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published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt April 16, 2002
As for me, I was sired in 1977, the same year as the hero of this story. In truth, my life has been very ordinary. As I mentioned before, I do many good things with myself and others, but they are ordinary things. I dig American movies. I dig Negroes, particularly Michael Jackson. I dig to disseminate very much currency at famous nightclubs in Odessa. Lamborghini Countaches are excellent, and so are cappuccinos. Many girls want to be carnal with me in many good arrangements, notwithstanding the Inebriated Kangaroo, the Gorky Tickle, and the Unyielding Zookeeper ... That is why I was so effervescent to go to Lutsk and translate for Jonathan Safran Foer. It would be unordinary.This is the voice of Alex Perchov, one of the narrators of Everything is Illuminated, a quirky and often endearing Ukrainian twenty-year-old who is enthusiastic about American culture and proud of his sexual exploits which are, in fact, figments of his own fertile imagination. He has learned English with the help of a thesaurus, creating a monologue that prompted Francine Prose of The New York Times Book Review to write: "Not since ... A Clockwork Orange has the English language been simultaneously mauled and energized with such brilliance and such brio."
Alex's father runs a small tour service, driving Jewish Americans to the places where, several generations ago, their relatives died in The Holocaust. Jonathan Safran Foer has come from America, searching for the woman who may have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Alex's grandfather, haunted by his own memories of World War II, is his tour guide and driver, and Alex serves as translator. The three of them set off, with a dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, the "seeing eye bitch," adopted from "the home for forgetful dogs," to find Jonathan's ancestral village, the shtetl of Trachimbrod.
They travel the Ukranian countryside, beautiful but still ravaged by World War II, 50 years ago. When they reach the site of Trachimbrod, they find an old woman who has made herself the curator of the shtetl's memories; her home is filled with boxes of photographs, bits of jewelry, and other remnants of what was once a thriving community.
Alex's narrative about their "very rigid search" for Trachimbrod, and for the woman who may have rescued Jonathan's grandfather, is one of three strands intermingled throughout this novel. The second is a heavily fictionalized narrative Jonathan is writing about his ancestors and the history of Trachimbrod. It is a blend of storytelling, in which the past and future are often tangled, magical realism, and assorted thoughts on art and life. It begins when Jonathan's great great great great great grandmother, Brod, is rescued from the river as an infant, the only survivor of a horse and wagon accident. It continues through the life of Jonathan's grandfather, a man with an unusual disability and a prodigious history of sexual exploits.
This narrative is full of odd, quirky characters. These include Yankel the disgraced usurer, forced to wear an abacus bead as a reminder that he cheated someone. He lovingly raises Brod and as he ages, fearing he will lose his memory, he scribbles notes about his life on his ceiling with her red lipstick. It also includes the mad squire Sofiowka and The Kolker, who survives an accident at the flour mill with a blade in his head.
Throughout this fictional history, things are also vitally important, beginning with the detritus of the wagon accident which surfaces in the river when Brod is rescued and the bead Yankel wears to remind him of his disgrace. These things, including prayer beads, shawls, glasses, and other objects, fill much of people's lives and signify remembrance. This is reflected in Jonathan and Alex's odyssey, in present time, in the way the old lady from Trachimbrod carefully saves the possessions of Holocaust victims in piles of boxes, just in case someone comes searching.
Alex reads Jonathan's fictionalized history and discusses it in his letters, and this provides the third strand of the novel. It's an interesting addition to the book, because in effect, the novel reflects on itself and explores its own meaning. We also see Alex's character develop through these letters, as he sheds some of his silliness and prepares to take responsibility for himself and his beloved younger brother.
Jonathan Safran Foer is a tremendously gifted writer, with the courage to try something new and different. At moments I was awed by the story and by his writing. I really liked Alex's voice, and I quickly got used to his quirky use of the English language. I loved much of the magical realism in Jonathan's fictionalized history, and I admired the themes of memories, forgiveness, and coming of age.
On the other hand, I found the novel quite uneven. I ran the gamut from being absorbed by the writer's brilliance to barely wanting to keep turning the pages. It especially fell down during Jonathan's fictionalized narrative. At moments, it was splendid, but at other times it seemed self-consciously clever and disjointed. Some of the sexuality also disturbed me. I am all in favor of not shirking from explicit sex, when it fits the story, and I enjoy a bit of gratuitous literary smut here and there. But some of this sexual content was just bent.
