query: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film) was nominated for an award.

pos: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film) The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical black comedy crime film directed by Martin Scorsese . The screenplay by Terence Winter is adapted from the memoir of the same name by Jordan Belfort and recounts Belfort 's perspective on his career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his firm Stratton Oakmont engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street that ultimately led to his downfall . Leonardo DiCaprio ( who also co-produced the film ) stars as Belfort , with Jonah Hill as his business partner and friend Donnie Azoff , Margot Robbie as his second wife Naomi Lapaglia and Kyle Chandler as Patrick Denham , the FBI agent who tries to bring him down . Matthew McConaughey , Rob Reiner , Jon Favreau , Joanna Lumley and Jean Dujardin are also featured . The film marks the director 's fifth collaboration with DiCaprio , after Gangs of New York ( 2002 ) , The Aviator ( 2004 ) , The Departed ( 2006 ) and Shutter Island ( 2010 ) , as well as his second collaboration with Winter after the television series Boardwalk Empire ( 2010 -- 14 ) .   The Wolf of Wall Street premiered in New York City on December 17 , 2013 and was released theatrically on December 25 , 2013 in the United States , distributed by Paramount Pictures . The film was the first to be released entirely through digital distribution . It was a major commercial success , grossing more than $ 392 million worldwide during its original theatrical run to become Scorsese 's highest-grossing movie and the 17th-highest-grossing film of 2013 . The film was controversial for its morally ambiguous depiction of events , explicit sexual content , profanity , depiction of hard drug use and the use of animals during production . The film also caused controversy due to revelations that it was financed by illegally obtained funds from 1Malaysia Development Berhad ( 1MDB ) .   The film received mostly positive reviews from critics , with praise for Scorsese 's direction , the comedic performance of DiCaprio and the fast-paced and consistent humor . The film was nominated for several awards including five nominations at the 86th Academy Awards ceremony : Best Picture , Best Director for Scorsese , Best Writing ( Adapted Screenplay ) for Winter and Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor nominations for DiCaprio and Hill , respectively . The film did not win in any category , although DiCaprio did win Best Actor -- Motion Picture Musical or Comedy at the 71st Golden Globe Awards , where the film was also nominated for Best Picture -- Musical or Comedy . It was also recognized by numerous other awards ceremonies , as well as guilds and critics ' associations .   The word `` fuck '' and its numerous conjugations are said between 506 and 569 times , making this the film with the most uses of the word in a mainstream , non-documentary film .

neg: Wolf PAC Wolf PAC is an American non-partisan political action committee formed in 2011 with the goal of `` ending corporate personhood and publicly financing all elections in our country '' , to include the restriction of large monetary donations to political candidates , parties , and groups . It began with an announcement at an Occupy Wall Street rally in New York City by The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur . On a state level Wolf PAC has received some bi-partisan support for its objectives .   Its strategy is to add a 28th amendment to the Constitution , thereby overturning multiple Supreme Court cases including Citizens United v. FEC and Buckley v. Valeo , which cumulatively have made it impossible to achieve Wolf PAC 's campaign finance goals through simple legislation . Wolf PAC believes that Congress is too corrupt to pass such an amendment itself , and therefore advocates a convention of the States , which is a procedure outlined in Article V of the Constitution . , five states had passed resolutions calling for such a convention , though not all states have used identical language in their convention call .

neg: Goodfellas Goodfellas ( stylized as GoodFellas ) is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese . It is an adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi , who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese . The film narrates the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill and his friends over a period from 1955 to 1980 .   Scorsese initially named the film Wise Guy and postponed making it ; later , he and Pileggi changed the name to Goodfellas . To prepare for their roles in the film , Robert De Niro , Joe Pesci , and Ray Liotta often spoke with Pileggi , who shared research material left over from writing the book . According to Pesci , improvisation and ad-libbing came out of rehearsals wherein Scorsese gave the actors freedom to do whatever they wanted . The director made transcripts of these sessions , took the lines he liked best , and put them into a revised script , which the cast worked from during principal photography .   Made on a budget of $ 25 million , Goodfellas grossed $ 46.8 million . It received positive reviews from critics and was nominated for six Academy Awards , including Best Picture and Best Director , with Pesci winning Best Actor in a Supporting Role . The film won five awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts , including Best Film and Best Director . Additionally , Goodfellas was named the year 's best film by various critics ' groups .   Goodfellas is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in the crime genre . In 2000 , it was deemed `` culturally , historically , and aesthetically significant '' and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress . Its content and style have been emulated in numerous other films and television shows .

neg: Wall Street (disambiguation) Wall Street is a street in New York City which runs through the historical center of the Financial District .   Wall Street also refers to :  The Wall Street Journal , a daily newspaper in New York City  Financial District , Manhattan , a New York City neighborhood containing the headquarters of many of the city 's major financial institutions  Financial market of the United States , particularly major participants in New York City  These New York City Subway stations in Manhattan :  Wall Street ( IRT Broadway -- Seventh Avenue Line ) , at Williams Street ; serving the trains  Wall Street ( IRT Lexington Avenue Line ) , at Broadway ; serving the trains  Wall Street ( Winnipeg ) , a street in Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada  Wall Street ( train ) a former train of the Reading Railroad  Big business , often contrasted with `` Main Street '' small business   In arts and entertainment :  Wall Street ( 1915 photograph )  Wall Street ( 1929 film ) , directed by Roy William Neill  Wall Street ( 1987 film ) , directed by Oliver Stone  Wall Street : Money Never Sleeps , ( 2010 film ) , directed by Oliver Stone , sequel to the 1987 film  Wall Street , a 1997 book by Doug Henwood  `` Wall Street '' , a character in the 2002 film The Transporter

neg: Silver Linings Playbook Silver Linings Playbook is a 2012 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by David O. Russell . It was adapted from the novel The Silver Linings Playbook , by Matthew Quick . The film stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence , with Robert De Niro , Jacki Weaver , Chris Tucker , Anupam Kher , and Julia Stiles in supporting roles .   Cooper plays Patrick `` Pat '' Solitano , Jr. , a man with bipolar disorder who is released from a psychiatric hospital and moves back in with his parents , played by Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver . Determined to win back his estranged wife , Pat meets recently widowed Tiffany Maxwell , portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence , who offers to help him get his wife back if he enters a dance competition with her . The two become closer as they train and Pat , his father , and Tiffany examine their relationships with each other as they cope with their problems .   Silver Linings Playbook premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8 , 2012 , and was released in the United States on November 16 , 2012 . The film opened to major critical success and earned numerous accolades . It received eight Academy Award nominations , including Best Picture , Best Director , Best Adapted Screenplay . It became the first film since 1981 's Reds to be Oscar-nominated for the four acting categories and the first since 2004 's Million Dollar Baby to be nominated for the Big Five Oscars , with Lawrence winning the Academy Award for Best Actress . It also achieved four Golden Globe Award nominations , with Lawrence winning Best Actress ; three BAFTA nominations , with Russell winning for Best Adapted Screenplay ; four Screen Actors Guild nominations ; and five Independent Spirit Award nominations , winning in four categories , including Best Film . The film was a success at the box office , grossing over $ 236 million worldwide , more than eleven times its budget .

neg: 78th Academy Awards The 78th Academy Awards ceremony , presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) , took place on March 5 , 2006 , at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood , Los Angeles beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m. EST. . The ceremony was scheduled one week later than usual to avoid conflicting with the 2006 Winter Olympics . During the ceremony , AMPAS presented Academy Awards ( commonly referred to as Oscars ) in 24 categories honoring films released in 2005 . The ceremony , televised in the United States by ABC , was produced by Gil Cates and directed by Louis J. Horvitz . Actor Jon Stewart hosted the show for the first time . Two weeks earlier in a ceremony at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills , California held on February 18 , the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Rachel McAdams .   Crash won three awards including Academy Award for Best Picture . Other winners included Brokeback Mountain , King Kong , and Memoirs of a Geisha also with three awards apiece , and Capote , The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe , The Constant Gardener , Hustle and Flow , March of the Penguins , The Moon and the Son : An Imagined Conversation , A Note of Triumph : The Golden Age of Norman Corwin , Six Shooter , Syriana , Tsotsi , Walk the Line , and Wallace & Gromit : The Curse of the Were-Rabbit with one each . The telecast garnered nearly 39 million viewers in the United States .

neg: Golden Boot Awards The Golden Boot Awards is an American acknowledgment of achievement honoring actors , actresses , and crew members who have made significant contributions to the genre of Western television and movies . The award is sponsored and presented by the Motion Picture & Television Fund . Money raised at the award banquet is used to help finance various services offered by the Fund to those in the entertainment industry .   Actor Pat Buttram conceived the idea of the Golden Boot Award , and the first ones were presented in 1983 . The awards appear to have been discontinued since 2007 .

