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Proposed 'veterans court' may not reach those who need it most
"I saw a kid (a soldier) get shot in the face. He died right in front of me," Smith said. "It wasn't even in battle. We were just standing around and somebody's gun went off. explosion.
"It was in a convoy. We passed over the spot and the kid was behind us."
Then there was a kid who was really a kid. An Iraqi child "with half his face blown off. That really hit me hard necklace Hermes copy because I had two little girls at home,'' Smith said.
Gregory Bowles was a kid himself when he joined the Marines right after high school during the Vietnam War , following in the footsteps of an uncle who fought in World War II and Korea.
"I'd see him in those dress blues and thought, man, that's it," Bowles said. "Nobody tells you about the other stuff."
The other stuff for Bowles was dragging body parts and body bags out of the bush outside of Saigon and Da Nang during the American evacuation.
"I'd never seen a dead body before that," Bowles said.
A member of his detail went missing and was found dead, barb wired to a tree with a punji stake in his chest.
"There was a note. It said 'Americans Go Home,'" Bowles said.
Two servicemen. Two wars. Gregory Bowles is 67 now and has been wrestling with his post war "demons" for 42 years. Jamie Smith is 47 and has been at it for 10.
But their symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder are hauntingly similar. Unexplained anger. Sleeplessness. A gnawing unease that could only be quieted with drugs first prescribed, then otherwise. Next came the arrests. And job loss. And the alienation of loved ones, the homelessness. The spiral down that led to desperation. Crime.
Both have multiple drug offenses. Bowles also has a conviction of robbery by force and Smith was Hermes replica necklace charged with domestic violence. Both have been in jail and housing for homeless veterans.
A bill being voted on next week by the state Senate will create a "Veteran's Treatment Court Pilot Program." The bill, sponsored by Sen. Jeff Van Drew (D 1st District) and Sen. Diane Allen (R 7th District) will help troubled veterans who are arrested for minor offenses skirt the regular judicial system and instead get the counseling, healthcare and other assistance they need.
An Assembly bill, which cartier earrings replica was passed a month ago and had six bi partisan sponsors, shares the exact language as the Senate bill.
"We can't have these people who served and sacrificed for us sitting in jail cells," Van Drew said. "Their problems are a cry for help. We want to get them the proper care and counseling and get them on the right track."
The bill establishes a three year program to divert "nonviolent offenders" who served in wars "away from the criminal justice system and into appropriate treatment" for drugs and alcohol abuse and mental health issues.
Under that language, however, veterans such as Smith and Bowles would not be eligible.
"While I applaud the effort, which is long overdue, the bill leaves too many veterans out," said Thomas Roughneen, the leading attorney at Citizen Soldier Law, a Chatham practice that specializes in helping veterans and military personnel.
"The awful truth is that many of these people have offenses that are violent or serious, and they are the ones who need help the most," said Roughneen, who is a lieutenant colonel in the New Jersey Army National Guard and an Iraq War veteran.
"Domestic violence is more prevalent than we think among these veterans and it is the start of their downward spiral," he said.
To prove his point, he introduced the cases of Smith and Bowles, neither of whom would have been eligible for the replica Hermes yellow gold necklace new program, as examples of why the program should be expanded to include veterans who might fall outside the criteria, on a case by case basis.
"Their problems all stem from the service," Roughneen said. "The men who went off to serve their country were not the men who came home. Their families want them to get treatment, not thrown in jail."
Roughneen has a letter from Smith's estranged wife, Lisa, to the court after he was charged with drug possession in 2016 which said in part, "It's sad to watch a man you love so much change into someone you can't be around. It's heartbreaking . all we ever wanted was treatment for Jamie."
He admits making threats but said he never struck or manhandled his wife, a statement supported by his wife's letter.
Bowles, who grew up in Elizabeth, said he came from a "law and order family. My father was a city cop. We were on the straight and narrow. I never even smoked a joint before the Marines."
"I saw a kid (a soldier) get shot in the face. He died right in front of me," Smith said. "It wasn't even in battle. We were just standing around and somebody's gun went off. explosion.
"It was in a convoy. We passed over the spot and the kid was behind us."
Then there was a kid who was really a kid. An Iraqi child "with half his face blown off. That really hit me hard necklace Hermes copy because I had two little girls at home,'' Smith said.
Gregory Bowles was a kid himself when he joined the Marines right after high school during the Vietnam War , following in the footsteps of an uncle who fought in World War II and Korea.
"I'd see him in those dress blues and thought, man, that's it," Bowles said. "Nobody tells you about the other stuff."
The other stuff for Bowles was dragging body parts and body bags out of the bush outside of Saigon and Da Nang during the American evacuation.
"I'd never seen a dead body before that," Bowles said.
A member of his detail went missing and was found dead, barb wired to a tree with a punji stake in his chest.
"There was a note. It said 'Americans Go Home,'" Bowles said.
Two servicemen. Two wars. Gregory Bowles is 67 now and has been wrestling with his post war "demons" for 42 years. Jamie Smith is 47 and has been at it for 10.
But their symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder are hauntingly similar. Unexplained anger. Sleeplessness. A gnawing unease that could only be quieted with drugs first prescribed, then otherwise. Next came the arrests. And job loss. And the alienation of loved ones, the homelessness. The spiral down that led to desperation. Crime.
Both have multiple drug offenses. Bowles also has a conviction of robbery by force and Smith was Hermes replica necklace charged with domestic violence. Both have been in jail and housing for homeless veterans.
A bill being voted on next week by the state Senate will create a "Veteran's Treatment Court Pilot Program." The bill, sponsored by Sen. Jeff Van Drew (D 1st District) and Sen. Diane Allen (R 7th District) will help troubled veterans who are arrested for minor offenses skirt the regular judicial system and instead get the counseling, healthcare and other assistance they need.
An Assembly bill, which cartier earrings replica was passed a month ago and had six bi partisan sponsors, shares the exact language as the Senate bill.
"We can't have these people who served and sacrificed for us sitting in jail cells," Van Drew said. "Their problems are a cry for help. We want to get them the proper care and counseling and get them on the right track."
The bill establishes a three year program to divert "nonviolent offenders" who served in wars "away from the criminal justice system and into appropriate treatment" for drugs and alcohol abuse and mental health issues.
Under that language, however, veterans such as Smith and Bowles would not be eligible.
"While I applaud the effort, which is long overdue, the bill leaves too many veterans out," said Thomas Roughneen, the leading attorney at Citizen Soldier Law, a Chatham practice that specializes in helping veterans and military personnel.
"The awful truth is that many of these people have offenses that are violent or serious, and they are the ones who need help the most," said Roughneen, who is a lieutenant colonel in the New Jersey Army National Guard and an Iraq War veteran.
"Domestic violence is more prevalent than we think among these veterans and it is the start of their downward spiral," he said.
To prove his point, he introduced the cases of Smith and Bowles, neither of whom would have been eligible for the replica Hermes yellow gold necklace new program, as examples of why the program should be expanded to include veterans who might fall outside the criteria, on a case by case basis.
"Their problems all stem from the service," Roughneen said. "The men who went off to serve their country were not the men who came home. Their families want them to get treatment, not thrown in jail."
Roughneen has a letter from Smith's estranged wife, Lisa, to the court after he was charged with drug possession in 2016 which said in part, "It's sad to watch a man you love so much change into someone you can't be around. It's heartbreaking . all we ever wanted was treatment for Jamie."
He admits making threats but said he never struck or manhandled his wife, a statement supported by his wife's letter.
Bowles, who grew up in Elizabeth, said he came from a "law and order family. My father was a city cop. We were on the straight and narrow. I never even smoked a joint before the Marines."
