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What You Need to Know About FATCA's Impact on Non-U.S. Retirement PlansTodd A. Solomon
April 5, 2013 — 2,659 views
On January 17, 2013, the Internal Revenue Service published final regulations under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act ("FATCA"), which are effective immediately. Congress enacted FATCA in 2010 to make it more difficult for United States taxpayers to conceal assets held in offshore accounts. In order to discover information about offshore accounts, FATCA imposes significant reporting obligations on both non-U.S. foreign financial institutions ("FFIs") and United States taxpayers holding foreign financial accounts. As discussed below, a non-U.S. retirement plan may be subject to FATCA reporting responsibilities as an FFI unless there is an available exemption. Failure to comply with applicable reporting requirements may trigger substantial withholding taxes and penalties. This article summarizes what you need to know about FACTA for both plans and participants.
Foreign Financial Institutions
An FFI must register with the IRS by October 25, 2013 and formally agree to implement procedures for identifying and disclosing information about financial accounts held by its United States customers. Unfortunately, a non-U.S. retirement plan is generally included in the broad definition of an FFI, which means it will be required to register and disclose information about its United States taxpayer participants if it is not exempt from FATCA. Complying with FFI reporting rules requires significant due diligence to identify account holders who are United States taxpayers. Failure of a non-exempt FFI to comply will subject it to a 30% withholding tax on certain United States source income and on the gross proceeds from the sale of certain assets that generate United States source income (such as debt and equity instruments).
Exemptions for Retirement Plans
The final regulations provide important exemptions from FATCA's reporting and withholding requirements for some, but not all, non-U.S. retirement plans. In response to public comments, the final regulations revised certain exemption requirements under the proposed regulations to broaden the types of retirement plans will be exempt from FATCA. Important exemptions include the following:
* Broad Participation Retirement Plans. A non-U.S. retirement plan established to provide retirement, disability, and/or death benefits for their current or former employees and designated beneficiaries will be exempt from FATCA if:
(i) no single beneficiary has a right to more than five percent of the plan's assets;
(ii) it is subject to government regulation and provides annual information reporting about its beneficiaries to the tax authorities in the country in which it is established or operates (its "Home Country"); and
(iii) it satisfies at least one of the following requirements:
(a) it is exempt from tax on investment income in its Home Country due to its status as a retirement or pension plan;
(b) it receives at least fifty percent of its contributions (other than certain transfers) from sponsoring employers;
(c) distributions or withdrawals (other than certain transfers or rollovers) are only allowed upon the occurrence of specified events related to retirement, disability or death, or penalties apply to distributions made prior to such specified events; or
(d) employee contributions (other than certain make-up contributions) are limited by reference to earned income or may not exceed $50,000 annually.
* Narrow Participation Retirement Plans. A non-U.S. retirement plan established to provide retirement, disability, and/or death benefits for its current or former employees and designated benefits will be exempt from FATCA if:
(i) the plan has fewer than fifty participants;
(ii) the plan is sponsored by one or more employers that are not investment entities or passive non-financial foreign entities;
(iii) the plan is subject to government regulation and provides annual information reporting about its beneficiaries to the relevant tax authorities in its Home Country;
(iv) participants not resident in the plan's Home Country are not entitled to more than twenty percent of the plan's assets; and
(v) employee and employer contributions to the plan (other than transfers from certain retirement savings accounts or other exempt retirement plans) are limited by reference to earned income and compensation, respectively.
* Treaty-Qualified Retirement Plans. A non-U.S. retirement plan established in a country with which the United States has an income tax treaty in force will be exempt from FATCA reporting and withholding if it is entitled benefits under such treaty on income derived from United States sources as a resident of that country that satisfies applicable benefit limitation requirements and is operated principally to administer or provide pension or retirement benefits. Tax treaties will typically include specific definitions regarding when a person is treated as a resident of a country. Note that this exemption does not require a non-U.S. retirement plan to qualify for favored tax treatment either in the United States or in the country subject to the tax treaty with the United States.
* 401(a)-type Plans. A pension plan that would meet the requirements of Section 401(a) of the Code if it were funded by a trust created or organized in the United States is exempt from FATCA reporting and withholding.
* Investment Vehicles Designed Exclusively for Retirement Plans. Investment vehicles that exclusively invest funds of one or more types of retirement plans described above or of certain types of retirement savings accounts are exempt from FATCA reporting and withholding.
Even if exempt from FATCA reporting, a non-U.S. retirement plan is required to certify its status on an IRS Form W-8BEN (or suitable substitute) in order to avoid withholding and, in some cases, must also provide documentary evidence supporting the exemption. The IRS has not yet published revisions to W-8BEN that reflect the final regulations, so it remains to be seen what type of general documentary evidence will be required.
Intergovernmental Agreements
FATCA raises many compliance issues for a non-exempt FFI and can pose a Catch 22 for an FFI between either violating local law restrictions relating to the disclosure of account information or bearing the risk of FATCA liability exposure. An intergovernmental approach to FATCA solves for these compliance issues, significantly reduces FFI costs and simplifies tax administration. In order to implement FATCA's information reporting requirements, the United States Treasury Department (the "Treasury") worked with several countries to develop model intergovernmental agreements ("IGAs"). Under one such model, an FFI will report information about financial accounts held by United States taxpayers directly to its government, and the foreign government will then provide such information to the United States (a "Model 1 IGA"). In order to comply with any laws impeding a foreign government's ability to report information directly to the United States, another model allows the signing country's FFIs to report directly to the Treasury (a "Model 2 IGA").
Each of the model IGAs includes an Annex in which the signing countries may list categories of entities that will be exempt from FATCA reporting requirements. Annex II will typically list the retirement plans that will be exempt from FACTA's withholding and reporting requirements irrespective of whether any of the other exemptions described above are available. For example, it was unclear under the FATCA proposed regulations whether certain pension plans established under United Kingdom law would have been exempt from FATCA; however, the IGA signed by the United Kingdom and the United States in September 2012 clarifies that most United Kingdom pension plans will be exempt from FATCA reporting requirements.
As of March 15, 2013, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom have initialed or signed IGAs with the United States. It is likely that there will be other countries adopting IGAs, as the Treasury is engaged with more than fifty countries and jurisdictions to implement the reporting and withholding provisions of FATCA. It is anticipated that IGAs will be entered into with the following countries in the coming months: Canada, Finland, France, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Japan, Jersey, and the Netherlands.
