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On the deadlift I feel like I'm pushing against the floor more than I am pulling up on the bar. I also really feel it in my forearms, holding onto the bar is a bit of a struggle. |
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Occupy protesters, conservatives clash at CPAC conference |
A brief altercation broke out between Occupy Wall Street protesters and conservative activists at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday. |
A group of Occupy protesters who infiltrated the hotel by registering and paying for the conference blocked a television screen where an overflow crowd was watching Mitt Romney address the convention, their mouths taped over to symbolize being silenced. |
There was a brief clash between the protesters and conference-goers, who booed and yelled while shoving them out of the way. Security was summoned to the scene and escorted out the protesters, to the applause and cheering of the conservative activists. |
"Occupy a job," they shouted. |
No one appeared to be seriously injured. |
Outside the conference, hundreds of protesters were blocking the street in front of the hotel, sitting in the road, chanting and drumming. A heavy law enforcement presence is on hand, and police were warning both protesters and journalists that they would be arrested if they ventured onto private property. |
The protesters appear to be mostly union-organized, carrying banners signifying public worker unions, an elevator mechanics union and a steel workers union. They have erected a giant inflated "fat cat," dressed in a suit, strangling a gangly man. A group of men dressed in baseball uniforms have lined themselves in fron... |
Unlike other Occupy protests that have taken place in Washington, D.C., and across the country, there appears to be deep racial undertones to the one taking place at CPAC. About a hundred African-Americans gathered around a man standing on an upside-down recycling bin while he shouted about ancestry into a megaphone an... |
At the entrance to the hotel, CPAC attendees stood gaping at the crowd below and taking photographs on smartphones. |
Protesters outside CPAC |
But critics accused McGuigan of overreaching and empire-building. He became embroiled in a bitter feud with state police and came under fire for his handling of bribery allegations against a state prosecutor. In 1985, the legislature transferred the authority to appoint the chief state's attorney from the chief justice... |
``When McGuigan was chief state's attorney there was a lot going on,'' the Twardy colleague said. ``But after McGuigan, everything was just completely closed down. There was a real feeling among federal people that the state had no appetite for it. Not only did the state have no appetite for it, but there was a fear th... |
Twardy made plans for an anti-corruption campaign and obtained the backing of the state's FBI and Internal Revenue Service offices. The first target was former Danbury Mayor James Dyer, who was indicted on evidence provided, in part, by a banker who was persuaded to cooperate with investigators. But the case collapsed.... |
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Twardy sent a federal law enforcement team to a corruption seminar and, within months, was back in business. Based on independent informant tips to FBI and IRS agents, a collaborative investigation began into the administration of Waterbury Mayor Joseph Santopietro, then the youngest mayor in state history. In April 19... |
In Santopietro, federal authorities showed -- when measured against offices elsewhere in the country -- an early mastery of the complicated racketeering and criminal conspiracy laws that form the legal framework of financial corruption cases. And they began to benefit from a truism of political prosecutions: When voter... |
``There certainly is an incremental learning curve and an incremental public acceptance and public confidence curve that you have to surmount,'' said Leonard Boyle, a former federal prosecutor recently appointed to be the state's commissioner of public safety. ``Once that happens, then these things do tend to come more... |
Kevin J. O'Connor, Connecticut's current U.S. attorney, said: ``What has happened in Connecticut is that we have developed the experience and the expertise. And we have used that to uncover what was a much bigger problem than we might have initially thought 10 years ago.'' |
Public corruption now is the FBI's top criminal priority nationally and locally, and consumes a proportionately large share of bureau resources. The bureau's success in Connecticut has made the state operation a national model, Swecker said. |
Wolf, who manages the Connecticut division, called the investigation leading to the conviction and imprisonment in 2003 of Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim emblematic of the bureau's commitment to investigations that usually are long, complicated and, when successful, result in a relatively small number of hard-fought con... |
The Ganim case stretched over five years. Agents spent 20 months tapping nine telephone lines, a labor-intensive activity that siphoned personnel from other assignments. Wolf would not say how many agents worked on the Ganim case. But he said the work was justified, even in a small division with 110 agents. |
``The core of our system of government rests solidly on a foundation of trust and confidence that elected officials will represent the public and its interests,'' Wolf said. ``When an official comes to the crossroad of integrity, when they choose to serve themselves over those who elected them, the system crumbles.'' |
A continuing federal commitment to fighting political crime is necessary in Connecticut, according to O'Connor, Wolf and others, because state authorities have been hamstrung by changes in state criminal law dating to McGuigan's removal from office in the mid-1980s. Among other things, the changes have made it difficul... |
State prosecutors have pleaded for the establishment of a workable grand jury law in Connecticut for years, but have been rebuffed repeatedly by the state legislature. |
``In this state, authorities have not been afforded the tools,'' Wolf said. ``That presents difficulties in addressing public corruption and other types of cases. We do not have those tools in our box.'' |