neg: Golden Eagle Award for Best Leading Actor (Russia) The Golden Eagle Award for Best Leading Actor is one of twenty award categories presented annually by the National Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of Russia . It is one of the Golden Eagle Awards , which were conceived by Nikita Mikhalkov as a counterweight to the Nika Award established in 1987 by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences .   Each year the members of the academy choose three leading actors and the film as a perception . The first actor to be awarded was Viktor Bychkov for the film The Cuckoo . The most recent award was made to Aleksandr Zbruyev for Film About Alekseyev . Sergei Garmash is the most successful artists , winning twice out of three nominations . Other noteworthy actors who were nominated at least twice are Fedor Bondarchuk , Nikita Mikhalkov , Aleksei Petrenko , Danila Kozlovsky , Vladimir Mashkov , Yevgeny Mironov , Bohdan Stupka , Viktor Sukhorukov and Aleksandr Baluev .

neg: When Jews Were Funny When Jews Were Funny is a 2013 documentary film by Canadian director Alan Zweig , which explores the role of Jewish comedians in the history of North American comedy and humour from the Borscht Belt to the present day .   The film features interviews with and/or performance clips of a wide variety of Jewish comedy performers and writers of the 20th and 21st centuries , including Howie Mandel , Gilbert Gottfried , Rodney Dangerfield , Eugene Mirman , Marc Maron , Bob Einstein , Andy Kindler , Shelley Berman , Alan King , Judy Gold , Elon Gold , David Steinberg , Jackie Mason , Jack Carter , Norm Crosby , Henny Youngman , David Brenner , Shecky Greene , Mark Breslin , Cory Kahaney , Harrison Greenbaum , Simon Rakoff , Lisa Lambert , Larry Josephson and Michael Wex .   The film premiered on September 10 , 2013 at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival . It subsequently won the festival award for the year 's best Canadian feature film .

neg: 68th Tony Awards The 68th Annual Tony Awards were held June 8 , 2014 , to recognize achievement in Broadway productions during the 2013 -- 14 season . The ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City , and was televised live on CBS . Hugh Jackman was the host , his fourth time hosting . The 15 musical Tony Awards went to seven different musicals , and six plays shared the 11 play Tony Awards .   The nominations were announced on April 29 , 2014 by Jonathan Groff and Lucy Liu . Audra McDonald won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play . In just her ninth Broadway engagement , McDonald established two records as the first actor to win six Tony Awards for acting and the first to win in all four categories , lead and featured in both a play and a musical . In its seventh Broadway incarnation , The Glass Menagerie won its first Tony Award ( Lighting Design ) .   Aladdin 's win made it the fourth franchise to complete EGOT status .

neg: 2013 Shanghai International Film Festival The 2013 Shanghai International Film Festival was the 16th such festival devoted to international cinema held in Shanghai , China .

neg: 26th European Film Awards The 26th European Film Awards were presented on 7 December 2013 in Berlin , Germany . The winners were selected by over 2,500 members of the European Film Academy . On 28 October 2013 , a special seven-member jury convened in Berlin and , based on the EFA Selection list , decided on the winners in the categories cinematography , editing , production design , costume design , composer and sound design . On November 4 , 2013 nominations for documentary were announced . The special documentary jury consist five members : Antonio Saura Despina Mouzaki , Claas Danielsen , Ally Derks and Jacques Laurent .

neg: Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2010 The 4th Houston Film Critics Society Awards were presented on December 18 , 2010 . These awards for `` extraordinary accomplishment in film '' are presented annually by the Houston Film Critics Society ( HFCS ) based in Houston , Texas . The organization , founded in 2007 , includes 22 film critics for print , radio , television , and internet publications in the greater Houston area . The awards are co-sponsored by the Houston Film Commission , Southwest Alternate Media Project , Women in Film and Television/Houston , WorldFest , and the Houston Cinema Arts Society .   The nominations for the 2010 awards were announced on December 12 , 2010 . Eligible films do not need to have played or opened in a Houston film theater prior to the nomination deadline , merely made available to the HFCS membership at a screening or on DVD . Along with the 13 `` best of '' category awards , this year also saw the introduction of a new category for `` Worst Movies of the Year '' . The Social Network , True Grit , and 127 Hours each received six nominations , all including the Best Picture , Actor , Direction , and Original Score categories .   The Social Network was the HFCS 's most awarded film of 2010 taking top honors in the Best Picture , Best Director ( David Fincher ) , Best Actor ( Jesse Eisenberg ) , and Best Screenplay ( Aaron Sorkin ) categories . Inception was the only other film to garner multiple awards , winning both the Best Original Score ( Hans Zimmer ) and Best Cinematography ( Wally Pfister ) prizes . The other acting awards went to Natalie Portman as Best Actress for Black Swan , Hailee Steinfeld as Best Supporting Actress for True Grit , and Christian Bale as Best Supporting Actor for The Fighter . The remaining film honors went to Toy Story 3 as Best Animated Film , Restrepo as Best Documentary , and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Best Foreign Language Film . `` We Are Sex Bob-Omb '' by Beck from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World was named the Best Original Song . The HFCS 's first-ever award for `` Worst Picture '' was given to Jonah Hex starring Josh Brolin .   In addition to the category awards , the HFCS presented their annual Lifetime Achievement Award to Sissy Spacek and its Humanitarian Award to George Clooney . Clooney was selected for `` selflessly using his celebrity for greater good '' . The HFCS award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema awards were presented to Charles Dove , director of the Rice University Media Center , and Hector Luna , the founder and editor of C-47 Houston .

neg: National Business Book Award The National Business Book Award is an award presented to Canadian business authors . The award , presented every year since 1985 , is sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers , the Bank of Montreal , and the Globe and Mail .   Among the six jury members is jury chairman Roger Martin , Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto . Also in the jury are Peter Mansbridge , Chief Correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 's CBC News and Pamela Wallin , a Conservative sitting in the Canadian Senate .

neg: European Film Academy Young Audience Award European Film Academy Young Audience Award has been awarded annually since 2013 by the European Film Academy .

neg: Allen Wolf Allen Wolf ( born October 29 , 1970 ) is an American film director , screenwriter , film producer , novelist , and board game creator .

neg: The Ib Award The Ib Award ( Ib-prisen ) is one of the external awards presented occasionally by the Danish Film Academy at the annual Robert Awards ceremony . The award was first handed out in 2013 , and is named after Danish producer .

neg: Beverly Hills Film Festival The Beverly Hills Film Festival ( BHFF ) is a film festival in the United States founded in 2001 by independent filmmaker Nino Simone . The festival is an international competition dedicated to showcasing the art and talent of emerging filmmakers and screenplay writers from around the world .   The festival lasts five days and is reportedly attended by more than 20,000 people a year . Venues include the AMPAS , Writers Guild , Chinese Theater and The Clarity Theatre . The festival winds up with the black tie awards ceremony . In 2013 the festival was launched internationally with an event in Tokyo .   The BHFF emphasizes awards to first-time filmmakers . On the final night of the Festival , the jury ( usually made up of film professionals from all over the globe ) presents its awards , including the Golden Palm Award for best picture , at a black-tie gala at the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire Hotel .

neg: Academy Award for Best Animated Feature The Academy Awards are given each year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS or the Academy ) for the best films and achievements of the previous year . The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is given each year for animated films . An animated feature is defined by the Academy as a film with a running time of more than 40 minutes in which characters ' performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique , a significant number of the major characters are animated , and animation figures in no less than 75 percent of the running time . The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was first given for films made in 2001 .   Through the 89th Academy Awards , presented in 2017 , Academy Award nominations in this category were made by the Academy 's animation section ; effective with the 2018 awards , all Academy members will be eligible to vote on nominations . The entire AMPAS membership has been eligible to choose the winner since the award 's inception . If there are sixteen or more films submitted for the category , the winner is voted from a shortlist of five films , which has happened six times , otherwise there will only be three films on the shortlist . Additionally , eight eligible animated features must have been theatrically released in Los Angeles County within the calendar year for this category to be activated .   Animated films can be nominated for other categories , but have rarely been so ; Beauty and the Beast ( 1991 ) was the first animated film ever nominated for Best Picture . Up ( 2009 ) and Toy Story 3 ( 2010 ) also received Best Picture nominations after the Academy expanded the number of nominees .   Waltz with Bashir ( 2008 ) is the only animated film ever nominated for Best Foreign Language Film ( though it did not receive a nomination for Best Animated Feature ) . The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 ) and Kubo and the Two Strings ( 2016 ) are the only two animated films to ever be nominated for Best Visual Effects .