Impact of Intergovernmental Agreements on United States Retirement Plans
The model IGAs are generally structured to be "reciprocal" in nature, meaning that the United States would agree to provide the same type of information about financial accounts held in the United States by the signing country's taxpayers to the signing country. For example, the IGA with the United Kingdom requires the United States to report information about certain depository accounts and certain narrowly-defined financial accounts held in the United States by residents of the United Kingdom. In addition, it commits the United States to adopt regulations to ultimately achieve an equivalent level of information being provided by the United States and the United Kingdom. Thus, under such reciprocal IGAs, it's not unlikely that a United States retirement plan eventually will be required to disclose information about non-U.S. taxpayer participants if the plan is not otherwise exempt from FATCA reporting. It remains to be seen what new reporting requirements may be imposed upon United States retirement plans.
Next Steps
Evaluate whether your non-U.S. retirement plans qualify for a FATCA exemption under the final regulations. With respect to any non-exempt plans, contact plan trustees regarding steps being taken to address potential FATCA coverage and monitor developments that may impact reporting obligations, including whether the home country appears likely to sign an IGA with the United States.
In addition to the plan-level reporting for certain non-U.S. retirement plans, United States taxpayers participating in a non-U.S. retirement plan often will have reporting obligations to the IRS under FATCA. In general, Section 6038D of the Internal Revenue Code requires United States citizens, resident aliens and certain nonresident aliens with United States source income to report beneficial ownership of "foreign financial assets" with an aggregate value of more than $50,000 on the last day of the tax year or more than $75,000 at any time during the tax year (although higher thresholds apply to United States taxpayers who file joint tax returns or reside abroad). "Foreign financial assets" have been interpreted to include interests under a foreign pension or deferred compensation plan and may also include foreign equity awards. Covered individuals are required to report these interests on IRS Form 8938 (as an attachment to the annual income tax return). Section 6038D reporting currently is effective and was required beginning in the 2012 tax filing season (i.e., by April 17, 2012, unless an extension was granted). See this link for a helpful set of Q&As published by the IRS addressing basic questions under IRS Form 8938 [Insert: http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Corporations/Basic-Questions-and-Answers-on-Form-8938]. The FATCA final regulations do not change any reporting obligations that apply to individuals.
There is no exemption for a covered individual with an interest in a non-U.S. retirement plan from filing Form 8938 merely because the plan that is a foreign financial interest itself falls into one of the FATCA exemptions described above. In addition, the obligation of a covered individual to report under Form 8938 are separate from and in addition to reporting under FBAR (the Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts). A United States individual may have FBAR filing obligations merely by having signature authority over foreign financial accounts with an aggregate value above $10,000. In contrast, Section 6038D and Form 8938 focus on equitable ownership of interests in certain foreign assets with different reporting thresholds depending upon the individual's filing and residency status.
Covered individuals who fail to meet the Form 8938 reporting requirements are potentially subject to steep penalties. Section 6038D provides for to up to $50,000 in penalties. In addition, a 40% understatement penalty applies to any tax attributable to the non-disclosed assets. While there is currently no IRS correction program for failure to file a Form 8938 for 2012, covered individuals who have failed to meet such reporting requirements with respect to an interest in a plan that is a foreign financial asset may wish to consider amending their prior tax returns.
Next Steps
We suggest that employers provide assistance to their employees who may be subject to Section 6038D reporting obligations. Assistance involves identifying foreign plans that may be subject to this reporting requirement and providing information on what values may be reported on Form 8938. Although it is the individual's responsibility to meet any reporting requirements under FATCA, there are also related corporate governance risks for the multinational employer if executive and other employees are not properly reporting United States taxes on plan interests outside the United States. In this regard, it is important to keep in mind that the IRS has identified foreign funded retirement plans as a potential area of tax avoidance and is working on guidance with respect to the taxation of these plans.
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Compliance with FATCA obligations is an important part of providing employee benefits outside of the United States for a multinational employer. Failure to take these obligations into account as part of compliance and risk management activities can result in adverse exposure to the company and its executive, particularly if there is a related significant underpayment of United States income tax.


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Originally a joint venture between Grimaldi Lines and LD Lines - 2 of Europe's largest Ferry Operators, the passenger service is now operated under the LD Lines brand.
The Saint Nazaire Gijon ferry route is operated by an 800 passenger capacity vessel featuring all the facilities expected of a modern day ferry.
The 'motorway of the sea' concept is to relieve congestion on roads crossing the Pyrenees (especially the N10 trunk road) and reduce the environmental impact of vehicle transport by offering a shift from road to sea.
"St Nazaire-Gijon crossing"
A very good journey. We were welcomed by a very pleasant staff, the boat is confortable. The duration of the crossing was respected. I wouldn't recommend it to people who are sea sick.
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Two major initiatives are under way, with more expected in coming years.
Pure Water San Diego is the City of San Diego's phased, multi-year program that will provide one-third of the city's water supply by 2035. The Pure Water Program uses proven technology to clean recycled water to produce safe, high-quality drinking water. It will also reduce the amount of treated wastewater that is discharged to the ocean by more than 50 percent.
The East County Advanced Water Purification Program will create a new, local, sustainable and drought-proof drinking water supply using state-of-the-art technology to meet 25-30 percent of East County's current drinking water demands. The project is a partnership between Padre Dam Municipal Water District, Helix Water District, the County of San Diego and the City of El Cajon.
Additional water purification projects under consideration in the region include:
- Agricultural and Drinking Water Reuse Project (City of Escondido)
- Pure Water Oceanside (City of Oceanside)
- Potable Reuse Feasibility Study (San Dieguito Water District, Santa Fe Irrigation District, and San Elijo Joint Powers Authority)
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- Encina Wastewater Authority Water Augmentation Project
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Brick-Shaped Turkey Meatloaf with Cranberry Charoset
This turkey meatloaf has carrots and mushrooms mixed in it to give great flavor and texture. It is served with a unique cranberry apple charoset/chutney.