Some observers also believe the state's ability to police its own politics may be weakened by the system under which state prosecutors and senior police officials are appointed. |
``The problem in Connecticut is, in the past there has been a cozy relationship between the government and the people who ought to be regulating or investigating them,'' McGuigan said. |
Connecticut's current top prosecutor, Chief State's Attorney Christopher Morano, disagreed, saying his appointment by the state Criminal Justice Commission insulates him from politics. He said his relationship with the governor's office and other influential political figures is ``professional.'' |
``I haven't hesitated to attempt to step up and initiate investigations,'' Morano said. ``But for a request by federal authorities in the Rowland matter, we would have done that case.'' |
The lack of a workable grand jury system in Connecticut is far more harmful to the state's efforts to fight corruption than the method of prosecutorial appointments, Morano said. State law allows for the empaneling of a form of investigatory grand jury, but Morano said that the law is difficult to use and that the stat... |
``When I go to the legislature, as soon as I mention public corruption their eyes glaze over,'' Morano said. ``They don't want to hear about it. But I am still determined. Despite the lack of tools and the lack of money, we are going to continue doing things. You can't expect us to build a sky scraper with a butter kni... |
One of the most successful state prosecutors, Waterbury State's Attorney John Connelly, believes the current division of labor between federal and state authorities -- federal prosecution of complicated, financial crime and state prosecution of hundreds of thousands of other crimes running from traffic offenses to murd... |
``I think the two work together well,'' Connelly said. |
A far more intriguing question, according to Wolf, is how many more photographs of politicians being led in chains to jail must be published before corruption ceases to regularly make the headlines in Connecticut. |
``What is most troubling to me,'' Wolf said, ``is that even with all these initiatives, we are not effectively serving as a deterrent. It is not deterring people from such activities.'' |
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• Summary: This documentary aims to show the industrial production of food as a reflection of our society's values: plenty of everything, made as quickly and as efficiently as modern technology permits. (First Run/Icarus) |
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Despite this lack of narration, Our Daily Bread never fails to enthrall because of the impeccable eye -- for composition, for color, for movement within the frame -- of filmmaker Geyrhalter. |
2. Nikolaus Geyrhalter's superb documentary is an unblinking, often disturbing look at industrial food production from field to factory. |
3. What the activist drama "Fast Food Nation" does with talk and the aid of movie stars, Our Daily Bread, a riveting documentary by Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter, does even better, with no voice-over and barely a word spoken by the unidentified workers involved in matter-of-fact killing and harvesting. |
4. Reviewed by: Leslie Felperin |
Looks at the agricultural industry across Europe through sound and images alone. Pic offers a tabula rasa in which some auds will see a horrifying indictment of the industry's cruelties, others a realistic depiction of mechanized farming, and some a soft-spoken tribute to manual labor. Meanwhile, precisely composed... |
5. An eye-opener that handles its themes in a refreshingly nonexploitative manner. |
6. 75 |
A thought-provoking documentary that would go well on a double bill with Richard Linklater's fictional "Fast Food Nation." |
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The non-sensationalized "this is what really happens" approach makes Our Daily Bread extra-creepy at times. |
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The film espies the whole process of food production before it's served in front of our table. It's a genuine film, probably too genuine that I am now decided not to eat meat anymore. Expand |
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A stark and meditative look at the industry of European food production. The pace of the film imitates the mechanistic, sterile, cold process the harvest has become in today's alienated world. The viewer is allowed ample opportunity to ponder the question: when living under a system that makes every head of lettuce... |
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Ningbo protests against growth at any cost |
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 30 October, 2012, 12:00am |
UPDATED : Tuesday, 30 October, 2012, 3:04am |
China's days of pursuing growth above all else are over. Protest upon protest over industrial projects that citizens see as damaging to health and the environment make that plain; people are no longer willing to put up with pollution and the consequences. Officials in the eastern city of Ningbo in Zhejiang province sho... |
It would seem a victory for protesters, but not all residents see it that way. Authorities ignored weeks of petitioning against expansion of the plant, operated by oil and gas giant Sinopec, and sent in riot police with tear gas when demonstrators refused to end a thousands-strong rally. People were injured, arrests ma... |
Ningbo's government was well aware of the consequences of not letting residents have a say in their community. In July, a planned metals processing plant in the Sichuan city of Shifang and an industrial waste-water pipeline in Qidong, Jiangsu, were scrapped after thousands took to the streets. The ball was set rolling ... |
Beijing has lowered growth expectations, which will help lessen pressure on the environment. Authorities realise the need to move towards a system where citizens are able to have a say in matters that affect their lives. But as the examples from Ningbo and elsewhere show, the message for transparency and public consult... |
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