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Monthly Archives: June 2017
Tories have ‘shameful record’ on FOBT gambling, says Labour – The Guardian
Posted: June 7, 2017 at 5:47 pm
A FOBT gambling machine in a Paddy Power betting shop in east London. Photograph: David Levene/the Guardian
The Labour party has accused the government of failing to act on fixed-odds betting terminals, after data showed that gamblers losses are largest in deprived areas and opposition-held constituencies.
A breakdown of estimated losses by parliamentary constituency shows that areas where voters chose Labour in the 2015 election make up eight of the top 10 most affected. Of 62 constituencies where gamblers lost more than 5m in 2015-16, 47 are Labour, five are Scottish National party areas and 10 are Conservative.
Both Labour and the Liberal Democrats have promised in their general election manifestos to cut the maximum stake on FOBTs from 100 to 2. The Conservative manifesto did not address the issue and the government has so far resisted calls for stake reduction, pending a review due to be published this summer.
The data also shows a greater concentration of betting shops in areas with higher rates of poverty, fuelling existing concerns that bookmakers are clustering their shops in deprived areas.
Labours deputy leader, Tom Watson, said: Theresa Mays government has repeatedly failed to act on FOBTs, despite being presented with evidence they are highly addictive and target people who struggle to control their gambling.
Local councils see the damage FOBTs cause in communities up and down the country but the Tories have simply refused to talk about how to tackle this problem. Its a shameful record of inaction which confirms the Tories will always place corporate interests ahead of people.
Despite the prominence of Labour constituencies in the top 10, the highest losses were recorded in a Conservative seat, the Cities of London and Westminster, where gamblers lost 31m in 120 bookmakers, an average of more than 250,000 per shop.
The data, which shows that nine of the top 10 biggest losses are in London constituencies, may be skewed by the high number of people who do not live in those areas but pass through for work and tourism. Outside London, the worst affected constituency was Glasgow Central, where gamblers lost 10m on FOBTs in 66 betting shops, followed by Liverpool Riverside, where bookies took 8.1m.
And the constituencies outside London that suffered the biggest losses are also dominated by Labour and the SNP. Of the 15 where FOBTs took more than 5m, nine are Labour, five are SNP and one is Conservative.
While there is no official data on losses by constituency, the estimates were compiled by consultancy Landman Economics on behalf of the Campaign for Fairer Gambling, by cross-referencing data released by the Gambling Commission and the Responsible Gambling Trust.
The statistics used to calculate the estimates include the number of bookmakers in local authority areas and the average losses in each region of the UK. The total estimated figure of 1.7bn for all constituencies tallies with the amount the Gambling Commission said bookies took from FOBTs in the 2015-16 year.
The data also provide fresh evidence of clustering by bookmakers, which have been accused of targeting areas suffering from low wages, high unemployment and high rates of child poverty. Forty-three parliamentary constituencies have more than 30 betting shops, of which 74% have a higher-than-average claimant count for jobseekers allowance or universal credit. About two-thirds have an average weekly wage below the national median, while 79% report above-average child poverty rates.
A spokesperson for the Campaign for Fairer Gambling said: This research shows that bookmakers are targeting the most deprived parts of the country with a highly addictive gambling product. They circumvent the limit of four FOBTs per shop by opening multiple outlets, which leads to clustering. It is welcome that both Labour and the Liberal Democrats have committed to reducing the maximum stake to 2 in their manifestos.
If Theresa May really wants to help those who are just about managing then she will commit to the same.
Bookmakers rake in 1.8bn a year from FOBTs, according to figures released last month, more than half of their annual revenue.
A spokesperson for the Association of British Bookmakers said: This research is deeply flawed, the reality is that betting shops are located in areas of high footfall with 84% of shops located in densely populated areas.
The most profitable shops are located in the least deprived areas.
Those with vested commercial interests in calling for a cut in stakes on bookie gaming machines want to put 21,000 people out of good jobs, close 4,500 full business rate paying shops, deprive horse racing of 290m in media payments and drive people to other forms of gambling while doing nothing to address problem gambling.
Bookmakers have argued that there is no causal link between FOBTs and problem gambling, and that curbing the maximum amount that can be staked on the machines could cost jobs and deprive the exchequer of taxes.
Jim Mullen, the chief executive of betting firm Ladbrokes Coral, has said cutting the maximum stake could cost up to 20,000 jobs. But campaigners and rival segments of the gambling industry, which support greater curbs on FOBTs, have questioned the claims.