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Quantifying Wikipedia Usage Patterns Before Stock Market Moves
AbstractFinancial crises result from a catastrophic combination of actions. Vast stock market datasets offer us a window into some of the actions that have led to these crises. Here, we investigate whether data generated through Internet usage contain traces of attempts to gather information before trading decisions were taken. We present evidence in line with the intriguing suggestion that data on changes in how often financially related Wikipedia pages were viewed may have contained early signs of stock market moves. Our results suggest that online data may allow us to gain new insight into early information gathering stages of decision making.IntroductionThe complex behaviour of our society emerges from decisions made by many individuals. In certain combinations, these numerous decisions can lead to sudden catastrophe, as demonstrated during crowd disasters and financial crises. Stock market data provide extremely detailed records of decisions that traders have made, in an area in which disasters have a widespread impact. As a result, these stock market records have generated considerable scientific attention1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14.Human decision making does not, however, consist solely of the final execution of a chosen action, such as a trade recorded at a stock exchange. Instead, within the constraints of available resources, we often begin by gathering information to help us identify what the consequences of possible actions might be15.With Internet provision becoming so widespread, online resources have become the first port of call in many quests for new information. As a rule, providers of such online resources collect extensive data on their usage, adding to a range of new large scale measurements of collective human behaviour16,17,18,19,20,21. In this way, the ubiquity of the Internet in everyday life has not only changed the way in which people collect information to make decisions, but has opened up new avenues for scientists to investigate the early information gathering stages of decision making processes.Previous studies have demonstrated that analysis of search data can provide insight into current or even subsequent behaviour in the real world. For example, changes in the frequency with which users look for certain terms on search engines such as Google and Yahoo! have been correlated with changes in the numbers of reports of flu infections across the USA22, the popularity of films, games and music on their release23, unemployment rates24,25, tourist numbers25, and trading volumes in the US stock markets26,27. A recent study showed that Internet users from countries with a higher per capita gross domestic product (GDP) search for proportionally more information about the future than information about the past, in comparison with Internet users from countries with a lower per capita GDP28.In work most closely related to the study presented here, Preis, Moat and Stanley outline an analysis of historic data which suggests that changes in search volume for financially relevant search terms can be linked to stock market moves29. A further study analysed data from Twitter and considered the emotions of traders, rather than their information gathering processes, suggesting that changes in the calmness of Twitter messages could be linked to changes in stock market prices30.In this study, we investigate whether data on the usage of the popular online encyclopaedia Wikipedia31,32,33,34 can be linked to subsequent decisions made in the stock markets. Specifically, can we find any evidence that changes in the numbers of views or edits to articles relating to companies and other financial topics on Wikipedia may provide insight into the information gathering process of investors?ResultsTo investigate the relationship between changes in large scale information gathering behaviour on Wikipedia and market participants' trading decisions, we consider data on how often pages on the English language Wikipedia have been viewed, and how often pages on the English language Wikipedia have been edited. Wikipedia entries can be both viewed and edited by any Internet user.We calculate two measures of Wikipedia user activity: the average number of page views and the average number of page edits that have taken place for a given Wikipedia page in week t, where we define weeks as ending on a Sunday. All names of Wikipedia pages used and further details on data pre processing are provided in the Supplementary Information. To quantify changes in information gathering behaviour, we choose one measure of Wikipedia user activity n(t), either page view or page edit volume, and calculate the difference between the page view or page edit volume for week t, to the average copy cartier earrings page view or page edit volume for the previous t weeks: n(t, t) = n(t) N(t 1, t) with N(t 1, t) = (n(t 1) + n(t 2) + + n(t t))/t, where t is measured in units of weeks.We begin our comparison of changes in Wikipedia usage to subsequent stock market movements in this historic data by implementing a hypothetical investment strategy that uses data on either Wikipedia page views or Wikipedia page edits to trade on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), following the approach introduced by Preis, Moat, and Stanley29. In this hypothetical strategy, we sell the DJIA at the closing price p(t + 1) on the first trading day of week t + 1 if the volume of views or edits has increased in week t such that n(t, t) > 0. We then close the position by buying the DJIA at price p(t + 2) at the end of the first trading day of the following week t + 2. Note that mechanisms exist which make it possible to sell stocks on a financial market without first owning them. If instead the volume of views or edits has decreased or remained the same in week t such that n(t, t) 0, then we buy the DJIA at the closing price p(t + 1) on the first trading day of week t + 1, and sell the DJIA at price p(t + 2) at the end of the first trading day of the coming week t + 2 to close the position.We calculate the cumulative return R of a strategy by taking the natural log of the ratio of the final portfolio value to the initial portfolio Hermes necklace imitation value. If we take a short position selling at the closing price p(t + 1) and buying back at price p(t + 2) then the change in the cumulative return R for a strategy is log(p(t + 1)) log(p(t + 2)). If we take a long position buying at the closing price p(t + 1) and selling at price p(t + 2) then the change in the cumulative return R is log(p(t + 2)) log(p(t + 1)). In this way, buy and sell actions have symmetric impacts on the cumulative return R of a strategy. In addition, we neglect transaction fees, since the maximum number of transactions per year when using this strategy is only 104, allowing one closing and one opening transaction per week. We note that inclusion of transaction fees would of course diminish any profit if this hypothetical strategy were to be used in the real world. However, this assumption does not have consequences for conclusions about the relationship between user activity on Wikipedia and movements in the DJIA.We compare the returns from the Wikipedia data based strategies to the returns from a random strategy. In the random strategy, a decision is made each week to buy or sell the DJIA. The probability that the DJIA will be bought rather than sold is always 50%, and the decision is unaffected by decisions in previous weeks. This random strategy leads to no significant profit or loss. For the statistical comparisons reported in the following sections, we use 10,000 independent realisations of this random strategy for the period between 10th December 2007 and 30th April 2012. We find no evidence that the overall return from these 10,000 realisations is significantly positive or significantly negative (mean return = 0.0002, V = 25012353, p = 0.97, = 0.05, two tailed one sample Wilcoxon signed rank test of symmetry of distribution of returns around 0). We use a non parametric test to check this point, as the distribution of returns deviates significantly from the normal distribution (D = 0.1716, p = 0.05, Kolmogorov Smirnov test). Similarly, the remainder of the analyses of return distributions reported here also use non parametric tests. Throughout the rest of the results, the cumulative returns R of all non random strategies are stated in terms of standard deviations above or below the mean cumulative return of the random strategy.Views and edits of Wikipedia articles about companies listed in the DJIAFigure 1 shows the distributions of returns from two portfolios of 30 hypothetical strategies, trading weekly on the DJIA. These trading strategies are based on changes in how often the 30 Wikipedia pages describing the companies in the DJIA were viewed (blue) and edited (red) during the period December 2007 April 2012, with t = 3 weeks. The distribution of returns from 10,000 independent realisations of a random strategy is also shown (gray). The distribution of returns from 10,000 independent realizations of a random strategy is also shown (gray). Data is displayed using a kernel density estimate and the ggplot2 library36, with a Gaussian kernel and bandwidth calculated using Silverman's rule of thumb37. Whereas we show in the text that random strategies lead to no significant profit or loss, we find that the returns of Wikipedia article view based strategies for this period are significantly higher than the returns of the random strategies (mean R = 0.50; W = 199690, p = 0.005, = 0.05, two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum test, Bonferroni correction applied). There is however no statistically significant difference between the returns from the Wikipedia edit based strategies and the random strategies (mean R = 0.09; W = 140781, p > 0.9, = 0.05, two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum test, Bonferroni correction applied).We find that there are significant differences between these three distributions (2 = 10.21, df = 2, p = 0.006, = 0.05; Kruskal Wallis rank sum test). Our analysis shows that the returns of Wikipedia page view based strategies for this period are significantly higher than the returns of the random strategies (mean R = 0.50; W = 199690, p = 0.005, = 0.05, two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum test, Bonferroni correction applied). There is however no statistically significant difference between the returns from the Wikipedia edit based strategies and the random strategies (mean R = 0.09; W = 140781, p > 0.9, = 0.05, two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum test, Bonferroni correction applied).Views and edits of Wikipedia articles about financial topicsWe investigate whether these results extend to Wikipedia articles on more general financial topics. To address this question, we make use of the fact that Wikipedia contains lists of pages relating to specific topics. Here, we examine view and edit data for 285 pages relating to general economic concepts, as listed in the subsection "General economic concepts" on the English language Wikipedia page "Outline of economics".Figure 2 shows the results of an analysis of the distribution of returns from two portfolios of 285 hypothetical strategies, trading weekly on the DJIA. These strategies are based on changes in how often these 285 financially related Wikipedia pages were viewed (blue) and edited knock off Hermes necklace (red) during the same period, again with t = 3 weeks. As before, we find that there is a significant difference between the returns generated by the random strategies, the Wikipedia view based strategies and the Wikipedia edit based strategies (2 = 307.88, df = 2, p = 0.05; Kruskal Wallis rank sum test). As before, the returns of Wikipedia page view based strategies are significantly higher than the returns of random strategies for this period (mean R = 1.10; W = 2286608, p = 0.05, two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum test, Bonferroni correction applied). Once again however, we find no evidence of a statistically significant difference between the returns from the Wikipedia edit based strategies, and the random strategies (mean R = 0.12; W = 1516626, p = 0.19, = 0.05, two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum test, Bonferroni correction applied). Our analysis shows that the returns of Wikipedia page view based strategies are significantly higher than the returns of random strategies for this period (mean R = 1.10; W = 2286608, p = 0.05, two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum test, Bonferroni correction applied). Once again however, we find no evidence of a statistically significant difference between the returns from the Wikipedia edit based strategies, and the random strategies (mean R = 0.12; W = 1516626, p = 0.19, = 0.05, two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum test, Bonferroni correction applied).The lack of relationship found for the data on Wikipedia edits may simply reflect the substantial difference in the volume of data available for views and for edits, despite the much larger number of pages considered in this second analysis. For example, across the whole period, the Wikipedia articles on financial topics had an average of 1,351,796 views each, but replica Hermes yellow gold necklace only 431 edits. Of these pages, the most viewed page had 14,449,973 views, in comparison to 4832 edits. The least viewed page had 2,033 views, whereas 43 of the 285 pages in question had no edits at all. For the purposes of this study, we therefore do not consider edit data further.Strategy returns in different yearsThe period of time we investigate here includes a particularly large drop in the DJIA in 2008. We therefore investigate what the returns from these trading strategies would have been for each individual year in our study period. Again, we consider the returns of strategies based on changes in views of the 285 financially related Wikipedia pages, again with t = 3 weeks. In Figure 3, the distribution of returns from the trading strategies are shown for each of the four years for which we have full Wikipedia page view data (blue) alongside returns from random strategies for that year (grey). The distribution of returns from the trading strategies, again with t = 3 weeks, are shown for each of the four years for which we have full Wikipedia page view data (blue) alongside returns from random strategies for that year (grey). Whilst returns differ from year to year (mean return for each year in standard deviations of random strategy returns for the given year: 2008, 0.89; 2009, 0.19; 2010, 0.19; 2011, 0.55; 2 = 129.49, df = 3, p W = 2156094, p W = 1584915, p = 0.001; 2010: W = 1585336, p = 0.001; 2011: W = 1915511, p = 0.05; all two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum tests, using comparisons to the random strategy distributions for the given year).We find that returns do differ from year to year (mean return for each year in standard deviations of random strategy returns for the given year: 2008, 0.89; 2009, 0.19; 2010, 0.19; 2011, 0.55; 2 = 129.49, df = 3, p W = 2156094, p W = 1584915, p = 0.001; 2010: W = 1585336, p = 0.001; 2011: W = 1915511, p = 0.05; all two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum tests, using comparisons to the distribution of random strategy returns for the given year).The effect of tWe investigate the effect of changes in t on the returns from the trading strategies. Again, we consider portfolios of trading strategies based on changes in views of the 285 financially related Wikipedia pages. The mean return from trading strategies, expressed in standard deviations of random strategy returns, is shown in Figure S1 (see Supplementary Information) for t = 1 to 10 weeks. We find that the mean return of the strategies does differ significantly for the different values of t we tested (2 = 93.26, df = 9, p t between 1 and 10 weeks (all Ws > 1950000, all psMean return of the DJIA following increases and decreases in Wikipedia viewsTo complement the trading strategy analysis, we carry out a further analysis of weekly DJIA returns following increases and decreases in views of Wikipedia articles on financial topics.For each of the 285 Wikipedia articles on financial topics, we identify all weeks t within our study period in which the volume of page views increased in week t such that n(t, t) > 0, using t = 3. Across this set of weeks, we calculate the mean return of the DJIA during week t + 1, log(p(t + 2)) log(p(t + 1)). Similarly, we calculate the mean return of the DJIA during week t + 1 for the set of weeks in which the volume of page views decreased in week t such that n(t, t)Between these two sets of weeks, we find a significant difference in the mean return of the DJIA during week t + 1 (W = 78012, p = 0.05, two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum test). Following a decrease in views of Wikipedia pages relating to financial topics, we find a mean DJIA weekly return of 0.0027 a return significantly greater than 0 (V = 39592, p = 0.05, two tailed one sample Wilcoxon signed rank test). In contrast, following an increase in views of Wikipedia pages relating to financial topics in week t, we find a mean DJIA weekly return of 0.0021, significantly less than 0 (V = 2222, p = 0.05, two tailed one sample Wilcoxon signed rank test). The results of this analysis are therefore in line with the relationship between changes in views of Wikipedia articles on financial topics and subsequent movements in the DJIA suggested by the trading strategy analysis.
