Monday, July 30, 2012

Chinese tourist robbed in Genting Highlands, man held

KUANTAN, July 30 ? A 38-year-old man was arrested in Genting Highlands on Saturday after he allegedly robbed a female tourist from China the previous day.?

The 37-year-old tourist was robbed in her hotel room in the highlands resort at about 4.30am on Friday, said Pahang CID secretariat officer ASP Noor Asyikin Shamsuri.?

?The suspect, who worked as a cook in the highlands resort and known to the victim, knocked on her door at about 4.30am. He pounced on her after she opened the door and tied her up with mobile phone charger wires.?

?He then ransacked the room and got away with three mobile phones and RM1,900. The victim?s losses amounted to about RM5,000,? said Noor Asyikin.

The suspect has six previous criminal records, including drug cases. ? Bernama

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Sunday, July 29, 2012

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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Band to Peregrine CEO: Sharona, Verona, as long as you pay us

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Russell R. Wasendorf Sr., chief executive of Peregrine Financial Group, who was arrested earlier this month after confessing to bilking customers for 20 years, is accused of stealing something else: a rock and roll tune.

On Friday, attorneys for the 1970s rock band The Knack -- famous for its song "My Sharona" -- sent a cease and desist letter to Wasendorf and his now-shuttered Italian restaurant MyVerona in Cedar Falls, Iowa, to stop him from using a re-recording of the tune as part of the eatery's online advertising campaign.

The restaurant had used the song, with the chorus modified to "M-M-M-My Verona," for several years as a theme song on its web site and other online venues, according to local residents and former company employees.

Among other things, the song served as a soundtrack to a video montage shot inside the restaurant, including clips of a plate of wood-grilled beef tenderloin, hand-cut pasta and a glimpse of the restaurant's collection of more than 240 varieties of wine. As of Friday afternoon, two weeks after Wasendorf was arrested at an Iowa hospital, the video was still available on YouTube and the restaurant's web site.

Wasendorf never contacted the authors of the song or the copyright owners and did not pay for the right to use it commercially, according to a letter sent by an attorney representing Knack bandmates Berton Averre and Doug Fieger, the song's authors.

"The Composition is one of the most popular songs of all time, and companies pay our client significant sums for the right to obtain a license for the use of the composition," according to the letter, which noted that Wasendorf could face as much as $150,000 in statutory damages.

The public defender representing Wasendorf was not immediately available for comment.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has accused Wasendorf of misappropriating more than $200 million of his brokerage's customers' funds.

"All he had to do was pay us and send us a copy of the lyrics so we can OK them," Averre said. "We got bubkes. It's really outlandish, that someone in this day and age tried to get away with this."

(Editing by Prudence Crowther)

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Friday, July 27, 2012

Paul Chambers v DPP: full appeal judgment | Scrapper Duncan

Commentary

Not so long ago the High Court found its routine grant of the now infamous superinjunctions undermined by twitter users. The stage was set for an ugly confrontation between the slow paced development of the law and the fast paced development of society. Today the High Court has confounded its severest critics in the so-called Twitter Joke Trial by overturning a conviction for a joke about terrorism. That?s a subject few politicians would dare trespass into despite the public being so well disposed to ribald humour and the like. The High Court has now declared that on twitter there are, ?jokes (bad ones as well as good ones)?.

I won?t trouble you with an explanation of the case. Either you are already familiar with them or you can read them below in the judgment, which is written in plain English. If you are unused to reading law, don?t be put off by the short sections which refer to the common law of previous cases or legislation. They are short. The judgment makes reference to other cases simply because other appeal judges have already given judgments on matters which may or not be pertinent. Two phrases may require some explanation for the unitiated: actus reus and mens rea. These latin expressions mean, firstly, a criminal action and, secondly, a criminal intent. Almost all English (and Welsh) criminal law requires both an actus reus and a mens rea for a conviction to become possible.

Beyond demonstrating its sense of humour and freedom from our paranoid culture, the High Court has conspicuously shown it appreciates free speech includes many qualities. It explains that in the most wonderful turn of phrase. You?ll rarely see a politician make such a solid defence, let alone so eloquent:

?The 2003 Act did not create some newly minted interference with the first of President Roosevelt?s essential freedoms ? freedom of speech and expression. Satirical, or iconoclastic, or rude comment, the expression of unpopular or unfashionable opinion about serious or trivial matters, banter or humour, even if distasteful to some or painful to those subjected to it should and no doubt will continue at their customary level, quite undiminished by this legislation. Given the submissions by Mr Cooper, we should perhaps add that for those who have the inclination to use ?Twitter? for the purpose, Shakespeare can be quoted unbowdlerised, and with Edgar, at the end of King Lear, they are free to speak not what they ought to say, but what they feel.?

The problem faced by all the judges who have heard this case is an age old problem with any system of law. Legislation is written, society moves on and the question arises as to whether any particular incident is one which our parliamentarians intended to be covered by a particular law. It cannot be any other way. Here again, we find our most expert judges turning to a dictionary to discover the meaning of the words approved by our rather unprofessional legislators. We also find them examining a case on the merits of its facts as well as the law. Whilst there can be no doubt that this judgment will be very influential, it is important to realise that it does turn rather heavily on the facts involved, many of which were only apparent some time after the sending of the original tweet. In particular, the slowness of the response to the tweet. The point here is that the law accepts that, with respect to this particular offence, itself a previously unused and somewhat obscure piece of legislation, context is everything.

Therefore, people should not assume that they can use twitter to make threats of terrorism and then escape liability. It may be that politicians decide to create new laws to cope with the sudden consequences of social media. Amongst our legal commentators, myself included, there is no perception that this is necessary. The risk is that we?ll suffer more rushed legislation. Politicians do like to look good by making others look bad, as with the owners of certain non existent animals (Dangerous Dogs Act). Although the phenomenon of social media is new, there is no urgency for creating legislation to cover it. It is true that threats are made there. I have been followed on twitter by people whose biographical information self describes them as wanting to ?Kill all reds? and the like. Doubtless, many of these people are stupid, will be caught and will be convicted under existing legislation.

Curiously, all these new forms of communication are saving the government an awful lot of money because so much of their content is either completely public or is very easy to access. How many people on Facebook truly know all their new friends? Our security and intelligent services no longer have to expend so many resources working out how to track the correspondences of miscreants, they just watch the social networks. Although the best trained terrorists doubtless avoid such channels, there will be much revealed there which catches the newbie criminal before s/he properly gets started on a dangerous career.

Here?s the judgment in full. To anyone who says the law is hard to understand, they need only read this to see that it is very often explained as simply as our complex society will allow.

Judgment

Neutral Citation Number: [2012] EWHC 2157

Case No: CO/2350/2011

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
QUEEN?S BENCH DIVISION
DIVISIONAL COURT
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Date: 27/07/2012

Before :
THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND AND WALES
MR JUSTICE OWEN
MR JUSTICE GRIFFITH WILLIAMS
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Between :
Paul Chambers
- and -
Director of Public Prosecutions
Appellant
Respondent
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John Cooper QC and Sarah Przybylska (instructed by David Allen Green Preiskel & Co LLP) for the Appellant

Robert Smith QC (instructed by Director of Public Prosecutions) for the Respondent

Hearing date: 27th June 2012
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Approved Judgment
Paul Chambers v DPP
Judgment Approved by the court for handing down.

The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Judge:
This is the judgment of the Court.

