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		Akre is a beautiful town in Bahdinan region locates north east of Hawler (Arbil).
		Fire flares beautifully illuminating evening sky of Akre in Newroz 1996.
		For the first time Kurds celebrating their national festival of Newroz in Kurdistan after the Gulf War which had defeated Saddam's army and eventually eliminated Iraqi authority in Kurdistan.
	members.tripod.com /surkew/id13.htm (303 words)

	Jane Akre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jane Akre and her husband Steve Wilson are former employees of FOX owned-and-operated station WTVT in Tampa, Florida.
		However, FOX appealed to an appellate court and won, after the court declared that the FCC policy against falsification that FOX violated was just a policy and not a "law, rule, or regulation", and so the whistle blower law did not apply.
		FOX did not dispute that it tried to force Akre to broadcast a false story, but argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jane_Akre (208 words)

	A dream come true for track's Akre ::
		Akre said she ran hurdles for about a week while she was in high school and had never thrown the shot put.
		Akre said gaining the endurance to compete in the final leg of the pentathlon, the 800-meter dash, was the toughest part of learning her new craft.
		Akre was scheduled to compete in the pentathlon at the LSU Invitational March 3 but was scratched because of flu-like symptoms.
	www.cstv.com /sports/c-track/uwire/030906aai.html (1281 words)

	The My Hero Project - Jane Akre & Steve Wilson
		Akre and Wilson are 2001 recipients of the Goldman Environmental Prize.
		Akre and Wilson presented their report to their bosses at WTVT, a news station owned by the Fox network.
		After a five-week trial, a Florida jury hearing the case decided that Fox had "acted intentionally and deliberately to falsify or distort the plaintiffs' news reporting on BGH." Jane Akre was awarded damages for the loss of her job, and may also apply for reimbursement of her legal fees.
	myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=j_akre (1003 words)

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		Akre stated that be told Holak and Herriges in this meeting that he was not physically threatened by anyone on that day and the reason he finally did report to work on December 29 was because Pipke told Akre that it was all right for him to cross the picket line.
		Akre also stated that he was aware on December 29 that he was a proba- tionary employee, that he was scheduled for work, and that he could be disciplined for not reporting to work.
		I conclude that the discharge of Akre was effec- tuated to discourage union activity generally, not for his failure to cross the picket line on December 29, and as such it violates Section 8(a)(1) and (3) of the Act.
	www.nlrb.gov /nlrb/shared_files/decisions/292/292-843.txt (8904 words)

	Milk Is Milk Blog: They're back! Former journalists-turned-activists Akre and Wilson push their case after series of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Akre and Wilson claimed links to cancer and other consumer health risks and alleged that supermarkets were misleading consumers about milk safety.
		The American Journalism Review reported that Akre sued her previous employer, a St. Petersburg TV station four years earlier when her contract there was not renewed.
		Wilson and Akre, who claim devastating poverty as a result of their firing from Fox, refused to disclose to the Metro Times how much money they've raised or from whom, and refuse to disclose how they used the funds.
	www.milkismilk.com /2005/01/theyre-back-former-journalists-turned.html (1004 words)

	Defining Freedom of the Press - Daily Nexus Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Akre and Wilson were convinced Fox was caving in under corporate pressure, and as journalists, they were being forced to compromise their integrity to include misleading and false claims about the safety of rBGH.
		Akre claims she was fired after telling Fox she would report them to the Federal Communications Commission for slanting a news story against public interest.
		Akre was awarded $425,000 in damages, agreeing with the plaintiff’s claim she was fired for threatening to take Fox to the FCC.
	www.dailynexus.com /feature/2001/1258.html (1994 words)

	UCSF - Mission Bay - Building the Campus
		Akre served as project manager for Genentech Hall, the first research building to open at UCSF Mission Bay, where 630 men and women worked at the peak of its construction.
		Akre, whose grandfather was a carpenter, earned his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Minnesota in 1968.
		Akre took a lot of pride in the finished product: "This is an outstanding building, from the quality of the design to the use of materials.
	pub.ucsf.edu /missionbay/building/akre_obit.php (363 words)

	DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
		Akre respectfully urges that this Court has misapprehended and overlooked the legislative intent behind the attorney=s fee provision of the Whistle-Blower Act, as well as the harsh consequences its ground-breaking order will have for employees who seek to enforce the Act.
		Akre=s action was not frivolous, and in the trial court it withstood numerous attempts by WTVT to have the case dismissed, to have it summarily adjudged, to have a verdict directed against Akre, and to have the jury=s verdict rejected.
		Akre=s statement of the question to be certified is based on the fee standard articulated by then-Judge Anstead in Village of Palm Springs v.
	www.foxbghsuit.com /2ndDCAappeal.htm (2788 words)

	foxBGHsuit/SUIT PARTIES
		Jane Akre spent 20 years as a network and local television reporter and anchor before becoming the first journalist ever to win a whistleblower lawsuit against her own employer.
		On August 18, 2000, after a five-week trial, a jury agreed the reports Akre was pressured to air amounted to "a false, distorted or slanted" news report...and they awarded her $425,000 for her wrongful termination.
		Akre began her broadcasting career in Albuquerque as a radio news director.
	www.foxbghsuit.com /bgh3.htm (921 words)

	Court Reverses Ruling on Jane Akre's rBGH Suit
		In the lawsuit filed in 1998, Akre claimed she was wrongfully terminated for threatening to blow the whistle to the FCC.
		After a five-week trial that ended August 18, 2000, a six-person jury was unanimous in its conclusion that she was indeed fired for threatening report the station's pressure to broadcast what jurors decided was "a false, distorted, or slanted" story about the widespread use of growth hormone in dairy cows.
		He aggressively represented himself at trial, paving the way for Fox attorneys to suggest he was as aggressive in the newsroom as he was in the courtroom and perhaps that was why he was fired.
	organicconsumers.org /rbgh/akre022103.cfm (529 words)

	Project Censored Media democracy in action
		Back in December of 1996, Jane Akre and her husband, Steve Wilson, were hired by FOX as a part of the Fox “Investigators” team at WTVT in Tampa Bay, Florida.
		Akre and Wilson sued the Fox station and on August 18, 2000, a Florida jury unanimously decided that Akre was wrongfully fired by Fox Television when she refused to broadcast (in the jury's words) “a false, distorted or slanted story” about the widespread use of BGH in dairy cows.
		Akre was awarded $425,000 in a jury trial with well-crafted arguments for their wrongful termination as whistleblowers.
	www.projectcensored.org /publications/2005/11.html (1063 words)

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		Akre and her TV producer-reporter husband Steve Wilson had prepared a WTVT/FOX13 documentary on how Florida dairymen had been secretly injecting the genetically engineered rBGH into their cows and how Florida supermarkets quietly reneged on promises not to sell milk from treated cows until the hormone gained widespread acceptance by consumers.
		As Akre noted after the verdict, "the `threshold issue' the court wrote --- and all it ruled upon --- was whether the technical qualifications for a whistleblower claim were ever met by me. In Florida, to file such a claim, the employer misconduct must be a violation of an adopted law, rule or regulation.
		Akre and Wilson responded in writing to WTVT threatening to file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") alleging that the station had "illegally" edited the still unfinished BGH report in violation of an FCC policy against federally licensed broadcasters deliberately distorting the news.
	www.electricarrow.com /carp/agbiz/224.htm (3279 words)

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		Akre says she was told to be available for other work starting June 23 and was assigned to report on the vandalism of a vacant house, a "news story" not covered by any other station.
		(Akre's letter apparently went astray in the mail.) In October, they say, they were suspended without pay ("as an act to evidence good faith and to evidence willingness to continue to work on the BGH story") and locked out of their offices, where computers contained much of their research.
		And Akre feels justified in her skepticism about official reassurances of safety: "Monsanto owned the studies they contracted out with universities." Akre and Wilson are convinced that, despite repeated assurances that the story was important, the station never wanted to air it after that first Monsanto letter.
	www.organicconsumers.org /rBGH/foxBgh.htm (1863 words)

	Akre Family Crest
		Akre is an ancient Norman name that arrived in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
		This surname was a local name meaning the dweller at the acre, or the dweller at the plot of arable land.
		In the Akre coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/akre-family-crest.htm?a=54323-224 (620 words)

