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On Tuesday, the E.U. parliament passed a bill that its authors claim will provide much - needed clarity on how the Internet should work, but which its opponents say is full of loopholes that will allow providers to favor their biggest commercial partners.

But celebration is very much in order, beginning with a word of gratitude to the authors of the Bill of Rights for the First Amendment, which begins with a concern for religious freedom.

That includes Rep. Chris Collins, a western New York Republican, who is one of the two authors of the amendment that shift the Medicaid burden from county governments to the state, which was included in the Senate version of the bill.

The bill authored by Rep. Christopher H. Smith follows Saturday's Women's March on Washington, which brought hundreds of thousands of abortion rights supporters to the nation's capital.

A letter to the town board authored by Eddy was read — it objected to the bill he received from the town for $ 1,282 to reimburse taxpayers for the cost of his inquiry to the town's Attorney months ago requesting advice on the tie vote in the November election and the legality of the subsequent «holdover» of incumbent board member Gail Seaman — to which Eddy had opposed.

Nguyen, a sexual assault survivor herself, helped author the Sexual Assault Survivors» Bill of Rights, which unanimously passed Congress in 2016 with support from the entire New York delegation.

Assemblyman Will Barclay and state Sen. Patty Ritchie have both authored bills that would give Fitzpatrick's owner a $ 60 million tax credit, but neither were included in the budget, nor was a $ 100 million financial aid package to help pay for the cost of refueling the plant, which would need to be done this year.

Despite authoring dozens of bills each year, in her seven years in the Assembly, no legislation for which Malliotakis was the prime sponsor has made it to the floor — the best she can hope for is that some of her ideas are taken up by the majority.

Billings is the author of Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars, which won the American Institute of Physics science writing award in 2014.

Bill has authored several books, including New York Times Bestseller «Undeniable,» «Unstoppable» and his latest, «Everything All at Once,» which will release in July of 2017.

Bill runs his own blog and has authored his best - selling book, The poor, misunderstood calorie, which is one of the best resources on human energy metabolism.

The author of the article has this wrong because neither eHarmony nor Match.com charge based on location or sex which is what the bill speaks to (from the article):

In terms of special features, there is «Killing Kennedy: An Interview with Author Bill O'Reilly», which gives good insight into the story.

Co-produced by Tom Hanks and Bill Paxton, among others, Parkland partially adapts the historical novel from famed author / attorney Vincent Bugliosi entitled, «Four Days in November», which dissects some of the lesser known events that occurred in Dallas on the day of President John F. Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963, and the three days afterward.

SEPTEMBER «A Walk in the Woods» (September 2): Robert Redford plays author Bill Bryson in this adaptation of Bryson's novel, which finds him deciding out of the blue to traverse the Appalachian Trail.

And, this week, there's the (bipartisan) Harkin - Enzi bill, authored by the chairman and ranking member (respectively) of the Senate education committee, which, well, it's hard to tell exactly what it does, but it surely reduces the federal footprint around accountability.

That is the question that author and educator Bill Nave aims to answer in his new book from Harvard Education Press, Student - Centered Learning: Nine Classrooms in Action, in which nine teachers tell the stories of their own classrooms and how they altered their own methods to achieve greater student success.

SB61 — Louisiana's Public School Choice bill, authored by Sen. Ben Nevers (D - Bogaulsa), passed with tremendous bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate, which will allow students attending a D or F - rated public school to transfer to the A, B or C - ranked public school of their parents» choice, provided the school has room for the student.

The bill no longer proposes the creation of an appointed academic review board, which was to measure schools» progress and assign letter grades, said bill author Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R - Fond du Lac.

This loophole has led Assemblyman Patrick O'Donnell (D - Long Beach) to author Assembly Bill 699 which would prohibit school districts from collecting a student's immigration status in order to prevent immigration agents from looking at student files that could in some way lead them to the immigration status of students or their parents.

Among the bills that charter schools are watching closely is AB 401 by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D - San Francisco, which would place a cap on the number of allowable charters in California and won passage to the Senate earlier this month - a similar bill by the author got this far last year before failing in committee.

«The Indiana bill, which began its life as a straight repeal of Common Core standards, was changed so much and left so many of the common requirements intact that the original author, state Sen. Scott Schneider (R), pulled his name and voted against the final version.»

Though I think there's a bit of a difference between what one might reasonably expect from a corporation, on the one hand, and what one might expect from an organization calling itself the «Authors Guild,» which bills itself as «the nation's leading advocate for writer's interests in effective copyright protection, fair contracts, and free expression.»