AbstractFinancial crises result from a catastrophic combination of actions. Vast stock market datasets offer us a window into some of the actions that have led to these crises. Here, we investigate whether data generated through Internet usage contain traces of attempts to gather information before trading decisions were taken. We present evidence in line with the intriguing suggestion that data on changes in how often financially related Wikipedia pages were viewed may have contained early signs of stock market moves. Our results suggest that online data may allow us to gain new insight into early information gathering stages of decision making.IntroductionThe complex behaviour of our society emerges from decisions made by many individuals. In certain combinations, these numerous decisions can lead to sudden catastrophe, as demonstrated during crowd disasters and financial crises. Stock market data provide extremely detailed records of decisions that traders have made, in an area in which disasters have a widespread impact. As a result, these stock market records have generated considerable scientific attention1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14.Human decision making does not, however, consist solely of the final execution of a chosen action, such as a trade recorded at a stock exchange. Instead, within the constraints of available resources, we often begin by gathering information to help us identify what the consequences of possible actions might be15.With Internet provision becoming so widespread, online resources have become the first port of call in many quests for new information. As a rule, providers of such online resources collect extensive data on their usage, adding to a range of new large scale measurements of collective human behaviour16,17,18,19,20,21. In this way, the ubiquity of the Internet in everyday life has not only changed the way in which people collect information to make decisions, but has opened up new avenues for scientists to investigate the early information gathering stages of decision making processes.Previous studies have demonstrated that analysis of search data can provide insight into current or even subsequent behaviour in the real world. For example, changes in the frequency with which users look for certain terms on search engines such as Google and Yahoo! have been correlated with changes in the numbers of reports of flu infections across the USA22, the popularity of films, games and music on their release23, unemployment rates24,25, tourist numbers25, and trading volumes in the US stock markets26,27. A recent study showed that Internet users from countries with a higher per capita gross domestic product (GDP) search for proportionally more information about the future than information about the past, in comparison with Internet users from countries with a lower per capita GDP28.In work most closely related to the study presented here, Preis, Moat and Stanley outline an analysis of historic data which suggests that changes in search volume for financially relevant search terms can be linked to stock market moves29. A further study analysed data from Twitter and considered the emotions of traders, rather than their information gathering processes, suggesting that changes in the calmness of Twitter messages could be linked to changes in stock market prices30.In this study, we investigate whether data on the usage of the popular online encyclopaedia Wikipedia31,32,33,34 can be linked to subsequent decisions made in the stock markets. Specifically, can we find any evidence that changes in the numbers of views or edits to articles relating to companies and other financial topics on Wikipedia may provide insight into the information gathering process of investors?ResultsTo investigate the relationship between changes in large scale information gathering behaviour on Wikipedia and market participants' trading decisions, we consider data on how often pages on the English language Wikipedia have been viewed, and how often pages on the English language Wikipedia have been edited. Wikipedia entries can be both viewed and edited by any Internet user.We calculate two measures of Wikipedia user activity: the average number of page views and the average number of page edits that have taken place for a given Wikipedia page in week t, where we define weeks as ending on a Sunday. All names of Wikipedia pages used and further details on data pre processing are provided in the Supplementary Information. To quantify changes in information gathering behaviour, we choose one measure of Wikipedia user activity n(t), either page view or page edit volume, and calculate the difference between the page view or page edit volume for week t, to the average copy cartier earrings page view or page edit volume for the previous t weeks: n(t, t) = n(t) N(t 1, t) with N(t 1, t) = (n(t 1) + n(t 2) + + n(t t))/t, where t is measured in units of weeks.We begin our comparison of changes in Wikipedia usage to subsequent stock market movements in this historic data by implementing a hypothetical investment strategy that uses data on either Wikipedia page views or Wikipedia page edits to trade on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), following the approach introduced by Preis, Moat, and Stanley29. In this hypothetical strategy, we sell the DJIA at the closing price p(t + 1) on the first trading day of week t + 1 if the volume of views or edits has increased in week t such that n(t, t) > 0. We then close the position by buying the DJIA at price p(t + 2) at the end of the first trading day of the following week t + 2. Note that mechanisms exist which make it possible to sell stocks on a financial market without first owning them. If instead the volume of views or edits has decreased or remained the same in week t such that n(t, t) 0, then we buy the DJIA at the closing price p(t + 1) on the first trading day of week t + 1, and sell the DJIA at price p(t + 2) at the end of the first trading day of the coming week t + 2 to close the position.We calculate the cumulative return R of a strategy by taking the natural log of the ratio of the final portfolio value to the initial portfolio Hermes necklace imitation value. If we take a short position selling at the closing price p(t + 1) and buying back at price p(t + 2) then the change in the cumulative return R for a strategy is log(p(t + 1)) log(p(t + 2)). If we take a long position buying at the closing price p(t + 1) and selling at price p(t + 2) then the change in the cumulative return R is log(p(t + 2)) log(p(t + 1)). In this way, buy and sell actions have symmetric impacts on the cumulative return R of a strategy. In addition, we neglect transaction fees, since the maximum number of transactions per year when using this strategy is only 104, allowing one closing and one opening transaction per week. We note that inclusion of transaction fees would of course diminish any profit if this hypothetical strategy were to be used in the real world. However, this assumption does not have consequences for conclusions about the relationship between user activity on Wikipedia and movements in the DJIA.We compare the returns from the Wikipedia data based strategies to the returns from a random strategy. In the random strategy, a decision is made each week to buy or sell the DJIA. The probability that the DJIA will be bought rather than sold is always 50%, and the decision is unaffected by decisions in previous weeks. This random strategy leads to no significant profit or loss. For the statistical comparisons reported in the following sections, we use 10,000 independent realisations of this random strategy for the period between 10th December 2007 and 30th April 2012. We find no evidence that the overall return from these 10,000 realisations is significantly positive or significantly negative (mean return = 0.0002, V = 25012353, p = 0.97, = 0.05, two tailed one sample Wilcoxon signed rank test of symmetry of distribution of returns around 0). We use a non parametric test to check this point, as the distribution of returns deviates significantly from the normal distribution (D = 0.1716, p = 0.05, Kolmogorov Smirnov test). Similarly, the remainder of the analyses of return distributions reported here also use non parametric tests. Throughout the rest of the results, the cumulative returns R of all non random strategies are stated in terms of standard deviations above or below the mean cumulative return of the random strategy.Views and edits of Wikipedia articles about companies listed in the DJIAFigure 1 shows the distributions of returns from two portfolios of 30 hypothetical strategies, trading weekly on the DJIA. These trading strategies are based on changes in how often the 30 Wikipedia pages describing the companies in the DJIA were viewed (blue) and edited (red) during the period December 2007 April 2012, with t = 3 weeks. The distribution of returns from 10,000 independent realisations of a random strategy is also shown (gray). The distribution of returns from 10,000 independent realizations of a random strategy is also shown (gray). Data is displayed using a kernel density estimate and the ggplot2 library36, with a Gaussian kernel and bandwidth calculated using Silverman's rule of thumb37. Whereas we show in the text that random strategies lead to no significant profit or loss, we find that the returns of Wikipedia article view based strategies for this period are significantly higher than the returns of the random strategies (mean R = 0.50; W = 199690, p = 0.005, = 0.05, two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum test, Bonferroni correction applied). There is however no statistically significant difference between the returns from the Wikipedia edit based strategies and the random strategies (mean R = 0.09; W = 140781, p > 0.9, = 0.05, two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum test, Bonferroni correction applied).We find that there are significant differences between these three distributions (2 = 10.21, df = 2, p = 0.006, = 0.05; Kruskal Wallis rank sum test). Our analysis shows that the returns of Wikipedia page view based strategies for this period are significantly higher than the returns of the random strategies (mean R = 0.50; W = 199690, p = 0.005, = 0.05, two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum test, Bonferroni correction applied). There is however no statistically significant difference between the returns from the Wikipedia edit based strategies and the random strategies (mean R = 0.09; W = 140781, p > 0.9, = 0.05, two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum test, Bonferroni correction applied).Views and edits of Wikipedia articles about financial topicsWe investigate whether these results extend to Wikipedia articles on more general financial topics. To address this question, we make use of the fact that Wikipedia contains lists of pages relating to specific topics. Here, we examine view and edit data for 285 pages relating to general economic concepts, as listed in the subsection "General economic concepts" on the English language Wikipedia page "Outline of economics".Figure 2 shows the results of an analysis of the distribution of returns from two portfolios of 285 hypothetical strategies, trading weekly on the DJIA. These strategies are based on changes in how often these 285 financially related Wikipedia pages were viewed (blue) and edited knock off Hermes necklace (red) during the same period, again with t = 3 weeks. As before, we find that there is a significant difference between the returns generated by the random strategies, the Wikipedia view based strategies and the Wikipedia edit