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“Shackling and chaining a pregnant prisoner while she is in labor violates the Constitution, and transporting her across Missouri in shackles and chains is beyond callous,” said her attorney Anthony Rothert, legal director of the ACLU of Missouri.
“Not only is it cruel and unusual punishment, it jeopardizes the health of both mother and baby,” said Rothert.
Jackson County Detention Center did not respond to a request for comment.
Riedel seeks punitive damages for constitutional violations, negligence, failure to train and supervise, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Meighan Stone visits Whitney Kohdek, a student in Nairobi, Kenya, who studies at Nairobits, a tech training program for marginalized girlsin August 2016.
Malin Fezehai for the Malala Fund.
Ahead of two major summits about the global refugee crisis this week, Malala Fund President Meighan Stone said she wants world leaders to match the resolve of the young refugees with whom she works.
The Malala Fund—founded by Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for going to school in Pakistan when she was 15—aims to ensure that all girls receive an education. As the Syrian refugee crisis has developed, advocating for the country’s young refugees has become one of the organization’s top priori...
In an interview after her panel discussion at the Social Good Summit on Sunday, Motto spoke with Stone about her work and her expectations for the refugee summits hosted by the United Nations and President Barack Obama on Monday and Tuesday, respectively.
Motto: What do you hope will be the outcome of the summits?
Stone: The risk this week is not achieving world change for refugees globally and particularly for girls who want an education. There are many summits, there are many commitments. Oftentimes they’re not binding. Oftentimes countries will make commitments, and they don’t actually then deliver the funds fully or in a tim...
Motto: What kind of action would you like to see from U.S. leaders in particular?
Stone: We see with President Obama a real commitment to this issue. It’ll be vital that, whatever the outcome of this presidential election, that that president decides to prioritize this response because we live in a really unstable world right now, and either we can play a short-term game and lose in the long term, o...
Motto: How will the refugees who work with the Malala Fund play a role this week?
Stone: We take our example at the Malala Fund from Malala, herself, and she believes, in the most forthright way possible, that the only way to change girls’ education is for girls to actually have a seat at the table. The only way that we’re going to have full funding and policies that work is if we listen to them. Fo...
Motto: According to a recent report by the Malala Fund, nearly 80% of adolescent refugees are now out of school. Is there a way for you to characterize the impact that is having on this generation?
Stone: People talk about having a lost generation of Syrians, and it’s happening. It’s happening right in front of us. And leaders, everyday people around the world, have a choice: either to take action or to continue to let this unfold with tragic consequences. But the opportunity to help these young people—to help re...
Motto: Is there a specific part of this global problem that is most important to tackle?
Stone: Full funding of refugee education, particularly for girls, is needed, and we want leaders to take action, but the data piece is really vital as well. If we say that girls count, we actually have to count girls. A lot of times, countries aren’t even keeping good data on what’s happening with refugees or migrants ...
Motto: Beyond political leaders, what should people in the U.S. be doing to respond to the crisis?
Stone: I think we have a really great example in Canada of what leadership can do, where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that Canada’s arms are open to welcome refugees. You hear about Canadian families who are on waiting lists to sponsor or host Syrian refugee families. In the United States right now, we have a...
National Outdoor Retailer REI to Open Flagship in Historic Uline Arena in Washington, D.C.
Today, lovers of the outdoors learned that the country’s largest consumer co-op and specialty outdoor retailer, REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.), will open its fifth flagship store in late 2016 at the site chosen by President Eisenhower for his inaugural ball and by the Beatles for their first concert in the U.S. The...
The new REI will be a place to inspire, educate and outfit people who want to live more of their lives outside no matter their skill level or outdoor interest. It is being designed collaboratively. Representatives from the outdoor community are spending time together Wednesday evening to preview and discuss emerging pl...
REI will enhance its retail experience by introducing new design concepts in how products, services and educational programs are presented. The store will bring 150 new jobs to the local community.