Overall, I thought this was a unique and compelling story with memorable characters, that illuminates the the second world war and the holocaust and how it affects us several generations later. It shows us an empty field where a shtetl stood for generations, seeing births, marriages, feuds, friendships, and deaths, obliterated by Nazis in one afternoon. This image is more powerful than anything that could be expressed in words. It also does a beautiful job of exploring the theme of remembrance, through myriad layers, and I admired the way the author combined quirky humor with somber memory and reflection. This is definitely a novel I will remember.
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Rating: I don't know how to rate this one.
Thoughts on the Movie Adaptation: The movie recreated one strand of this complicated novel, the journey Jonathan, Alex, and Alex's grandfather made to Trachimbrod. It offered excellent acting and gorgeous imagery, including a luminous moon shining on the river and a lush field of sunflowers.
While it followed Foer's novel closely in many ways, it made radical changes. Like the book, it revealed secrets about Alex's grandfather, who had been hiding his own memories of World War II. However, the grandfather's story is completely different; I am still puzzling over why screenwriters changed it.
The movie also created a new facet to Jonathan's character by making him a "collector," a young man with the quirky habit of taking things that evoke memories -- photos, his grandmother's false teeth, dirt from her grave -- and bagging, labeling and saving them. I think this may have been done to capture some of the elements of Jonathan's fictionalized history, which isn't presented in the film . It reminded me of its emphasis on multi-generational memories, and on the things that make up much of people's lives. When asked why he collected all these objects, the film version of Jonathan said, "I'm afraid I'll forget." It reminded me of the way Yankel, in the fictionalized history, scrawled his memories on his ceiling with lipstick. I also think the movie's authors wanted to reinforce the theme of remembrance which was explored so richly in the novel.
I liked the novel and the movie equally but, for me, they were very different. The book offered incredibly rich, though uneven, narratives about history and memory that could never be duplicated on screen. The film offered the advantage of not having to wade through the bent and self-consciously clever parts, of course. It also created gorgeous imagery and made the characters more three dimensional and human, somehow.
Another thing I admired about the movie, which I saw for the first time several years ago before picking up the book, was the way it revealed the history of antisemitism in Europe. It seems that too many accounts of the Holocaust treat it as if it were disconnected from the rest of Europe's history, as if Hitler somehow conjured the evil of antisemitism. Like much of Eastern Europe, Ukraine had a long history of progroms and other forms of persecution. Jonathan pointed out, in a very apt and poignant moment, that at first many Ukrainian Jews came to the Nazis to protect them from the Ukraine.
I recommend this movie, though it's not for the squeamish. Take a peek at Roger Ebert's review of this film. I agree with his comment that this is a movie that "grows upon reflection" -- it also benefits from a second viewing.


DANCIN’ IN THE AISLES
Georgetown University Hospital’s Vincent Lombardi Cancer Center skipped its gala this year because of scheduling problems.Instead, supporters packed the Warner Theater for the Lombardi Doo Wop Concert for Cancer, occasionally jumping up to dance to the golden oldies. Each of the ten musical acts were from the period 1954-1975 and included some of the original singers, and each seemed to be members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, or have a star on Hollywood Boulevard. They were proud to tell it, like Terry Johnson of the Flamingos: “Doo Wop in 1959 was the year that changed my life, thanks to I Only Have Eyes for You. It got me out of my beat-up Chevy, and into a mile-long Cadillac Eldorado, out of a crummy apartment, and into a Fifth Avenue penthouse, sold over 4 million records, and got me some fi-ine women.”
NBC News4 sportscaster and multiple Emmy-winner George Michael was on hand, as was Dr. Louis Wiener, the new director of the Cancer Center, whose pancreatic and prostate cancer programs will benefit from the evening. Presented by sponsor Marvin McIntyre and his family, the evening was dedicated to the memory of philanthropist Eddie Geisinger, an enthusiastic Doo Wop fan, as were the guests, many still humming familiar melodies at the after-party next door in the Atrium.