based strategies (2 = 307.88, df = 2, p = 0.05; Kruskal Wallis rank sum test). As before, the returns of Wikipedia page view based strategies are significantly higher than the returns of random strategies for this period (mean R = 1.10; W = 2286608, p = 0.05, two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum test, Bonferroni correction applied). Once again however, we find no evidence of a statistically significant difference between the returns from the Wikipedia edit based strategies, and the random strategies (mean R = 0.12; W = 1516626, p = 0.19, = 0.05, two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum test, Bonferroni correction applied). Our analysis shows that the returns of Wikipedia page view based strategies are significantly higher than the returns of random strategies for this period (mean R = 1.10; W = 2286608, p = 0.05, two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum test, Bonferroni correction applied). Once again however, we find no evidence of a statistically significant difference between the returns from the Wikipedia edit based strategies, and the random strategies (mean R = 0.12; W = 1516626, p = 0.19, = 0.05, two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum test, Bonferroni correction applied).The lack of relationship found for the data on Wikipedia edits may simply reflect the substantial difference in the volume of data available for views and for edits, despite the much larger number of pages considered in this second analysis. For example, across the whole period, the Wikipedia articles on financial topics had an average of 1,351,796 views each, but replica Hermes yellow gold necklace only 431 edits. Of these pages, the most viewed page had 14,449,973 views, in comparison to 4832 edits. The least viewed page had 2,033 views, whereas 43 of the 285 pages in question had no edits at all. For the purposes of this study, we therefore do not consider edit data further.Strategy returns in different yearsThe period of time we investigate here includes a particularly large drop in the DJIA in 2008. We therefore investigate what the returns from these trading strategies would have been for each individual year in our study period. Again, we consider the returns of strategies based on changes in views of the 285 financially related Wikipedia pages, again with t = 3 weeks. In Figure 3, the distribution of returns from the trading strategies are shown for each of the four years for which we have full Wikipedia page view data (blue) alongside returns from random strategies for that year (grey). The distribution of returns from the trading strategies, again with t = 3 weeks, are shown for each of the four years for which we have full Wikipedia page view data (blue) alongside returns from random strategies for that year (grey). Whilst returns differ from year to year (mean return for each year in standard deviations of random strategy returns for the given year: 2008, 0.89; 2009, 0.19; 2010, 0.19; 2011, 0.55; 2 = 129.49, df = 3, p W = 2156094, p W = 1584915, p = 0.001; 2010: W = 1585336, p = 0.001; 2011: W = 1915511, p = 0.05; all two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum tests, using comparisons to the random strategy distributions for the given year).We find that returns do differ from year to year (mean return for each year in standard deviations of random strategy returns for the given year: 2008, 0.89; 2009, 0.19; 2010, 0.19; 2011, 0.55; 2 = 129.49, df = 3, p W = 2156094, p W = 1584915, p = 0.001; 2010: W = 1585336, p = 0.001; 2011: W = 1915511, p = 0.05; all two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum tests, using comparisons to the distribution of random strategy returns for the given year).The effect of tWe investigate the effect of changes in t on the returns from the trading strategies. Again, we consider portfolios of trading strategies based on changes in views of the 285 financially related Wikipedia pages. The mean return from trading strategies, expressed in standard deviations of random strategy returns, is shown in Figure S1 (see Supplementary Information) for t = 1 to 10 weeks. We find that the mean return of the strategies does differ significantly for the different values of t we tested (2 = 93.26, df = 9, p t between 1 and 10 weeks (all Ws > 1950000, all psMean return of the DJIA following increases and decreases in Wikipedia viewsTo complement the trading strategy analysis, we carry out a further analysis of weekly DJIA returns following increases and decreases in views of Wikipedia articles on financial topics.For each of the 285 Wikipedia articles on financial topics, we identify all weeks t within our study period in which the volume of page views increased in week t such that n(t, t) > 0, using t = 3. Across this set of weeks, we calculate the mean return of the DJIA during week t + 1, log(p(t + 2)) log(p(t + 1)). Similarly, we calculate the mean return of the DJIA during week t + 1 for the set of weeks in which the volume of page views decreased in week t such that n(t, t)Between these two sets of weeks, we find a significant difference in the mean return of the DJIA during week t + 1 (W = 78012, p = 0.05, two tailed two sample Wilcoxon rank sum test). Following a decrease in views of Wikipedia pages relating to financial topics, we find a mean DJIA weekly return of 0.0027 a return significantly greater than 0 (V = 39592, p = 0.05, two tailed one sample Wilcoxon signed rank test). In contrast, following an increase in views of Wikipedia pages relating to financial topics in week t, we find a mean DJIA weekly return of 0.0021, significantly less than 0 (V = 2222, p = 0.05, two tailed one sample Wilcoxon signed rank test). The results of this analysis are therefore in line with the relationship between changes in views of Wikipedia articles on financial topics and subsequent movements in the DJIA suggested by the trading strategy analysis.
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Ayuda gubernamental para las vctimas
El Gobierno Nacional canaliza la atencin a las victimas mediante la Unidad para la Atencin y Reparacin Integral a las Victimas, que tiene la misin de liderar las acciones del Estado y la sociedad para atender y reparar integralmente a las vctimas, para contribuir a la inclusin social y la paz. La Unidad busca acercar el Estado a las vctimas mediante coordinacin eficiente y acciones transformadoras que promuevan la participacin efectiva de las vctimas en su proceso de reparacin. Esta surgi en el 2012 buscando formar al equipo de profesionales de la Direcci6n de Reparaciones para implementar la ruta de reparacin Integral individual en todo el pas. La Escuela ha desarrollado procesos de formaci6n presencial y virtual a los funcionarios de la Unidad y de diversas entidades pblicas, privadas, integrantes del Sistema Nacional de Atencin y Reparacin Integral a las Victimas (SNARIV) y de la sociedad civil, para brindar un enfoque psicosocial para la atencin y reparacin integral a las vctimas. Lo anterior para contribuir a la adecuada interiorizaci6n de los derechos de las vctimas del conflicto con el propsito de informar, sensibilizar, comprometer y formar para la intervencin adecuada en la reparacin integral a las vctimas en Colombia. En la Escuela se ofrecen cursos acerca de Reparacin para la Paz, DIH y Derechos Humanos, Conocimiento de la Institucionalidad, Normatividad y Justicia Transicional, Sensibilizacin para la Intervencin, y Participacin de las Victimas. Con el objetivo de garantizar este proceso, el Gobierno Nacional ha encomendado a la Fiscala General de la Nacin para garantizar el acceso de Idas vctimas de terrorismo al sistema de justicia penal. Bajo esta instruccin, la Fiscala constituyo la Sub Unidad de Registro, Atencin Integral y Orientacin a Victimas de Grupos Armados Organizados al Margen de la Ley.
Aunque mantiene atencin constante a las vctimas, para acercar su accionar a la comunidad, la Sub Unidad realiza constantemente 3 tipos de jomadas:
1. Jomadas de atencin a vctimas en el marco del proceso especial de justicia y paz.
2. Jomadas especiales de atencin a vctimas para casos de violencia basada en gnero.
3. Apoyo psicosocial a vctimas en las audiencias que se adelantan en el Proceso Especial de Justicia y Paz.
Los vnculos y acuerdos entre las entidades gubernamentales del orden nacional con Ias Organizaciones no Gubernamentales y Comunitarias que cubren diversos temas de atencin, que incluyen aspectos mdicos, sociales, sindicales, culturales, de atencin y de justicia, entre muchos otros, que fake hermes H bracelet black han permitido que las victimas inicien su proceso de reparacin con el apoyo de entidades temticas que cuentan con el respaldo institucional del Estado y de otras Organizaciones de naturaleza similar.
Dentro de estas entidades es posible destacar las siguientes:
Redepaz: La Red Nacional de Iniciativas Ciudadanas por la Paz y contra la Guerra REDEPAZ es un espacio de encuentro, convergencia y articulacin de experiencias locales, regionales y nacionales de paz, desde la sociedad civil con el propsito de "tejer la paz con mano ciudadana" y defender el derecho a la paz como un derecho fundamental de los colombianos y colombianas. Experiencias como "Derrotemos la Guerra" en Santander, "Iniciativa Ciudadana por la Paz" en Bogot y la "Mesa de trabajo por la Vida" en Medelln, entre muchas otras convergieron en la necesidad de construir un espacio de encuentro en todo el territorio nacional, que les diera fuerza y resonancia a las diversas experiencias de gestin ciudadana por la paz. Redepaz busca ampliar y consolidar el movimiento social por la paz, como iniciativa de poder ciudadano, con sentido poltico, cultural y tico. Sus ejes de trabajo son Territorial y Constituyentes para la Paz, Eje Humanitario y Atencin Integral a Victimas, y Eje Agenda y Cabildeo para Ia Paz. As, luego de una bsqueda intensiva se lleg a El Salado, un corregimiento de los Montes de Mara donde la violencia paramilitar dejo una huella profunda en la poblacin destruyendo el tejido social, la infraestructura y las estructuras econmicas. La Fundacin Semana, a travs de la elaboracin de un Plan de Desarrollo con la comunidad defini una ruta de accin y emprendi la creacin de una Alianza pblico privada que puso sobre la mesa la necesidad de que la solidaridad del sector privado y las responsabilidades del estado convergieran en un proyecto. Esta Alianza ha convertido a El Salado en un smbolo para demostrar que la reconciliacin es posible convocando a todos los sectores y que con voluntad poltica el panorama del pas puede comenzar a cambiar. Hoy en da hermes jewelry replica El Salado se ve diferente que en 2009, las personas van recuperado la confianza y las obras de infraestructura apoyan procesos sociales de transformacin profundos. Su principal objetivo es lograr la inclusin social en el mundo y garantizar para las futuras generaciones un mundo inclusivo y sostenible. Dentro de las actividades que realiza la Fundacin se incluyen el mejoramiento transversal de las condiciones de vida de las personas mediante procesos de habilitacin y rehabilitacin interdisciplinarios que involucran a la familia y a la comunidad y las iniciativas por la inclusin social y el mejoramiento de la calidad de vida de los participantes por medio del deporte, la actividad fsica y la recreacin. As mismo, trabajan por el cambio de imaginarios y paradigmas errneos a travs del uso de una comunicacin socialmente responsable, y las acciones en pro del empoderamiento de comunidades vulnerables a travs de procesos de participacin comunitaria y dinmicas sociales responsables y sostenibles, procurando escenarios imitation hermes bracelet sale de inclusin social.