Introduction
1.?? ? This is an appeal by way of case stated from the decision of the Crown Court at Doncaster (Her Honour Judge Davies and Justices) on 3rd March 2011 upholding the conviction of the appellant in the Magistrates Court for sending by a public electronic communication network a message of a ?menacing character? contrary to s.127(1)(a) and (3) of the Communications Act 2003 (the Act).
2.?? ? Section 127 of the Act addresses the problem of the unlawful use of the public electronic communications network. It provides:
?(1) A person is guilty of an offence if he ?
(a) sends by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character; or
(b) causes any such message or matter to be so sent.
(2) A person is guilty of an offence if, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to
another, he -
(a) sends by means of a public electronic communications network, a message that he knows to be false,
(b) causes such a message to be sent; or
(c) persistently makes use communications network. of a public electronic
(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to both. ??
3.
Section 32 of the Act provides that electronic communications network means:
?(a) a transmission system for the conveyance, by the use of electrical, magnetic or electro-magnetic energy, of signals of any description: and
(b) such of the following as are used, by the persons providing the system and in association with it, for the conveyance of the signals ?
(i) apparatus comprised in the system;

(ii) apparatus used for the switching or routing of the signal;
and
(iii) software and stored data.
(2)?? ? In this Act ?electronic communications service? means a service consisting
in, or having as its principal feature, the conveyance by means of an electronic communications network of signals, except in so far as it is a content service?
(3)?? ? In this Act ?
a)
References to the provision of an electronic communications network include references to its establishment, maintenance or operation ?
(7) In sub-section (2) ?a content service? means so much of any service as consists in one or both of the following ?
(a)?? ? (b)
4.
The provision of material with a view to its being comprised in signals conveyed by means of an electronic communications network; The exercise of editorial control over the contents of signals conveyed by means of such a network.
Section 151(1) is an interpretation section. It provides
(1) In this Chapter ?
?Public electronic communications network? means an electronic communications network provided wholly or mainly for the purpose of making electronic communications services available to members of the public;
?Public electronic communications service? means any electronic communications service that is provided so as to be available for use by members of the public;?.
The facts
5.?? ? We take the essential facts from the case stated.
6.?? ? The appellant was 26 years old at the time with which the court is concerned, a well educated young man of previous good character, holding a responsible job as an administration and finance supervisor.
7.?? ? The appellant was, and is, a registered user of the ?Twitter? social networking platform, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., an American Corporation, typically accessed by a registered user by means of the internet. ?Twitter? was not invented until 2006, that is after the enactment of the Act, but, as is the way with modern means of communication, its daily use by millions of people throughout the world has rocketed.
8.?? ? Each registered user adopts a unique user name or ?Twitter handle?. The appellant used his own name for this purpose and was registered as ?@PaulJChambers?, with a personal photograph as his account picture.
9.?? ? In very brief terms ?Twitter? enables its users to post messages (of no more than 140 characters) on the ?Twitter? interne and other sites. Such messages are called ?tweets?. ?Tweets? include expressions of opinion, assertions of fact, gossip, jokes (bad ones as well as good ones), descriptions of what the user is or has been doing, or where he has been, or intends to go. Effectively it may communicate any information at all that the user wishes to send, and for some users, at any rate, it represents no more and no less than conversation without speech.
10.?? ? Those who use ?Twitter? can be ?followed? by other users and ?Twitter? users often enter into conversations or dialogues with other ?Twitter? users. Depending on how a user posts his ?tweets?, they can become available for others to read. A ?public time line? of a user shows the most recent ?tweets?. Unless they are addressed as a direct message to another ?Twitter? user or users, in which case the message will only be seen by the user posting the ?tweet?, and the specific user or users to whom it is addressed, the followers of a ?Twitter? user are able to access his or her messages. Accordingly most ?tweets? remain visible to the user and his/her followers for a short while, until they are replaced by more recently posted ?tweets?. As every ?Twitter? user appreciates or should appreciate, it is possible for non-followers to access these ?public time lines? and they, too, can then read the messages. It is also possible for non-users to use the ?Twitter? search facility to find ?tweets? of possible interest to them.
11.?? ? Using ?Twitter? the appellant met another user of ?Twitter?, identified as ?Crazy Colours?, on line. She is a woman who lives in Northern Ireland. They started communicating using ?Twitter?, and a romance developed. The appellant was due to fly to Belfast from Doncaster Robin Hood Airport to meet ?Crazycolours? on 15 January 2010.
12.?? ? On 6 January 2010, following an alert on ?Twitter?, the appellant became aware of problems at Doncaster, Robin Hood Airport, due to adverse weather conditions. He and Crazycolours had a dialogue on ?Twitter?. Two messages were referred to in the Crown Court. They were:

?@ Crazycolours: I was thinking that if it does then I had decided to resort to terrorism?:
?@ Crazycolours: That?s the plan! I am sure the pilots will be expecting me to demand a more exotic location than NI?.

In context, this seems to have been a reference to the possibility of the airport closing, but the picture was incomplete because no reply from Crazycolours was produced. Some two hours later, when he heard that the airport had closed, he posted the following message:

?Crap! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You?ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise I am blowing the airport sky high!!?

The message was posted onto the public time line, which meant that it was available to be read by some 600, or so, of the followers of his ?Twitter? postings.
13.?? ? There was no evidence before the Crown Court to suggest that any of the followers of the appellant?s ?tweet?, or indeed anyone else who may have seen the ?tweet? posted on the appellant?s time line, found it to be of a menacing character or, at a time when the threat of terrorism is real, even minimally alarming. In fact nothing was done about it by anyone until 11 January 2010, some five days later when the duty manager responsible for security at Robin Hood Airport, while off duty at home, found it. Mr Duffield did not see this ?tweet? on the appellant?s time line, and it was never sent to him or to the airport. Rather he was at home searching generally for any ?tweets? which referred to Robin Hood Airport. In cross examination he said that he did not know whether the ?tweet? was a joke or not, but as even a joke could cause major disruption it had to be investigated. Accordingly he referred the ?tweet? to his manager, Mr Armson. Mr Armson was responsible for deciding whether any
perceived threat to the airport should be graded as ?credible? or ?non-credible?. If ?credible?, it was to be referred immediately to the Ministry of Defence, but if ?non-credible?, as a matter of standard practice it was to be reported to the airport police. Mr Armson examined the appellant?s ?tweet?. He regarded it as ?non-credible?, not least because it featured the appellant?s name and, as he noted, the appellant was due to fly from the airport in the near future. Nevertheless in accordance with airport procedure he passed this ?tweet? to the airport police. The airport police themselves took no action, presumably for exactly the same reason, but they decided to refer the matter on to the South Yorkshire police.
14.?? ? The South Yorkshire police arrested the appellant, while he was at work, two days later, on 13 January on suspicion of involvement in a bomb hoax. It was now seven days since the offending message was ?tweeted?. The appellant was interviewed under caution. When interviewed, and indeed in his evidence, the appellant repeatedly asserted that this ?tweet? was a joke or meant to be a joke and not intended to be menacing. He said that he did not see any risk at all that it would be regarded as menacing, and that if he had, he would not have posted it. In interview he was asked whether some people might get a bit jumpy and responded ?yah. Hmm mmm?.
15.?? ? On 10 February 2010, when the police investigation was completed, one of the investigating officers recorded the following observation on the South Yorkshire Police Crime Management System:

?Male detained re making threats to Doncaster Robin Hood Airport. The male in question has been bailed and his phone/computer has been seized ? there is no evidence at this stage to suggest that there is anything other than a foolish comment posted on ?Twitter? as a joke for only his close friends to see.?