In the huge Russian Embassy ballroom, a tea dance organized by Selene Obolensky drew 150 who whirled to balalaikas of Old Russia as well as today’s Angel and Aces group. World politics forgotten for charity, the event benefited the special needs children of Berezichi, the school on the Russian estate once owned by the family of Selene’s late husband, Prince Alexis Obolensky. (Alexis descended from the Rurik dynasty who ruled centuries before, in his words, “those upstart Romanovs.”) … Thirty happy guests convened at Ishin and George Ludlow’s home, entranced by their beautifully-designed pool, and Ishin’s equally beautiful food … Whoops, this columnist dropped a line or two in the last issue and telescoped Susan and Steve Porter’s summer doings with JoAnn and John Mason’s. Steve, not John, was appointed to the National Endowment for the Arts board … Lots of young executives and Antinori wines at Teatro Goldoni, when owner Michael Kosmides hosted a wine dinner. Seen: Bob Kyle, CEO of Voyage Yacht Shares; Jeffrey Ferguson of The Carlyle Group; and from Hollywood, Michael’s actress sister Joanna and her fiancé, Brock Edwards.
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Class of 2020 aim to avenge one of Gulls’ most frustrating FA Cup defeats
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Torquay United have a chance to avenge one of their most frustrating FA Cup defeats when they meet League Two Crawley Town at Plainmoor in this season’s First Round Proper.
It was Crawley who beat the Gulls 1-0 here in a feisty Fourth Round game in January 2011, to earn a dream tie against Manchester United in Round Five.
This time it’s not former Crawley bosses Steve Evans and Paul Raynor, the managerial duo that Gulls fans loved to hate in those days, involved.
But it’s a big chance for Gary Johnson’s Class of 2020 to upset a Crawley side now managed by former Exeter City assistant John Yems, and reach the Second Round for the first time since they did it under Martin Ling nine years ago.
The tie will be played at Plainmoor on Saturday week, November 7, but still behind closed doors.
After last Saturday’s 2-0 win at Sholing earned the Gulls £9,375 in prize money, just over £22,000 will be at stake against Crawley.
Other ties include Exeter City v AFC Fylde, Charlton Athletic v Plymouth Argyle, Bromley v Yeovil Town, Walsall v Bristol Rovers and an all-League One clash between Ipswich Town and Portsmouth at Portman Road.
- 1 Hilton opens its doors - with a little help from Bert & Buoy and a Riviera palm tree
- 2 500,000 meals and still going strong
- 3 Relentless from Torquay United
- 4 Four to battle in Bay by-election
- 5 Torbay has it all - and we all have a part to play in tourism future
- 6 Joelene to lead special police scrutiny panel
- 7 Absolutely ridiculous and selfish
- 8 TW Predicta April 22
- 9 Concluding the debate about diesel v petrol v electric cars
- 10 Rowers - and Mr Portillo - in bid to go round world in 80 days and raise money for Rowcroft

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Typhoon Bopha (26W) – December 8th, 2012
Track of TY 26W
Typhoon Bopha (TY 26W) was a tropical cyclone which formed unusually close to the equator.
Bopha is the strongest tropical cyclone to ever hit the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, making landfall as a Category 5 super typhoon with winds of 160 mph (260 km/h).
Bopha is also the second-most southerly Category 5 super typhoon, reaching a minimum latitude of 7.4°N on December 3. Only Typhoon Louise of 1964 came closer to the equator, reaching 7.3°N.
After first hitting Palau, where it destroyed houses,disrupted communications and caused power outages, flooding and uprooted trees, Bopha made landfall late on December 3 over Mindanao, an island that had been devastated by Washi in December 2011. The storm caused widespread destruction on Mindanao, leaving thousands homeless and more than 500 fatalities.
After hitting Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley provinces, Typhoon Bopha crossed the southern Mindanao and central regions, cutting power to two provinces and triggering landslides. More than 170,000 fled to evacuation centres. The typhoon has since moved to the South China Sea west of the Palawan island province; government meteorologists predict the typhoon’s future path could be across Vietnam or southern China.

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Auburn schedules WCWS final viewing party at Jane B. Moore Field
AUBURN – Auburn officials have decided to open Jane B. Moore Field for a viewing party for fans not able to make the trip to Oklahoma City.
The Auburn University athletics department announced Monday morning they will open Jane B. Moore Field to host a viewing party for the Women’s College World Series final games. Auburn (57-10) is playing best of three series against Oklahoma (55-7) starting Monday night at 7 p.m CST. The games will be played on ESPN and will take place Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night if a Game 3 is necessary.
The game will be shown on the softball video board in deep centerfield and seating will be first-come, first-served in the stands. Parking will open at 5 p.m. and gates will open at 6:15 p.m. Admission is free but full concessions will be available.
The Tigers continued their run to the program’s first national championship Sunday by beating Florida State 8-7 in eight innings to advance to the Women’s College World Series finals.