La CCN es una entidad independiente y autnoma, convocada por Ia Iglesia Catlica e integrada por ciudadanos de diversos sectores y vertientes de pensamiento, que contribuye a Ia bsqueda de salidas polticas al conflicto social y armado incluyendo a todos los actores en el mismo; aporta a la toma de conciencia por el respeto de los Derechos Humanos y el Derecho Internacional Humanitario; apoya una educacin integral para la convivencia pacfica e incide en el diseo de las polticas pblicas de paz y reconciliacin. Ejemplo de estas iniciativas es la adelantada por la YMCA (Asociacin Cristiana de Jvenes) de Colombia, en el marco de la cual ha empezado a trabajar con los jvenes en el tema de atencin a vctimas y posconflicto. Para desarrollar este tema, la YMCA ha organizado el encuentro "Recuperando la voz de los jvenes en el Posconflicto en Colombia", con el que se busca conocer la opinin, Collier de Chien hermes bracelet replica el sentir y la proyeccin de los jvenes que han sido parte del conflicto como vctimas, quienes ahora se enfrentan a un contexto cambiante y deben plantear el rumbo de su proyecto de vida y el de las comunidades.
Con este objetivo se han movilizado diversas instituciones sociales, educativas y organizaciones relacionadas con el tema, logrando convocar a 300 jvenes vctimas del conflicto en Colombia. Estos jvenes se encontraron con miembros de la Alta Consejera para los derechos de ms vctimas, la paz y la reconciliacin, la Directora de Justicia Transicional del Ministerio de Justicia y del Derecho y personal de la Oficina del Alto comisionado para la paz, entre otras autoridades, que utilizar los resultados del evento para la formulacin de las polticas pblicas de atencin de vctimas y de posconflicto. La mayora de iniciativas se circunscribe a los programas de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial establecidos por las empresas buscando garantizar el desarrollo sostenible del pas y especialmente de las comunidades en donde mantienen sus unidades operativas. Dentro de los cooperantes internacionales se destacan los siguientes:
ACDI VOCA. ACNUR. Agencia Espaola de Coopemci6n Intencional para el Desarrollo AECID . Banco Mundial. Comit International de la Cruz Roja CICR. FUPAD. GIZ Agencia Alemana para la Cooperaci6n International. Global Communities CHF International. JICA Agencia Japonesa de Cooperaci6n International. MAPP Misi6n de Apoyo al Proceso de Paz. Merey Corps. OCHA Oficina de las Naciones Unidas para la Coordinacin de Asuntos Humanitarios OIM Organizacin Internacional para las Migraciones. ONU Mujeres. PNUD Fondo de Justicia Transicional FTJ. Union Europea en Colombia. USAID Agencia de Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional.
v) Esfuerzos regionales y/o multilaterales para abordar Ia solidaridad con las vctimas del terrorismo y/o apoyar la rehabilitaci6n de las vctimas del terrorismo
Ayuda gubernamental para las vctimas
El Gobierno Nacional canaliza la atencin a las victimas mediante la Unidad para la Atencin y Reparacin Integral a las Victimas, que tiene la misin de liderar las acciones del Estado y la sociedad para atender y reparar integralmente a las vctimas, para contribuir a la inclusin social y la paz. La Unidad busca acercar el Estado a las vctimas mediante coordinacin eficiente y acciones transformadoras que promuevan la participacin efectiva de las vctimas en su proceso de reparacin. Esta surgi en el 2012 buscando formar al equipo de profesionales de la Direcci6n de Reparaciones para implementar la ruta de reparacin Integral individual en todo el pas. La Escuela ha desarrollado procesos de formaci6n presencial y virtual a los funcionarios de la Unidad y de diversas entidades pblicas, privadas, integrantes del Sistema Nacional de Atencin y Reparacin Integral a las Victimas (SNARIV) y de la sociedad civil, para brindar un enfoque psicosocial para la atencin y reparacin integral a las vctimas. Lo anterior para contribuir a la adecuada interiorizaci6n de los derechos de las vctimas del conflicto con el propsito de informar, sensibilizar, comprometer y formar para la intervencin adecuada en la reparacin integral a las vctimas en Colombia. En la Escuela se ofrecen cursos acerca de Reparacin para la Paz, DIH y Derechos Humanos, Conocimiento de la Institucionalidad, Normatividad y Justicia Transicional, Sensibilizacin para la Intervencin, y Participacin de las Victimas. Con el objetivo de garantizar este proceso, el Gobierno Nacional ha encomendado a la Fiscala General de la Nacin para garantizar el acceso de Idas vctimas de terrorismo al sistema de justicia penal. Bajo esta instruccin, la Fiscala constituyo la Sub Unidad de Registro, Atencin Integral y Orientacin a Victimas de Grupos Armados Organizados al Margen de la Ley.
Aunque mantiene atencin constante a las vctimas, para acercar su accionar a la comunidad, la Sub Unidad realiza constantemente 3 tipos de jomadas:
1. Jomadas de atencin a vctimas en el marco del proceso especial de justicia y paz.
2. Jomadas especiales de atencin a vctimas para casos de violencia basada en gnero.
3. Apoyo psicosocial a vctimas en las audiencias que se adelantan en el Proceso Especial de Justicia y Paz.
Los vnculos y acuerdos entre las entidades gubernamentales del orden nacional con Ias Organizaciones no Gubernamentales y Comunitarias que cubren diversos temas de atencin, que incluyen aspectos mdicos, sociales, sindicales, culturales, de atencin y de justicia, entre muchos otros, que fake hermes H bracelet black han permitido que las victimas inicien su proceso de reparacin con el apoyo de entidades temticas que cuentan con el respaldo institucional del Estado y de otras Organizaciones de naturaleza similar.
Dentro de estas entidades es posible destacar las siguientes:
Redepaz: La Red Nacional de Iniciativas Ciudadanas por la Paz y contra la Guerra REDEPAZ es un espacio de encuentro, convergencia y articulacin de experiencias locales, regionales y nacionales de paz, desde la sociedad civil con el propsito de "tejer la paz con mano ciudadana" y defender el derecho a la paz como un derecho fundamental de los colombianos y colombianas. Experiencias como "Derrotemos la Guerra" en Santander, "Iniciativa Ciudadana por la Paz" en Bogot y la "Mesa de trabajo por la Vida" en Medelln, entre muchas otras convergieron en la necesidad de construir un espacio de encuentro en todo el territorio nacional, que les diera fuerza y resonancia a las diversas experiencias de gestin ciudadana por la paz. Redepaz busca ampliar y consolidar el movimiento social por la paz, como iniciativa de poder ciudadano, con sentido poltico, cultural y tico. Sus ejes de trabajo son Territorial y Constituyentes para la Paz, Eje Humanitario y Atencin Integral a Victimas, y Eje Agenda y Cabildeo para Ia Paz. As, luego de una bsqueda intensiva se lleg a El Salado, un corregimiento de los Montes de Mara donde la violencia paramilitar dejo una huella profunda en la poblacin destruyendo el tejido social, la infraestructura y las estructuras econmicas. La Fundacin Semana, a travs de la elaboracin de un Plan de Desarrollo con la comunidad defini una ruta de accin y emprendi la creacin de una Alianza pblico privada que puso sobre la mesa la necesidad de que la solidaridad del sector privado y las responsabilidades del estado convergieran en un proyecto. Esta Alianza ha convertido a El Salado en un smbolo para demostrar que la reconciliacin es posible convocando a todos los sectores y que con voluntad poltica el panorama del pas puede comenzar a cambiar. Hoy en da hermes jewelry replica El Salado se ve diferente que en 2009, las personas van recuperado la confianza y las obras de infraestructura apoyan procesos sociales de transformacin profundos. Su principal objetivo es lograr la inclusin social en el mundo y garantizar para las futuras generaciones un mundo inclusivo y sostenible. Dentro de las actividades que realiza la Fundacin se incluyen el mejoramiento transversal de las condiciones de vida de las personas mediante procesos de habilitacin y rehabilitacin interdisciplinarios que involucran a la familia y a la comunidad y las iniciativas por la inclusin social y el mejoramiento de la calidad de vida de los participantes por medio del deporte, la actividad fsica y la recreacin. As mismo, trabajan por el cambio de imaginarios y paradigmas errneos a travs del uso de una comunicacin socialmente responsable, y las acciones en pro del empoderamiento de comunidades vulnerables a travs de procesos de participacin comunitaria y dinmicas sociales responsables y sostenibles, procurando escenarios imitation hermes bracelet sale de inclusin social.
La CCN es una entidad independiente y autnoma, convocada por Ia Iglesia Catlica e integrada por ciudadanos de diversos sectores y vertientes de pensamiento, que contribuye a Ia bsqueda de salidas polticas al conflicto social y armado incluyendo a todos los actores en el mismo; aporta a la toma de conciencia por el respeto de los Derechos Humanos y el Derecho Internacional Humanitario; apoya una educacin integral para la convivencia pacfica e incide en el diseo de las polticas pblicas de paz y reconciliacin. Ejemplo de estas iniciativas es la adelantada por la YMCA (Asociacin Cristiana de Jvenes) de Colombia, en el marco de la cual ha empezado a trabajar con los jvenes en el tema de atencin a vctimas y posconflicto. Para desarrollar este tema, la YMCA ha organizado el encuentro "Recuperando la voz de los jvenes en el Posconflicto en Colombia", con el que se busca conocer la opinin, Collier de Chien hermes bracelet replica el sentir y la proyeccin de los jvenes que han sido parte del conflicto como vctimas, quienes ahora se enfrentan a un contexto cambiante y deben plantear el rumbo de su proyecto de vida y el de las comunidades.
Con este objetivo se han movilizado diversas instituciones sociales, educativas y organizaciones relacionadas con el tema, logrando convocar a 300 jvenes vctimas del conflicto en Colombia. Estos jvenes se encontraron con miembros de la Alta Consejera para los derechos de ms vctimas, la paz y la reconciliacin, la Directora de Justicia Transicional del Ministerio de Justicia y del Derecho y personal de la Oficina del Alto comisionado para la paz, entre otras autoridades, que utilizar los resultados del evento para la formulacin de las polticas pblicas de atencin de vctimas y de posconflicto. La mayora de iniciativas se circunscribe a los programas de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial establecidos por las empresas buscando garantizar el desarrollo sostenible del pas y especialmente de las comunidades en donde mantienen sus unidades operativas. Dentro de los cooperantes internacionales se destacan los siguientes:
ACDI VOCA. ACNUR. Agencia Espaola de Coopemci6n Intencional para el Desarrollo AECID . Banco Mundial. Comit International de la Cruz Roja CICR. FUPAD. GIZ Agencia Alemana para la Cooperaci6n International. Global Communities CHF International. JICA Agencia Japonesa de Cooperaci6n International. MAPP Misi6n de Apoyo al Proceso de Paz. Merey Corps. OCHA Oficina de las Naciones Unidas para la Coordinacin de Asuntos Humanitarios OIM Organizacin Internacional para las Migraciones. ONU Mujeres. PNUD Fondo de Justicia Transicional FTJ. Union Europea en Colombia. USAID Agencia de Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional.