16.?? ? The police sought the advice of the Crown Prosecution Service. As a result the appellant was charged with the offence of which he now stands convicted.
17. On the basis of these facts the Crown Court was ?satisfied? that the message in question was ?menacing per se?. The court took the view ?that an ordinary person seeing the ?tweet? would see it in that way and be alarmed. The airport staff did see it and were sufficiently concerned to report it?.
18.?? ? The Crown Court went on to hold ?that the required mens rea ? is that the person sending the message must have intended the message to be menacing, or be aware that it might be taken to be so ?? The court was satisfied that the appellant was, at the very least, aware that his message was of a menacing character.
19.?? ? The Crown Court posed the following very wide ranging issues for the decision of the High Court:

?THE QUESTIONS FOR THE HIGH COURT
(1) ?? ? In order to prove that a message is ?of a menacing character? within the meaning of Section 127(1)(a) (read according to conventional canons of construction or with the benefit of Article 10 ECHR and Section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998) is the prosecution required to prove, as part of the actus reus of the offence, that the person sending the message intended, ?to create a fear in or through the recipient? (per Sedley LJ in Collins supra) or, were we correct to conclude that the question whether a message if ?of a menacing character? is an objective question of fact for the Court to determine?
1(a) In order to prove that a message is of a ?menacing character? within the meaning of Section 127(1)(a) (read according to conventional canons of construction or with the benefit of Article 10 ECHR and Section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998), is the Prosecution required to prove that the person sending the message intended to create a fear in or through the recipient (Sedley L.J., in
Collins supra, having defined a menacing message as ?a message that conveys a threat ? which seeks to create a fear in or through the recipient that something
unpleasant is likely to happen?) or were we correct to conclude that the question of whether a message is ?of a menacing character? is an objective question of fact for the Court to determine applying the standards of an open and just society and taking account of the words, context and all relevant circumstances?
1(b) Is the actus reus of the offence (Lord Bingham in Collins supra), ?the sending of a message of the proscribed character by the defined means?, as we found, or does the actus reus include a requirement that the person sending the message intended the message to ?create a fear in or through the recipient??

(2)?? ? What is the mens rea for an offence of sending a message of menacing character contrary to Section 127(1)(a)? In particular:
(a) ?? ? Is Section 127(1)(a) (read according to convention canons of construction or with the benefit of Article 10 ECHR and Section 3 of the Human Rights Act
1998) a crime of specific intent?
(b) ?? ? Is the Prosecution required to prove as part of the mens rea of the offence that the person sending the message intended to put another person in fear?
(c) ?? ? If the answer to (b) is no, is it sufficient for the Prosecution to prove that the person sending the message realised that his message may or might be
taken as menacing, or must the prosecution prove that he realised that it would be taken as menacing by a person of reasonable firmness aware of all the
relevant circumstances?
(3)?? ? Did the Court act lawfully (within the meaning of Section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998) in convicting and sentencing the Appellant as it did? In particular:
(a)?? ? Did the Appellant?s act in posting the message engage his right to freedom of expression under
Article 10(1) ECHR?
(b) ?? ? If so, did his conviction and sentence amount to an ?interference? with the exercise of that right?
(c) ?? ? If so, was that interference necessary in a democratic society for one of the reasons listed in Article 10(2)?
(4) ?? ? In all the circumstances, was the Court correct to conclude that the message sent by the Appellant crossed the threshold of gravity necessary to constitute a message ?of a menacing character? so as to amount to a criminal
offence within the meaning of Section 127(1)(a) and (3) and was the Court correct to convict the appellant on the evidence and sentence him as it did??
20. We propose only to deal with the issues necessary to decide this appeal.

Public electronic communications network
21. It was agreed before the magistrates that the appellant?s message was sent using the ?Twitter? social networking site which fell within the description of a ?public electronic communications network?. It was, however, a ground of appeal to the Crown Court that the message was not sent by a public electronic communications network. By the date of the hearing in the Crown Court there was a formal admission in these terms:

?Twitter is a privately owned company which operates via a public electronic communications network. Messages which are posted on the Public Timeline of Twitter are accessible to all those who have access to the internet?.

Nevertheless Mr John Cooper QC on behalf of the appellant sought to argue that the appellant?s message was not sent by means of a ?public electronic communications network?. He submitted that this was a ?tweet? found by means of a subsequent search, and so should be treated as no more than ?content? created and published on a social media platform rather than a message sent by means of a communications network. It would, he submitted, be a dangerous development to extend the ambit of s.127(1) of the Act to ?Twitter?. He relied on the words used by Lord Bingham of Cornhill in the context of ?grossly offensive? telephone messages under consideration in Director of Public Prosecution v Collins [2006] 1 WLR 308 (Divisional Court) and [2006] 1 WLR 2223 (House of Lords) that the section addressed ?a service provided and funding by the public for the benefit of the public?. Therefore, he contended, the section was primarily concerned with such messages sent by the telephone system and so with voice telephony.
22.?? ? When we examined the issue in argument, Mr Cooper accepted that a message on public ?Twitter? is accessible to all who have access to the internet, and therefore, by inference, to the public, or to that vast section of the public which included anyone who chose to access a timeline consisting of any of the posted key words by use of a search engine.
23.?? ? In her judgment in the Crown Court Judge Davies addressed this issue when rejecting a submission that there was ?no case? for the appellant to answer. She said:

?The ?Twitter? website although privately owned cannot, as we understand it, operate save through the internet, which is plainly a public electronic network provided for the public and paid for by the public through the various service providers we are all familiar with ? The internet is widely available to the public and funded by the public and without it facilities such as ?Twitter? would not exist. The fact that it is a private company in our view is irrelevant; the mechanism by which it was sent was a public electronic network and within the statutory definition ? ?Twitter?, as we all know is widely used by individuals and organisations to disseminate and receive information. In our judgment, it is inconceivable that grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing messages sent in this way would not be potentially unlawful?

24. We agree with this approach. As Mr Robert Smith QC submitted on behalf of the Crown, the potential recipients of the message were the public as a whole, consisting of all sections of society. It is immaterial that the appellant may have intended only that his message should be read by a limited class of people, that is, his followers, who, knowing him, would be neither fearful nor apprehensive when they read it.
25. In our judgment, whether one reads the ?tweet? at a time when it was read as
?content? rather than ?message?, at the time when it was posted it was indeed ?a
message? sent by an electronic communications service for the purposes of s.127(1). Accordingly ?Twitter? falls within its ambit. We can now come to the heart of the case.