If fans bring a canned food item for the “Strike out Hunger” campaign, they will receive a $1 beverage from the concessions stand. The event will take place rain or shine, unless severe weather requires cancellation.


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Home Sweet Tokyo Trailer #2 Naked Communication｜NHK WORLD
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Will you go as far as stripping your clothes in order to chat and get to know your neighbors? Find out if Bryan communicates better naked in the second episode of Home Sweet Tokyo.
Guest Appearance: Katsuya Kobayashi
【Home Sweet Tokyo】
NHK WORLD’s first family sitcom written by standup comedian B.J. Fox and directed by Teruyuki Yoshida (director of hit titles, such as Amachan and Japanese Salaryman Neo)
There are 4 episodes to this heartwarming comedy series, which follows Londoner Bryan Jenkins (B.J. Fox) after he moves to Tokyo to live with his father-in-law Tsuneo (Tetsu Watanabe). While his wife Itsuki (Yoshino Kimura) heads to work and his daughter Alice (Isla Rose) starts her new school, this stay-at-home dad faces new challenges every day.
A drama full of laughter and love – and plenty of cultural misunderstandings, witness life in Tokyo through the eyes of a foreigner who just wants to keep his family safe and happy.
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Archive for the ‘Terrorism’ Category
Media Failed Us On Bin Laden Kill.
As part of my masters degree in Media Practice, I am researching and writing a dissertation on press criticism and the role it plays in promoting/maintaining a functioning and democratic press. Whilst my thesis is focused on the New York Times’ and how it rates its own coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, over the last week and a half I have been struck by how suitable the coverage of the US operation that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan has been for systematic criticism.
The death of bin Laden, and subsequent media circus, is an ideal opportunity for the news media to assess its own performance and function. In our western media system, the news media and democracy are inextricably linked; with some journalism academics go as far as to say they are one and the same. In such a context, the news media must provide the public with all the information they require to be free, informed and functioning citizens.
The job of a journalist is to question, to demand answers and to verify information, particularly that obtained from politicians. To keep the bastards honest, in other words. So why, in just over a week of bin Laden death coverage has the mainstream media functioned largely as a mouthpiece for the US government?
The death of Bin Laden was witnessed by no one other than the American operatives and their (mostly dead) victims. It was relayed to the world in a shock announcement by the US president, Barrack Obama, who proudly advanced the cause of American exceptionalism by declaring America can indeed do anything it wants to (he must have been paying attention to Gillard’s’ speech in the congress earlier this year). The world’s media immediately reported the death as fact, even though it had occurred, in the words of Guy Rundle, ‘in the President’s words and nowhere else.’
Whatever happened to the word ‘allegedly’? Since when has the media existed only to regurgitate the claims of the government and declare them true without independent verification? Turns out, questions were just were what was required, given the ever-changing details of the surreptious raid. Was the Obama administration ‘correcting facts’, as the Sydney Morning Herald politely claims, or merely making them up as they go along?
Scepticism should not be confused with conspiracy propagation. Yet, conspiracy theorists is exactly what the many in the media, whose very job description calls for healthy scepticism, were quick to label anyone who dared ask questions. The fact the raid came hot on the tails of the release of Obama’s long form birth certificate prompted many to liken sceptics over the US government version of events to the notorious ‘birthers’, who refuse to believe the president is a natural-born US citizen. This is a preposterous comparison. Conspiracy theorists ardently stick to their beliefs, even in the face of overwhelming evidence. The evidence for Obama’s citizenship was both abundant and in the public domain. The evidence for the death and deep-sea burial of bin Laden exists only in the hands of the Obama administration, evidence they still refuse to release. It is not conspiracy propagation to doubt the veracity of the statements made by a government that had just enacted a kill operation in total secrecy in a foreign country- without that country’s knowledge. It is simply asking for transparency.
Had the media acted more critically, perhaps it would not have been left up lawyers and academics to question the morality and legality of the raid, let alone the claim that ‘justice had been served.’ A claim first put forward by former lawyer Obama himself, faithfully repeated by western leaders including PM Gillard, and disseminated by the media. The irony of a life-long opponent of the death penalty ‘welcoming the news’ of the manner of bin Laden’s demise seemed to be lost on the great chunk of the local media, save for the usual inquiring suspects including Crikey, Eureka St and New Matilda.