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NEW YORK (RNS) Saralee Howard remembers the woman who walked into the Shared Pregnancy Women's Center in Lansing, Mich., last year and asked for an ultrasound even though she was leaning toward an abortion.
Howard sat with her during the ultrasound, and together they listened to the fetal heartbeat. When the woman identified herself as Christian, Howard talked about "God valuing this precious unborn child made in his image." The woman, with little money and two children, said she thought God would understand her decision.
As the woman stood to leave, Howard slipped her a Bible bookmarked to a prayer that H bracelet replica sings of God's prenatal involvement in the swelling rhythms of sacred poetry:
"For it was you who formed my inward parts," it read; "You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made."
The next day the woman canceled her abortion.
The Rev. Rebecca Voelkel, who coordinates religious programs for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, recalls a gay pride parade some years ago where she noticed a simple white poster bearing only the words "FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE."
She smiled at the public display of a phrase that had, privately, played a huge role in her own coming out.
Howard is ardently anti abortion and feels active homosexuality is a sin, if no worse than many others. Voelkel, meanwhile, supports abortion rights and is an out lesbian. But the women were citing the same hermes clic h bracelet replica verses from Psalm 139.
For decades, Psalm 139 has been a byword of the anti abortion movement, printed on posters in crisis pregnancy centers. More recently, it's been tied to high resolution ultrasounds, the movement's most potent technological persuader.
At the same time, the famous Psalm has also "come out" as a source of strength for gay and lesbian Christians.
Together, the two uses illustrate how great verses particularly the Psalms attract diverse constituencies.
All Collier de Chien hermes bracelet copy the Psalms assume intimacy with God, in petition, complaint or praise: It is why the Psalms remain one of the Bible's most indispensable and beloved books. Psalm 139 portrays that intimacy in precise yet lyrical detail.
It probably started as a kernel of a legal oath of innocence an ancient Hebrew version of "As God is my witness" and blossomed into a hymn to God's nearness to believers, wherever they roam.
"You know me when I sit down and when I rise up . I ascend to heaven, you are there," it declares. "If I make my bed in Sheol (hell) you are there . If I . settle at the farthest limits of the sea, Even there your hand shall hold me fast."
It would be wonderful affirmation enough if it ended right there. But instead, Psalm 139 extends God's familiarity backwards in time into the womb, with the stanza culminating: "I am fearfully and wonderfully made."
The womb verses arrived in the anti abortion discourse in the late 1970s, along with conservative Protestants. Sermons on Psalm 139 helped establish an anti abortion biblical bridge between Scripture minded evangelicals and Roman Catholics who are motivated by official church teaching.
When crisis pregnancy clinics arrived in commercial districts to compete with abortion clinics, the Psalm came too: often as calligraphy, on a poster over a photo of a fetus floating in a soft red light, and in counseling sessions.
Bob Foust, a longtime pregnancy center activist from Alabama, calls the verses "foundational to my life." He recalls how the elegant weave of strands of DNA reminded him of the Psalm's "knitting" language.
"It just made me go, 'wow,'" he said.
The wow factor mushroomed in the 1990s, when high tech prenatal ultrasounds struck some as Psalm on a screen.
The Southern Baptist Convention even titled its funding program for ultrasounds in pregnancy centers the "Psalm 139 Project."
Meanwhile, Psalm 139 was establishing itself in a very different context.
Initially, gay Christians looked to Bible verses privately, a kind of scriptural "sanctuary, a safe space," Voelkel said. She recalled a 1992 retreat in Puget Sound where the Sunday sermon was based on Psalm 139.
"You discern my thought from afar," she recites. "You know my lying down and my rising up.'" She paused. "There's no explicit talk about sexuality, but it's 'You know every single piece of me in my totality.' And then, 'I am fearfully and wonderfully made' this ultimate blessing.
"When people have gone their whole lives thinking there was this fight between their very flesh and their hermes bracelet sale replica identity as Christians . Everyone was in tears."
Gradually the verses surfaced in the public rhetoric of activists and those who support the "personhood" of gays and lesbians. The Rev.
NEW YORK (RNS) Saralee Howard remembers the woman who walked into the Shared Pregnancy Women's Center in Lansing, Mich., last year and asked for an ultrasound even though she was leaning toward an abortion.
Howard sat with her during the ultrasound, and together they listened to the fetal heartbeat. When the woman identified herself as Christian, Howard talked about "God valuing this precious unborn child made in his image." The woman, with little money and two children, said she thought God would understand her decision.
As the woman stood to leave, Howard slipped her a Bible bookmarked to a prayer that H bracelet replica sings of God's prenatal involvement in the swelling rhythms of sacred poetry:
"For it was you who formed my inward parts," it read; "You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made."
The next day the woman canceled her abortion.
The Rev. Rebecca Voelkel, who coordinates religious programs for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, recalls a gay pride parade some years ago where she noticed a simple white poster bearing only the words "FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE."
She smiled at the public display of a phrase that had, privately, played a huge role in her own coming out.
Howard is ardently anti abortion and feels active homosexuality is a sin, if no worse than many others. Voelkel, meanwhile, supports abortion rights and is an out lesbian. But the women were citing the same hermes clic h bracelet replica verses from Psalm 139.
For decades, Psalm 139 has been a byword of the anti abortion movement, printed on posters in crisis pregnancy centers. More recently, it's been tied to high resolution ultrasounds, the movement's most potent technological persuader.
At the same time, the famous Psalm has also "come out" as a source of strength for gay and lesbian Christians.
Together, the two uses illustrate how great verses particularly the Psalms attract diverse constituencies.
All Collier de Chien hermes bracelet copy the Psalms assume intimacy with God, in petition, complaint or praise: It is why the Psalms remain one of the Bible's most indispensable and beloved books. Psalm 139 portrays that intimacy in precise yet lyrical detail.
It probably started as a kernel of a legal oath of innocence an ancient Hebrew version of "As God is my witness" and blossomed into a hymn to God's nearness to believers, wherever they roam.
"You know me when I sit down and when I rise up . I ascend to heaven, you are there," it declares. "If I make my bed in Sheol (hell) you are there . If I . settle at the farthest limits of the sea, Even there your hand shall hold me fast."
It would be wonderful affirmation enough if it ended right there. But instead, Psalm 139 extends God's familiarity backwards in time into the womb, with the stanza culminating: "I am fearfully and wonderfully made."
The womb verses arrived in the anti abortion discourse in the late 1970s, along with conservative Protestants. Sermons on Psalm 139 helped establish an anti abortion biblical bridge between Scripture minded evangelicals and Roman Catholics who are motivated by official church teaching.
When crisis pregnancy clinics arrived in commercial districts to compete with abortion clinics, the Psalm came too: often as calligraphy, on a poster over a photo of a fetus floating in a soft red light, and in counseling sessions.
Bob Foust, a longtime pregnancy center activist from Alabama, calls the verses "foundational to my life." He recalls how the elegant weave of strands of DNA reminded him of the Psalm's "knitting" language.
"It just made me go, 'wow,'" he said.
The wow factor mushroomed in the 1990s, when high tech prenatal ultrasounds struck some as Psalm on a screen.
The Southern Baptist Convention even titled its funding program for ultrasounds in pregnancy centers the "Psalm 139 Project."
Meanwhile, Psalm 139 was establishing itself in a very different context.
Initially, gay Christians looked to Bible verses privately, a kind of scriptural "sanctuary, a safe space," Voelkel said. She recalled a 1992 retreat in Puget Sound where the Sunday sermon was based on Psalm 139.
"You discern my thought from afar," she recites. "You know my lying down and my rising up.'" She paused. "There's no explicit talk about sexuality, but it's 'You know every single piece of me in my totality.' And then, 'I am fearfully and wonderfully made' this ultimate blessing.
"When people have gone their whole lives thinking there was this fight between their very flesh and their hermes bracelet sale replica identity as Christians . Everyone was in tears."
Gradually the verses surfaced in the public rhetoric of activists and those who support the "personhood" of gays and lesbians. The Rev.
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Personalized license plates can pay when it comes to selling real estate.
Just ask Bob Lampert, an agent with Jerry Berns Associates of Sherman Oaks.
As he tells it, he was driving along one day when he came to a stoplight, looked in his rear view mirror and noticed a couple in the car behind his, trying phonetically to figure out Lampert's YRENT BY license plate.
Lampert continued to watch, waiting for the smile that comes with recognition. It takes a minute, after all, to decipher a couple of sentences seven characters long without punctuation.
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"A few times before, I jumped out of my car when the other drivers laughed as they realized what YRENT BY (Why rent? Buy) means, and I gave them my business card," he said, "but this time, I gave the couple my card, they called me, and I sold them a house."
It wasn't a huge sale about $150,000 and it was the only sale he has made through his license plate, though he has passed out 50 to 75 business cards to people on the road. "But one sale was enough to make the license plate worthwhile," he said.
Since Jan. 1, it has cost car owners $36 to buy a pair of personalized license plates, also known as environmental plates, for the state fund the fees support.
Judging from the revenues for that fund, which is used for projects to protect and conserve the state's environment, personalized license plates are about as popular now as they have ever been since they were started 17 years ago.
The total received by the California Resources Agency for the fund for this fiscal year to date is $24.2 million, in contrast with $23.6 million in 1986 87, although $24.97 million was received in 1985 86. That probably reflected the sale of special Olympics plates. The total received in 1984 '85 was only $22 million.
Personalized license plates are also known as vanity plates. One definition of "vanity" is "excessive personal pride." In terms of real estate, this also could be translated into good business.