The new flagship will be more than 51,000 square feet and offer the top and emerging brands for camping, climbing, cycling, fitness, hiking, paddling, snow sports and travel. Bike, ski, and snowboard shops will provide expert assembly and repairs, while a rental department will serve those who need equipment for a week...
Steps away from Union Station in the NoMa neighborhood and easy access from the Metro’s red line or by bike, REI’s flagship will occupy the first floor of the Uline Arena. The building is undergoing a significant renovation led by Douglas Development. As the retailer’s fifth flagship in the country, it will join others...
REI has served the outdoor community in the D.C./Baltimore area since 1987. Once open, the flagship will join eight other stores in the region that serve more than 281,000 REI members – the highest concentration on the east coast. Anyone may shop with REI, but members pay a one-time $20 fee and receive a share in the c...
Anyone who loves the outdoors can come to the co-op to learn with the local REI Outdoor School. Last year, REI educated 11,219 participants in the region and nearly 200,000 people across the country. The flagship will build on the region’s already robust schedule of free and low-cost in-store classes, field programs an...
Wherever REI has a presence, the co-op partners with nonprofit organizations that care for the places where its members play. Across the Washington, D.C. region, the company is proud to have strong relationships with local and nationally-based nonprofits. Last year, REI granted $4.6 million to over 300 local and nation...
Uline Arena, also known as Washington Coliseum and The Arena, has a rich history. Opening in 1931 as the M.J. Ice Company, its success allowed Miguel Uline to construct an adjacent 8,000 seat arena. President Eisenhower hosted his first inaugural ball at the site in 1953, and professional hockey and basketball teams en...
REI is a $2 billion national retail co-op headquartered outside of Seattle. With more than five million active members, REI serves the needs of outdoor adventurers through innovative, quality products; inspiring classes and trips; and integrated customer service that allows shoppers to buy great gear and clothing in an...
A heads up for all you late filers!
Monday, April 15 is the last day to file your individual tax return and pay any taxes due.
However, the IRS doesn't allow extensions if you owe. Filing for an extension if free.
Due to the declining numbers of tax payers that file online, Hawaii post offices will NOT offer extended hours on tax day. If you are planning on filing through the mail, the Honolulu main post office near the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport will be the only one open late, but only until 8:00 p.m.
Vas Narasimhan is still keen to shake up Novartis AG after orchestrating more than $50 billion of deals in his first year at the helm of the pharmaceutical giant, and he has the firepower to do it.
With plans to spend more than $10 billion a year on acquisitions, Big Pharma’s youngest boss is hunting for partnerships to develop groundbreaking gene therapies. He’s also weighing sales of Sandoz assets in Asia and emerging markets amid speculation about the fate of the overall generic-drugs business.
His flurry of opening moves — spinning off the Alcon eye-care division, ditching a stake in a consumer-health venture and three key acquisitions — have added up to a seismic shift at Europe’s largest drugmaker by market value. Since taking over early last year, Narasimhan has sharpened Novartis’s focus on competing wit...
The pressure is on to deliver. Novartis needs new products, like the experimental gene therapy Zolgensma, as the expiring patents of blockbusters like cancer drug Gleevec and multiple sclerosis treatment Gilenya are expected to hurt sales. Pushback from insurers and governments to limit price increases and escalating d...
A Bronx councilman wants to institute a donation system help out low-income commuters pay for their ever-increasing MetroCard fares.
Councilman Fernando Cabrera introduced a resolution in the City Council last week that would call for the MTA to create the infrastructure that would allow for MetroCard purchasers to make voluntary monetary contributions to a fund for low-income New Yorkers in need of swipes. It also requests for the authority to crea...
Transit advocates have long fought for reduced fares for poor New Yorkers. Most recently, the Riders Alliance and the Community Service Society teamed up for a joint report this April, highlighting inequities in the MTA’s current fare structure and the financial burden the cost of commuting has on low-income families.