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- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 2–3 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1 Tbsp. olive oil
- 1 carrot, finely chopped
- 1 cup (240 g) mushrooms, finely chopped
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. pepper
- 2 Tbsp. fresh parsley, chopped
- 2.2 lb (1 kg) ground turkey
- 1 cup (200 g) breadcrumbs
- 3 Tbsp. ketchup
- 2 eggs
Cranberry Sauce (Charoset)
- 1 15 oz. (425 g) can whole berry cranberry sauce
- 2 cups (480 g) coarsely chopped apples
- 1/2cup (120 g) chopped walnuts
- 1/2 cup (120 mL) orange juice
- 1/4 cup (60 mL) sweet red wine
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- Sugar, to taste
Preheat oven to 350ºF (180°C).
Sauté onion and garlic in oil until onion is soft, 3–5 minutes. Add carrot and cook 5 more minutes. Add mushrooms, salt, and pepper, and cook 5 more minutes. Stir in parsley and set aside.
Stir together ground turkey, breadcrumbs, ketchup, and eggs; then add vegetable mixture.
Form into a brick either by using a loaf pan or by molding the brick with your hands in a greased baking dish. Spread with additional ketchup and bake for 45 minutes.
Cranberry Sauce (Charoset)
Combine all ingredients in a bowl and refrigerate.
TO SERVE: Cut one slice of meatloaf, then cut it in half. Spread the charoset as the mortar between the two halves, then sandwich them together again (as pictured). Serve extra sauce on the side.
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Now Comes the Fun Part: Mainstream Microservices and Their Implications
by Ben Sigelman
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I had a lovely time at QCon London earlier this month. I had the opportunity to present on a few of my favorite topics (hint: they all involve microservices) and also got to chat with devs/devops building many different flavors of powerful software for companies of all shapes and sizes. (As a side note, the vendor areas at most tech conferences seem to be fluorescent-lit, windowless rooms – not so at QCon London! We all had a beautiful floor-to-ceiling view of Westminster Abbey. Not bad!)
I've been to a number of tech conferences in Europe over the years. Things felt qualitatively different this time around. In the past, it seemed like enterprise software developers in the E.U. were curious about microservices and other distributed architectures, but they were still stuck with their monoliths for various practical reasons. "Tracing" and "serverless" were similarly foreign, at least in production.
Fast forward to 2019: Microservices have gone mainstream. It was remarkable how far microservices – as well as the problems they introduce – have proliferated, especially at older, traditionally more risk-averse companies. This is no doubt due to the strength of the evidence in favor of a transition to microservices; for instance, Sarah Wells gave a wonderful keynote presentation where she documented, with evidence, how Financial Times increased their release velocity more than 100x by switching to microservices. It's all very compelling and hard to ignore.
Granted, from a certain perspective, nothing has changed. Teams still need to provide an excellent (and speedy) product experience for their end users, they need to ship code faster, and they need to resolve incidents more quickly. How can we make all of this possible? What can we do to help organizations develop with confidence despite the growing complexity of their modern, distributed systems?
Perhaps we can come to agreement on a few guiding principles:
1. Observability must be service-centric We can do a much better job transforming signals (spans, traces, etc.) into insights when we have clear objective functions. For example, once a service team declares their SLIs – and clearly states which metrics serve as indicators of the health of their service – our tools have an objective function to work with: p99 latencies, error rates, throughput, etc. This clarity lends itself to meaningful automation. Everything from automatic rollbacks (based on SLI latency thresholds) to dynamic, contextual analysis of spans and traces is suddenly possible.
2. Tracing isn't just for microservices Traces should absolutely achieve coverage of the modern, progressive services in a production deployment – but they should also account for overall time spent in mobile apps, web clients, and monoliths. In fact, it's the best way to understand their interdependence. An Android dev may think about latency only in terms of the literal end user, whereas a backend engineer's mind is likely focused on their particular service, but in distributed systems both developers are working on components that depend on each other. Mapping the journey of transaction – from swipe to servers – is needed if we expect to form a nuanced understanding of systemic issues afflicting modern applications.
3. There's simply "too much signal" Some say that observability{: target="_blank"} has a "signal-to-noise" problem. I'd say it's deeper than that: there's simply too much signal. None if it should be discarded – it is signal, after all! – but we need tools to detect the actionable patterns and surface them for us. Simply discarding outliers because they are infrequent runs contrary to the very purpose of observability: to understand the inner workings of a system by its outputs. Does this mean we need to manually analyze every span? No – we don't have the time or the brainpower to do so without assistance. But by using tools that ingest the firehose in its entirety, we can begin to understand and build a strong, evidence-based case about the root cause of complex, multifactorial problems in production.
4. Serverless means too many things It's problematic that "Serverless" has come to mean everything from FaaS in general, to "nanoservices," to edge compute functions. It's high time that we choose more self-descriptive terms, or we will inevitably end up talking past each other. ETL processes ported to Lambda and S3 are completely different than latency-sensitive consumer-facing products, even if they're all "serverless." As a trend, "serverless" is worth understanding, but it's so broad that it's difficult to have a coherent discussion about problems and solutions.
For those who were at QCon and those who weren't, I'd love to get your feedback on these ideas. You can find me on twitter @el_bhs or drop me a line over old-fashioned email if you'd like to use more than 280 characters.
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The Paris Carnival inspired, 14 feet high world's largest Ladurée macaron tree is on display at the InterContinental Paris Le Grand. The tree is made of 8,000 macarons in Harlequin multi-colors of green, yellow, black, blue and red with a touch of silver, and a bit more of Paris Carnival atmosphere added with a stately Elizabethan ruffle collar. Accompanying world's largest macaron Christmas tree is 27 other smaller delicious macaron trees displayed throughout the hotel. Complementing the brightly colored large tree are the smaller ones in colors of rose, lavender, orange, and melon.
It took a Ladurée team of 50 two weeks to build the trees and one night to install them at the hotel. This year's Ladurée and InterContinetal Paris Le Grande collaboration has more meaning than creating the largest macaron Christmas tree – both companies were opened in the year 1862. This is their way of celebrating the 150th year in style.
The deliciously edible trees will be on display at the InterContinental until January 2, 2014.
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Candice Hopkins presents a new version of her lecture 'Sounding the Margins: A Choir of Minor Voices', ongoing reflections on protest, Indigenous art and sound-based practices.
Autumn Chacon's Noise Cooking is a performance of cooking with mic'd knives and other utensils. Chacon collaborates with local artists and chefs to perform recipes traditional to the region, allowing audiences to re-experience familiar foods.
To reserve your place, please click here.