Actus Reus
26.?? ? This is the first occasion when this court has been required to address the ingredients of the offence created by s.127(1) of the 2003 Act in the context of messages of a menacing character. As we have seen, however, the section has been considered in the context of ?grossly offensive? messages in Director of Public Prosecutions v Collins.
27.?? ? It is perhaps difficult for anyone nowadays to remember the time when the telephone system was at the forefront of communications technology of which ?Twitter? is a modern example. Nevertheless as long ago as the Post Office (Amendment Act) 1935, s.10(2)(a) introduced a prohibition against the misuse of the telephone to communicate indecent, obscene or menacing messages, and because of the limited technology available at the time, these messages would largely be communicated to a single, often deliberately targeted recipient like telephone operators, who were subjected to indecent, obscene or menacing messages. Unsurprisingly, no one thought that was appropriate and statutory prohibitions against such messages were accordingly introduced. Section 127(1) of the Act has simply updated the protection to be provided from the misuse of technology. This once took the form of a telephone system and has now advanced to the present electric communications networks which, notwithstanding that ?Twitter? was not invented at the date when the 2003 Act came into force, includes messages of the proscribed description sent by ?Twitter?.
28.?? ? The 2003 Act did not create some newly minted interference with the first of President Roosevelt?s essential freedoms ? freedom of speech and expression.
Satirical, or iconoclastic, or rude comment, the expression of unpopular or unfashionable opinion about serious or trivial matters, banter or humour, even if
distasteful to some or painful to those subjected to it should and no doubt will continue at their customary level, quite undiminished by this legislation. Given the submissions by Mr Cooper, we should perhaps add that for those who have the inclination to use ?Twitter? for the purpose, Shakespeare can be quoted unbowdlerised, and with Edgar, at the end of King Lear, they are free to speak not what they ought to say, but what they feel.
29.?? ? It is elementary, and unsurprisingly there was no dispute before us, that the offence of which the appellant was convicted cannot be proved unless the content of the message was of a ?menacing character?. Given that there is ?disappointingly little coherence in English law?s approach to threat offences? (Smith and Hogan?s Criminal Law, 13th edition, at p951) we do not think that an analysis of the numerous other offences based on threats, including blackmail, takes the interpretation of this statutory provision any further. We were told that the word ?menace? is defined in the shorter Oxford dictionary as ?a thing threatening danger or catastrophe; a dangerous or obnoxious thing or person; a great inconvenience?, and that as an intransitive verb, to ?menace? was to ?utter menaces; be threatening?. Mr Smith submitted that no more, and no less, was needed than the application of ordinary language to the context in which any particular message was expressed and to all the relevant circumstances. Mr Cooper suggested that for a message to be of a menacing character it must, on an
objective assessment, contain a threat of such a nature and extent that the mind of an ordinary person of normal stability and courage might be influenced or made apprehensive. Our attention was drawn to DPP v Collins, in the Divisional Court, while considering the meaning to be given to ?grossly offensive? within the section, Sedley LJ identified the four different classes of message proscribed by s.127(1)(a). In the context of a menacing message he observed:

?? fairly plainly, is a message which conveys a threat ? in other words, which seeks to create a fear in or through the recipient that something unpleasant is going to happen?.

30.?? ? The attraction of the argument, implicit in the development of Mr Cooper?s submission, that it is a necessary requirement of this offence that the message must be credible as an immediate threat to the mind of an ordinary person of normal stability and courage does not quite penetrate to the heart of the problem. The telephone operator in the 1930s and 1940s may not have believed that the person using the telephone to threaten violence would or could implement the threat, but that would not extinguish its menacing character. After all a message which cannot or is unlikely to be implemented may nevertheless create a sense of apprehension or fear in the person who receives or reads it. However unless it does so, it is difficult to see how it can sensibly be described as a message of a menacing character. So, if the person or persons who receive or read it, or may reasonably be expected to receive, or read it, would brush it aside as a silly joke, or a joke in bad taste, or empty bombastic or ridiculous banter, then it would be a contradiction in terms to describe it as a message of a menacing character. In short, a message which does not create fear or apprehension in those to whom it is communicated, or who may reasonably expected to see it, falls outside this provision, for the very simple reason that the message lacks menace.
31.?? ? Before concluding that a message is criminal on the basis that it represents a menace, its precise terms, and any inferences to be drawn from its precise terms, need to be examined in the context in and the means by which the message was sent. The Crown Court was understandably concerned that this message was sent at a time when, as we all know, there is public concern about acts of terrorism and the continuing threat to the security of the country from possible further terrorist attacks. That is plainly relevant to context, but the offence is not directed to the inconvenience which may be caused by the message. In any event, the more one reflects on it, the clearer it becomes that this message did not represent a terrorist threat, or indeed any other form of threat. It was posted on ?Twitter? for widespread reading, a conversation piece for the appellant?s followers, drawing attention to himself and his predicament. Much more significantly, although it purports to address ?you?, meaning those responsible for the airport, it was not sent to anyone at the airport or anyone responsible for airport security, or indeed any form of public security. The grievance addressed by the message is that the airport is closed when the writer wants it to be open. The language and punctuation are inconsistent with the writer intending it to be or to be taken as a serious warning. Moreover, as Mr Armson noted, it is unusual for a threat of a terrorist nature to invite the person making it to ready identified, as this message did. Finally, although we are accustomed to very brief messages by terrorists to indicate that a bomb or explosive device has been put in place and will detonate shortly, it is difficult to image a serious threat in which warning of it is given to a large number of tweet ?followers? in ample time for the threat to be reported and extinguished.
32.?? ? It seems to us unsurprising, but not irrelevant, that none of those who read the message during the first days after it appeared thought anything of it. In our view, the Crown Court read too much into the observation of Lord Bingham in his judgment in the House of Lords that the criminality of the sender cannot depend upon whether a message is received by A or by A?s reaction. Lord Bingham was saying no more than that a message proved by an objective assessment, applying the standards of an open and multi-racial society to be of a prescribed kind, does not cease to be so just because it was not received or because the person who received it was not, in the context of the present prosecution, menaced. The effect of the message on those who read it is not excluded from the consideration. Among the many followers who would have read the appellant?s ?tweet? there would surely have been some who would have
reported such a threat if any one of them thought it was to be taken even half
seriously. It is not, of course, a requirement of this offence that the threat should
immediately have been reported to the police, but given the nature of the ?threat?, namely, that an airport would be blown up, it would be surprising if the reasonable member of the public of normal fortitude, alert to the risks of terrorism faced by our society, would have chosen to ignore it. More important, because they would have been quite uninfluenced by their knowledge of the appellant deduced from his previous messages, the two gentlemen responsible for the safety of the airport showed no anxiety or urgency in dealing with it. It was treated and addressed as if it was not a credible threat. The airport police took no action. No evidence was provided to suggest that even minimal consequential protective measures were taken at the airport, or that the level of perceived threat was heightened. Indeed, notwithstanding the nature of the ?threat?, we can detect no urgent response to it. Police action was not exactly hurried. After the investigation, the South Yorkshire Police concluded that the appellant presented no threat. Although this conclusion reflected the outcome of
the investigation rather than the immediate reaction to the text of the message, it was in fact entirely consistent with the attitude and approach of those who had seen the message before the investigation began.
33.?? ? We are of course well aware that the Crown Court concluded, as a matter of fact, that the message sent by the appellant was of a menacing character. Proper respect must be paid to such a finding. However, the findings do not address the unbroken pattern of evidence to be derived from the responses of those who read or must have read the message before the South Yorkshire Police investigated it. No weight appears to have been given to the lack of urgency which characterised the approach of the authorities to this problem, while the fact that those responsible for security at the airport decided to report it at all, which was treated as a significant feature, rather overlooked that this represented compliance with their duties rather than their alarmed response to the message. By contrast, disproportionate weight seemed to be placed on the response of the appellant in interview to how ?some? people might react, without recognising that the care needed to approach such a widely phrased question in context. The response was part of the interview as a whole, when looking back at what the appellant admitted he had done and his assertions that it was a joke. The question based on what ?some? people might think embraced everyone, included those who might lack reasonable fortitude. This entirely equivocal response added nothing which supported the contention that the message was of a menacing character.
34. We have concluded that, on an objective assessment, the decision of the Crown Court that this ?tweet? constituted or included a message of a menacing character was not open to it. On this basis, the appeal against conviction must be allowed.