John White, the chief executive of amusement arcade trade body Bacta, said the warnings were scaremongering, designed to shore up a status quo that puts consumers at risk.
Landman Economics has previously said that FOBTs represent a net drain on the economy, despite the tax revenues they provide. The economic research consultancy said FOBTs have actually reduced HMRCs tax income by 1.3bn since 2008 because the money spent on them would be more productive if spent elsewhere.
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‘Massive decrease’: Dog euthanasia cases drop 92% as number of pooch licences soars – CBC.ca
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Significantly fewer dogs are beingeuthanized in Winnipeg at a time when the numberof owners registering their pets continues tosoar.
"There are less animals coming in, but there's a massive decrease as far as euthanizations,"said Leland Gordon, chief operating officer for the city'sAnimal Services Agency.
The agency continues to take inabout 1,000 pets each year, but that's down from closer to 1,500 in 2008,Gordon said. Twenty-eightdogs were euthanized in 2016, compared to 359 in 2008.
"The residents of Winnipeg, the taxpayers can be really happy to hear a stat like that," Gordon said.
One big reason for the decline, Gordon says, is a rise in dog and cat licences in the city.
Fifty per cent more owners registered their dogs with the city in 2016 than in 2008.
More than 54,000 dog and 28,900 cat owners licensed their pets last year, compared to in 2015when 48,600 dog and 22,900 cat licenses were issued.
Thanks to that uptick in licensing, Gordon said 311 operators have been able to help about 600 lost pets find their way back home in recent years.
But the drop ineuthanasiafor pets isn't just from a rise in licensing, Gordon said.
"We've been doing a lot ofprogressivethings in the past few years to try and save really as many animals as possible," Gordon said.
Public awareness campaigns on social media andcommunity outreach initiatives about responsible pet ownershiphave also helped, he said.
"We go to over 30 community events a year," Gordon said."I think people are seeing more of animal services in the community and they're becoming more responsible."
Gordon previously said the agency was only able to find homes for 75 per cent of the dogs it rescued in 2008. Posting cuddly photos of adoptable dogs online a few years ago has helped change that, he said.
All of the agency's social media accounts are maintained by volunteers, Gordon says, and they often work with groups such as Winnipeg Lost Dog Alerts to reunitepups withtheir rightful owners.
Euthanasia will always be used in the case ofaggressive or terminally ill dogs that are brought into animal services and can't be released back into the community, Gordon said.
"Willnever be zero, but we can work as a team to keep that number as low as possible," hesaid.
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Oakland County animal shelter’s decreasing euthanasia rates mirror national trend – The Daily Tribune
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Over several decades, the Oakland County Animal Control and Pet Adoption Center is following a national trend toward euthanizing less animals brought in.
Bob Gatt, director of the shelter, says that the facility hovers at about a 90-percent no-kill rate, a number that is looked upon favorably in the industry.
Gatt says there are several factors in the trend in Oakland County toward lower euthanasia rates:
There is no time limit on how long an adoptable pet can stay in the shelter awaiting a new home, a change from decades ago. Weve had animals in here for over a year, he says.
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There is better education about having pets spayed and neutered, resulting in less unwanted litters of puppies and kittens, Gatt said.
More prospective pet owners are aware of the option of adopting a dog or cat from a shelter, he said.
According to some estimates, animal shelters nationwide killed as many as 20 million cats and dogs annually in the 1970s. That had fallen to 2.6 million by 2011 and to 1.5 million currently, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The Oakland County shelter handles 4,000 to 5,000 animals per year. Generally, only those deemed unadoptable are euthanized. Unadoptable animals are seriously ill or injured without a reasonable hope of improving, deemed vicious or have traits that make them unsuitable to be pets, Gatt said.
The shelter, at 1700 Brown Road in Auburn Hills, employs several full-time veterinary technicians and part-time veterinarians. Animals brought in sick or injured are treated on site whenever possible or sent out to a veterinarian for treatment if no staff member is available.
Animals rights groups consistently question the shelters euthanasia figures, but Gatt says those groups are an important factor in the decrease in animals being put down.
Over the years, the groups have brought awareness to more humane treatment of animals.
Even the ones who dont like me, I applaud them, Gatt said.
A new state-of-the-art shelter is to open this summer in the Oakland County municipal complex at Telegraph and Pontiac Lake roads.