Consider Jerry Berns' company van plates, which might have been conceived to promote teamwork and a sense of loyalty. They say: R OFFICE.
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Or Berns' own classic Rolls Royce, which he uses to chauffeur special clients to exclusive homes for private showings. Its license plate reads: JBANDA, which stands for Jerry Berns Associates.
Many real estate people have their initials, names or variations of their names on their plates, but some, like Berns, tie these into their field as well.
The husband wife team, Chuck and Carolyn Lamb, is another example. Bill Thompson fake hermes H bracelet black of Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate, the Lambs' neighbor, calls the Collier de Chien hermes bracelet replica Lambs' license plates bookends.
Chuck, past president of the San Fernando Valley Board of Realtors and president of a Century 21 franchise, has 21LAMB. Carolyn, a top salesperson in his Northridge office, has LAMB21.
Another variation of letters and numbers is on the license plate of Jeff hermes mens bracelet replica B. Rhodes, who works out of Fred Sands Realtors' Beverly Hills office. Rhodes has JBR 1. JBR are his initials, but he says the plate can also be interpreted as Jeff, Broker No. 1.
Sandra Deel, in the Westwood office of Merrill Lynch Realty, also has a double meaning plate, which reads: RE DEEL.
Diane Sharp, of Sands' Beverly Hills office, has OSHARPO, which stands for her name and, she says, "sharpest broker."
Marcella Dibble, in the Department of Motor Vehicles' Sacramento office, deals nearly every day with license plates having double entendres. Her office screens personalized license plates for meanings that are deemed offensive. Only a few are rejected each year."We try to catch them before a plate gets out," she said. Often, although some people try to get a sexy or suggestive plate, many applicants are grateful for having an objectionable double meaning pointed out. "They often just don't realize it," she explained.
Dibble estimates that there are 2 million personalized license plates in the state. How many of those are real estate related? "There's no way to tell."
In the Los Angeles area, though, there are a number, like Lampert's, that have to do strictly with real estate.
Maggie Diamond, another top producer in the Century 21 Northridge office, has 4 RE GAL.
Leha Steuer, head of the Merrill Lynch Realty relocation department and imitation hermes gold bracelet a Brentwood office broker, has the plate BY A HOUS.
Personalized license plates can pay when it comes to selling real estate.
Just ask Bob Lampert, an agent with Jerry Berns Associates of Sherman Oaks.
As he tells it, he was driving along one day when he came to a stoplight, looked in his rear view mirror and noticed a couple in the car behind his, trying phonetically to figure out Lampert's YRENT BY license plate.
Lampert continued to watch, waiting for the smile that comes with recognition. It takes a minute, after all, to decipher a couple of sentences seven characters long without punctuation.
Made License Plate Worthwhile
"A few times before, I jumped out of my car when the other drivers laughed as they realized what YRENT BY (Why rent? Buy) means, and I gave them my business card," he said, "but this time, I gave the couple my card, they called me, and I sold them a house."
It wasn't a huge sale about $150,000 and it was the only sale he has made through his license plate, though he has passed out 50 to 75 business cards to people on the road. "But one sale was enough to make the license plate worthwhile," he said.
Since Jan. 1, it has cost car owners $36 to buy a pair of personalized license plates, also known as environmental plates, for the state fund the fees support.
Judging from the revenues for that fund, which is used for projects to protect and conserve the state's environment, personalized license plates are about as popular now as they have ever been since they were started 17 years ago.
The total received by the California Resources Agency for the fund for this fiscal year to date is $24.2 million, in contrast with $23.6 million in 1986 87, although $24.97 million was received in 1985 86. That probably reflected the sale of special Olympics plates. The total received in 1984 '85 was only $22 million.
Personalized license plates are also known as vanity plates. One definition of "vanity" is "excessive personal pride." In terms of real estate, this also could be translated into good business.
Consider Jerry Berns' company van plates, which might have been conceived to promote teamwork and a sense of loyalty. They say: R OFFICE.
Tie Plates to Business
Or Berns' own classic Rolls Royce, which he uses to chauffeur special clients to exclusive homes for private showings. Its license plate reads: JBANDA, which stands for Jerry Berns Associates.
Many real estate people have their initials, names or variations of their names on their plates, but some, like Berns, tie these into their field as well.
The husband wife team, Chuck and Carolyn Lamb, is another example. Bill Thompson fake hermes H bracelet black of Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate, the Lambs' neighbor, calls the Collier de Chien hermes bracelet replica Lambs' license plates bookends.
Chuck, past president of the San Fernando Valley Board of Realtors and president of a Century 21 franchise, has 21LAMB. Carolyn, a top salesperson in his Northridge office, has LAMB21.
Another variation of letters and numbers is on the license plate of Jeff hermes mens bracelet replica B. Rhodes, who works out of Fred Sands Realtors' Beverly Hills office. Rhodes has JBR 1. JBR are his initials, but he says the plate can also be interpreted as Jeff, Broker No. 1.
Sandra Deel, in the Westwood office of Merrill Lynch Realty, also has a double meaning plate, which reads: RE DEEL.
Diane Sharp, of Sands' Beverly Hills office, has OSHARPO, which stands for her name and, she says, "sharpest broker."
Marcella Dibble, in the Department of Motor Vehicles' Sacramento office, deals nearly every day with license plates having double entendres. Her office screens personalized license plates for meanings that are deemed offensive. Only a few are rejected each year."We try to catch them before a plate gets out," she said. Often, although some people try to get a sexy or suggestive plate, many applicants are grateful for having an objectionable double meaning pointed out. "They often just don't realize it," she explained.
Dibble estimates that there are 2 million personalized license plates in the state. How many of those are real estate related? "There's no way to tell."
In the Los Angeles area, though, there are a number, like Lampert's, that have to do strictly with real estate.
Maggie Diamond, another top producer in the Century 21 Northridge office, has 4 RE GAL.
Leha Steuer, head of the Merrill Lynch Realty relocation department and imitation hermes gold bracelet a Brentwood office broker, has the plate BY A HOUS.
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Paul Scholes slams Louis van Gaal's tactics as reason for Wayne Rooney's woes
Paul Scholes has laid the blame for Wayne Rooney's poor season squarely at the door of the Manchester United manager, Louis van Gaal, saying that the Dutchman's football philosophy would leave any centre forward "tearing his hair out".
Scholes said that some of Sir Alex Ferguson's greatest centre forwards Ruud fake hermes H bracelet pink van Nistelrooy, Andy Cole, Teddy Sheringham and Dwight Yorke would be unable to operate within the strictures imposed upon them by Van Gaal, and argued that no midfielder was being encouraged to seek out Rooney with penetrative passes.
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"He has had a lot of criticism and we know he can do better. Wayne will know himself when he's on the ball he should be doing better. I think it's a very difficult team to be a centre forward in."
Van Gaal admitted two months ago that Rooney and United's vice captain, Michael Carrick, had approached him privately to tell him the dressing room was "flat". He would not disclose whether the Dutchman discouraging intuitive play was a part of their complaint.
Scholes told BBC Manchester: "I actually think the team is brilliantly coached to defend and not to give goals away, not to give the ball away. I'm not saying it as a coach but I think the hardest thing to do is to coach scoring goals, creativity and to have players who are off the cuff and can be creative.
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Van Gaal will be asked to address Scholes' concerns at a press conference to discuss Saturday's match at Crystal Palace but is likely to give them short shrift.
When Scholes warned in The Independent last December that Manchester City were developing a superior academy to United's, Van Gaal replied: " I think he has to pay attention to his words."
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Paul Scholes has laid the blame for Wayne Rooney's poor season squarely at the door of the Manchester United manager, Louis van Gaal, saying that the Dutchman's football philosophy would leave any centre forward "tearing his hair out".
Scholes said that some of Sir Alex Ferguson's greatest centre forwards Ruud fake hermes H bracelet pink van Nistelrooy, Andy Cole, Teddy Sheringham and Dwight Yorke would be unable to operate within the strictures imposed upon them by Van Gaal, and argued that no midfielder was being encouraged to seek out Rooney with penetrative passes.
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"He has had a lot of criticism and we know he can do better. Wayne will know himself when he's on the ball he should be doing better. I think it's a very difficult team to be a centre forward in."
Van Gaal admitted two months ago that Rooney and United's vice captain, Michael Carrick, had approached him privately to tell him the dressing room was "flat". He would not disclose whether the Dutchman discouraging intuitive play was a part of their complaint.
Scholes told BBC Manchester: "I actually think the team is brilliantly coached to defend and not to give goals away, not to give the ball away. I'm not saying it as a coach but I think the hardest thing to do is to coach scoring goals, creativity and to have players who are off the cuff and can be creative.
"United are coached brilliantly, probably a bit too well, where they don't look like conceding goals. I would almost say now it's a team you wouldn't want to play against because they are tight and organised and difficult to score goals against.
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Van Gaal will be asked to address Scholes' concerns at a press conference to discuss Saturday's match at Crystal Palace but is likely to give them short shrift.
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TRENTON Senators divided along unfamiliar lines to pass a landmark piece of legislation that shifts more pension and health insurance costs to New Jersey's more than 500,000 public workers.
Relying on the Republican minority instead of his own caucus, Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D Gloucester) secured passage of the controversial bill, which would double what most teachers, firefighters and police officers must pay toward their health benefits and, in many cases, triples those costs.
It would also shift the retirement age from 60 to 65 for people entering the workforce. It would eliminate cost of living increases that help workers offset inflation and property tax hikes.
And it would break off insurance plans into two options: one for treatment primarily from in state hospitals, and one that would allow workers to get out of state care presumably at a higher cost, though Sweeney could not say whether one plan would be cheaper than the other.
"We're not sure whether it's going to save money or not, we've got to design it," Sweeney said at a news conference after the vote.
With the bill's passage, Sweeney delivered a major victory to Gov. Chris Christie, who has been calling for structural reform to the pension and benefits system for months. He also accomplished a longtime goal of his own by overhauling pensions. Meanwhile, protesters decrying the legislation outside the Statehouse could be heard inside the Senate chamber.
"No one in the last 10 years has passed more pro union legislation than myself," Sweeney said on the floor of the Senate, citing laws that ensured paid family leave and minimum wage increases. But the state's pension liabilities have replica hermes h enamel bracelet spiraled out of control and legislators had a duty to act, he said.