neg: Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards 2014 The 20th Dallas -- Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards honoring the best in film for 2014 were announced on December 15 , 2014 . These awards `` recognizing extraordinary accomplishment in film '' are presented annually by the Dallas -- Fort Worth Film Critics Association ( DFWFCA ) , based in the Dallas -- Fort Worth metroplex region of Texas . The organization , founded in 1990 , includes 30 film critics for print , radio , television , and internet publications based in north Texas . The Dallas -- Fort Worth Film Critics Association began presenting its annual awards list in 1993 .   Birdman was the DFWFCA 's most awarded film of 2014 , taking five top honors . Birdman won in Best Picture , Best Actor ( Michael Keaton ) , Best Director ( Alejandro G. Iñárritu ) , Best Cinematography ( Emmanuel Lubezki ) , and Best Screenplay ( Alejandro G. Iñárritu , Nicolás Giacobone , Alexander Dinelaris Jr. , and Armando Bo ) .   Another film , Boyhood , earned multiple 2014 honors from the DFWFCA . The coming-of-age tale received top honors in the Best Supporting Actress ( Patricia Arquette ) as well as being presented the Russell Smith Award as the `` best low-budget or cutting-edge independent film '' of the year . The award is named in honor of late Dallas Morning News film critic Russell Smith . Reese Witherspoon was named Best Actress for her role as Cheryl Strayed in Wild . The other films earning honors were Sweden 's Force Majeure for Best Foreign Language Film , Citizenfour as Best Documentary Film , and The Lego Movie for Best Animated Film .

neg: Scot J. Paltrow Scot J. Paltrow is an American journalist . A financial journalist , Paltrow currently works for Reuters .   Paltrow is from New York . He received his bachelor 's degree from the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences and a master 's degree from the London School of Economics .   Paltrow 's journalism career began in 1977 when he joined the Memphis Commercial Appeal as a reporter . The following year , he joined the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner , where his investigative series on corruption in Industry , California , `` The City of Insiders , '' resulted in federal and state criminal probes and several convictions .   In 1981 , Paltrow moved to the Washington Star , where he covered federal courts . After the Star shut down the same year , Paltrow moved to the Wall Street Journal , where he was a reporter in the Los Angeles bureau . In 1985 , Paltrow became a European correspondent for the Journal based in Brussels . In April 1988 , Paltrow returned to the United States as New York financial bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times . During this period he did numerous investigative stories on Wall Street investment banks , markets and the insurance industry . '' While at the Times , Paltrow won a 1993 George Polk Award for Financial Reporting . Paltrow returned to the Wall Street Journal in May 1997 and served as senior special writer based in New York and writes for the paper 's Washington bureau .   In 2007 , following Rupert Murdoch 's purchase of Dow Jones & Company ( which owns the Wall Street Journal ) , Paltrow left the paper and joined Condé Nast 's Portfolio.com as a contributing editor , starting September 1 , 2007 , following another longtime Journal journalist who moved to Portfolio.com , Peter Waldman .   In September 2010 , Paltrow moved to Reuters , where he and fellow financial journalist Mark Hosenball were brought on as `` key hires '' in an effort to expand Reuters ' `` coverage of business , Wall Street and Washington . '' Paltrow joined Reuters to cover `` financial crimes , specifically covering criminal and civil investigations related to the financial crisis , as well as the effort to more closely regulate and police the financial world . '' In 2012 , Paltrow won a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Awards in the Explanatory/News Agency category for his investigation into banks ' use of robo-signing .   Paltrow has written a report , The Case for a Stronger Federal Role in Insurance Regulation : Weak State Regulation Highlights the Need for Federal Oversight of Health Premiums , for the Center for American Progress Action Fund .   Paltrow has received a Gerald Loeb Award . Paltrow won 1992 and 1993 John Hancock Awards for Excellence in Business & Financial Journalism , the 1994 Los Angeles Times Editorial Award , the Unity Award in Media , and a 2001 Deadline Club Award from New York City Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists .


query: Jeanine Pirro was involved in cases about domestic abuse.

pos: Jeanine Pirro Jeanine Ferris Pirro ( born June 2 , 1951 ) is a former judge and District Attorney from the state of New York . Pirro hosts Fox News Channel 's television program Justice with Judge Jeanine and contributes on other Fox News programs and NBC 's Today .   A Republican from Chemung County , New York , Pirro was the first female judge on the Westchester County Court bench before being elected the first female district attorney of Westchester County , serving for 12 years .   As DA Pirro gained considerable visibility in cases regarding domestic abuse and crimes against the elderly .   Pirro was the Republican nominee for New York Attorney General in 2006 .

neg: Voices of Men Voices of Men is a movement in the Fox Valley area of Northeast Wisconsin to end domestic violence against women . The group was formed by area men to take a stand against the abuse and violence on women . January 12 , 2010 the group held campaign a kickoff event that had over 400 local men in attendance . The message is spread through simulations , workplace educational opportunities , coaching seminars , video discussions , area events and many other ways .   Voices of Men works as a partner to four Fox Valley agencies : Christine Anne Domestic Abuse Services , Harbor House Domestic Abuse Programs , Reach Counseling Services and the Sexual Assault Crisis Center . The four agencies joined efforts to effectively communicate the truth about men 's violence against women . Ben Atherton-Zeman created the comical one-man performance which was the inspiration for the group . He performed locally for over 600 students and about 130 other people in the community . After much success of his performances and a fall event called `` Men 's Summit , '' Fox Valley Voices of Men was formed to keep the effort of ending violence against women going . ''   The mission statement of the group is `` Voices of Men is a group of Fox Valley men dedicated to ending violence in our community and preventing the abuse of girls and women through education , role modeling and mentoring of boys and men . '' The philosophy of this group is about preventing violence and abuse by being part of the solution , not the problem . It aims at getting at the root cause by educating people on violence against women .

neg: Elm Guest House claims and controversy In Britain , controversy arose from claims reported in 2012 , which some state to have been later discredited , of sexual abuse and grooming of children at parties held in the late 1970s and 1980s at the former Elm Guest House in Rocks Lane , near Barnes Common in south-west London . Several prominent British men were alleged , in a list produced by convicted fraudster Chris Fay and never verified or corroborated by any other source , to have attended the Guest House including former government ministers , senior MPs , top police officers , judges , pop music stars , and people with links to the Royal Households . Since 2012 , the allegations of an establishment paedophile ring have been part of a complex multi-agency investigation . During 2014 and 2015 , allegations against several leading politicians of the period , mostly now deceased , were made public in the British press .   An investigation , Operation Fairbank , led by the Metropolitan Police Service , started in late 2012 . This was a `` scoping exercise '' aimed at a `` preliminary assessment of the evidence rather than a formal inquiry '' , and the existence of the `` assessment '' operation was confirmed only on 12 December 2012 after operating in secret for several weeks . As a result of allegations arising from Operation Fairbank , a full criminal investigation , Operation Fernbridge , was launched in February 2013 . In November 2014 , another operation -- Operation Midland -- was set up to examine claims of a possible homicide , later extended to cover allegations of three murders and activities at the Dolphin Square development in Pimlico and elsewhere ; on 21 March 2016 , the Metropolitan Police confirmed that Operation Midland had been closed without any charges being brought . An inquiry found that those investigated by police were victims of `` false allegations '' and the Metropolitan Police Commissioner subsequently apologised to them . In 2015 , the Independent Police Complaints Commission began investigating claims that the Metropolitan Police had suppressed evidence of child sexual abuse and prevented the investigation of some allegations between 1970 and 2005 , because of the alleged involvement of police officers and MPs .