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11 ‘awesome’ dogs face euthanasia – Las Cruces Sun-News
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Doa Ana County-Las Cruces shelter officials are seeking homes for 11 dogs with treatable conditions that otherwise will be euthanized. Some of the adoptable dogs are seen here.(Photo: Courtesy)
LAS CRUCES - Shelter officials are seeking homes for 11 dogs with treatable conditions that otherwise will be euthanized next week.
Shelter officials said they won't hold the dogs past June 14, roughly one week from now.
Three of the dogs are heartworm-positive, while eight areEhrlichiaAnaplasmosis-positive.
"Understand that we testall dogs(for these illnesses) before adoption or a transfer toanother adoption agency,which is whyeverymonthwe have these positive dogs to find assistance with," said shelter Executive Director Beth Vesco-Mock. "Thesedogs are otherwiseextremely healthyand are extremelybehaviorallysound."
Adoption fees will be waived for the dogs, which have tended to be more difficult to adopt out because of their conditions.
"If anyone is interested in these awesome animals,I would encourage you to consult withyourveterinarian for treatment options," Vesco-Mock said. "Then, if still interested, please stop in the ASCMV at 3551 Bataan Memorial West and meet your new family pet."
To find out how to adopt one of the dogs,call the ASCMV or stop in at the shelter, 3551 Bataan Memorial West in Las Cruces. Information: 575-382-0018.
Shelter officials said the high numbers ofheartworm- andEhrlichiaAnaplasmosis-positive dogs at the facility show that the diseasesare prevalent in Doa Ana County. They encouraged pet owners to get their pets on preventative regimens to reduce the risk of heartworm infection. Also, pet owners can attempt to reduce animals' exposure to ticks, which spread Ehrlichia and Anaplasmosis.
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Letter: Judges should get say in drug sentencing – Times Herald-Record
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CNN recently reported that a federal judge in Iowa reluctantly imposed the federal mandatory minimum drug sentence of five years in prison on a grandmother who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute five or more grams of methamphetamine. The judge noted that had she been tried in state court, she would have gotten probation since she was never in trouble with the law before.
Mandatory sentencing takes administering the law out of judges' hands, leaving them unable to consider all mitigating circumstances. The judge should have authority over administering the law, not federal agencies in D.C. and certainly not Attorney General Jeff Sessions, since neither hear these cases. Mandatory sentencing on those convicted of victimless crimes also impose an economic burden on society, who not only has to pay room and board of the convicted in prison, but also the families of those convicted are deprived of the economic and family role that those convicted of victimless crimes played at home.
This imposes a burden on the rest of society, for the people left behind need to be provided for to the extent they can't provide for themselves. Put federal drug sentencing back in the hands of the judges where it belongs.
Michael Radowitz
Newburgh
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Making Whitefish best it can be – The Missoulian
Posted: at 5:46 pm
I am running for Whitefish Municipal Court judge for one reason: to make the court and our community the best it can be.
My initial goal is to reduce your taxes. I will make the judge position part-time, with a corresponding reduction in salary, to save your tax bill. I want to increase efficiency.
I will use video arraignments to free county deputies for patrol rather than transporting prisoners. This will also make scarce jail space available for more serious offenders.
I will improve case resolution by implementing simple business practices, such as telephone conferences, so citizens will not miss work to resolve a parking ticket and visitors will not have to make multiple return visits for a traffic violation.
I will punish domestic violence. On average, a woman is beaten 25 times before she makes a police report. Women are killed by abusers at twice the rate of our troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. Fifty to 75 percent of those deaths are when she leaves her abuser. I will issue restraining orders when a victim makes the courageous decision to seek help, and will strongly punish domestic abusers.
I will protect our community from drunk drivers and those without insurance or licenses. These are not victimless crimes. I will impose maximum penalties, including treatment and interlock devices, to protect each of your families and our community.
I will do more with less of your tax dollars. You are being taxed for a new city hall, a new high school and the Haskill Basin conservation easement. Soon you will be asked to pay for a new middle school and a new county jail. As I said, I will reduce the courts budget, beginning with the judges salary.
I will bring experience to the job. I am the only candidate who has served as Brad Johnsons sub-judge. As Johnson's sub-judge, I handled all cases when he was absent, had a conflict of interest or did not want to handle the case.
I have long been a public servant. I have lived and practiced law in Whitefish for 26 years. I have been Planning Board chairman, Flathead Countys Employer of Choice and the Whitefish Chambers Citizen of the Year.