Mens rea
35.?? ? As the message lacked the characteristic required for the purposes of this offence, the issue of the appellant?s state of mind when he sent it, and whether it was criminal, does not arise for decision. We shall therefore deal very briefly with this question.
36.?? ? By contrast with the offences to be found in s.127(1)(b) of the Act and s.1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 which require the defendant to act with a specific purpose in mind, and therefore with a specific intent, no express provision is made in s.127(1)(a) for mens rea. It is therefore an offence of basic intent. That intent was examined by the House of Lords in DPP v Collins. While it is true that the examination was directed to grossly offensive messages, it would be quite unrealistic for the mens rea required for the different classes of behaviour prohibited by the same statutory provision to be different in principle, the one from the other, or on the basis of some artificial distinction between the method of communication employed on the particular occasion. In consequence we are unable to accept that it must be proved that, before it can be stigmatised as criminal, the sender of the message must intend to threaten the person to whom it was or was likely to be communicated, or that such a specific purpose is a necessary ingredient of the offence. That would, in effect involve an offence of specific intent which Parliament elected not to create.
37.?? ? In DPP v Collins, Lord Bingham emphasised that:

?? Parliament cannot have intended to criminalise the conduct of a person using language which is, for reasons unknown to him, grossly offensive to those to whom it relates, or which may even be thought, however wrongly, to represent a polite or acceptable usage?.

He continued:
?On the other hand, a culpable state of mind will ordinarily be found where a message is couched in terms showing an intention to insult those to whom the message relates or giving rise to the inference that a risk of doing so must have been recognised by the sender. The same will be true where facts known to the sender of the message about an intended recipient render the message peculiarly offensive to that recipient, or likely to be so, whether or not the message in fact reaches the recipient?.

38. We agree with the submission by Mr Robert Smith QC that the mental element of the offence is satisfied if the offender is proved to have intended that the message should be of a menacing character (the most serious form of the offence) or alternatively, if he is proved to have been aware of or to have recognised the risk at the time of sending the message that it may create fear or apprehension in any reasonable member of the public who reads or sees it. We would merely emphasise that even expressed in these terms, the mental element of the offence is directed exclusively to the state of the mind of the offender, and that if he may have intended the message as a joke, even if a poor joke in bad taste, it is unlikely that the mens rea required before conviction for the offence of sending a message of a menacing character will be established. The appeal against conviction will be allowed on the basis that this ?tweet? did not constitute or include a message of a menacing character; we cannot usefully take this aspect of the appeal further.

Source: http://blog.scrapperduncan.com/2012/07/27/paul-chambers-v-dpp-full-appeal-judgment/

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

New Tonto, familiar feelings for Native Americans

An undated publicity photo from Disney/Bruckheimer Films, shows actors, Johnny Depp, left, as Tonto, a spirit warrior on a personal quest, who joins forces in a fight for justice with Armie Hammer, as John Reid, a lawman who has become a masked avenger. In New Mexico, where some of the movie was filmed, the Navajo presented Depp, his co-star Hammer, director Gore Verbinski and producer Bruckheimer with Pendleton blankets to welcome them to their land. Elsewhere, the Comanche people of Oklahoma made Depp, an honorary member. The film releases summer 2013. (AP Photo/Disney/Bruckheimer Films, Peter Mountain)

An undated publicity photo from Disney/Bruckheimer Films, shows actors, Johnny Depp, left, as Tonto, a spirit warrior on a personal quest, who joins forces in a fight for justice with Armie Hammer, as John Reid, a lawman who has become a masked avenger. In New Mexico, where some of the movie was filmed, the Navajo presented Depp, his co-star Hammer, director Gore Verbinski and producer Bruckheimer with Pendleton blankets to welcome them to their land. Elsewhere, the Comanche people of Oklahoma made Depp, an honorary member. The film releases summer 2013. (AP Photo/Disney/Bruckheimer Films, Peter Mountain)

(AP) ? Gyasi Ross grew up decades after the "Lone Ranger" aired on TV, but his friends would still call him "Tonto" when they teased him.

"Everybody understands who Tonto is, even if we hadn't seen the show, and we understood it wasn't a good thing," said Ross, a member of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana who lives and has family in the Suquamish Tribe, outside Seattle. "Why else would you tease someone with that?"

The making of a new "Lone Ranger" Disney movie, and the announcement that Johnny Depp is playing sidekick Tonto, have reawakened feelings about a character that has drawn much criticism over the years as being a Hollywood creation guilty of spreading stereotypes.

The film is still in production, but Native American groups have been abuzz about it for months, with many sharing opinions online and in a national Native publication running an occasional series on the topic.

Some Native Americans welcome the new movie, slated for release next summer. Parts were filmed on the Navajo Nation with the tribe's support, and an Oklahoma tribe recently made Depp an honorary member.

But for others, the "Lone Ranger" represents a lingering sore spot ? one that goes back to the 1950s television version of Tonto, who spoke in broken English, wore buckskin and lacked any real cultural traits.

Depp's role attracted particular attention in April when producer Jerry Bruckheimer tweeted a picture of the actor in his Tonto costume. He had on black and white face paint, an intense gaze, a black bird attached to his head and plenty of decorative feathers.

"The moment it hit my Facebook newsfeed, the updates from my friends went nutso," wrote Natanya Ann Pulley, a doctorate student at University of Utah, in an essay for the online magazine McSweeney's.

For Pulley and her friends, the portrayal of Native Americans in Western movies is getting old.

"I'm worried about the Tonto figure becoming a parody or a commercialized figure that doesn't have any dimension or depth, or consideration for contemporary context of Native Americans," she said.

But Native Americans are far from a monolithic group, and many are opening their arms to the new movie. Some are just excited to see Depp take the role.

In New Mexico, where some of the movie was filmed, the Navajo presented Depp, his co-star Armie Hammer, director Gore Verbinski and Bruckheimer with Pendleton blankets to welcome them to their land. Elsewhere, the Comanche people of Oklahoma made Depp, one of Hollywood's most bankable stars, an honorary member.

"In my niece's mind, I met Jack Sparrow," said Emerald Dahozy, spokeswoman for Navajo President Ben Shelly and a member of the Navajo group who met with Depp. "My personal view, I like him playing in a character which he can embody well."

Dahozy said the "Lone Ranger" production brought something more palpable to the reservation: money. The actors and the large crew lived on Navajo land, eating at local restaurants and staying in towns that rely heavily on tourism.

American Indians aren't the only ones conflicted about the character of Tonto, which means "dumb" in Spanish. For Mexican Americans who grew up in the Southwest, the character draws up memories of one of the first dark-skinned heroes in popular culture and anger over a white man calling a brown-skinned person "dumb," said Rosa-Linda Fregoso, author of "Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film Culture" and a Latino Studies professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

"I remember rooting for him as a kid, but even I was a little bit offended as a child," said Fregoso. "For a grown white man to call someone 'Tonto' meant that you were less than human, not fully human or childlike."

In fact, Tonto's character has historically been called "Toro," which means "bull," in Spanish-language versions of early films, and Spanish language stories about Depp's role in the new film refers to his character as "Toro."

Disney representatives declined to comment, but Depp has said the film will be a "sort of rock 'n' roll version of the Lone Ranger" with his Tonto offering a different take from the 1950s show.

Cheyenne and Arapaho filmmaker Chris Eyre is willing to give the actor a chance.

"Based on Johnny Depp as an artist, and him going all the way and making this film happen, in my book (he) deserves some credit," Eyre told Indian Country Today for its occasional "Tonto Files" series. "He wants to change the view of Tonto, and he put his reputation and his career on the line."