neg: Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act The Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act ( `` UCAPA '' ) is a Uniform Act drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and submitted for enactment by jurisdictions within the United States in 2006 . This uniform law originated by the parents of internationally abducted children , and parents fearing their children would be abducted .   In 2006 , NCCUSL promulgated the Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act . The act provides States with a valuable tool for deterring both domestic and international child abductions by parents and any persons acting on behalf of the parents . Recognizing that most States have already developed substantial bodies of law regarding child custody determinations and enforcement , including specifically the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act ( UCCJEA ) , the NCCUSL drafted UCAPA to be compatible with and to augment existing state law .   Under UCAPA , an action for abduction prevention measures may be brought either by a court on its own motion , by a party to a child-custody determination or an individual with a right to seek such a determination , or by a prosecutor or public attorney . The party seeking the abduction prevention measures must file a petition with the court specifying the risk factors for abduction as well as other biographical information including the name , age and gender of the child , the current address of the child and the person against whom the measures are sought , a statement regarding any prior actions related to abduction or domestic violence , a statement addressing any prior arrests for domestic violence or child abuse by either party , and finally any additional information required by existing State child custody law including the UCCJEA .   UCAPA sets out a wide variety of factors that should be considered in determining whether there is a credible risk that a child will be abducted . These factors include overt signs such as previous abductions , attempts to abduct the child , or threats of abduction , as well as signs of general abuse including domestic violence , negligence , or refusal to obey a child-custody determination . The act also includes a wide range of activities that may indicate a planned abduction including abandoning employment , liquidating assets , obtaining travel documents or travel tickets , or requesting the child 's school or medical records .   The act also addresses the special problems involved with international child abduction by including several risk factors specifically related to international abduction . In particular , the act requires courts to consider whether the party in question is likely to take a child to a country that is n't a party to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction , or to a country that places the child at risk , has laws that would restrict access to the child , that is on the current list of state sponsors of terrorism , or is engaged in an active military action or war . In addition , a court will consider issues related to citizenship such as a recent change in citizenship status or a denial of United States Citizenship .   If a court determines that a credible risk exists that the child will be abducted , it may then enter an order containing provisions and measures meant to prevent abduction . The act lists a number of specific measures that a court may order . These include imposing travel restrictions , prohibiting the individual from removing the child from the State or other set geographic area , placing the child 's name in the United States Department of State 's Child Passport Issuance Alert Program , or requiring the individual to obtain an order from a foreign country containing identical terms to the child-custody determination . An abduction prevention order is effective until the earliest of the order 's expiration , the child 's emancipation , the child 's 18th birthday , or until the order is modified , revoked , or vacated .   If abduction appears imminent , a court may issue a warrant to take physical custody of the child , direct law enforcement officers to take steps to locate and return the child , or exercise other appropriate powers under existing state laws . A warrant to take physical custody is enforceable in the enacting state even if issued by different state . The court may authorize law enforcement officers to enter private property , or even to make a forcible entry at any hour , if the circumstances so warrant . Nevertheless , the person on whom the warrant is being executed must be served with the warrant when or immediately after the child is taken into custody and the person must be afforded a hearing no later than the next judicial day or the next possible judicial day if the next day is impossible .   Up to date legislative activity on UCAPA can be found here .

neg: Post-assault treatment of sexual assault victims After a sexual assault or rape , victims are often subjected to scrutiny and , in some cases , mistreatment . Victims undergo medical examinations and are interviewed by police . If there is a criminal trial , victims suffer a loss of privacy and their credibility may be challenged . Victims may also become the target of slut-shaming , abuse , social stigmatization , sexual slurs and cyberbullying .   Various laws have been created with a motive to protect victims . During criminal proceedings , publication bans and rape shield laws protect victims from excessive public scrutiny . Laws may also prohibit defence lawyers from obtaining a victim 's medical , psychiatric or therapeutic records . Statutory rape laws set the age of legal consent for sexual activity and prohibits perpetrators from alleging the victim consented to the activity . Victims in some jurisdictions can seek damages from police and institutions if warnings were not issued . Numerous victims ' rights groups operate to improve the treatment of victims .

neg: Rosemary Dempsey Rosemary Dempsey was Vice President of NOW , The National Organization of Women .   Rosemary Dempsey is a mother of two who is constantly fighting for women 's reproductive rights . Rosemary practiced law out of New Jersey and was heavily involved in the justice system . Aside from being Vice-President of NOW she was also The President of NOW based out of New Jersey . Her reason for pursuing such a controversial movement was simply that she was being affected by the current issues at hand and wanted change for her and other women . Rosemary was a part of the `` We Wo n't Go Back '' March in April 1992 . Aside from marching to raise awareness she is also a regular at giving speeches about women 's rights .   Rosemary would go around to many different college campuses to help raise awareness about the wage gap between men and women because at that time women only made 58 % of what men earned .   Rosemary won custody of her children despite being openly gay .   In 1991 , there was roughly 1 million incidents reported of domestic violence towards women with another 3 million incidents predicted to go unreported . Domestic violence had become so common in society at the time that it had become the top health risk against women . Rosemary was heavily involved in the act of demanding more laws towards domestic violence by raising awareness about the abuse women endure . This was the start to the idea of the Violence Against Women Act .   Rosemary traveled to Tokyo in 1996 to raise awareness about a sexual harassment issue between Mitsubishi and hundreds of women that were employed by them . Rosemary was doing a lot of talking during her trip with many officials from Tokyo including Mitsubishi Motors representatives . With her help and others , the EEOC , sued Mitsubishi which eventually agreed to pay $ 34 million in a settlement .

neg: Desperate Housewives Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama and mystery series created by Marc Cherry , and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions . It originally aired for eight seasons on ABC , from October 3 , 2004 to May 13 , 2012 . Executive producer Cherry served as showrunner . Other executive producers since the fourth season included Bob Daily , George W. Perkins , John Pardee , Joey Murphy , David Grossman , and Larry Shaw .   Set on Wisteria Lane , a street in the fictional town of Fairview in the fictional Eagle State , Desperate Housewives follows the lives of a group of women as seen through the eyes of their late friend and neighbor who committed suicide in the pilot episode . The storyline covers 13 years of the women 's lives over eight seasons , set between the years 2004 -- 2008 , and later 2013 -- 2017 ( the story arc includes a five-year passage of time , as well as flashbacks ranging from the 1980s to the 2020s ) . They work through domestic struggles and family life , while facing the secrets , crimes and mysteries hidden behind the doors of their -- on the surface -- beautiful and seemingly perfect suburban neighborhood .   The series features an ensemble cast , headed by Teri Hatcher as Susan Mayer , Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo , Marcia Cross as Bree Van de Kamp , and Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis . Brenda Strong narrates the series as the late Mary Alice Young , appearing sporadically in flashbacks or dream sequences .   Desperate Housewives was well received by viewers and critics alike . It won multiple Primetime Emmy , Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards . From the 2004 -- 05 through the 2008 -- 09 television seasons , its first five seasons were rated amongst the top ten most-watched series . In 2007 , it was reported to be the most popular show in its demographic worldwide , with an audience of approximately 120 million and was also reported as the third most watched television series in a study of ratings in twenty countries . In 2012 , it remained the most-watched comedy series internationally based on data from Eurodata TV Worldwide , which measured ratings across five continents ; it has held this position since 2006 . Moreover , it was the third highest revenue earning series for 2010 , with $ 2.74 million per half an hour . The show was ranked at number fifty-six on Entertainment Weekly `` New TV Classics '' list .   In 2011 , it was confirmed that Desperate Housewives would conclude after its eighth season ; the series finale aired on May 13 , 2012 . By the end of the series , it had surpassed Charmed as the longest running hour-long television series featuring all female leads by two episodes .

neg: REAL Women of Canada REAL Women of Canada ( Vraies Femmes du Canada in French ) is a socially conservative advocacy group in Canada . The organization was founded in 1983 .   REAL stands for `` Realistic , Equal , Active , for Life '' . The group believes that the nuclear family is the most important unit in Canadian society , and that the fragmentation of the Canadian family is a primary cause of social disorder . It lobbies the Government of Canada in favour of legislation to promote what it believes to be the Judeo-Christian model of family life , and to support homemaking . It is also opposed to feminism , abortion and LGBT rights ( and same-sex marriage in Canada as well ) .   The group has intervened in Supreme Court of Canada cases such as R. v. Morgentaler ( 1993 ) and M. v. H. ( 1999 ) . In R. v. Sullivan ( 1991 ) it argued that a fetus is a person .   Its objectives are , according to its website :   To reaffirm that the family is society 's most important unit , since the nurturing of its members is best accomplished in the family setting .  To promote the equality , advancement and well being of women , recognizing them as interdependent members of society , whether in the family , workplace or community .  To promote , secure and defend legislation which upholds what it considers the Judeo-Christian understanding of marriage and family life .  To support government and social policies that make homemaking possible for women who , out of necessity , would otherwise have to take employment outside the home .  To support the right to life of all innocent individuals from conception to natural death .   Part of their economic policies to help meet their objectives are increased tax relief for single-income families , families with children , and individuals with children .   REAL Women is similar in political and social outlook to Phyllis Schlafly 's Eagle Forum and to Concerned Women for America in the United States .   The organization has also heavily criticized individuals who have spoken out against Uganda 's criminalization of homosexual relations . On August 7 , 2013 , the group issued a statement criticizing Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird for speaking out on LGBT human rights issues in both Uganda and Russia as part of Canada 's foreign policy .