Candice Hopkins is a curator and writer based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has published writing on art and vernacular architecture, was co-curator of the 2014 SITE Santa Fe biennial, and is a curatorial advisor for documenta 14, 2017.
Autumn Star Chacon is a Diné/Chicana multimedia and performance artist from the Southwestern United States. Chacon looks for traditional philosophy in contemporary stories and experiences. Often using electronic sound and unconventional radio frequencies she creates environments where an audience is free to control how much of her work they wish to receive. Chacon is also a farmer/agriculturist using food as an living medium.
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ESTORIL (Portugal): World number one tennis player Roger Federer and Britain's double Olympic athletics gold medallist Kelly Holmes won the two top individual honours at Monday's annual Laureus World Sports Awards ceremony.
Federer, who captured three Grand Slam tournaments in 2004, and Holmes, who won 800m and 1,500m gold in Athens, were joined as award winners by the Euro 2004 football champions Greece and Chinese Olympic gold medal-winning hurdler Liu Xiang.
There were also awards for Italian racing driver Alessandro Zanardi, Canadian Paralympics athlete Chantal Petitclerc and record-breaking British yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur.
Greece won the team award, Liu Xiang the newcomer prize, and Zanardi, who lost both legs in a racing accident in 2001, but completed a full touring car season last year, took the comeback of the year award.
Petitclerc, winner of five wheelchair gold medals in Athens last year, who lost both of her legs in an accident when she was 13, won the disabled sportsperson's award.
MacArthur took the alternative sportsperson's award after breaking the world record for a round-the-world solo voyage.
The Boston Red Sox, who last year won baseball's World Series for the first time in 86 years, received a special Spirit of Sport Award.
A celebrity audience included the England football coach Sven-Goran Eriksson, his captain David Beckham, together with wife Victoria, Hollywood actresses Teri Hatcher and Joely Richardson and actor Cuba Gooding Jr.
They rubbed shoulders with others such as tennis great German Boris Becker, Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting and former world drivers' champion Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil.
Federer beat off, among others, Lance Armstrong and Michael Schumacher to the World Sportsman of the Year title.
He said: "Now my main ambitions are to win the French Open for the first time and to stay as world number one."
Holmes, named World Sportswoman of the Year, picked up her 27th award since her double triumph at the Athens Olympics last August.
Fellow nominees had included Wimbledon tennis champion Maria Sharapova and top golfer Annika Sorenstam,
Holmes said: "When I looked at the list I just thought 'wow'. I was just pleased to be nominated. It's the Oscars of sport and you just don't expect to be nominated, let alone win it."
The awards are decided by the Laureus World Sports Academy, a jury of 40 of the greatest sportsmen and women of all time.
The awards are twinned with the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, a charitable venture seeking to assist the underprivileged and needy around the world. – Reuters


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Face velocity testing of chemical fume hoods alone is not considered a sufficient demonstration of hood performance, as laboratory environmental factors may compromise hood performance. Quantitative containment tracer gas testing of chemical hoods under as-installed and as-used conditions as outlined in ANSI/ASHRAE 110 provides a means of quantifying containment performance. Airtest has extensive experience with this valuable testing tool and in assisting clients in identifying and correcting performance deviations.


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Wrong add column command generation for Oracle databases
Mateusz Kamiński 5 years ago • updated by Rafał Strzaliński (Senior Engineer) 5 years ago • 1
It looks like the term COLUMN is unnecessary in "ALTER TABLE <table_name> ADD
COLUMN ..." for Oracle migration scripts and causes error when executed on a database.
I've made a test. I've created model, added table, added collumns, and finally generated migration script. I got this query:
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Would like to see the ability to create territories based on rectangular areas or circled areas drawn by the user. This would also include the ability to check an option box to allow these areas to overlap or not for split territories. For example:
1) Draw a rectangle with your mouse over an area on the map which also indicates the distance in miles vertically and horizontally as you drag it.
2) Once you have drawn a rectangle of a particular territory, you can check mark to have the next territory overlap or not. If you chose not to overlap, the next rectangle will butt up against the other territory if you try to draw over it. If you chose to overlap it, this will indicate that the territory is split.
3) Also the ability to choose a location on your map as the center as you drag a rectangle or circle territory out from it. All this as it indicate once again the distances.
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By Andrew Lisa a freelance health writer. He covers personal fitness and the health-insurance industry.
Getting healthy for your wedding – and staying healthy afterward – is about a lot more than just looking good in a suit or gown. Getting and staying healthy is about commitment to your partner, his or her family, and your future together. Follow this guide to making a commitment to your health when you make a commitment to your true love.
Quit smoking. It's gross and it's going to kill you.
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If you smoke cigarettes, quitting now is – without any close second – the best thing you can do to improve your health and your future quality of life. The moment you quit, your health begins to improve and your body begins to regenerate.
Eat, Drink, Move Around
The three biggest steps a person can take toward improving their health both before the marriage ceremonies and long after the wedding vows are also the most obvious: what they eat, what they drink and how they exercise. You don't need to do anything radical. Drink water, eat well and participate in modest exercise. If you eliminate soda and other sugary drinks, eat smaller portions of healthy foods with more frequency throughout the day, and do even modest exercise (let's say 15 jumping jacks in the morning), you will look and feel better very quickly.
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Sleep between seven and nine hours a night. Most people don't. Appropriate sleep improves your memory and cognitive function, makes you less irritable and is good for your teeth, skin, hair, eyes and just about every other part of your body.
Take Stress Seriously
Stress is real. It's more than an annoyance. It can diminish your quality of life and lead to serious health problems. Marriages aren't always easy, and the stress created by money, children, uncertainty about the future – whatever – can lead to real health consequences. Know your triggers, resolve conflict where you can before it gets out of hand and don't be afraid to get professional help if the going gets really tough.
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As discussed in "Health Insurance and Marriage," a wedding – like the birth of a child – is a major life change and a perfect time to reevaluate health. By purchasing health insurance as a couple, you're much more likely to go to the doctor more regularly, schedule checkups that are appropriate for people your age and maintain and monitor your health.
What you eat on your wedding day is far less important than your lifelong habits.
Getting in shape for marriage ceremonies has been a last-minute ritual for brides and grooms for as long as people have been trading wedding vows. The reality is, however, that showing off your new bikini body for the honeymoon is a superficial joy. The months and years and – hopefully – decades to come depend on the decisions you make right now. Get healthy and stay healthy – you're not just living for you anymore.


