for even great schools to pass muster under the terms of NCLB, which Congre...
Blue Sky’s leaders have argued that the school serves lots of kids who would simply drop out if they couldn’t attend class on the Internet. Among them are young people with serious mental illnesses, kids who live in hamlets far from corporeal schools, bullying victims, single parents and kids who, because they already ...
It’s a compelling argument, and one I was prepared to reiterate after spending half a day attending school “at” Blue Sky earlier this year.
And yet the truly worthwhile take away from the failure that is NCLB is that it is time to stop arguing that circumstance prevents certain kids from achieving. Criticize all you want, but would we allow a school or a district to argue that its kids should get a pass because they are poor? Minorities? Learning English?
I offer the comment thread for those of you who wish to talk amongst yourselves.
In any case, Blue Sky reports that its day in court — the hearing it sued to win before a state administrative law judge, which was postponed in June at DoE’s request — has now been scheduled for Sept. 26, 27 and 28. MDE gets the first day, BlueSky gets the second day, and the school’s charter authorizer gets the third...
“We feel like it is unfortunate, though, that MDE is unwilling to allow us additional time to work something out with another district such as West St. Paul,” which had considered taking Blue Sky on as a mainline public school.
Finally, the University of Minnesota reports that it has spent $1.5 million on new cleaning equipment, which will pay for itself in four to six months and then save the U $3.1 million per year in custodial expenses. There will be 52 fewer staff positions, but no involuntary layoffs.
One change will be that the cleaning of U facilities will be organized by task, not by physical area. This has caused the union that represents the custodians to lament that they will be robbed of pride of ownership. The union has filed a grievance.
This Woman Stumbled into a 'Hobo Parsnip' Plant. Days Later, Her Legs Were Severely Burned.
When plants fight back, the results can be pretty painful.
More Pregnant Women Are Having Heart Attacks. But Why?
Women who are pregnant may not spend much time worrying about their own hearts, but a new study suggests they should.
It's not the type of garnish you want on your salmon: a translucent, wriggling worm.
Does Eating Beef Jerky Cause Psychiatric Symptoms? Not So Fast.
A new study makes some alarming claims about a relationship between cured meat consumption and bipolar mania, but a lot more research is necessary.
The director of the largest U.S. public health agency reveals he has a personal reason for fighting the opioid epidemic.
Could gene editing be used to cut out harmful genes in human embryos?
The recent spike in oil prices and unemployment is dramatically changing this presidential campaign — virtually overnight. The near $20 jump in oil to $140 a barrel, the unexpected half-point increase in the jobless rate to 5.5 percent (the biggest monthly increase in 20 years), and the resulting 400-point plunge in st...
In fact, it’s all about oil right now. The price has doubled over the past year while the economy has slumped.
#ad#But here’s an eye opener. Recent polling data from Gallup show the percentage of voters blaming oil companies for skyrocketing gasoline prices has dropped from 34 percent to 20 percent over the past year. At the same time, support for more drilling in U.S. coastal and wilderness areas has increased to 57 percent fr...
Obama continues to lambaste oil companies while congressional Democrats push for cap-and-trade. They’re missing the point, big time. The public wants more energy and more fuel to cut high prices and spur economic growth. But the costly cap-and-trade plan would produce less fuel and less growth. It would only raise gas ...
Sen. McCain has an opening here. Yet he, like Obama, would have voted for cap-and-trade, which went down to defeat in last week’s Senate vote. And while Mr. McCain favors some off-shore production and has been strong on nuclear development, he is against drilling in ANWR Alaska.
Then there’s the oil nobody is talking about. The Bakken fields beneath North Dakota, Montana, and Canada hold an estimated 400 billion barrels of oil. In comparison, Saudi Arabia’s biggest field, Gahawar, has an estimated 55 billion barrels, while ANWR has an estimated 10.4 billion barrels.
Hat tip to Mark Perry at the Carpe Diem blog site for these figures. Perry also is reporting a Bureau of Land Management study showing 279 million acres under federal management where oil and gas could potentially be extracted. But more than half of this is totally off limits. Off-shore, where another 86 billion barrel...
The U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of coal, but we can’t produce. We’re still the world’s third-largest oil producer, but we could be the Saudi Arabia of oil if our companies were free to drill. Oil CEOs like Rex Tillerson of ExxonMobil and David O’Reilly of Chevron keep saying this. But politicians aren’t heeding their mess...
Israeli saber-rattling against Iran could have accounted for some of last week’s huge oil spike. And the unemployment story may not be as bad as the May jobs report suggests. An unexpected inflow of teenagers probably bloated the jobless figure by a couple tenths of 1 percent. And economist Jerry Bowyer points out that...
More oil, more jobs, better wages, and low inflation. That’s a winning GOP message this fall. But what if Sen. Obama gets there first? It’s unlikely, but not out of the question. Either way, voters will move to the candidate who connects with their worries. Right now those worries are up for grabs.
New England bases company Monument Conservation Collaborative works to restore damaged headstone in historic St. Michael’s Cemetery.

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