The "Lone Ranger" began on the radio in the 1930s. Tonto was played by an actor of Irish descent, according to the Lone Ranger Fan Club.

The show rocketed in popularity and made a seamless transition to television, running on ABC from 1949 to 1957. In 2003, a TV reboot flopped. That version featured a First Peoples actor from Canada playing Tonto.

But the 1950s portrayal of Tonto by Jay Silverheels, a Canadian Mohawk First Nations member, is by far the most recognized.

He spoke in pidgin and was the loyal partner of the crime-fighting ranger, often bailing out the masked avenger from treacherous situations.

"Here hat. Me wash in stream. Dry in sun. Make whiter," Tonto says in an early episode setting up his relationship with the Lone Ranger. "Here gun to kill bad men."

That Tonto has been criticized as being generic and subordinate ? a character with no individuality and no life beyond helping the Lone Ranger.

Tex Holland, executive director of the 600-member Lone Ranger Fan Club, defended the portrayal.

"I felt the Indians had their own language and in doing so, anyone learning the language is going to speak it broken, whether the person is from Japan or Mexico," Holland said. "I did not look down on him. All of us thought that's the way the Indians at that time communicated with us. Did we speak Indian fluently? We'd speak it broken it too."

Holland and his fellow fans, however, were taken aback by Depp's new look.

"Yuck. I can't believe that he's wearing a crow on his head. And he's looking like some type of medicine man," Holland said. "Disney chose (Depp) for one thing: box office draw."

Reportedly costing more than $200 million, plus yet-to-be-added marketing costs, Disney's "Lone Ranger" is the type of film that can make or break a studio's summer. It's already been plagued with budget woes. The movie's release date in 2013 was recently pushed back a month.

Having Depp in the cast assures more eyeballs will be on the screen. Depp led the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise and anchored "Alice in Wonderland." Three of those movies surpassed the rare billion-dollar mark at the worldwide box office.

Back on Suquamish land, Ross doesn't mind having Depp as Tonto. In fact, the 36-year-old said he would have been more troubled had a Native American taken the role, knowing its history.

But he's worried the movie, which certainly will attract a large audience, will cement a stereotype for years to come because Hollywood doesn't make many movies with Native American protagonists. The popular ones stick in people's minds.

The first "Lone Ranger" did that, as did "Dances with Wolves" decades later, said Ross, an attorney who also writes a column for Indian Country Today.

"I'm not sure how much redefining I'm going to expect, not sure how much of the movie will be something I can show my son," he said.

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Manuel Valdes can be reached https://twitter.com/ByManuelValdes

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Associated Press writer Russell Contreras in Albuquerque, N.M., contributed to this report.

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Mount Diablo Unified Community Advisory Committee on Special ...

This information is from DREDF: Update!?Markup??

of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and a vote in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is rescheduled for the ADA Anniversary: Thursday, July 26th at 9:30 am.

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If you are outside of DC, you can watch?here. If you are in DC be sure to attend in Senate Office Building Dirksen G-50.??

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Unfortunately, the opposition has intensified their efforts to defeat the CRPD and Senators are hearing from them.

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Don?t let the opposition drown the voices of the disability community.

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Below are the responses to some of the myths that the opposition is using in its campaign to defeat the CRPD. For more information on the CRPD visit?USICD's webpages.

ACTION:?Please call and email your Senators and tell them to vote for the CRPD treaty. Call them as many times a day as you can until the treaty is passed. Recruit your friends and families to call.?Please forward this email to your network of friends.

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MESSAGE:?The message is simple ?I am a constituent of your state and I want the Senator to support the CRPD ? this is important to the disability community!?

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CONTACTS: The Capitol Switchboard number is (202) 224-3121.? Ask to be connected to your Senator?s office. Call both Senators!

MYTHS AND FACTS ABOUT THE CRPD

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1. Myth: The CRPD will cost money and will require us to change laws in the US.

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?Facts:

  • The CRPD will require no changes to federal or state law, and it will have no impact on the federal budget.?
  • Ratification of the CRPD will not require the US to allocate new funds towards the implementation of the Treaty by other countries.

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2. Myth: Ratification of the CRPD will harm parental rights

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? ?Facts:

  • The CRPD recognizes and protects the important role of the family.?
  • The CRPD specifically recognizes the role of parents in raising children with disabilities AND protects children from being separated from their parents on the basis of disability.?This is made clear in Article 23 of the CRPD, entitled ?Respect for Home and Family.?
  • Nothing in this Treaty prevents parents from homeschooling or making decisions for their children.?This Treaty embraces IDEA, the ADA, and all of the disability non-discrimination legislation that has made the United States the leader on disability rights.

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3.? Myth: Ratification will overrule state law on disability issues

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Facts:

  • The treaty package includes a reservation on federalism so that ratification of the treaty will not impact areas that are dealt with under state and local government.??

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?4. Myth: Ratification will require everything to be accessible, including every home and church in the US

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Facts:

  • The Treaty package has a reservation on private conduct.?This makes sure that the U.S. does not accept any obligation to regulate private conduct except as mandated by the Constitution and the laws of the US like the ADA. This means churches, small businesses, and private homes are not subjected to the Treaty.
  • The US Chamber of Commerce supports ratification of the CRPD.

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5. Myth: Legal conditions added to the Treaty called Reservations, Understandings, and Declarations (RUDs) are not enough to protect the US from Treaty obligations

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? Facts:

  • The President cannot proceed to ratify a treaty without giving effect to the RUDs approved by the Senate.?
  • The Senate has a long tradition of careful consideration and frequent adoption of limited RUDs, as is the case here.
  • Any claims that RUDs do not have the force of the law are contrary to the long-held position articulated by the Senate regardless of which party is in control.

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6. Myth: Ratifying the CRPD is simply a ploy to get other treaties like the Convention on the Rights of the Child or Law of the Sea Treaty ratified

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Facts:

  • The CRPD simply does not involve other treaties that the US has not ratified.?
  • The CRPD adopts the nondiscrimination model for persons with disabilities already found in the ADA and other US disability laws.
  • It is the American disability community, many who partook in the drafting of the Treaty, who have been leading the ratification effort in the United States.

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7. Myth: Ratification of the CRPD will obligate the US to enact new economic, social, and cultural rights

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Facts:

  • The treaty package includes an understanding that the CRPD prevents discrimination on the basis of disability with respect to economic, social, and cultural (ESC) rights recognized and implemented under U.S. federal law. It will not create new rights.

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8. Myth: Ratification of the Treaty will put a UN committee of experts in charge of US law

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Facts:

  • The committee created by the Treaty can only give advice and recommendations and the US is not required to follow them.
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Source: http://mtdiablosped.blogspot.com/2012/07/dredf-first-vote-on-crpd-is-thursday.html

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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Hawaiian Telcom Adding 4G for Business - Maui's Weekly Online ...

HONOLULU (July 23, 2012) ? Hawaiian Telcom Holdco, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCOM) today announced the company?s introduction of 4G wireless service with smart devices and service packages targeting small and medium-sized businesses.

When combined with Hawaiian Telcom?s Business-All-in-One bundle, which consists of hosted voice-over-IP, broadband Internet, and multi-threat security protection, Hawaiian Telcom?s 4G smart devices offer levels of business productivity tools and savings that enable businesses to mobilize their workforce.

?Demand for unified mobility solutions is growing with the advent of smart devices, cloud-based applications and faster 4G mobile data networks,? said Brad Fisher, Senior Vice President ? Strategy & Marketing. ?Hawaii businesses want to increase worker productivity and optimize the value of workflow data in an increasingly mobile workplace, and Hawaiian Telcom?s 4G wireless solutions will help them to realize those objectives,? said Fisher.??????

