For California's transgender students, access is no longer denied

Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday signed legislation affecting transgender students. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press / May 22, 2013)

By Sandra Hernandez

August 12, 2013, 5:03 p.m.

On Monday, Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB 1266 into law, and in so doing brought California a step closer to ensuring that transgender students throughout the state have full access to facilities and activities based on the gender that they feel identifies them.

Put simply, it means boys who identify themselves as girls will be allowed to participate on girls' teams, use girls' locker rooms and otherwise have equal access to facilities.

As expected, the new law has drawn fire from some groups, including the Traditional Values Coalition, which argues that the legislation will "encourage youth as young as 5 years old to question their sex and gender."

Such arguments are misleading and unfounded.

As The Times' editorial board wrote in May, "discomfort is not a valid reason to allow discrimination, just as it would not have been acceptable for schools to ban gay or lesbian students from the bathrooms of their respective genders 30 years ago."

Moreover, numerous school districts, including Los Angeles Unified, already have similar full access policies in place without incidents or problems. The new goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2014.

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Source: http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/OpinionLa/~3/6XV4fLKldZI/la-ol-transgender-students-law-20130812,0,7943653.story

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Barclays announces changes to leveraged finance Europe, Middle East, Africa team; Oien, Moravec

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Barclays has today announced changes to its leveraged finance EMEA team, according to market sources.

Peder Oien?has been named chairman of leveraged finance EMEA. Oien will focus on client coverage and the bank?s capabilities around structuring and execution. In addition, he will continue to be responsible for all high-yield committees as well as working with colleagues on legacy positions.

Michael Moravec?becomes sole head of leveraged finance EMEA, overseeing all origination efforts in the region. Moravec was previously head of high-yield syndicate for EMEA since September 2009, and co-head of leveraged finance EMEA alongside Oien since August 2011.

Oien and Moravec will continue to report to?Jean-Francois Astier, head of global leveraged finance, and?John Langley, co-head of global finance and risk solutions. ??Staff reports

Source: http://www.leveragedloan.com/barclays-announces-changes-to-leveraged-finance-europe-middle-east-africa-team-oien-moravec/

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Music streamer Spotify doubles 2012 revenues after expansion

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Music streaming web service Spotify more than doubled revenues in 2012 to 435 million euros ($577 million) as it expanded to new markets and almost doubled its users, documents showed on Wednesday.

The Stockholm-based company, which provides free on-demand music or ad-free tunes for paying customers, posted a 58.7 million euro net loss, compared with the 45.4 million loss it had in 2011 on turnover of 190 million.

The figures were filed by its holding company Spotify Technology in May and published on the website of the registry of companies in Luxembourg, where the group is registered, on Wednesday.

The unlisted company, which has more than 20 million "active" users and over 5 million paying subscribers and has received financial backing from the likes of Northzone, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Accel Partners and DST, would not rule out further fundraising activities to support its growth.

"We cannot exclude the need or desire to raise more funds in the future to fund future growth initiatives," it said.

Spotify, founded in 2006 by Swedes Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, strikes royalty deals with record labels and pays about 70 percent of its revenue back to rights holders.

Streaming and on-demand music has soared in popularity alongside smartphone use, but companies like Spotify and Pandora - which has almost 68 million active listeners - have struggled to make profits due to the cost of royalty fees.

The sector has attracted keen interest from global technology giants like Google, Amazon.com Inc and Apple Inc which see music streaming as crucial to grow their presence in a smartphone-dominated media world.

Spotify said that it almost doubled the number of monthly active users during 2012 as it launched in countries such as Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland.

This year, the company made its first forays into Latin America and Asia. ($1 = 0.7547 euros)

(Reporting by Mia Shanley; Editing by David Cowell)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/music-streamer-spotify-doubles-2012-revenues-expansion-141518675.html

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