	Monsanto and Fox: Partners in Censorship--Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber
		Akre had recently given birth to the couple's first child, and Wilson hoped signing up with a local station would give him the chance to spend more time at home and less on the road.
		A visit by Akre to seven randomly-selected Florida dairy farms found that all seven were injecting their cows with the hormone.
		Akre and Wilson also offered to do a further interview with Monsanto and supplied a list of topics to be discussed.
	www.primitivism.com /monsanto.htm (2551 words)

	Journalists, not Activists Steve Wilson, Jane Akre & Fox News by Liane Casten
		Husband and wife, Wilson and Akre are exhausted emotionally and financially, but also relieved.
		In an appeal, however, Fox argued that the FCC policy against distortion of news did not qualify as "law:' and that therefore Akre and Wilson were not protected under the Florida act, which only protects those reporting an employer's violation of a "law, rule or regulation.
		Akre is still looking for a fulltime reporting job, but takes on assignments as Ilk they come.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Broadcast_Media/Wilson_Akre_FoxNews.html (731 words)

	Court orders Akre-Wilson must pay trial costs for $24.3 billion Fox television
		Akre and Wilson have ended up having to take on not just Monsanto but America's corporate media and judiciary.
		Jane Akre and Steve Wilson, the two former FOX Television (WTVT-13) journalists have filed appeals of a ruling that they must pay the legal costs and fees the broadcaster incurred defending itself in a landmark whistleblower case the reporters filed in 1998.
		The ruling assessing the fees came on the heels of a ruling overturned a August 2000 jury verdict and $425,000 award to FOX investigative reporter Jane Akre.
	ngin.tripod.com /070303a.htm (899 words)

	Hawaii Reporter: Hawaii Reporter
		Wilson and Akre contended that their investigation uncovered the dark secrets of rBGH—notwithstanding that by the time the reporters turned their attention to the issue, more than 2,000 articles had been written on the subject.
		Wilson’s and Akre’s lawsuit claimed they were canned for threatening to spill the beans to the FCC about the station’s “news distortion,” a violation of a Florida “whistleblower” law that protects people who report civil or criminal violations by companies.
		In a complicated decision, the jury sided with Akre by agreeing that she was a whistleblower because she had threatened to go to the FCC over portions of the series she believed to be a violation of the 1934 federal Communications Act.
	www.hawaiireporter.com /story.aspx?bafa6c8d-9ebc-4479-85cb-0cc82491aa61 (3127 words)

	Carrie Akre: Invitation - PopMatters Music Review
		Singer-songwriter Carrie Akre spent the early years of her career as frontwoman for such Seattle alternative acts as Hammerbox and Goodness, and more recently with The Rockfords (featuring Pearl Jam's Mike McCready).
		Akre's abilities as a singer are still evident, but this ain't rock 'n' roll.
		Fans of Carrie Akre's voice have something to cheer for here, though it is often wrapped in some very generic sound textures and beats.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/a/akrecarrie-invitation.shtml (646 words)

	Jane Akre and Steve Wilson Win Goldman Award for Fox rBGH Story American Journalists Win top eco-award for cow hormone ...
		Jane Akre and Steve Wilson of Clearwater, Fla., won an award for their investigations for Fox TV of rBGH, a genetically modified bovine growth hormone that is widely employed by the American dairy industry but is banned in Canada, Europe, New Zealand and Japan.
		Akre and Wilson continued to press Fox to run the original story, and were fired by the network in 1997.
		A jury found that Fox had pressured the reporters to broadcast a "false, distorted or slanted news report." Akre was awarded $425,000 for suffering job loss on improper grounds.
	www.mindfully.org /GE/GE2/Akre-Wilson-Goldman-rBGH.htm (1289 words)