neg: Ministère public (France) In French law , the ministère public or le parquet is the authority charged with defending the interests of society and of the application of law . It is primarily made up of magistrates , but is sometimes represented by other persons such as police officials . Its magistrates can be referred to as `` standing '' magistrates , as opposed to magistrats du siège ( magistrates of the seat ) . Its closest equivalent in some English-speaking countries is the ( office of the ) director of public prosecutions and the attorney general in others .   The term ministère public translates literally as `` public ministry '' and that institution can exercise a public action ( action publique ) in penal infractions that cause a disturbance of the ordre public , and can also initiate prosecutions or non-prosecutions . It can intervene in all jurisdictions of the judiciary , but has never really exercised the same role in the administrative areas , except for financial venues ( juridictions financières ) .

neg: Christine de Pizan Christine de Pizan ( also seen as de Pisan ; -LSB- kʁistin də pizɑ̃ -RSB- ; 1364 -- c. 1430 ) was an Italian French late medieval author . She served as a court writer for several dukes ( Louis of Orleans , Philip the Bold of Burgundy , and John the Fearless of Burgundy ) and the French royal court during the reign of Charles VI . She wrote both poetry and prose works such as biographies and books containing practical advice for women . She completed forty-one works during her 30-year career from 1399 to 1429 . She married in 1380 at the age of 15 , and was widowed 10 years later . Much of the impetus for her writing came from her need to earn a living to support her mother , a niece and her two surviving children . She spent most of her childhood and all of her adult life in Paris and then the abbey at Poissy , and wrote entirely in her adopted language , Middle French .   Her early courtly poetry is marked by her knowledge of aristocratic custom and fashion of the day , particularly involving women and the practice of chivalry . Her early and later allegorical and didactic treatises reflect both autobiographical information about her life and views and also her own individualized and humanist approach to the scholastic learned tradition of mythology , legend , and history she inherited from clerical scholars and to the genres and courtly or scholastic subjects of contemporary French and Italian poets she admired . Supported and encouraged by important royal French and English patrons , she influenced 15th-century English poetry . Her success stems from a wide range of innovative writing and rhetorical techniques that critically challenged renowned writers such as Jean de Meun , author of the Romance of the Rose , which she criticized as immoral .   In recent decades , Christine de Pizan 's work has been returned to prominence by the efforts of scholars such as Charity Cannon Willard , Earl Jeffrey Richards and Simone de Beauvoir . Certain scholars have argued that she should be seen as an early feminist who efficiently used language to convey that women could play an important role within society . This characterization has been challenged by other critics , who say that it is either an anachronistic use of the word or a misinterpretation of her writing and intentions .

neg: National Review Board The National Review Board ( full name : National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Young People ) is a committee created in 2002 by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in order to monitor the implementation of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People in the wake of the clerical abuse scandal in the United States . The Board was also charged with investigating the scandal , which it did in part by commissioning the John Jay College to conduct a survey of Church records in order to define the nature and scope of the abuse committed by priests over the period between 1950 and 2002 . The results of that survey were released in 2004 in what has come to be known as the `` John Jay Report '' or `` Nature and Scope report . '' In parallel with the John Jay College survey the Board conducted interviews with a variety of people , both inside and outside the Church , who were well placed to comment on the scandal , and on the basis of these interviews prepared a more broad-ranging report of its own . Whereas the John Jay College report was ( as intended ) primarily a factual summary of the data collected in the College 's survey of Church records , the Board 's own report sought to interpret these data and its other findings in order to explain why the `` epidemic '' of clerical abuse had occurred and to identify the appropriate steps to avoid any repetition .

neg: Female infanticide Female infanticide is the deliberate killing of newborn female children . In countries with a history of female infanticide , the modern practice of sex-selective abortion is often discussed as a closely related issue . Female infanticide is a major cause of concern in several nations such as China and India . It has been argued that the `` low status '' in which women are viewed in patriarchal societies creates a bias against females .   In 1978 , anthropologist Laila Williamson , in a summary of data she had collated on how widespread infanticide was among both tribal and developed , or `` civilized '' nations , found that infanticide had occurred on every continent and was carried out by groups ranging from hunter gatherers to highly developed societies and that rather than this practice being an exception , it has been commonplace . The practice has been well documented among the indigenous peoples of Australia , Northern Alaska and South Asia , and Barbara Miller argues the practice to be `` almost universal '' , even in the West . Miller contends that in regions where women are not employed in agriculture and regions in which dowries are the norm then female infanticide is commonplace , and in 1871 in The Descent of Man , and Selection in Relation to Sex , Charles Darwin wrote that the practice was commonplace among the aboriginal tribes of Australia .   In 1990 , Amartya Sen writing in the New York Review of Books estimated that there were 100 million fewer women in Asia than would be expected , and that this amount of `` missing '' women `` tell -LSB- s -RSB- us , quietly , a terrible story of inequality and neglect leading to the excess mortality of women . '' Initially Sen 's suggestion of gender bias was contested and it was suggested that hepatitis B was the cause of the alteration in the natural sex ratio . However it is now widely accepted that the numerical worldwide deficit in women , is due to gender specific abortions , infanticide and neglect .   In seventh-century Arabia , before Islamic culture became established , female infanticide was widely practiced . This is attributed by scholars to the fact that women were deemed `` property '' within those societies . Others have speculated that to prevent their daughters from a life of misery , the mothers would kill the child . With the arrival of Islamic rule the practice was made illegal .

neg: A Better Man (film) A Better Man is a 2017 Canadian documentary film co-directed by Attiya Khan and Lawrence Jackman in which Khan , a survivor of domestic abuse as well as a domestic abuse counselor , meets with her former abuser to see if he can take responsibility for his actions . The first filmed encounter between her and her ex-boyfriend , identified only as `` Steve , '' took place in April 2013 . Several of the sessions were facilitated by Tod Augusta-Scott , a fellow counselor . The film also follows them back to their old high school as well as an apartment in Ottawa , and shows how the violence still affects Khan . It is co-produced by Intervention Productions ( prod . Christine Kleckner ) and the National Film Board of Canada ( prod . Justine Pimlott ) .   After leaving Steve when she was 19 , Khan would continue to encounter him in public . The first time she saw him , two years after she left him , Khan was weak and speechless . But as they continued to meet by chance over a six-year period , and her life continued to improve , they 'd exchange a few minutes of small talk . It was during such chance encounter in 2011 that Steve asked if they could sit down . Once seated , Steve repeatedly apologized before bursting into tears .   In the ensuing years , Khan wondered if talking to Steve more might help her deal with her trauma , and help Steve to better understand the roots and consequences of his violence and make him less likely to reoffend . She also decided to try to record such a dialogue as a resource for both domestic abuse survivors and offenders . She proposed such an idea to Steve in 2013 . Six months later , he texted her that he was ready to meet . Two days later , they did so at a coffee shop for their first recorded exchange . Khan and her ex-abuser would go on film eight days together over the course of a year , sharing their memories and experiences and with Steve facing the consequences of what he did .   Khan has stated that since completing the film she thinks about the abuse less often and has fewer episodes of post-traumatic stress . She hopes the film can persuade others that engaging in a restorative justice process can help to keep some survivors safe . A Better Man had its world premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. , where the festival took the extra measure of having therapists available .   The film 's executive producers are Sarah Polley , Anita Lee , Jane Jankovic , Janice Dawe and Kathy Aurich-Johnson . Music is by Lesley Barber . Iris Ng is the film 's cinematographer , having previously worked with Polly on Stories We Tell .   A Better Man was crowd-sourced through an Indiegogo campaign , with Feist among the donors , contributing $ 10,000 . The campaign would go on to raise over $ 110,000 -- one of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns in Canadian history .

neg: Maternalist reform Maternalist Reforms in the United States were experiments in public policy beginning late 19th and early 20th century that took the form of laws providing for state assistance for mothers with young children that did not have the financial support of a male member of the household . This assistance took the form of financial reimbursements , as well as limits on the maximum working hours for women . These reforms arose from the belief that government has an obligation and interest in protecting and improving the living standards of women and children .   Maternalism is defined by Koven and Michel as a variety of ideologies that `` exalted women 's capacities to mother and extended to society as a whole the values of care , nurturance and morality '' , and was intended to improve the quality of life of women and children . To improve the conditions of women and children these policies attempted to reconcile the conflicting roles placed on women during this time period . As single mothers were responsible for both supporting their families and raising children , government assistance would reduce the probability that they could be charged with neglecting their `` home duties '' .