To be clear, I am not implying that the government is lying about all aspects of the operation, nor do I mean to suggest that bin Laden is still alive or not buried at sea. Rather, I mean to stress that demanding verification and evidence is both right and proper when it comes to any story, particularly ones which appear to be as one-sided as this. It is the only way in which the public can hope to know anything approximating the truth. As more details emerge, and change, making yesterday’s facts today’s misinformation, the news media should use this as an opportunity to assess their own performance.
Whilst few may have any sympathy for bin Laden, what is at stake is bigger than the life and death of a single man. The news media cannot go down the road of accepting, without question, any claim by any government, much less that of a foreign administration. It directly contradicts the function of the press and sets a dangerous precedent where the media exists not serve the public but to advance the interest of the ruling elite. Nor can the media shy away from criticism such as this. Press criticism is a vital aspect of assessing whether the media is fulfilling its function. Our democracy depends on it.


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Happy New Year! May 2013 bring you many new sewing ideas and lots of hours of sewing fun.
One of the books I started the year with was “Precision draping; a simple method for developing designing talent” by Nelle L. Weymouth. Published in 1889, this is a lovely book; everything is so well explained and it just makes pattern drafting seem so easy! I got to this book via The Perfect Nose, who posts lots of vintage goodies as well as marvelous sewing projects of her own.
One of the things that I sketched into my notebook for future reference were the necklines and how to design facings. My favourite were the sweetheart neckline, the triangular keyhole neckline and the peter pan collar, both the rounded and the pointed version.
The full lesson on neckline facings can be found here and these are the drawn notes I took while reading. Drawing helps me both remember notions I would like to experiment with and understand better what it is to be done. Just don’t get to bored by the repetitive busty lady shown below.
1. The Sweetheart Neckline
A rounded and rather modest sweetheart neckline is shown here, but you can make it as generous or as square as you like it.
2. The Keyhole Neckline.
A triangular shape is shown here but the same can be done with an oval shape.
3. The Peter Pan Collar
The Peter Pan collar has been getting a lot of attention lately and I’ve seen many tutorials and even made my own following the pattern of a blouse I have. This all seems silly when you notice how simple it actually is to draft. If only I had pictured it like this 6 months ago.
4. The Pointed Peter Pan Collar
Another reason why I am such a sucker for sewing books is learning the names of things. And then calling them by their names, dammit 🙂 This is such a pretty collar; did you know it was called a pointed peter pan? How do you call it?
Hope this sounds at least 25% as exciting as it does to me and if not, well, I expect you to write about it in the comments section 🙂 I’d rather be told when I am boring than yap yap yap alone.


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The mouth and your teeth are one of the major parts of your body that you will have to make sure that you pay close attention to. By having healthy and strong teeth there are a lot of merits that you will be able to get and among them is increasing your confidence and self-esteem as well giving you the courage that you need each day. Your teeth may be at a very high risk when they are damaged or broken and they can even cause a lot of pain. You will need to make sure that you find a good family dentist who will be able to take care of the oral health of each member of your family.
You will have to make sure that you find a way that you can be able to reshape your teeth in case they have lost their shape due to age. All the family dentists are supposed to have a license from the state authority which will permit them to offer the kind of services that they offer. You will have to make sure that you hire the services of a family dentist who has a license that should be valid at the time.
There may be many methods that you can be able to use in order to be able to whiten your teeth but you will need to make sure that you use a safe method. The many family dentists that you will be able to get will have been in operation for a long time and you will need to make sure that you find out how long. A family dentist who has been in operation for a long time will be the best one to hire as he will be having the needed experience.
You will have to make sure that you take good care of each and every part of your body in order to have a comfortable and peaceful life. You will need to make sure that you have a well-planned budget of the amount you will be willing to spend paying a family dentist. All the cosmetic and pediatric dentist services providers that you are going to get and supposed to have been qualified to offer the services that they give and you will need to make sure that you research on all of them and find out if they are qualified.
By making a choice that you will see a cosmetic dentist you will be able to ensure that you get your teeth straightened. The best family dentist that you will have to choose is the one that has valid certificates that prove he is qualified for the job.

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Manga Piracy Site Manga Rock to Shut Down (Updated)
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Pirated manga aggregator app Manga Rock revealed on Sunday to the J-Cast News website that it plans to shut down the service. The service's website is currently accessible, and the smartphone app remains available to download. The website and Facebook page for Hong Kong-based technology company Noizer Limited's subsidiary Not a Basement Studio, the Vietnamese company that manages Manga Rock, are inaccessible.