As it stands, those who can afford a monthly MetroCard upfront see the biggest fare discount—leaving money-saving policies out of the reach of poorer riders, advocates say.
The resolution comes as the MTA prepares to raise its fares again in 2017.
Danna Dennis, a home health aide and aspiring plumber from Crown Heights, says juggling her bills with the cost of commuting to school and work—both full-time responsibilities—has left her with empty pockets on several occasions.
Rankin said she appreciated the thought of Cabrera’s resolution, but both her and Dennis said that a systemic discount, not one based on charity, would be optimal.
German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder warned Thursday against an attack on Iraq, saying it could destroy the international coalition against terrorism.
In the last few days, members of Germany's Social Democratic and environmentalist government coalition have indicated Germany will not take part in an attack on Iraq, even if there is a United Nations mandate for a war against the country.
Now Chancellor Schroeder and his foreign minister Joschka Fischer have gone even further.
In an article in the popular daily newspaper Bild, Mr. Schroeder wrote he is warning against war with Iraq, saying it would set back the war against terrorism. War with Iraq, he wrote, would not be thought of as defensive, and that could destroy the international coalition against terrorism.
"The Middle East," in the chancellor's words "needs peace, not new war."
Foreign Minister Fischer took up the same theme in an interview with another daily newspaper, the respected Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
He said the United States might have the military means to force a change of regime in Iraq, but questioned whether its leaders understand the risks. He warned of a political and miltary upheaval in the Middle East that could force the United States to maintain a presence in the region for decades.
The two men's stance comes in advance of federal elections next month and they may be consciously tapping a popular anti-war mood among German voters.
But they are also taking a line that others in Europe may also favor. Only last month, Mr. Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac jointly stated they would insist on United Nations approval for any attack on Iraq. And in Italy and Spain too, senior officials have voiced their reservations.
As departing Official Languages Commissioner Graham Fraser reminds us, it is up to anglophones to speak up.
For members of linguistic minorities, trying to assert their rightful place in the wider community can feel like trying to run up the down escalator: stop, and they will go backward.
Graham Fraser invoked the image during a meeting last week with the Montreal Gazette editorial board as he prepares to wind up 10 years as federal commissioner of official languages — an office he’s served with honour and distinction.
It’s difficult and delicate work. In general terms, the commissioner’s mandate is to ensure the equality of Canada’s two official languages, and protect its English and French minority communities. The job carries influence, Fraser noted, but no powers of enforcement.
Still, he has been up to the task, and well-suited for it, too. Born in Ottawa, he had a distinguished career as a journalist in both languages, including a spell at the Gazette, and wrote a book about bilingualism in Canada before his appointment by the Harper government in 2006.
In his work as commissioner, he has called attention to deficiencies in services provided to linguistic minorities across the country, as well as to other threats to the welfare of minority-language communities. Most recently, he reported on Air Canada’s continued lapses in providing French-language services.
However, Fraser, who lived in Quebec City for seven years, has not forgotten anglophone Quebecers. For example, he has called for the Quebec provincial government to create a bureau of anglophone affairs, like some other provinces have for francophones. Such a body would, with any luck, help make the government more aw...
As Fraser reminds us, it is up to anglophones to speak up. Majorities everywhere are not naturally sensitive to the plight of minorities, he notes; they need to have minority concerns drawn to their attention, as was the case with Quebec’s Bill 10 health reorganization and the now-withdrawn Bill 86 on school board gove...
While English-speaking Quebecers are often called Canada’s best-treated minority, Fraser has noted the community does not owe its institutions to “the generosity of the majority.” These are institutions that the community itself has built, and which continue to contribute to the community’s vitality.
Fraser notes that the anglophone presence in Quebec is no longer declining; as many anglophones are arriving as are leaving.
There is every reason to believe that anglophone Quebecers can continue to flourish. Indeed, the vigour with which recent battles, including over Bill 86, have been fought bodes well for the future of Quebec’s English-speaking communities, both in Montreal and in the regions.