neg: Ernst v Alberta Energy Regulator This case pitted Jessica Ernst , an Alberta homeowner , against the Alberta Energy Regulator , who had ceased all forms of communication with her because her offhand remark in an electronic forum referred to Wiebo Ludwig had caused the regulator fear and anxiety over her purported terrorist sympathies . She claimed that her Charter rights to free speech had been abrogated by it , as it refused subsequently to hear her petitions in a dispute over her well-water , which she maintained had been polluted by the fracking activities of EnCana .   The courts below held that the immunity provision exempted the Regulator from the lawsuit .   Justice Thomas Cromwell wrote that Ernst could have petitioned for judicial review of the Regulator 's purported bar on communication with her . If she had established a case , the court could have set aside the Regulator 's bar :   Justice Rosalie Abella , writing for herself alone , contended that the Regulator `` in essence ( found ) her to be a vexatious litigant '' and that therefore it was justified in its conduct . Ernst asked the McLachlin CJ for Abella 's novel and worrisome statements to be retracted or corrected ; the CJ had written in her dissent , which was supported by three of her colleagues , that `` no basis for our colleague 's characterization '' existed .

neg: Career Girls Murders The `` Career Girls Murders '' was the name given by the media to the killings of Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie in their apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on August 28 , 1963 . George Whitmore , Jr. , was accused of this and other crimes but later cleared .   The actions of the police department led Whitmore to be improperly accused of this and other crimes , including the murder of Minnie Edmonds and the attempted rape and assault of Elba Borrero . Whitmore was wrongfully incarcerated for 1,216 days -- from his arrest on April 24 , 1964 , until his release on bond on July 13 , 1966 , and from the revocation of his bond on February 28 , 1972 -- until his exoneration on April 10 , 1973 , when , after what author T.J. English called , in his book The Savage City , `` a numbing cycle of trials , convictions , convictions overturned , retrials , and appeals '' , Whitmore was cleared of all charges and set free . Whitmore 's treatment by the authorities has been cited as an example that led the US Supreme Court to issue the guidelines known as the Miranda rights . The Supreme Court cited Mr. Whitmore 's case as `` the most conspicuous example '' of police coercion in the country when it issued its 1966 ruling establishing a set of protections for suspects , including the right to remain silent , in Miranda v. Arizona .

neg: Giving Victims a Voice Giving Victims a Voice is a report published in January 2013 , relating to allegations of sexual abuse made against English DJ and BBC Television presenter Jimmy Savile ( 1926 -- 2011 ) as part of the Operation Yewtree criminal investigation . It was initiated as a result of publicity surrounding the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal . The Metropolitan Police Service ( MPS ) and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ( NSPCC ) jointly produced this report . It marked the end of investigations made under the operation regarding Savile alone .   The scandal resulted in hundreds of alleged victims of Savile and other abusers approaching the police and the NSPCC . Their claims were investigated and formed the basis of the report , which found that Savile 's alleged offences were committed across England and Scotland , in hospitals , prison facilities , schools and BBC premises . Offences were reported between 1955 and 2009 , totalling 214 alleged offences across 28 police forces . The most frequent alleged offending coincided with Savile 's peak celebrity status . Numbers of alleged victims totalled 450 , of whom 328 were minors at the time . They were aged between 8 and 47 years , majority being 1316 .   The Director of Public Prosecutions ( DPP ) described the report as marking a `` watershed moment '' and apologised for `` shortcomings '' in the handling of prior abuse claims . The report 's publication resulted in some highlighting what could be systemic failure because of the number of complainants and institutions identified , but others criticised it for treating allegations as facts . The DPP 's Principal Legal Advisor concluded that Savile could have been prosecuted for offences against at least three victims during his lifetime . After the report , investigations were further initiated in other hospitals . Ex-Metropolitan Police Commissioner Peter Spindler ( who had previously led Operation Yewtree ) estimated that there may be many more victims who had not come forward .

neg: DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 The DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 ( H.R. 4640 , 42 U.S.C. 14135 et seq. ) is a United States Act of Congress that primarily allows US states to carry out DNA analyses for use in the FBI 's Combined DNA Index System and to collect and analyse DNA samples .   Under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 , 42 U.S.C. § 14132 , `` Congress authorized the FBI to create a national index of deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA ) samples taken from convicted offenders , crime scenes and victims of crime , and unidentified human remains . '' In response to this congressional mandate , the FBI established the Combined DNA Index System ( `` CODIS '' ) . The CODIS database provides a means for state and local forensic laboratories to share DNA profiles in an attempt to `` link evidence from crime scenes for which there are no suspects to DNA samples of convicted offenders on file in the system . ''   However , the 1994 Act was interpreted by the FBI to permit only the creation of the CODIS , not the taking of DNA samples of persons convicted of federal offenses for input into the system . Thus , `` the FBI requested that Congress enact statutory authority to allow the taking of DNA samples from persons committing Federal crimes of violence , robbery , and burglary , or similar crimes in the District of Columbia or while in the military , and authorizing them to be included in CODIS . ''   Accordingly , Congress passed the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 ( `` DNA Act '' ) , 42 U.S.C. § 14135 et seq. , which authorizes the `` Attorney General to make grants to eligible States ... to carry out , for the inclusion in the Combined DNA Index System of the Federal Bureau of Investigation , DNA analyses of samples taken from individuals convicted of a qualifying State offenses . '' 42 U.S.C. § 14135 ( a ) ( 1 ) . Moreover , the DNA Act provides that `` the Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall collect a DNA sample from each individual in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons who is , or has been , convicted of a qualifying Federal offense '' and that `` the probation office responsible for the supervision under Federal law of an individual on probation , parole , or supervised release shall collect a DNA sample from each such individual who is or has been , convicted of a qualifying Federal offense . '' 42 U.S.C. § 15135a ( a ) ( 1 ) - ( 2 ) .   In addition , Congress has mandated the collection of DNA samples from `` each individual in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons who is , or has been convicted of a qualifying District of Columbia offense '' or any `` individual under the supervision of the Agency who is on supervised release , parole , or probation who is , or has been convicted of a qualifying District of Columbia offense . '' 42 U.S.C. § 14135b ( a ) ( 1 ) - ( 2 ) . Congress left to the District of Columbia the responsibility of determining which offenses under the District of Columbia Code should be deemed qualifying offenses . 42 U.S.C. § 14135b ( d ) . The District of Columbia has determined that forty-nine separate offense qualify for collection under the DNA Act . See , D.C. Code § 22-4151 ( 1 ) - ( 46 ) . These qualifying offense include , for example , arson , aggravated assault , burglary , kidnaping , robbery , attempted robbery , and carjacking . Id .   Once a DNA sample is entered into the CODIS database , the information can be released only  ( 1 ) `` to criminal justice agencies for law enforcement identification purposes ; ''  ( 2 ) `` in judicial proceedings ; ''  ( 3 ) `` for criminal defense purposes , to a defendant , who shall have access to samples and analyses performed in connection with the case in which such defendant is charged ; '' or  ( 4 ) `` if personally identifiable information is removed , for a population statistics database , for identification research and protocol development purposes , or for quality control purposes . '' 42 U.S.C. § 14132 ( b ) ( 3 ) . In addition , the DNA Act imposes criminal penalties for individuals who improperly disclose sample results or improperly obtains or uses DNA samples . 42 U.S.C. § 14135e ( c ) .   Category :2000 in law  Category :106 th United States Congress  Category : United States federal criminal legislation  Category : Law articles needing an infobox

neg: Child sexual abuse Child sexual abuse or child molestation is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation . Forms of child sexual abuse include engaging in sexual activities with a child ( whether by asking or pressuring , or by other means ) , indecent exposure ( of the genitals , female nipples , etc. ) , child grooming , or using a child to produce child pornography .   Child sexual abuse can occur in a variety of settings , including home , school , or work ( in places where child labor is common ) . Child marriage is one of the main forms of child sexual abuse ; UNICEF has stated that child marriage `` represents perhaps the most prevalent form of sexual abuse and exploitation of girls '' . The effects of child sexual abuse can include depression , post-traumatic stress disorder , anxiety , complex post-traumatic stress disorder , propensity to further victimization in adulthood , and physical injury to the child , among other problems . Sexual abuse by a family member is a form of incest and can result in more serious and long-term psychological trauma , especially in the case of parental incest .   The global prevalence of child sexual abuse has been estimated at 19.7 % for females and 7.9 % for males . Most sexual abuse offenders are acquainted with their victims ; approximately 30 % are relatives of the child , most often brothers , fathers , uncles , or cousins ; around 60 % are other acquaintances , such as `` friends '' of the family , babysitters , or neighbors ; strangers are the offenders in approximately 10 % of child sexual abuse cases . Most child sexual abuse is committed by men ; studies on female child molesters show that women commit 14 % to 40 % of offenses reported against boys and 6 % of offenses reported against girls .   The word pedophile is commonly applied indiscriminately to anyone who sexually abuses a child , but child sexual offenders are not pedophiles unless they have a strong sexual interest in prepubescent children . Under the law , child sexual abuse is often used as an umbrella term describing criminal and civil offenses in which an adult engages in sexual activity with a minor or exploits a minor for the purpose of sexual gratification . The American Psychological Association states that `` children can not consent to sexual activity with adults '' , and condemns any such action by an adult : `` An adult who engages in sexual activity with a child is performing a criminal and immoral act which never can be considered normal or socially acceptable behavior . ''