For more information on my background, experience and goals, go to my website at http://www.tornowforwhitefish.com or call me at 862-7450.
With all these things in mind, I respectfully ask for your vote in November so that together, we can make the court and our community the best it can be.
Tom Tornow is a candidate for Whitefish municipal judge.
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Schenectady man sentenced to 7 years in prison for child porn – Albany Times Union
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ALBANY A Schenectady man was sentenced to seven years and three months in prison Tuesday for receiving and possessing child pornography.
Jeffrey Butler, 33, was also sentenced to 15 years of post-release supervision.
While pleading guilty on Feb. 6, Butler admitted he used the Internet and a peer-to-peer file sharing program to download more than 300 child pornography files.
"Many, many people continue to believe that viewing child pornography is a victimless crime," U.S. District Judge Mae A. D'Agostino said before sentencing Butler. "But it is important, I think, for the record to establish that what you were viewing, Mr. Butler, was horrendous crimes being committed against children who are real children
"They're not fake, they're not three-dimensional caricatures, and it's not victimless," the judge said. "Every time you view child pornography, you are prolonging and perpetuating the agony that these real children sustained when they were being tortured and raped as depicted in many of the images and films that you viewed."
Investigators found videos and still images depicting the sexual exploitation of children on electronic devices inside Butler's home, according U.S. Attorney Richard S. Hartunian of the Northern District of New York, and James C. Spero, Special Agent in Charge of the Buffalo Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations.
This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Emmet O'Hanlon as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to protect children from online exploitation and abuse.
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Trump Defies Corporate America – Daily Reckoning
Posted: at 5:46 pm
Many Americans hold a cartoonists view of the corporate titan.
They see him as a sort of Wild West cowboy or an Ayn Rand oversoul cursing the heavy hand of government as a fellow who pounds his drum for laissez faire.
Yet after Trump withdrew from the Paris climate accord and its bible of government regulations, who sobbed loudest?
The corporate titans.
From a New York Times editorial, bearing date of 1 June 2017:
In January, 630 businesses and investors with names like DuPont, Hewlett-Packard and Pacific Gas and Electric signed an open letter to then-President-elect Trump and Congress, calling on them to continue supporting low-carbon policies, investment in a low-carbon economy and American participation in the Paris agreement.
In fact, a nearly united corporate front took out full-page advertisements in the Times, the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal, all declaring for Paris.
And so the fierce corporate man of myth goes herding into the regulatory pens willingly and happily.
This because Corporate America has discovered its soul or at least its conscience.
Thats the impression theyd like to leave, anyway.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, announced his piety by revealing he would no longer counsel Trump:
Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world.
Alex Gorsky of Johnson & Johnson moans: We have established science-based goals to decrease our carbon footprint and we remain committed to achieving them.
Ah, but here, Wal-Mart president and CEO Doug McMillon gives the game away:
Addressing climate change is a win-win: good for society and good for Wal-Mart.
Key element: Good for Wal-Mart.
One eye fixes on society, that is the other on the bottom line.
Which eye do you think Mr. McMillon favors or the other gentlemen?
Cast to one side your opinion of climate change and consider this question:
Why is Corporate America so hot to be regulated?
Real America deserves a square answer.
Regulation saddles business with extra costs and saws into profits, after all.
And a study by National Economic Research Associates suggests that complying with Paris emissions targets could cost 2.7 million jobs by 2025.
Another study says Paris would have slashed U.S. GDP over $2.5 trillion by 2035.
According to our lights, the answer is this:
Corporate America embraced the Paris accord because it would have gained from it.
Regulation annoys the Johnson & Johnsons, Whirlpools and DuPonts.
But its an impossible burden for the striving upstart or the fellow on the middle rungs. They cant afford it. So they cant compete.
Regulation therefore builds protective moats around corporations. It pulls up the drawbridge on competitors. It repels invaders.
In nuce: corporations consider costly regulation a trade-off well worth the annoyance.
Economists have a term for it: rent seeking.
To cement our case, we summon the small businesses of America to the witness stand
The New York Times:
The move has opened up a fissure between smaller companies and some of the biggest names in business
While multinational corporations such as Disney, Goldman Sachs and IBM have opposed the presidents decision to walk away from the international climate agreement, many small companies around the country were cheering him on, embracing the choice as a tough-minded business move that made good on Mr. Trumps commitment to put Americas commercial interests first.