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Thanks a lot, Macklemore (and Ryan Lewis). Now posting a simple ultrasound photo on Facebook to announce a new baby just looks lazy. The Seattle rapper upped the game on baby announcements on Saturday with a gorgeous video posted on collaborator Ryan Lewis' Youtube page.
For this project, coming in May 2015, his collaborator is actually fiancee Tricia Davis. Beginning with the sound of a heartbeat and Macklemore (born Ben Haggerty) asking, "What is that?" the screen then shows a message from the couple: "Today the media speculated about some big news in our life. So we decided to share it with you ourselves. Love, Ben and Tricia." They're referring to a Page Six article, which reported that Davis was wearing a loose-fitting dress and not drinking at a New Year's Eve party in Las Vegas and therefore must be pregnant. As much as we hate that kind of speculation (heaven forbid a girl wear a loose-fitting dress!), the gossip turned out to be right.
Though his "Same Love" became the anthem of many a gay marriage celebration last year (including a big one at the Grammys), Macklemore has taken his time getting hitched to Davis. They were engaged back in January 2013 after seven years of dating.
Shot by Jason Koenig, who's directed a number of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis videos, the clip goes on to show the expecting parents and three other women watching the technician perform an ultrasound on Davis. It's a touching moment, made more moving and polished by the soundtrack, Youth Lagoon's "17."
Is it all a bit much? (Dabs tissue to eyes.) Maybe. But who are we to take away from the happy parents-to-be?


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important in itself, as shewing the dislike to ordinances : as it is most depravity of man, when given up to expressively set forth in Jude's Episa reprobate mind; and doubly im- tle,-they were murmurers, comportant, if it have any reference to plainers, walking after their own that awful apostacy and dreadful Iusts,"—"mockers"
"mockers"—"separatists, gainsaying, which we see so mani- sensual,* not having the Spirit," who festly before us. I mean the con. is a God of order and of peace. Jehospiracy of Korah, Dathan, and Abi- vah by a public manifestation of his
o mentioned in the Epistle of miraculous power declares his abSt. Jude as commencing antitypi- horrence of their sin, and makes it cally in his day; and evidently to plain to all the camp whom he hath continue with increasing malignity chosen ;-visiting with speedy ventill the coming of the Lord Jesus : geance those who took upon thembecause are distinctly told, selves, in arrogant presumption, an that
" these are they of whom office to which they were not called ; • Enoch prophesied," saying, "be
" be- and rescuing his own appointed · hold the Lord cometh with his ministers from their malicious rage. holy myriads to execute judgement The chapter is most instructive : upon all, and to convince all that and I would earnestly press upon are ungodly among them of all their the Readers of this paper to go with ungodly deeds which they have it on their knees unto the Lord, that ungodly committed, and of all He may teach them instruction in their hard speeches which ungodly righteousness." I see plainly re' sinners have spoken against him." vealed in it (in connection with " The way of Ĉain," " the error of Jude's epistle, and the description Balaam, "the gainsaying of Core," given by Paul of the same apostacy are terms of peculiar distinctness, 2 Tim. iii, 1–5,) the very conwhich the Holy Spirit has used federacy against our God and His wherewith to designate a great apo- Christ so fearfully manifest unto stacy which should be in existence the eyes of all, whom a false liberality at, and be destroyed by, the coming has not blinded, as now existing and of the Lord Jesus.
extending among us: not merely a Let us see if we can perceive any disregard of, but openly expressed peculiar marks of its presence and enmity against, all the civil and strength among us at this time. We ecclesiastical institutions of the land; will briefly run over the detail of --the bonds of government relaxed or the typical occurrence, as mentioned broken ;-crime almost excused in in the 16th chapter of Numbers. its daring and unblushing effrontery; The crime of Korah and his fellows -the ties of reverence and superiis evidently rebellion against the ority contemned ;--Christ despised civil and ecclesiastical governors, in the persons of His ministers ; whom Jehovah had appointed to (" Ye take too much upon you," ye come near unto Himself, and called have too much,—the very words ento be holy before Him. Their ex- graven on the standard of radicalism, cuse, verse 3, is the equal holiness both civil and religious ;) -expediof the whole congregation, and the ency the bond of union, instead of prinpresence of the Lord among them. ciple ;-open war declared against Their insurrection is marked by all that is rendered venerable by age, pride, ambition, evil speaking, and and beloved because of long tried and
o Numbers xyi.
* Yuxekoi, men of animal character.
oft proved worth ;-reckless, head- lest ye be consumed in all their strong, daring treachery, under the sins !" Too easily, I fear, do the mask of liberalism ;-Moses and professing christians of our day Aaron despised, not merely hy a de- drink of this spirit of rebellion luded and clamorous and dangerous against the constituted authorities moh, but even by many of the sons
of the land. Pointless darts of sarof Levi and of the princes of the casm, and the envenomed arrows of congregation. Oh! what betokeneth slander and misrepresentation are this mad insurrection, which the liberally showered upon them ; Most High laugheth to scorn and schisms, backbitings and revilings, has in holy derision ; P but that are substituted for the unity of the blind infatuation, the drugged faith ;-breaches are made in the draught of hell, hath been put visible temple of Jehovah ;—and into the hand of the nations, our very pulpits are too often made and that they shall drink the dregs the sounding boards of invective and wring them out, even the dregs and vituperation, instead of platof the cup of Jehovah's fury? forms for the ambassadors of heaven's What meaneth this overturning of mercy and heaven's grace. thrones and dismembering of govern- depend upon it insubordination is a ments; but a stroke at the kingship principle congenial to the natural of Jesus,-a blow at Him by whom mind, which is enmity against kings reign," and whose ministers God!" Careful, anxiously careful they are ? What meaneth this should we be not to afford, even by clamor and outcry against the our sanction, much less by positive Church, the Church ;" but an infidel example, any further impetus to the rage against " the High Priest of torrent which is sweeping our land our profession," who is offended in in the length and breadth of it. The the persons of his under shepherds ? object is hardly now concealed to Oh wail, wail, ye inhabitants of the be the overturning of all legal and nations because of the Lord's con- once venerated institutions. Its troversy with the land !