Not a Basement Studio told J-Cast News that Manga Rock started as a project when the staff were college students, and it gathered scanlations that were already released. The company also said:
At that time, we didn't understand the manga industry, and we didn't know the origin of the scanlations (including things without official licenses). As time has passed, we have come to understand the damage being incurred by manga creators and publishers. Moreover, as Manga Rock's popularity increased more and more, the damage also increased. Therefore we are deeply reflecting on our role in accelerating the popularity of scanlations, and we give our heartfelt apologies to the victims, manga creators and publishers. As a result, we plan to shut down our scanlation website and app. We also recommend that similar scanlation sites (there are many) shut down as well. We are truly sorry for causing problems for the manga industry.
Irodori Comics CEO On Takahashi posted a series of Tweets in both English and Japanese last Tuesday criticizing Manga Rock. Their Japanese Twitter thread has accumulated more than 60,000 retweets since its posting.
In the tweets, Takahashi described the Manga Rock app for Japanese speakers. (The app is region-blocked for users is Japan.) Not only does Manga Rock share illegal scans of numerous manga series, the app also has a paid subscription service that costs US$4.99 per month. Due to this and the legitimacy the app gains from being hosted on the Google Play Store and the App Store, Takahashi argued that many users of the app are unaware that it is an illegal service.
Manga Rock launched in 2010. The app allows users to read manga chapters online or download them for offline viewing. The disclaimer for the app states: "All manga, character, and logos belong to their respective copyright owners." It also claims that Not A Basement Studio does not have any affiliation with the website that hosted the unauthorized manga scans.
The Japanese-language manga piracy site Mangamura became inaccessible in April 2018. Japanese publishers had filed criminal complaints against the website in summer through fall 2017, and Japanese authorities revealed in May 2018 that they were actively investigating Mangamura. Police have since made several arrests related to uploading unauthorized images on the site.
Update: This article previously stated that the Manga Rock website is no longer accessible. The website is currently inaccessible if a user's internet browser has Japanese or Korean options enabled, but the website is still accessible if those browser options are disabled. The article has been updated.
Source: J-Cast News (谷本陵)
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Technological Revolution, Covid-19 & Labour Market | 12 Nov 2020
This article is based on “The Future of Work in the Post-COVID-19 World” which was published in The Economic & Political Weekly on 31/10/2020. It talks about the impact of the fourth industrial revolution and the pandemic on the labour market.
The emergence of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has caused drastic impacts on almost every aspect of human life. One of the large uncertainties is related to the economic impact of this pandemic.
In the economic arena, the impact on the global labour market will undergo many important changes. However, the global labour market was already going through radical changes over the last few decades due to the upcoming fourth industrial revolution and the pandemic is likely to increase this rate.
Future prospects of the labour market are unpromising due to the advances and challenges generated by technologies related to artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), robotics, and industrial automatisation.
Therefore, the real need right now is to evaluate how the Covid-19 crisis will affect this ongoing transformation and adequate policy responses.
Ongoing Changes in Labour Market
- In current times, the role of technology has become self-contradictory. Even if technology has been created to support humankind, there exists an underlying fear about its impact on the labour market.
- Traditionally, changes affected only employees in charge of highly repetitive tasks, that is the so-called blue-collar workers.
- However, the recent impact of the fourth industrial revolution is also threatening those that carry out highly skilled tasks, that is, the so-called white-collar workers.
- Before the Covid-19 pandemic, the International Labour Organization (ILO) estimated that 1,400 million workers in the world (around 37.5% of the total workers) worked in vulnerable employment.
Impact of 4th Industrial Revolution & Covid-19 on Labour Market
- Process of Automation: According to ILO, the manufacturing sector employs approximately 1,600 million robots at a global scale, a number with exponential growth in recent years.
- The Covid-19 pandemic will quite likely ensure that companies will strive to organise supply chains that are safe and free from viruses.
- For this, deployments of swarm robots, that is robots linked to each other for coordinated action, present important functional benefits. Therefore, in some way, it is quite likely that Covid-19 will accelerate the process of automation.
- Social Polarisation: The pandemic is also increasing social inequalities due to the disparate impact of the virus on different classes.
- However, before the pandemic, the most vulnerable jobs and with more risk to be automated were precisely the low-income ones.
- The virus has a social impact that is quite undemocratic, which besides the ongoing robotisation and automation processes will drive up the levels of social polarisation.