Our modern world seems increasingly obsessed with happiness, and like any fashionable item people are scrambling to obtain it. However, the only thing standing between us and happiness is our own damaging points of view.
A whole lot of people learn unhappiness from their family. We are handed a point of view at a young age; we are programed by our parents and our schoolmates to believe certain things. Many of us then function as if those points of view are true and this limits our capacity for happiness.
One of the points of view we inherit is that “You’re not doing life right, unless you’re struggling.” In believing this to be true, we actually make happiness wrong.
If you walk into a room beaming with joy and brimming with happiness, people around you are likely to say “Geez. What are you on today?” They make your happiness wrong. In this way, you learn to make the struggle – or the appearance of struggle – more valuable to you than happiness.
I also know that a lot of unhappiness is caused when people choose being right over being happy.
Being right causes you to feel triumphant, but this is not happiness. One of the things I try to get people to recognize is that nobody makes you happy, and nobody makes you unhappy. You are the creator of your own life.
The trick to happiness is to bypass the points of view that cause you to devalue happiness. “f you have no projections, expectations, separations, judgments, and rejections, you can actually be happy!
Judgment is any fixed point of view that someone or something has to be a certain way. Separation occurs once you do a judgment of any kind. You separate yourself from the person or thing you judge — even if it’s you. Rejection is dismissing or refusing something.
Give up the need to be right: You don’t need to score points against someone else to feel good. Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy?
Watch your language: Guess what will happen if you say, “Nothing good will happen to me,” “I’m not the type of person who is meant to be happy.” What you say becomes so.
Ask a question: We get locked into our points of view – about our conclusions about the world, other people, ourselves. Asking questions like “What else is possible?” or “What’s right about this I’m not getting?” gets you out of conclusion and being stuck in the cycle of it’s never going to work, life is bad, etc.
Let everything be “an interesting point of view”: Don’t align and agree with how you perceive the world to be. Don’t resist and react to it. Just allow it to be what it is – an interesting point of view.
A star-studded concert featuring Gary Barlow will raise money for three Derbyshire charities.
The line-up at Sheffield City Hall includes the Take That star, musical theatre sensation Alfie Boe and pop legends S Club 7.
The March 29 concert will raise funds for Blythe House Hospicecare, Ashgate Hospicecare and Helen’s Trust.
Sheffield composer and record producer Eliot Kennedy – who is hosting the concert to celebrate his 50th birthday – said: "I want this to be a celebration of the incredible work of these hospices and the remarkable nurses who offer light, kindness and dignity at a time we need it most. I can’t think of a better gift for...
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Friends and family gathered Saturday to remember one of the victims of last year's building explosion in East Harlem.
The event, which was held at Bethel Gospel Assembly in East Harlem, commemorates one year since the death of Griselde Camacho.
Camacho was a public safety officer at Hunter College and was the 2009 campus peace officer of the year.
Friends remembered her as a leader in the community.
"She was a born leader. She wanted us to always do what she wanted us to do, but she was all ways there to help us in any form," one woman said.
"She served everybody, made everybody come together, increased fellowship. She loved being around people and watching them enjoy each other," said one man.
Camacho leaves behind a 15-year-old son. Her mother was also badly injured in the explosion.
A police van on a 999 call was involved in a crash which left one officer injured.
The police van came off the road when it collided with a car and smashed into a hedge outside Meriden Business Park, just off the A45.
A spokesperson for West Midlands Police said: "Police responding to an emergency call have been involved in a collision on Birmingham Road, Coventry at around 8.30am this morning (7 August).
"A police van collided with a car and then a hedge, resulting in a post going through the windscreen.
"The driver of the car was unhurt and a female officer was taken to hospital to be treated for whiplash injuries."
Photos of the abandoned van show the windscreen is smashed and the airbag deployed.
The near-side sliding door is scraped and dented, the front bumper and wing have come off and at least two of the tyres have come off the rims.
West Midlands Police said the incident had not been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).
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