Yea, secret master spring it is easy to saith Jehovah, they shall drink and guess at :
a desire to overcome all · be moved and be mad—rea drink restraint, all morality, all revealed . ye and be drunk and spue and fall truth--infidelity is its moving prin
and rise no more, because of the ciple-and woe be to those who join 'sword that I send among them." I covertly or openly its ranks of re
In the end of the rebellion of bellion against the Lord and his Korah against the Lord's anointed, anointed. When his wrath be we see a plain and manifest type of kindled, yea but a little, blessed the end of the confederacy of our ' are all they who put their trust day-a living descent into hell, in
' in Him, the day of the Lord's appearing with The whole of the second Psalm his holy myriads! " These both would be perused with advantage in were cast alive into the lake of fire." connection with the above. Oh ye men of God, ye members of I shall endeavour in my next to the congregation of Israel! hear ye make a few remarks on some other the word of Jehovah ! Depart I histories of the Old Testament. pray you, and touch nothing of theirs,
Φιλαλήθης. .
P Ps. ii, 4.
a Jeremiah xxv, 27.
r Rev. xix, 20.
ON THE KINGDOM OF GOD, &c.
To the Editor of the Investigator. Oɛs means generally the reign of
God, the time or state of things in Sir,
which He is king. Baoilεia is inIn your Number for September deed sometimes used in the first is a paper on the expression the sense above mentioned ; as in Matt. kingdom of God" or " of heaven." xiii, 41 "-they shall gather out of I had been considering this same his kingdom all things that offend :" subject before, and am now induced but the context will of course easily to offer you a few further remarks shew when this sense is to be given upon it; in which, if I should in to it. some things go again over the same Now it appears that this expresground which your former corres- sion, the " kingdom of God," was in pondent has occupied, I trust that
common use among the Jews, and the importance of the subject will generally understood by them. be deemed a sufficient excuse for the First, it is continually used by our repetition.
Saviour from the very beginning of Your Correspondent Abdiel has his ministry without introduction or shown, that the Kingdom of God, explanation : and secondly, the the Kingdom of Heaven, and the Jews themselves ask questions or Kingdom of Christ, are expressions entertain opinions about it in a mansignifying one and the same thing ; ner that shews, that they were acand that the announcement of the customed to the expression, and speedy establishment of this king- acquainted with its general meaning; dom and the preparation of men for but wanted information concerning it, was the great object of the preach- certain points connected with it. ing of Christ and his Apostles, a The Pharisees asked Jesus,
so when Let us look at the literal meaning the kingdom of God should come ?" b of the expression η βασιλεία το θες. and in the 19th chapter of the same Baoulela signifies either the place or Gospel we are told, that many country governed by a king, or " thought that the kingdom of God the act of reigning, the exercise of should immediately appear. kingly power, in fact, the reign of a No doubt I think can be enterking. Some of the texts in the tertained, nor does it appear to be beginning of the New Testament, in disputed, that this expression originiwhich this kingdom is mentioned, ated in the words of the prophet seem to put out of the question the Daniel. And in the days of these first sense above given : for "the kings shall the God of heaven set kingdom of God is at hand," "thy up a kingdom, which shall never be kingdom come," and similar ex- destroyed; and the kingdom shall pressions, cannot possibly be under- * not be left to other people, but it stood of a place or district in the · shall break in pieces and consume universe over which God reigns. I ' all these kingdoms, and it shall infer therefore that η βασιλεία το stand for ever." And the
a Matt. ix, 35; xiii, 9 ; Luke ix, 2 ; Acts i, 3 ; xx, 5 ; xxviii, 23, 31. Luke xvii, 20.
c Dan. ii, 44.
• kingdom and dominion and the originally signified in this phrase by greatness of the kingdom under the Jews : a state of things in the whole heaven, shall be given which" the Lord should he king ' to the people of the saints of the over all the earth," e visibly ruling Most High, whose kingdom is an and directing all its affairs; as the everlasting kingdom, and all do- Assyrian, Grecian, and Roman ' minions shall serve and obey him."d
emperors, prophesied of also by Schættgen, in his Horæ Hebraicæ, Daniel, had done in their day. quotes this passage as the origin of By christian commentators this the Hebrew phrase Dawn 13a, kingdom has been generally underof which the Greek η βασιλεια των stood to mean a spiritual kingdom; oúpuvwv is a translation. He ad- and thus the proper and original duces just the same arguments, as meaning of the word has been exhave been already brought forward, plained away or lost sight of. Yet to shew, that this phrase was it has not been so with all comfamiliar to the Jews in our Saviour's mentators. Schleusner in his Greek time, and was by them understood Lexicon, under the word Baoilala, to mean " the times of the Messiah." quotes two authors, Koppius in He says
however, that he can only Excursu I ad Ep. ad Thessal.) and find one passage in any Hebrew Keilius (in Historia Dogmatis de writings in which it is so used; as regno Messiæ, Christi et Apostolorum it occurs generally in the metaphor- ætate, ad illustranda Novi Testaical or derived sense for "subjectio menti loca accommodate exposita, voluntati et æconomiæ divinæ præ- Lips. 1781,) who, he says, maintain stita," and professio veritatis that the expression Baoilεia TB orthodoxæ." So also Wetstein, on Oas never means any thing else Matt. iii, 2, after quoting various than-"illud Christi regnum quod passages from the Talmud where the
post mortuorum demum in vitam expression "kingdom of heaven" reditum insigni aliqua majestate ab occurs, (generally in
in the form * ipso inaugurabitur, quoque ii qui suscipere jugum regni cælorum,") ejus doctrinam his in terris am
Cum vero Judæi Mes- plexi sunt, vitamque ad ejus præsiam exspectarent, qui cum nubibus cepta instituerunt, beatissima fecæli venturus, regni æterni post 'licitate fruentur." I have looked quatuor monarchias fundamenta in one or two of our public libraries • jacturus, et præsertim homines for the works of the critics whom verum Dei
Dei cultum edocturus, Schleusner here quotes, but in vain. Deoque subjecturus esset ; facile Perhaps some of your correspondents intelligimus tum regnum Dei et may be able to find them and comregnum Messiæ, tum doctrinam municate extracts. Christi amplecti, et regnum cælo- Let us see however what Schleusrum suscipere unum atque idem nerhimself thinks of this explanation. significasse. Thargum Micæ iv, He admits that it is the true one in 7, et revelabitur ipsis regnum some passages, but he goes on: cælorum in monte Zion et nunc et "-in quibusdam tantum locis valere usque
in seculum:' et Esai xl, 9. concedendum est, sed constituenda Dicite civitatibus domus Judæ, potius esse varia notionum hujus " revelatum est regnum Dei vestri.' formulæ genera ex contexta oratione
This then was the kingdom et temporis nep sáceol diligenter
proceeds :
d Ibid. vii, 27.