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

«While the availability of direct carrier billing is patchy, the various benefits which the mechanism offers — higher conversion rates, opportunities to monetise unbanked customers — suggest that deployments will rise significantly in the medium term,» notes report author Dr Windsor Holden in a statement.

There's also «Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls» — which is billed as a prequel by a new author — as well as his follow - up effort, «Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After».

Which might explain in part why a non-fiction author, faced with the potential demise of the firms who foot the bill for production of such magna opus, might panic at the prospect.

The idea was to offer a range of editorial and marketing services to authors, which would presumably pay the bills.

Arguments in favor of this bill have been inconsistent and senate author Charles Wyrick (D - Fairland) argued in the senate agriculture and rural development committee against rules which he knew had already been removed from the bill.

Assembly Bill 485, authored by assembly member Patrick O'Donnell, will help put an end to the suffering of animals in commercial breeding operations (the majority of which are in the Midwest) by banning the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits from mills.

She drafted and analyzed federal and state legislation to protect animals and children, including being the author of the 2009 - 10 legislative bill to ban pound seizure in Michigan (which passed the House and ran out of time in Senate) and a bill to ban gas chambers in Michigan shelters.

The bill, authored by Best Friends Animal Society and supported by Alley Cat Allies and the Humane Society of the United States, made it through the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee with unanimous approval last week — despite opposition from, among others, Audubon Florida (which was trying to make the most of the Smithsonian / U.

Together they are authors of the eye - opening book «Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food» (which was praised by Bill Gates).

«Mann is author of two books, «The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines» (Columbia University Press, 2012), which will soon to be available inpaperback with an update and a new guest foreword by Bill Nye «The Science Guy», and «Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming» (DK Publishing, 2008).

There are three really simple numbers which explain this (and if you have even more appetite for the subject, read the excellent July 2012 Rolling Stone piece by the author and campaigner Bill McKibben, which — building on the work of the Carbon Tracker Initiative — first spelled them out).

The author apparently assumes naively that the huge federal subsidies for wind facilities (which merely shift cost from «wind farm» owners to taxpayers and electric customers and hide them in tax bills and monthly electric bills) are not a part of the true costs.

The US Chamber of Commerce, which has long opposed climate legislation, thanked the authors but reserved judgment, calling the bill a «work in progress.»

On Nov. 9, 2010, Middlebury College President Ron Liebowitz announced that author and environmentalist Bill McKibben has been appointed to the position of Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College — which gave him the resources to really make an impact.

Which is why bill HF3849, authored by Rep. Steve Simon, «would allow for consumption of alcohol on commercial multi-passenger bicycles.»

The bill, which was authored by Energy and Commerce Henry Waxman and Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey, appears to be one of the boldest drafts of energy legislation that's ever been favored to pass.

Fran Pavley, Former California Assemblywoman A three - term Assembly member, Fran Pavley authored the landmark Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32) and the Clean Car Regulations Bill (AB 1493), which has served as a model for legislation in ten other states and Canada.

He appeared as a witness before The Joint Committee on the Draft Mental Health Bill (see the committee's final report, HL Paper 79 — I HC 95 — I, session 2004 — 05), and is the author of The Nearest Relative Handbook, which is forthcoming from Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

He is the author of The Win Without Pitching Manifesto, and his most recent book, Pricing Creativity: A Guide to Profit Beyond the Billable Hour, which Ron said «is another nail in the coffin of hourly billing from one of the industry's major thinkers.»

However, the authors of the bill are sure that the legal status of cryptocurrency exchange would reduce the risks of fraud and will provide fiscal transparency, which is expected to increase tax revenue of the government.

SB 393 is part of the #EquityandJustice initiative, which is a package of bills mutually authored by Senator Ricardo Lara (D - Bell Gardens) and Senator Holly Mitchell (D - Los Angeles).

Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. is the author of Trump Bubbles: The Dramatic Rise and Fall of High - Conflict Politicians (2016) and the President of High Conflict Institute, which provides training and resources for managing high - conflict people and situations.

Research by marriage specialists such as Dr. John Gottman, author of the book Why Marriages Succeed or Fail, and Bill Doherty, professor of Marriage and Family Therapy at the University of Minnesota, provided practical suggestions for how to strengthen marriage, which were simple enough that we were able to easily apply them to our marriage.