	Creative Loafing - Weekly Planet Tampa: Talk Of The Town: News Feature: Bogus Crusade, Deceitful Crusaders
		Wilson and Akre stake their fame on claims that WTVT tried to force them to print distorted and untrue news about a growth hormone used with cattle.
		After Akre's verdict was overturned, the couple turbocharged their fundraising by claiming they may have to pay Fox's legal costs, which, they say, "could amount to maybe $3-million." That's a gross exaggeration.
		Wilson and Akre had been soliciting funds for years, and had never told potential supporters they were quite capable of paying their own bills.
	www.weeklyplanet.com /2003-10-16/news_feature.html (2561 words)

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		Because, all quips aside, Akre is very serious when it comes to securing strong returns for fund investors and he believes a key to doing so, beyond strong price-to-earnings ratios and robust cash flow, is finding companies with reliable, honest management.
		In keeping with the premise of his joke, he looks for executives who conduct themselves with honesty and integrity, never forgetting that their job is a success only when the company makes money, not when they get rich.
		Akre added that the valuation looks good, management has proven respectful of shareholders, and the company has already endured the downsizing in its industry and emerged profitable.
	www.marketwatch.com /News/Story/Story.aspx?guid={D2D304D4-A392-43EC-8307-96E69A5843AF}&dist=¶m=archive&siteid=mktw&garden=&minisite= (910 words)

	Idaho Observer: Fired reporters describe corporate influence over news
		Wilson and Akre, husband and wife, are award winning journalists who were fired from FOX-owned WTVT Channel 13 of Tampa, Florida, for refusing to broadcast their story, “Mystery in Your Milk,” about Monsanto and its product rBST -- a synthetic bovine growth hormone (BGH) -- with a spin agreeable to Monsanto.
		After losing their six-figure salary jobs, after selling their house and exhausting their savings, after being flballed by their industry, after being harassed and threatened, Akre was able to prove to a jury that she had indeed been fired for threatening to contact the FCC and for refusing to distort the news.
		Unable to resolve the issue, Wilson and Akre were fired and Monsanto, with the help of news outlets such as FOX-owned WTVT and the FDA, is still allowed to sell BGH -- a product that is hazardous for the cows into which it is injected and the people who drink their milk.
	proliberty.com /observer/20001204.htm (1555 words)

	Educational CyberPlayGround: Environmental Activist Whistle blower reporters Akre and Wilson
		Akre also pointed out that "just as we expected, we continue to be `radioactive' as far as getting new jobs in the mainstream media and we remain essentially unemployed.
		Akre and Wilson, however, continued to press FOX to run their original story, and were subsequently fired by the network in 1997.
		A six-person Florida jury found that FOX had indeed pressured the reporters to broadcast a "false, distorted or slanted news report" and Akre was awarded $425,000 for suffering job loss on improper grounds.
	www.edu-cyberpg.com /IEC/reporters.html (1024 words)

	David Akre: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		David Akre's summary was automatically generated using 10 references found on the Internet.
		David A. Akre is a member of our Board of Directors and is our Co-Chief Executive Officer, a position he has held since our formation in 2003.
		Akre was a whole loan trader at Principal Asset Markets, a subsidiary of Principal Life, a boutique whole loan broker-dealer located in New Jersey.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Akre_David_365142.htm (298 words)

	2theadvocate.com \| Sports \| Akre wins pentathlon at SEC meet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Akre is just the fourth Lady Tiger to win the SEC pentathlon title and the first to do so since Sharon Jaklofsky won in 1992.
		Akre’s point total also provisionally qualifies the senior for the NCAA Championships, just missing the automatic mark by 79 points.
		Akre set season best marks in the 55-meter hurdles (8.08), long jump (17-10Ø), 800-meter (2:17:96), as well as a personal best in the shot put (33-5Ø).
	www.2theadvocate.com /sports/2369586.html (310 words)

	Focus on the Corporation 4/17/98
		Last year, two such reporters, Jane Akre and Steve Wilson, were added to the list of road kill on the television superhighway when they were fired from the Fox Television affiliate in Tampa, Florida (WTVT).
		As a result of that letter, the series was postponed, and Wilson and Akre agreed to go back to Monsanto to give the company another chance to respond to the allegations in the story.
		Wilson and Akre refused and were then assigned to re-write the story 73 times over the course of the remaining nine months on their contract.
	multinationalmonitor.org /focus/focus.9815.html (832 words)

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