"How will history judge us if we fail to take action today?" he asked.
The legislation (S2937) passed 24 15 with support from a handful of Democrats: Teresa Ruiz, Jeff Van Drew, Fred Madden, Jim Whelan, James Beach, Brian Stack and Donald Norcross.
Other Democrats gave floor speech after floor speech condemning the bill, saying it curtailed the rights workers won during the Civil Rights struggle, drawing applause and cheers from the audience in the gallery.
Senate Majority Leader Barbara Buono said undermining the collective bargaining process "erodes our identity as a nation."
"Today is all about politics," she said. The bill was a result of "back room deals" instead of open debate. It restricts competition, "an affront to free market principles," she said.
The state's fiscal mess was triggered by poor decisions made on Wall Street, said Sen. Linda Greenstein (D Middlesex), not by public workers' health benefits and pensions.
"Collective bargaining is a basic human right," she said. "If Gov. Dannel Malloy could use persuasion to save $1.6 billion dollars in Connecticut, we can do the same here in New Jersey."
Sen. Paul Sarlo (D Bergen), chairman of the Budget Committee, said he had yet to see any research showing costs would actually decrease. The figures cited at a Budget Committee hearing Thursday projecting that the state would save $9 million in the first year while towns saved $5 million were "made up" and "thrown as a carrot."
"No one has been able to back that up," Sarlo said.
Democrats also criticized the bundling of both bills into one. A pension overhaul by itself would have been doable, they said, and added they were dismayed Sweeney bowed to pressure from Christie, who wanted one bill instead of two.
"I find that an offensive reason not to split the bill," said Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D Bergen).
Sweeney's defenders were mostly on the Republican side of the chamber. Sen. Joseph Kyrillos (R Monmouth), a close friend of Christie's, called it a "historic day" and praised Sweeney's leadership.
Sen. Joseph Pennacchio (R Morris), the bill's co sponsor, said most increases to workers' health benefits have been legislated over the years not negotiated and New Jersey could not afford to kick the can down the road anymore.
New Jersey faces a $53.9 billion pension deficit. Health care costs have also soared, and there are $66.8 billion in unfunded liabilities. Christie has said the system is barreling toward insolvency by 2020.
"Today, the taxpayers are victors," said Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean Jr. (R Union).
Before the vote, the Senate passed an eleventh hour bill also proposed by Sweeney that loosened restrictions on public workers seeking out of state treatment.
A majority of Democrats opposed that provision, too, even though they acknowledged it was better than what Sweeney was proposing on Friday.
The provision, as it was passed today, lets public workers choose whether replica hermes bracelets to buy health insurance that covers out of state treatment or a cheaper option that directs workers to New Jersey hospitals unless a doctor decided that no one here could handle their case.
Sen. Joseph Vitale (D Middlesex) said that still puts world class medical care in New York and Philadelphia out of reach for many public workers, who will not be able to afford their share of the costs if they enrolled in the out of state plan.
Many people will be forced to take the cheaper in state plan, said Vitale and Sen. Shirley Turner (D Mercer).
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After heated debate, state senators passed controversial legislation today that would force public workers to pay more for their pension and healthcare benefits. The bill (S2937) passed 24 15 with support hermes clic clac replica from a handful of Democrats, but was decried by unions as rolling back workers rights to collective bargaining. Speaking after the vote, Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D Gloucester) said the bill was a painful concession but critical to address the state's fiscal crisis. (Video by Nyier Abdou/The Star Ledger)
TRENTON Senators divided along unfamiliar lines to pass a landmark piece of legislation that shifts more pension and health insurance costs to New Jersey's more than 500,000 public workers.
Relying on the Republican minority instead of his own caucus, Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D Gloucester) secured passage of the controversial bill, which would double what most teachers, firefighters and police officers must pay toward their health benefits and, in many cases, triples those costs.
It would also shift the retirement age from 60 to 65 for people entering the workforce. It would eliminate cost of living increases that help workers offset inflation and property tax hikes.
And it would break off insurance plans into two options: one for treatment primarily from in state hospitals, and one that would allow workers to get out of state care presumably at a higher cost, though Sweeney could not say whether one plan would be cheaper than the other.
"We're not sure whether it's going to save money or not, we've got to design it," Sweeney said at a news conference after the vote.
With the bill's passage, Sweeney delivered a major victory to Gov. Chris Christie, who has been calling for structural reform to the pension and benefits system for months. He also accomplished a longtime goal of his own by overhauling pensions. Meanwhile, protesters decrying the legislation outside the Statehouse could be heard inside the Senate chamber.
"No one in the last 10 years has passed more pro union legislation than myself," Sweeney said on the floor of the Senate, citing laws that ensured paid family leave and minimum wage increases. But the state's pension liabilities have replica hermes h enamel bracelet spiraled out of control and legislators had a duty to act, he said.
"How will history judge us if we fail to take action today?" he asked.
The legislation (S2937) passed 24 15 with support from a handful of Democrats: Teresa Ruiz, Jeff Van Drew, Fred Madden, Jim Whelan, James Beach, Brian Stack and Donald Norcross.
Other Democrats gave floor speech after floor speech condemning the bill, saying it curtailed the rights workers won during the Civil Rights struggle, drawing applause and cheers from the audience in the gallery.
Senate Majority Leader Barbara Buono said undermining the collective bargaining process "erodes our identity as a nation."
"Today is all about politics," she said. The bill was a result of "back room deals" instead of open debate. It restricts competition, "an affront to free market principles," she said.
The state's fiscal mess was triggered by poor decisions made on Wall Street, said Sen. Linda Greenstein (D Middlesex), not by public workers' health benefits and pensions.
"Collective bargaining is a basic human right," she said. "If Gov. Dannel Malloy could use persuasion to save $1.6 billion dollars in Connecticut, we can do the same here in New Jersey."
Sen. Paul Sarlo (D Bergen), chairman of the Budget Committee, said he had yet to see any research showing costs would actually decrease. The figures cited at a Budget Committee hearing Thursday projecting that the state would save $9 million in the first year while towns saved $5 million were "made up" and "thrown as a carrot."
"No one has been able to back that up," Sarlo said.
Democrats also criticized the bundling of both bills into one. A pension overhaul by itself would have been doable, they said, and added they were dismayed Sweeney bowed to pressure from Christie, who wanted one bill instead of two.
"I find that an offensive reason not to split the bill," said Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D Bergen).
Sweeney's defenders were mostly on the Republican side of the chamber. Sen. Joseph Kyrillos (R Monmouth), a close friend of Christie's, called it a "historic day" and praised Sweeney's leadership.
Sen. Joseph Pennacchio (R Morris), the bill's co sponsor, said most increases to workers' health benefits have been legislated over the years not negotiated and New Jersey could not afford to kick the can down the road anymore.
New Jersey faces a $53.9 billion pension deficit. Health care costs have also soared, and there are $66.8 billion in unfunded liabilities. Christie has said the system is barreling toward insolvency by 2020.
"Today, the taxpayers are victors," said Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean Jr. (R Union).
Before the vote, the Senate passed an eleventh hour bill also proposed by Sweeney that loosened restrictions on public workers seeking out of state treatment.
A majority of Democrats opposed that provision, too, even though they acknowledged it was better than what Sweeney was proposing on Friday.
The provision, as it was passed today, lets public workers choose whether replica hermes bracelets to buy health insurance that covers out of state treatment or a cheaper option that directs workers to New Jersey hospitals unless a doctor decided that no one here could handle their case.
Sen. Joseph Vitale (D Middlesex) said that still puts world class medical care in New York and Philadelphia out of reach for many public workers, who will not be able to afford their share of the costs if they enrolled in the out of state plan.
Many people will be forced to take the cheaper in state plan, said Vitale and Sen. Shirley Turner (D Mercer).
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Richard Eugene Glossip's attorneys asked the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals late Tuesday to stop his lethal injection, saying they uncovered new details in the case, including a signed affidavit from an inmate who served time with Justin Sneed, who also was convicted of the killing and is serving a life sentence.
"We're asking for a stay of execution to give the court more time to review this new evidence, which we think casts grave doubt on Richard's guilt," said Mark Henricksen, one of Glossip's attorneys.
Glossip, 52, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday afternoon at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. He was convicted of ordering the 1997 beating death of Barry Van Treese, who owned the motel where Glossip worked.
Sneed was the prosecution's key witness and testified that Glossip masterminded the killing because he was afraid Van Treese was about to fire him for embezzling money and poorly managing the motel. "I'll hope for the best. I won't let it bring me down. If you've got to go out. you don't want to be bitter and angry about it."
Glossip's case has drawn attention from death penalty opponents, and his family and supporters rallied Tuesday at the Oklahoma Capitol. They want Republican Gov.
Among his supporters is Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon, who played a nun in the movie "Dead Man Walking." The woman Sarandon portrayed, anti death penalty advocate Sister Helen Prejean, serves as Glossip's spiritual adviser and plans to attend his execution Wednesday. Wednesday.
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Richard Eugene Glossip's attorneys asked the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals late Tuesday to stop his lethal injection, saying they uncovered new details in the case, including a signed affidavit from an inmate who served time with Justin Sneed, who also was convicted of the killing and is serving a life sentence.
"We're asking for a stay of execution to give the court more time to review this new evidence, which we think casts grave doubt on Richard's guilt," said Mark Henricksen, one of Glossip's attorneys.
Glossip, 52, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday afternoon at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. He was convicted of ordering the 1997 beating death of Barry Van Treese, who owned the motel where Glossip worked.
Sneed was the prosecution's key witness and testified that Glossip masterminded the killing because he was afraid Van Treese was about to fire him for embezzling money and poorly managing the motel. "I'll hope for the best. I won't let it bring me down. If you've got to go out. you don't want to be bitter and angry about it."
Glossip's case has drawn attention from death penalty opponents, and his family and supporters rallied Tuesday at the Oklahoma Capitol. They want Republican Gov.
Among his supporters is Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon, who played a nun in the movie "Dead Man Walking." The woman Sarandon portrayed, anti death penalty advocate Sister Helen Prejean, serves as Glossip's spiritual adviser and plans to attend his execution Wednesday. Wednesday.
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