4G smart devices are changing the way small and medium-sized businesses operate. In a recent Yankee Group survey, companies said they are investing in mobile to accelerate customer responsiveness, improve worker productivity by allowing access to existing applications and transform business processes to improve operational efficiencies (reference: Yankee Group 2011 US Enterprise Mobility ? IT Decision Maker Survey).

By integrating Hawaiian Telcom?s Business-All-in-One bundle and 4G wireless services, Hawaii businesses can take advantage of useful features that make communications seamlessly mobile, whether an employee is working at the office, at home, or on the road.? A benefit of the Business-All-in-One and wireless bundle is the Business Anywhere feature, which allows users to control where business calls are received, and to move calls from desk to mobile or mobile to desk instantly and without interruption.? For example, if an office conference call runs overtime and a salesperson needs to leave for an appointment with a customer, the call can be moved from the desk phone to mobile, allowing the salesperson to finish the call on the road and arrive on time.? Also, a single inbox gives users access to check voicemail, faxes, and email on their mobile device, wherever they are.

?Our customers are telling us they want the full benefits of a mobility investment to free up staff from being tied to their workstations,? Fisher said. ?Hawaiian Telcom has responded by building a robust small business communications platform that gives workers the ability to access crucial information when they need it, anytime, anywhere.?

Hawaiian Telcom provides locally-based expertise for all business communications needs and personalized support from Hawaii?s trusted partner.? Wireless customers also receive free access to Hawaii?s largest Wi-Fi network.? Hawaiian Telcom?s full array of 4G smartphones and devices, plus rate plans and information on other next generation business-enabling communication services is available at hawaiiantel.com via the Business > Products > Wireless tabs or by calling 643-4411.

Source: http://mauitvnews.com/blog/http%3A/mauitvnews.com/blog/2012/07/23/hawaiian-telcom-adding-4g-for-business/

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Monday, July 23, 2012

Medical Needs And Travel Insurance | Medical Tourism

In life even ?f ??? prefer th?t ???r trip ?f a lifetime runs smoothly th?r? ?r? ??rt??n occurrences th?t ??? ??nn?t easily control. If ???r worries involve a bankrupt cruise line, a last minute illness, ?r even lost baggage, having travel insurance w?ll surely b? a lot ?f h?l?. In terms ?f providing extra layers ?f security f?r overseas travelers, wh?t ??? need ?? a policy th?t includes dental ?nd medical emergencies n?t t? mention one th?t comes w?th medical evacuation ?????t?n?? t??.

Based fr?m a study th?t th? US Travel Insurance Association conducted, more American leisure travelers ?r? purchasing travel insurance today th?n ?n th? past. A? many ?? 70 percent ?f Americans wh? book a cruise ?l?? b?? travel insurance f?r th??r trip.

Wh?n ?t comes t? travel insurance, one out ?f ???r? six individuals wh? b??? a policy m?k?? a claim sooner ?r later.

Y?? ?h??ld take a look ?t th? offered coverage ?? well ?? th? fine print before buying anything f?r travel insurance policies ?r? ?ll different. Package travel insurance policies typically include coverage f?r trip cancellation, lost ?r delayed baggage, medical ?r dental emergencies, travel delays ?r accidental death. Oftentimes, medical evacuation coverage needs t? b? obtained separately.

Although m??t people consider ?t t? b? unnecessary, wh?t flight insurance d??? ?? provide compensation ?h??ld th?r? b? a case ?f death ?r injury ?n a commercial flight. First ?nd foremost th? risk ?? low ?nd ?f th?r? ?? a case ?f injury wh?t people m?? ??? ?? th??r medical ?r life insurance policies ?nd wh?n th?r? ?? a case ?f death ?n accidental death policy ??n b? used ?? well.

Wh?n ?t comes t? health care travel insurance, th?? ?? something ??? ?h??ld n?t disregard b?????? wh?n ??? ?r? traveling outside ?f th? United States ?nd ??? incur medical expenses, th? majority ?f private health insurance policies ?nd Medicare ?? well w?ll n?t cover ???. If ??? suddenly become seriously ill th?n ??? ??n expect t? spend thousands ?f dollars f?r a medical evacuation.

If ??? ?r? considering getting travel insurance th?n m?k? sure th?t ??? ?h???? carefully. A? ??? search f?r travel insurance ?n th? Internet, ??? w?ll receive results f?r comparison pages th?t ??n b? helpful. Y?? m?? b? required t? enter information such ?? destinations, trip costs, dates, ?nd age ?f travelers ?nd fr?m th?? ??? w?ll receive quotes ?nd a list ?f th? features ?nd benefits offered b? th? different available policies. Much higher quotes ?r? usually given wh?n travelers ?r? a bit older.

In th? case ?f a pre existing medical condition, a person m?? h??? a more difficult time ?n obtaining th? preferred coverage. F?r a 55 year ?ld traveler booking a cruise t? Alaska fr?m California, th? travel plans ?r? valued ?t ,000 ?nd one ?f th??? comparison sites delivered 31 package options ranging ?n price fr?m 8 t? 6 ?ft?r a request f?r quotes w?? m?d? ?nd th?? ?? around 2.7 percent t? 12.2 percent ?f th? cost ?f th? trip.

Th?r? w?? a couple wh? ?l?nn?d ?n Alaskan cruise ?nd travel insurance w?? helpful. Experienced b? th? wife w?? a sudden ?nd painful case ?f shingles two weeks before departure. Thanks t? th??r foresight t? ??r?h??? insurance, th? couple w?? ?bl? t? cancel th??r cruise reservation ?nd recoup th? money th?? h?d paid ?n advance toward th??r trip. Wh?n ?t comes t? th? inland flight, th?? paid f?r ?t.

A? th? illness subsided, th? insurance allowed th?m t? resume th??r travel plans. W?th travel insurance, people w?ll d?f?n?t?l? b? ?bl? t? ?l?n th??r trips ?nd travel w?th much confidence each ?nd ???r? time.

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Sunday, July 22, 2012

Millennia Atlantic University to Celebrate the Grand Opening of a New Campus

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Friday, July 20, 2012

Youth Baseball Players Hit the Field Despite the Heat

SHAWNEE, Kan. ? Dealing with the summer sun is a fact of life for those who play baseball. A big tournament that starts on Wednesday in Johnson County has parents, coaches and players taking extra precautions to make sure everyone stays cool.

Some of the teams will play multiple games for six hours a day at 3 and 2 Stadium in Shawnee. There?s not much shade at the park so adults create their own shade while making sure kids don?t overdo it.

The 100 degree heat doesn?t scare off the hard-core baseball moms. They?re going to the park to cheer on their boys during the World Series Tournament. Sitting in the stands without any shade can quickly get anyone overheated. That?s why the smart fans set up their own shade canopy.

?It was a couple of weeks ago it started getting 100 degrees we all just thought, we could put our tents up several people have done it around here,? said baseball mom Michelle Wingerd.

There?s no escaping the sun for the players. Parents make sure their kids have plenty of wet towels with ice to cool them down when they get back to the dugout. Games are also scheduled as early as 8 a.m. so that the 8-year-olds aren?t out in the heat of the day.

?The one thing you must have is sunscreen and water lots of water,? said mom Amy Schindt.

It?s a little unusual to have triple digit heat over the four days of the tournament but the director of Johnson County 3 and 2 says with games going on all day, he?s made sure there?s plenty of water and misting stations available for fans, umpires and players.