- Change in Work Culture: The ongoing technological revolution and the impact of the novel coronavirus might radically change the work conditions.
- With this new wave of forced remote working, some tech companies in Silicon Valley (such as Twitter, Square, or Facebook) have already decided to shift to permanent working from home even after the pandemic.
- These changes will have a vast impact on the urban economies of the regions where these companies are located by affecting aspects, such as real estate, transportation, leisure, and social diversity, among others.
- Post-Labour Society: Some theorists predict a post-work scenario where robots would mostly replace human workforces. Among the consequences, it would mean the end of the traditional labour structure, which will require us to redefine the term work itself.
- This can lead to the emergence of a massive and new unworking class.
- In addition, with the pace of technological shifts, the skills required of employees will probably change faster over time, creating a group of people whose skills get constantly outdated.
- Change in Society: Beyond the real impact of AI and robotics on the labour market, strong changes are expected to disrupt societies.
- Without employment providing a structure in the people’s lives and with technology replacing many human activities, the societies are likely to shift towards more individualistic entities with less human interaction.
- Positive Trends: There are many studies which signify that the fourth Industrial revolution would create as many jobs as it eradicated, showing a slightly positive trend.
- These studies indicate that the healthcare and educational sectors will have a growing job demand, while the manufacturing and transport sectors will suffer the largest losses of jobs.
- Further, technology and automation could lead to a fairer economic model with lower prices, greater social awareness. Thus, there is a need for re-skilling of the workforce.
- Necessity of Inclusive Development: Some governments are trying to develop strategies to face the very negative scenarios that might emerge.
- In this sense, one of such countermeasures is the Universal Basic Income (UBI).
- However, developing countries like India need to develop alternative strategies. This is because providing UBI in the world's second-largest populous country would not be feasible, especially in the near future.
It is expected that the ongoing technological revolution, besides the upcoming economic crisis due to the coronavirus, might reduce the level of regulated employment. In this scenario, the relationship between employer and employee would be reduced to a minimum.
The supporters of this policy argue that it will boost the labour market, while critics argue that the employee will be completely unprotected.
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Critically analyse the impact of the fourth industrial revolution and the Covid-19 pandemic on the labour market.
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Nasara was declared wanted for allegedly promoting immorality with his new drama series titled ‘Makaranta’ (school).
The Executive Director of the Censorship Board, Ismail Afakallah, had said the board invited the filmmaker for the immoral content and for his failure to obtain approval before releasing the trailer online.
As a result, the filmmaker was declared wanted.
But Unchained Vibes Africa, leading 18 other groups in a petition to save the filmmaker said: “Declaring an artist wanted for producing a drama series on sex education and advocacy for girls’ rights, is in violation of the right to freedom of expression, which is explicitly guaranteed under Section 39.1 of Nigeria’s constitution.
“It also violates Nigeria’s regional and international obligation to respect, protect and promote freedom of expression including through art. Nigeria is a signatory to the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. Article 9 provides that no one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.”
In the petition sent to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba, the group said: “Section 35 of Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution has this provision domesticated.
“It guarantees that the dignity of all Nigerians must enjoy safeguards against arbitrariness whether official or non-official. It has also been established in Nigeria that a law enforcement agency, including the police, has no right to declare a citizen wanted without a court warrant. “Compelling an artist to submit his or her content for vetting and decision as to whether or not to remove certain scenes, amounts to prior censorship, contrary to regional and international law. The United Nations (U.N) Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights has specifically stated that prior censorship should be an exceptional measure, taken only to prevent the imminent threat of grave irreparable harm to human life or property.
“In this case, Aminu Nasara posed absolutely no threat to anyone. He only produced a drama series to educate and advocate for girls’ rights.
“The filmmaker has said that he did not shoot the video in Kano and the message of the drama is not targeted at Hausa people alone.”
Since the video was not shot in Kano, he is not under any obligation to submit the work to the Kano Censorship Board.
“Besides the fact that the video was not shot in Kano State, laws requiring prior censorship should be abolished.”
The groups include the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), African Defenders (Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network), Culture Advocates Caucus, Praxis Magazine for Arts and Literature, Centre for Creative Arts Education (CREATE).