e Zech, xiv, 9.
definienda." And thus we (the reign of God manifest in the
circumstances of the times in with the use made of it in Scripture. which they were used : a device Let me only observe once more which has done more than any after him, how strongly this our thing else in obscuring the sense interpretation of it is confirmed by of the words of God and frittering the parable of the nobleman in the away their force. Take an instance 19th chapter of St. Luke. The of the evil of this from this very Jews thought that the kingdom article of Schleusner's on the word of God should immediately appear.' βασιλεία. One of the meanings Did Jesus correct their views of the which he assigns to the word is kingdom of God, and of its one day given and supported as follows: appearing, and being made manifest
Baoilla, Provincia, minor pars to the whole world, so that all flesh regni. Matt. iv, 8, kost&Ev avto should see it ? By no means. The πασας τας βασιλειας το κοσμο, de- whole parable goes only to check monstrabatipsi varias terræ Judaicae their notion of its immediately ap
provincias. What may not any pearing : to show them that He, to words whatever be made to mean, if whom it belonged, was first to go such principles of interpretation as away into a far country to be inthese are to be admitted ?
vested with it; and that it should For myself, I am persuaded, that be at his return, when he had rethe interpretation of the two com- ceived this investiture, and not mentators above quoted is the true before, that he would display his one. It is the literal, straightforward royal power; and that they would meaning of the words. It is the then be called to account for their sense in which the Jews, to whom employment of their time and talents our Saviour used them without ex- during his absence. planation, understood them. It is Let us now look at some of the the sense in which the early christian passages in which it may be urged, Fathers understood them. So Ire- that the expression " the kingdom næus, speaking of the blessing pro- of God" cannot have the sense that nounced by Isaac on Jacob, says, we have given it: or in which, at that these things relate " ad præ- least, it is generally understood to finita regni"_" to the predestined have a different meaning. time of the kingdom," (for thus were One class of such passages your the early christians, it appears, ac- Correspondent has noticed ; (page customed familiarly to speak of this 34) those in which the kingdom of glorious period,) " when the earth heaven or of God is said rs to be at should bring forth all things abun- hand :" and he has well said, that dantly." So also the Nicene Fathers, it was then and is now at hand, in in the passage quoted from their the same sense in which the proceedings in your second Number, coming of the Lord" and " the end p. 51, clearly look for the kingdom of all things" are at hand. That of Christ to be his blessed reign Holy Spirit, with whom a thousand


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If I've been incredibly rude to you or snappy or tearful lately, if I've taken offence where none was intended, or I've wildly overreacted to something you said on social media, I do apologise. It wasn't the real me you experienced in those moments: it was the mad brain that sometimes seizes control of me.
The reason I have these episodes — as I keep having to explain to my bemused victims, after the event — is that I'm currently undergoing intensive medical treatment which gives me these weird and powerful mood swings. Known as the Perrin Technique, the treatment — which involves regular massage of the limbic system — has been very successful at dealing with conditions including chronic fatigue syndrome and even, I hope, Lyme disease. Because the limbic system controls your emotions the side effects, as in my case, can be bizarre beyond belief.
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Chad Gibson, beaten during the infamous Rainbow Lounge raid, is speaking out on his injuries and says he has no memory of what happened.
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This week has been pretty busy. It started bright an early on Monday, when all my hard work promoting the release of our big Fortune 500 issue came to life. The following day was my birthday, which I celebrated quietly before diving back into work. Now I'm preparing for my Mom to arrive tonight! I can't wait to see her, though I'm a little anxious about the wedding dress shopping that will take up a large portion of her visit.
On Saturday we went to not one but two engagement parties. There must be something in the water! The first one was particularly fun because we were part of the plan. Kristen thought she was coming to one of our regular park days…little did she know she was getting a proposal with her picnic! A few of us arrived early to set up and then watched from behind a tree while Jeff popped the question. It was a special moment we got to be a part of.
On our way to the park, Albert and I stopped to grab coffee. We ended up going to a different coffee shop, Birch. Though I'll still remain loyal to Perk, I loved some of the cute things they were doing around the shop. By the order pick-up area, there were these little cards from The Ignition Initiative, meant to stimulate conversation and community in the shop. I thought it was a great idea! It would be tough to strike up conversation with a stranger, but it would definitely get me and a friend talking instead of looking at our phones.
Another great move at Birch: an interactive tip jar. I'm not always keen on leaving tips at places with counter service, but this makes it fun.


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Pyongyang on the Prairie, Part One
by Michelle Malkin
Copyright 2017
A criminal justice system that operates in the dark is arbitrary, unjust and criminal.
In Oklahoma this year, a Kafkaesque set of sealed motions, secret orders and closed-door hearings completely shut out a criminal defendant, his public defenders and the public. A trial judge served as handmaiden for the prosecutors, even failing to notify the defendant and his lawyers of the kangaroo court proceedings until after they had occurred.
The defendant, who is appealing his convictions and maintains his complete and actual innocence, was denied an opportunity to challenge the state's legal arguments for hiding information about a crime lab analyst's shoddy work on his case that could be exculpatory and key to his exoneration. His public defenders were also denied the opportunity to cross-examine witnesses — all government employees from Oklahoma City and the Oklahoma City Police Department.
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The Oklahoma attorney general's office claims that the trial judge, Timothy Henderson, conducted an "exhaustive" review of the protected materials and "deeply explored" their contents with government witnesses who only represented the government's side of the story.
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Here's the thing: While the defendant was denied representation at the secret hearings, Oklahoma County Assistant District Attorney Gayland Gieger was allowed to enter the star chamber with an entire "team" of fellow prosecutors. (We only know this after two local TV journalists obtained video footage from a surveillance camera outside the hearing room.) In fact, the state attorney general divulged in one of the few unsealed court filings on the matter, Gieger "facilitated the District Court's inquiry by thoroughly examining those witnesses in an ex parte proceeding."