neg: Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 is a United States federal law providing funds to states that follow a series of federal protections , known as the `` core protections , '' on the care and treatment of youth in the justice system . The four `` core protections '' of the act are :   Deinstitutionalization of Status Offenders ( DSO ) -- the deinstitutionalization of status offenders and non-offenders requires that youth who are runaways , truants or curfew violators can not be detained in juvenile detention facilities or adult jails ;  `` Sight and Sound '' -- The `` Sight and Sound '' separation protection disallows contact between juvenile and adult offenders ( i.e. if juveniles are put in an adult jail or lock up under the limited circumstances the law allows for , they must be separated from adult inmates ) ;  `` Jail Removal '' -- The `` Jail Removal '' disallows the placement of youth in adult jails and lock ups except under very limited circumstances ;  Disproportionate Minority Confinement ( DMC ) -- The DMC provision requires states to address the issue of over-representation of youth of color in the justice system .   The `` DSO '' and `` Sight and Sound '' protections were part of the original law in 1974 . The `` Jail Removal '' provision was added in 1980 in response to finding youth incarcerated in adult facilities resulted in `` a high suicide rate , physical , mental , and sexual assault , inadequate care and programming , negative labeling , and exposure to serious offenders and mental patients . ''  The `` DMC '' requirement was added in the JJDPA in 1992 .   The compliance of states towards the requirements of the JJDP Act is monitored by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention . , the `` vast majority '' of participating states comply with the first three requirements and are making strides towards the fourth . . With the exception of Wyoming , all states participate in the program .

neg: Rape statistics Statistics on rape and other sexual assaults are commonly available in industrialized countries , and are becoming more common throughout the world . Inconsistent definitions of rape , different rates of reporting , recording , prosecution and conviction for rape create controversial statistical disparities , and lead to accusations that many rape statistics are unreliable or misleading . In some jurisdictions , male-female rape is the only form of rape counted in the statistics . Countries may or may not criminalize marital rape .   Rape is a severely under-reported crime with surveys showing dark figures of up to 91.6 % . Prevalence of reasons for not reporting rape differ across countries . They may include fear of retaliation , uncertainty about whether a crime was committed or if the offender intended harm , not wanting others to know about the rape , not wanting the offender to get in trouble , fear of prosecution ( e.g. due to laws against premarital sex ) , and doubt in local law enforcement .   A United Nations statistical report compiled from government sources showed that more than 250,000 cases of rape or attempted rape were recorded by police annually . The reported data covered 65 countries .


query: Corey Taylor is a member of Parliament.

pos: Corey Taylor Corey Todd Taylor ( born December 8 , 1973 ) is an American musician , singer , songwriter , actor and author , best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the American nu metal band Slipknot and the American hard rock and alternative metal band Stone Sour .   Taylor joined Slipknot in 1997 to replace their original vocalist , Anders Colsefni . He has released five studio albums with them . He has worked with several bands , including Junk Beer Kidnap Band , Korn , Disturbed , Apocalyptica , Anthrax , Aaron Lewis of Staind , and Soulfly . Taylor was ranked at number 86 in Hit Parader 's Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time . He was also named the seventh greatest heavy metal frontman by NME . Taylor was also found , by VVN Music , to possess the second-widest vocal range of any known singer in popular music with a range of 5 and a half octaves . He was beaten only by Mike Patton ( 6 octaves ) .

neg: Chris Patterson (politician) Christopher Stewart `` Chris '' Patterson MP , an Australian politician , is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Camden for the Liberal Party of Australia since the 2011 .

neg: Darren Johnson Darren Paul Johnson ( born in 1966 in Southport , Lancashire ) is a former English politician and prominent member of the Green Party of England and Wales . He represented the Green Party in the London Assembly from 2000 to 2016 and was a Green councillor in the London Borough of Lewisham .

neg: Corey Parent Corey Parent ( born July 8 , 1990 ) is an American oolitician and a member of the Republican Party who represents St. Albans City and Southeastern St. Albans Town in the Vermont House of Representatives . Corey was elected on November 4 , 2014 , and serves on the House Commerce and Economic Development Committee .

neg: Alexander Taylor Alex or Alexander Taylor may refer to :   Alex Taylor ( Edmonton ) ( 1853 -- 1916 ) , Canadian entrepreneur , inventor and politician  Alex Taylor ( footballer ) ( born 1962 ) , Scottish footballer  Alex Taylor ( musician ) ( 1947 -- 1993 ) , American musician and brother of James Taylor  Alex Taylor ( politician ) ( 1906 -- 1976 ) , Australian politician  Alex Taylor ( Saskatchewan politician ) ( born 1936 )  Alex Taylor ( Third Watch character )  Alex Taylor , stage name used by Adriana Molinari ( born 1970 ) , porn actress  Alex Cole Taylor , acting teacher  Alexander Burt Taylor ( 1904 -- 1972 ) , Registrar General for Scotland  Alexander Donald Taylor ( born 1928 ) , Australian politician  Alexander Smith Taylor ( 1817 -- 1876 ) , California author and historian  Alexander Wilson Taylor ( 1815 -- 1893 ) , U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania

neg: John Taylor of Caroline John Taylor ( December 19 , 1753August 21 , 1824 ) , usually called John Taylor of Caroline , was a politician and writer . He served in the Virginia House of Delegates ( 1779 -- 81 , 1783 -- 85 , 1796 -- 1800 ) and in the United States Senate ( 1792 -- 94 , 1803 , 1822 -- 24 ) . He wrote several books on politics and agriculture . He was a Jeffersonian Democrat and his works provided inspiration to the later states ' rights and libertarian movements . Sheldon and Hill ( 2008 ) locate Taylor at the intersection of republicanism and classical liberalism . They see his position as a `` combination of a concern with Lockean natural rights , freedom , and limited government along with a classical interest in strong citizen participation in rule to prevent concentrated power and wealth , political corruption , and financial manipulation '' ( p. 224 ) .   `` Wealth , like suffrage , must be considerably distributed , to sustain a democratic republic ; and hence , whatever draws a considerable proportion of either into a few hands , will destroy it . As power follows wealth , the majority must have wealth or lose power . ''

neg: Commonwealth Youth Parliament The Commonwealth Youth Parliament is an annual gathering hosted by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association ( CPA ) . It brings together young people aged 18 -- 29 from across the Commonwealth of Nations to discuss issues of democracy and governance .   Each member parliament of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association has the opportunity to nominate up to two delegates to attend the Commonwealth Youth Parliament .   The Commonwealth Youth Parliament rotates annually through the nine regions of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association . The 7th Commonwealth Youth Parliament was held in 2015 in Darwin , Australia hosted by the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly . The next Commonwealth Youth Parliament is due to be held in British Columbia , Canada in 2016 .

neg: New South Wales Legislative Council The New South Wales Legislative Council , or upper house , is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales . The other is the Legislative Assembly . Both sit at Parliament House in the state capital , Sydney . The Assembly is referred to as the lower house and the Council as the upper house . It is normal for legislation to be first deliberated on and enacted in the lower house , and then considered in the upper house , which acts in the main as a house of review . The Council has 42 members , elected by proportional representation in which the whole state is treated as a single electorate . Members serve eight-year terms , which are staggered so that half the Council is up for election every four years -- roughly coinciding with elections to the Legislative Assembly .

neg: List of MPs for constituencies in England 2015–17 This is a list of Members of Parliament ( MPs ) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by English constituencies for the Fifty-Sixth Parliament of the United Kingdom ( 2015-2017 ) .   It includes both MPs elected at the 2015 general election , held on 7 May 2015 , and those subsequently elected in by-elections .   The list is sorted by the name of the MP , and MPs who did not serve throughout the Parliament are italicised . New MPs elected since the general election are noted at the bottom of the page .