?Canopies are encouraged. We encourage everybody to bring their own team water jugs individual water jugs,? said Jeff Chalk. Again, those ice down towels can really take the heat down on your body. If we get somebody that can?t handle it here we get them into an air-conditioned room get them iced down, watered up and then if things don?t get any better there, then we?ll call an EMT.?

That hasn?t happened so far most because Chalk says baseball fans and their coaches have been good about using common sense, sunscreen and water to fight off dangerous heat.

The tournament will continue for the next five days with little relief in sight from the heat. Teams are in town from as far away as Minnesota and Wyoming. Those families may not be used to these extremes. Johnson County 3 and 2 is making the best of what Kansas City is known for which is? the summertime which is oppressive heat.

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Thursday, July 19, 2012

See What Happens When Sales & Marketing Get Married

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You must admit ? and I should apologize for repeating myself as often as I do ? it does seem as though everyone?s focus these days is on creating new leads, which is understandable ??to a degree.

And not unnaturally, few marketers will question the value of sales leads however they are generated, but the reality is that a poorly integrated lead generation program can actually reduce the overall productivity of a salesforce.

This is a true story about one of my clients from a few years ago, and only the company name has been changed ?..

The case of Newco & Co. illustrates the phenomenon: Newco manufacture a range of specialist industrial washroom equipment; they offer service contracts to maintain the equipment and supply their wide range of hygiene disposable products.

The market combines extreme competitiveness with a marked lack of glamor; therefore Newco have chosen to dedicate a specialist salesforce to concentrate on opening up new accounts ? to be subsequently serviced by their operations division.

Their objective with this structure is to obtain the widest national distribution for their equipment (which includes dispensing machines) The bigger the ?population? of their equipment, the more they sell of consumable hygiene products ? the major profit opportunity for their business.

The salesforce of 50 specialist equipment consultants and key account executives is divided into eight geographical regions, each managed by an area manager under the control a national sales manager.

In the course of many years? experience in direct marketing Newco have explored most techniques of combining brand-building with lead generation to support their salesforce and large distributor network. Direct mail, via an extremely high-class magazine, has long represented a sizeable proportion of their advertising and promotion budget; and they are now confident of their ability to generate leads very cost-effectively.

Maintaining a high level of salesforce productivity remains an essential ingredient in staying at the top of the hygiene market. Nevertheless, about two years ago, Newco began to seriously question the role of sales lead generation in their marketing mix.

The basic problem was that they had become too good at generating leads. The overall cost per lead was fine, but this was not being matched by a correspondingly economical cost per sale. Indeed, cost per sale was initially rising due, it had been assumed, to poor feedback of results by the salesforce.

Dissatisfaction with the lead generation program came to a head when senior sales management began to re-structure the salesforce and to devolve greater accountability to sales managers at area or first line level. Sales managers complained that the influx of leads was actually reducing sales force productivity. Their careful work-plans to maximize the time salespeople spent face-to-face with prospective customers, on which their high performance depended, were being disrupted by the sheer quantity and often random geography of the enquiries demanding their attention.

At the same time leads were accounting for an unduly high proportion of total new business.

The other two main sources of the Newco?s sales consultant?s new business were:

o Sales created from his own prospecting (self-generated)

o Repeat and extension business sales from existing accounts.

Unchecked, undue reliance on leads generated by the marketing department would leave the salesforce vulnerable to the vagaries of the market and take control away from the salesperson.

Finally, Newco?s excellent sales training program (I say with all due modesty)?notwithstanding, lead-dependence could also impede the development of salespeople into the account portfolio managers the company needed as the salesforce moved more and more into national and major account selling.

To restore the balance between self-generated and lead-generated sales, Newco set about creating a situation where leads would result in a net increase in sales productivity: if the maximum benefit was to be derived from Newco?s direct marketing activities, they had to be integrated with the sales management.

What was required, in short, was a flexible and dynamic database, geographically structured to the individual sales territories and regularly updated as the customer base grew. Both the salesforce and the marketing department would contribute input.

On the salesforce side there was the traditional problem: Each consultant would keep prospect records in his own unique filing system. When he was promoted or left the company, there was little organized prospect data to hand over to a successor who had, time-consumingly, to build up an entirely new prospect bank. Clearly, a method was needed of recording prospect data centrally. In addition, the rapid success of the national accounts function required a database to accept a great deal of account information, e.g. strategic profiles, political maps, subsidiary companies and trading terms, in order to coordinate account management.

On the marketing side, there was the need to build and regularly update the unqualified lead element of the database. Most mailing lists contain little prospect information and generally age at between five and 15 per cent per annum. For Newco?s database considerably more information than name and address was required for each listed company: e.g. Website details, telephone numbers, email addresses, key decision makers, number of employees and existing products/brands used etc. This degree of detail effectively doubled the potential for decay.

Setting up the database and its management systems required a great deal of investment in specialist software. Hardware was not a problem: the company already had sophisticated computer hardware and had invested a considerable amount on computerizing its internal systems. However, setting up an interactive database need not involve a huge investment in hardware or software. Some particularly effective systems have been set up using entirely manual controls. The skill lies in developing simple, logical systems which lend themselves to the gradual transfer to computerization.

A re-evaluation of the role marketing could play in supporting the salesforce concluded:

o Mailing should be capable of distributing leads evenly across the sales territories in such quantities as to enable salespeople to plan their follow-up.

o To improve the value for money of each mailing, prospect lists should be made available for telephone follow-up (which has been proved to double the appointment rate).

o The central database (primarily a list of unqualified prospects) should be made available to sales people to coordinate their own prospecting and feed-back of data to the central file.

The strength of the system lies in its flexibility. It is capable of accepting large amounts of data from a variety of sources bought-in lists, market research, tele-sales agencies and the company?s own salespeople in order to personalize it to the specialist needs of the hygiene market. A key benefit is the constant improvement of results from direct mail, as feedback and analysis of each mailing is used to amend the database and refine future target audience selections.

The marketing department can now provide much improved guidance to the salesforce. For example, analyses of the existing customer base by type of industry and commercial business, as well as analysis of direct mail responses, can direct sales effort into particularly responsive market sectors.

A further benefit of the central database to the sales consultant is that it can now regularly provide him/her with updated hard copy of customers and prospects sorted geographically. This helps the planning of sales activity to ensure efficient prospect follow-up. Fewer opportunities are lost, and the face-to-face time can be optimized.

However, the greatest benefit of this integrated approach has come from the restoration of control of the sales effort to the sales manager. Sales managers have observed that a more balanced supply of leads, coupled with training in the techniques of appointment-making and lead qualification, has enabled salespeople to develop the important skills of self-sourcing new business and of managing existing accounts ? skills that are essential to the key and national account salesman.

Internal promotions within the salesforce are at an all-time high. There has also been an increase in assignments of marketing managers into the sales division and vice versa. This has resulted in a cross-fertilization of ideas and an overall improvement in cooperation and understanding.

Newco set off on this project many years ago ? before the arrival of sophisticated CRM and lead generation software was available, but they have seamlessly integrated a number of new solutions within their own customized program, which is as effective as ever.

I remain convinced that sales and marketing functions within all organizations ? whatever their size ? can co-exist harmoniously, they just have to keep talking!

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News: I recently completed an interview with Jim Labaito of BizTalk Radio, ?The Future of Professional Selling? ? you can listen in here?- I think you will enjoy it!

Source: http://www.thejfblogit.co.uk/2012/07/19/see-what-happens-when-sales-marketing-get-married/

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