Gieger was the original prosecutor in the defendant's case. The defendant's appeal argues that Gieger "repeatedly and flagrantly misrepresented" evidence at trial, including the forensic evidence and testimony of the OCPD crime lab analyst, Elaine Taylor.
A report by six internationally renowned DNA scientists and experts released this summer highlighted Taylor's "flawed forensic science, including insufficient serological analysis and improper DNA testimony" in the case at hand. The scientists concluded that the defendant, former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw, who is now serving 263 years for a bandwagon pile-on of sexual assault allegations, "was deprived of his due process right to a fair trial because the State misused DNA evidence" and stated that his "conviction should be overturned and he should be given a new trial."
Taylor's work on the case, the state was forced to acknowledge, just happened to be the subject of the secret hearings that Assistant District Attorney Gayland Gieger was allowed to "facilitate."
Can you spell "conflict of interest"?
Incredibly, the state attorney general pats itself on the back for "its strong commitment to transparency" and argues that the "State was forbidden by law from turning any of the material over to the defendant" because a crime lab review of Taylor's work is "an unfinished personnel review" protected by the state open records act.
Nonsense on a stick. The law specifically states that a public body "may," not must, keep personnel records confidential — and there is no indication that a review of Taylor's work would invade her privacy.
Both the public's right to know and the defendant's constitutional rights to exculpatory information (as well as information subject to cross-examination) trump the phony "personnel records" shield erected by the state attorney general's office and its collaborators.
In fact, given the wave of crime lab scandals across the country from Austin, Texas, to Washington, D.C., it is in the national interest to disclose such information about questionable forensic analysis and testimony (which I've exposed more at length in my CRTV.com work on the Holtzclaw case and other wrongful convictions for "Michelle Malkin Investigates").
It's even more imperative given the Oklahoma City Police Department's sordid history of fabricated forensic evidence and misconduct dating back more than 15 years.
Fact: Elaine Taylor worked under disgraced former OCPD forensic chemist Joyce Gilchrist, who was fired for systematic fraud, false testimony and planting evidence that led to countless death row and other convictions.
Fact: Taylor reportedly told a former supervisor that she destroyed rape kits under Gilchrist's orders because she "believed the only thing (she) could do was to follow (Gilchrist's) orders or else pay the consequences."
The @OKCPD crime lab analyst who destroyed evidence under Gilchrist botched Holtzclaw case.https://t.co/WWvpXMZ62fhttps://t.co/eHaxfXO1bg pic.twitter.com/l35d25AL1K
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) August 14, 2017
Fact: Elaine Taylor is the mother-in-law of Detective Rocky Gregory, the co-lead investigator in the current defendant's case (a relationship that was not disclosed at trial).
Fact: My attempt through a public records request to obtain a list of cases from the DA's office in which Taylor served as an expert witness — so that the public can learn if she botched other analyses and testimonies — was flippantly rejected because "our office maintains no list of cases in which Ms. Taylor appeared as a witness to give testimony as an expert or otherwise," and so "this matter (is) now closed."
Nearly six months after the cloak-and-dagger confab on Taylor's work held in late June in Judge Henderson's locked courtroom, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has yet to respond to Holtzclaw's motion to unseal the secret proceedings. In fact, the criminal appeals court has yet to issue a ruling on his public defenders' simple motion for an order to preserve evidence in light of the police department's admission that it had deleted Taylor's email account after she retired on Feb. 2, 2017 (a fact not known to the defendant until media public records request forced disclosure).
Legal experts left, right and center tell me they've never seen anything like this.
Jonathan Manes, who runs the Civil Liberties & Transparency Clinic at SUNY Buffalo Law School, told me:
I wasn't aware of the Holtzclaw case and it seems like exactly the kind of egregious judicial secrecy practice that we're concerned about. It's surprising how often this sort of thing pops up all around the country.
I don't know the details of this case, but based on the description you've provided and the news accounts, it does seem that the extent of secrecy in this case is extraordinary. At a minimum, you would expect that the court would issue an order publicly explaining the scope of the sealing order and the reasons for excluding the public. A number of appellate courts have found that the First Amendment imposes these requirements. It doesn't look like the court has done that here.
It seems there are a couple other potential legal problems here. First, courts aren't supposed to hold secret hearings unless they notify the public in advance, so that journalists or others have an opportunity to file a motion to challenge the secrecy before the hearing happens. It's unclear whether that happened here.
Second, the fact that defense counsel has been excluded from these proceedings raises potential Due Process concerns, particularly in a criminal case.
Third, the fact that the court is departing from its own rules regarding protective orders strikes me as less problematic in principle, but still woefully underexplained in this case. It generally is the case that a court can make an exception to its own rules of practice in a particular case. I don't know how it works in Oklahoma, but usually court rules are not imposed by statute, but are issued by the court itself as an exercise of the court's power to manage its own procedures. As a result, it's not all that unusual for courts to vary the rules in a particular case when there is good reason to do so. But you'd expect that they'd at least provide a rationale for departing from those rules.
One caveat: Sometimes courts can't fully explain the reasons for secrecy in public because doing so would itself compromise legitimately secret information. I have in mind, for example, situations involving confidential informants where the court doesn't want to disclose information that could unmask the informant. But even in that kind of case, courts can describe the scope of the secrecy order, and they can almost always give some public explanation for secrecy. This case seems highly unusual both because of how much seems to have happened in secret, and how little public explanation has been given.
My bottom line: Even if the reasons for all this secrecy turn out to be benign, it certainly undermines public confidence in the fairness of the proceeding and probably undermines the actual quality of the proceedings too. Public scrutiny keeps judges and lawyers on their toes. It also allows members of the public to come forward if they have relevant evidence.
And former ACLU of Oklahoma president and retired University of Oklahoma law professor Randall Coyne blasted the secrecy circus this summer, and his words bear repeating:
"This is no way to run a criminal justice system. In 29 years of practicing and teaching criminal law in Oklahoma, I have never seen the level of sealed orders and secret, ex parte courtroom proceedings that has occurred in the Holtzclaw matter. … The dark cloud of secrecy over the Holtzclaw case gives rise to suspicions that somebody is hiding something. … The court immediately should unseal all orders and filings so the public — as well as other convicted defendants whose cases and lives may be impacted — can see the details."
Is this North America or North Korea? Over to you, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.
Related: Oklahoma scores an "F" on state transparency and integrity.


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