This just heightens the divide between big business and small business, testifies Jeffrey Korzenik, investment strategist for Fifth Third Bank. They really have different worldviews.
And so the prosecution rests
Here at The Daily Reckoning, we have no heat against corporations as such.
And no one has ever accused us of hostility to capitalism or to the shade of Adam Smith.
But we hold a violent prejudice against swindle against fraud in all his forms in brief, against crony capitalism itself.
We say stand business on its own two legs and let it rise or fall on its merit let the winners take their cut and let the devil take the hindmost.
Or to return to our castle metaphor, drain the moat pull down the drawbridge and let societys true innovators through the gates.
It might not necessarily be the American way but its the honest way
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Brian Maher Managing Editor, The Daily Reckoning
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Indiana Libertarian Party holding ‘drink-in’ to protest new cold beer law – WRTV Indianapolis
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INDIANAPOLIS -- The Libertarian Party of Indiana plans to hold a "drink-in" Sunday to protest a new law closing the so-called "cold-beer loophole" Ricker's convenience stores discovered.
The protest, which will be held from 3-5 p.m. Sunday at the Ricker's located at 1711 25th Street in Columbus, Indiana, will object to the "unnecessary and extensively over-reaching laws governing the sale of alcoholic beverages in Indiana."
"Attempts have been made to restore economic liberty in alcohol sales in the past," the party said in a statement Tuesday. "However, these attempts typically result in the laws benefiting a select group of well-funded, politically connected businesses, while excluding other businesses. Rickers was on the losing end of one such piece of recent legislation."
In May, Gov. Eric Holcomb signed HEA1496 into law, mandating that beginning May 14, "a restaurant may not sell carryout unless at least 60 percent of its gross retail income from alcoholic beverage sales is derived from sales of alcoholic beverages consumed on the premises.
At the time, Holcomb said he signed the law "with the understanding we need to review and make common-sense changes to Indiana's alcohol laws."
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On Monday, Ricker's released the results of a poll it commissioned that found 70 percent of Hoosiers surveyed believed drug, grocery and convenience stores should have the right to carry cold beer.
The poll also found Hoosiers "strongly favored allowing Sunday carryout sales."
Indiana remains the only state in the U.S. with an outright ban on alcohol sales on Sunday. Bills have been introduced during the past three sessions to lift that ban, but all three have failed.
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Students protest racism at liberal arts college in Minnesota
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NORTHFIELD, Minn. (AP) Hundreds of students boycotted classes at St. Olaf College in southern Minnesota on Monday and instead packed an administration building to protest a rash of racist and threatening messages left around campus at the liberal arts college.
The protests erupted over the weekend after one black student, Samantha Wells, found an anonymous note on her car windshield Saturday calling her a racial slur.
"I am so glad you are leaving soon," the note read. "You have spoken up too much. You will change nothing. Shut up or I will shut you up."
After the boycott was announced, the St. Olaf administration cancelled classes for the day so students, faculty and staff could discuss racism and diversity on the private Lutheran school's campus. St. Olaf President David Anderson met with protesters in the afternoon and signed a framework agreement on how to proceed with addressing those issues.
The school released a statement saying other reported racist acts included written racial epithets, and that officials considered it "deeply troubling" that the latest messages were directed at specific individuals.
There have been no reports of physical attacks at the college in Northfield, which is about 45 miles (70 kilometers) south of Minneapolis.
St. Olaf has about 3,000 students, and its student body is 74 percent white, 6 percent Asian, 6 percent Hispanic and 2 percent black, according to the school's website.
Speakers at a rally in the atrium at Tomson Hall on Monday morning demanded that St. Olaf adopt a policy of zero tolerance for racism. Some protest leaders interrupted a meeting led by Anderson, reading aloud an 11-page list of demands.
"Our mission is to hold the administration and students of St. Olaf College accountable for the institutionalized racism that is embedded within the structures of this campus", the document said. "We aim that St. Olaf College will recognize that these racially charged reported and unreported hate crimes are not driven by individual incidents or students, but an ideology that is continuously supported by the administration's lack of action and the student body's harmful attitudes."
The school said it was working with police to determine who was behind the racist messages. Northfield Police Chief Monte Nelson said his department's role was primarily advisory and that it had not opened a formal investigation.
"Someone, somewhere knows who is perpetrating these acts of racism," the statement said, urging anyone with information to come forward.
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