neg: Australian Senate The Australian Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia , the lower house being the House of Representatives . The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Chapter I , Part II of the Australian Constitution . There are a total of 76 senators : 12 senators are elected from each of the six states ( regardless of population ) and two from each of the two autonomous internal territories ( the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory ) . Senators are popularly elected under the single transferable vote system of proportional representation .   Unlike upper Houses in most Westminster parliamentary systems , the Senate is vested with significant power , including the capacity to block all legislation , including Budget and Appropriation Bills , initiated by the government in the House of Representatives , making it a distinctive hybrid of British Westminster bicameralism and US-style bicameralism . As a result of proportional representation , the chamber features a multitude of parties vying for power . The governing party or coalition , which has to maintain the confidence of the lower house , rarely has a majority in the Senate and usually needs to negotiate with other parties and Independents to get legislation passed .   Senators normally serve fixed six-year terms ( from 1 July to 30 June ) , unless the Senate is dissolved earlier in a double dissolution . Following a double dissolution half the state senators serve terms ending on the third 30 June following the election ( i.e. slightly less than three years ) with the rest serving three years longer . The term of the territory senators expires at the same time as there is an election for the House of Representatives . There is no constitutional requirement for the election of senators to take place at the same time as those for members of the House of Representatives , though the government usually synchronises election dates .

neg: George Fulford George Taylor Fulford ( 6 May 1902 -- 15 December 1987 ) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons . He was born in Brockville , Ontario and became an executive and manufacturer by career , particularly as president of medicine manufacturer G. T. Fulford Co. . .   Fulford graduated from the University of Toronto and also attended at Harvard University .   He was elected as a Liberal to the Ontario Legislature in 1934 at the Leeds riding , serving under Mitchell Hepburn 's government . After leaving provincial politics due to his defeat in 1937 , Fulford was elected to federal Parliament at the Leeds riding in the 1940 general election . Fulford was then defeated in the following election in 1945 by George Robert Webb of the Progressive Conservative party . Fulford returned to Parliament by winning the riding in the 1949 election over a new Progressive Conservative candidate , John Lionel Carroll . After that term , Fulford was defeated by the Progressive Conservatives ' Hayden Stanton in 1953 . Fulford was further unsuccessful in unseating Stanton in the 1957 and 1958 elections .   Fulford switched his support to the Progressive Conservative party in 1970 following a dispute over federal Liberal language policies .   He died at hospital in Brockville aged 85 .

neg: Glenn Taylor (politician) Glenn Taylor is a politician from Alberta , Canada . He was the leader of the Alberta Party and was mayor of Hinton from October 2004 to January 2012 .

neg: New Zealand House of Representatives The New Zealand House of Representatives is a component of the New Zealand Parliament , along with the Sovereign ( represented by the Governor-General ) . The House passes all laws , provides ministers to form a Cabinet , and supervises the work of the Government . It is also responsible for adopting the state 's budgets and approving the state 's accounts .   The House of Representatives is a democratically elected body , usually consisting of 120 members ( currently 119 though recently had 121 with an overhang ) known as members of Parliament ( MPs ) . Members are elected for limited terms , holding office until Parliament is dissolved ( a maximum of three years ) . A government is formed from the party or coalition with the majority of MPs . If no majority is possible then a minority government can be formed with a confidence and supply arrangement .   The House of Representatives was created by the British New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 , which established a bicameral legislature ; however the upper chamber , the Legislative Council , was abolished in 1951 . Parliament received full control over all New Zealand affairs in 1947 with the passage of the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act .   The debate chamber of the House of Representatives is located inside Parliament House in Wellington , the capital city . Sittings of the House are usually open to the public , but the House may at any time vote to sit in private .

neg: Prime Minister of Australia The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia is the head of government of Australia . The individual who holds the office is the most senior Minister of the Crown , the leader of the Cabinet and the chairperson of the National Security Committee . The Prime Minister also has the responsibility of administering the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet . The office is not mentioned in the Constitution of Australia and exists only through longstanding political convention and tradition . Despite this , in practice it is the most powerful parliamentary position in Australia . The individual who holds the office is commissioned by the Governor-General of Australia .   Almost always and according to convention , the Prime Minister is the leader of the majority party or largest party in a coalition of parties in the House of Representatives . However , there is no constitutional requirement that the Prime Minister sit in the House of Representatives , though by convention this is always the case . The only case where a member of the Senate was appointed Prime Minister was John Gorton , who subsequently resigned his Senate position and was elected as a member of the House of Representatives ( Senator George Pearce was acting Prime Minister for seven months in 1916 while Billy Hughes was overseas ) .   Malcolm Turnbull has held the office of Prime Minister since 15 September 2015 . He received his commission after replacing Tony Abbott as the leader of the Liberal Party , the dominant party in the Coalition government , following the outcome of the September 2015 Liberal leadership ballot .

neg: Preston (UK Parliament constituency) Preston is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2000 by Mark Hendrick , a member of the Labour Party and of the Co-operative Party .

neg: Tim Hammond (politician) Timothy Jerome `` Tim '' Hammond ( born 25 March 1975 ) is an Australian politician . He is the member for Perth in the Australian House of Representatives . He is a member of the Australian Labor Party and succeeded the previous member , Alannah MacTiernan , at the 2016 federal election .   He was initially awarded the portfolios of Shadow Assistant Minister for Resources , Innovation , Western Australia , The Digital Economy and Start Ups in the Labor Shadow Ministry . In September 2016 he was promoted to the full ministry as Shadow Minister for Consumer Affairs and Shadow Minister Assisting for Resources .   Hammond was a barrister before entering politics . He previously ran unsuccessfully for parliament as the Labor candidate for Swan in 2010 .

neg: Austin Taylor (British politician) Austin Taylor ( 1858 -- 27 April 1955 ) was a Conservative Party , later Liberal Party , politician in the United Kingdom .   He was elected as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Liverpool East Toxteth at a by-election in November 1902 following the resignation of the Conservative MP Augustus Frederick Warr . He was re-elected unopposed in 1906 . He was a Unionist Free Trader and resigned from the Conservative Party in February 1906 , crossing the floor to join the Liberal Party . He stood down from the House of Commons at the January 1910 general election . In June 1918 , the Liberal MP for Buckrose became ill and was looking to retire . The local Liberal Association selected Taylor as their candidate to succeed him . Due to the war-time electoral truce , Taylor expected to be elected in a by-election unopposed . However , the by-election was not called and a General Election was called for December instead . A Labour candidate was chosen to contest the seat . Taylor hoped to receive endorsement from the Coalition government , but at the eleventh hour , that endorsement was given to a latecomer to the contest , who stood as a Coalition Liberal and was elected instead .

neg: Leader of the Opposition (Victoria) The Leader of the Opposition in Victoria is the leader of the largest political party in parliament but not in government . He or she is always a member of the Legislative Assembly . Since 4 December 2014 , the Leader of the Opposition is Matthew Guy .

neg: Steve Herbert Steven Ralph `` Steve '' Herbert ( born 30 April 1954 ) is a former Australian politician . He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Parliament of Victoria from 2002 to 2017 : in the Victorian Legislative Assembly as member for Eltham from 2002 to 2014 , and in the Victorian Legislative Council for Northern Victoria Region from 2014 to 2017 .   Until he resigned in October 2016 for using taxpayer money to chauffeur his dogs on several occasions , Steve Herbert was the Victorian Minister for Training and Skills .

neg: Richard Molesworth Taylor Richard Molesworth Taylor ( 1835 -- 26 August 1919 ) , also known as Sydenham Taylor , was a three-term New Zealand Member of Parliament . Born in London in 1835 , he moved to Auckland on the Heather Bell in 1846 . He travelled to Victoria in 1851 , and later to New South Wales and participated in the gold rush before returning to Auckland in 1857 . There he briefly joined the militia , serving in the New Zealand Wars , before becoming a government contractor . In 1869 he moved to Canterbury , working as a general contractor until becoming a Member of Parliament in 1886 .

neg: Electoral district of Newcastle Newcastle is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales named after and including Newcastle . It was represented since 2011 by Tim Owen of the Liberal Party of Australia who became an independent in 2014 shortly before resigning from parliament . The 2014 Newcastle by-election occurred on 25 October , Tim Crakanthorp of the Australian Labor Party regained the seat .   The district takes in the eastern part of the City of Newcastle , including the parts of the suburbs from Hexham to Mayfield lying to the east of the Main North railway line , Broadmeadow , Hamilton South , Merewether Heights and Merewether and the suburbs further east , including central Newcastle and Hamilton . It also includes the Port Stephens Council suburbs of Fern Bay and Fullerton Cove .