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The hostile attribution bias (HAB) is a tendency to interpret malevolent intentions when confronted by ambiguous actions of others. Much research has been conducted to examine the relationship between HAB and aggression, but little on HAB and other personality traits; further, comparatively little research has examined whether strategies like metacognition can reduce HAB. This project examines the relationship between HAB and trait anxiety and whether a metacognitive manipulation reduces HAB. In Study 1, participants filled out a survey questionnaire containing the Beck Anxiety Inventory to measure trait anxiety and both the W-SAP and the hostility section of the Aggression Questionnaire to measure HAB. Our results showed that trait anxiety and HAB had a positive correlation using both methods of detecting hostility, even when negative affect was accounted for. In Study 2, participants filled out the Beck Anxiety Inventory to measure trait anxiety, were either shown a definition of HAB or shown the definition and asked to correct for HAB, and filled out the W-SAP to measure HAB levels. Overall analyses revealed that compared to a true control condition, the metacognition manipulation reduced the link between trait anxiety and HAB. This means that those with higher trait anxiety are more likely to experience HAB and have it harm their social lives, but also that our metacognition manipulation can potentially not just reduce the link, but eliminate it entirely. This study needs to be replicated before we can definitively draw conclusions, but still guides us to a potential new method for reducing HAB in anxious individuals.
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Gracia, Sarah. (2021). Hidden Links: Trait Anxiety and the Hostile Attribution Bias. In BSU Honors Program Theses and Projects. Item 473. Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/honors_proj/473
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By Megan Criniere
A few months ago, I had this phrase that kept coming to mind, "My times are in your hands." I knew it was in the bible but couldn't remember exactly where. I looked it up, and there it was in Psalm 31:15. "But I trust in you, Lord; I say, “You are my God. My times are in your hands;" As I read it, I knew the Lord was speaking to me that I can entrust myself and my children to HIm because the times and seasons of our lives are in His hands, and that is true no matter what the season may bring. As a family, we can trust Him, even through the hard things. His nature is good, even if the circumstances aren't good.
The Lord is revealing Himself to my kids and me in new ways. We feel the nearness of His presence, and it's making all the difference in helping us move forward. Most days after breakfast, we sit in the living room together as a family. The little ones are in and out as we journal, dialogue, pray, and worship. We try to start our day lining up our hearts with God's, seeing things the way He sees them, hearing what He has to say about His plans and purposes for our lives, being filled with His love and peace, and then moving into all the things that a normal day with 10 people in a house brings. Sometimes the list of tasks seems endless, but when we've had that time with Jesus, we can approach life differently. Because we've fixed our eyes first on Him, now everything else we see and encounter can be filtered through the lens of how capable God is and not how incapable we are. In this season, as my children and I are moving forward, there are so many weighty decisions to make and hard things to consider but I cannot seem to escape the deep desire to make God known in all of it. There is a deep assurance that God has better days ahead for us and that He isn't finished with our family's story yet; there are many more chapters still to unfold. It's definitely more than just us having bills paid at the end of the month (though, believe me, we are very grateful for that!) really, my heart would be to see lives changed through sharing the hope that we’ve found in Jesus. I think God's story, through Charlie's life, can touch a generation with that very message. I am amazed at how the Lord has brought people to us, that have the skill sets needed to help with this project, and they also share the same desire to get Charlie's story into the hands of people who need to hear a message of hope and love. I hope you will consider partnering with us as we go on this journey with the Lord and see what He will do with our little act of faith in starting this book. If you haven't seen it yet, check out the interview where I share my heart about the blog membership. After you watch the interview, please click the link below to sign up. https://www.charliestrt.com/james127 With Love, Megan Criniere

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X-linked myotubular myopathy (XLMTM) is a rare, but devastating muscle disorder caused by a mutation in a gene that carries instructions for muscle development. When the gene malfunctions, those encoded instructions don’t get translated properly, and muscle development is severely impaired, leaving boys born with the disease unable to move, eat, or even breathe without assistance.
Now, a gene therapy developed in part by researchers at the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM) is helping patients with XLMTM live longer and more active lives. In a multipart breakthrough that unfolded in 2017 and 2018, an ISCRM team showed that a gene therapy could completely restore muscle function in dogs with naturally-occurring XLMTM.
For the first time, researchers had proof that a neuromuscular disease could be treated in a large animal model. ISCRM faculty member David Mack is an Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and a key contributor to what is commonly known as the dog study. “First we demonstrated that the gene therapy worked for this disease,” explains Mack. “Then we found the optimal dose that allowed us to bring the therapy to a clinical trial. The questions we are asking now take us closer than ever to the clinic.”
Specifically, the XLMTM team wants to know what exactly the gene therapy corrects at the molecular level, what it doesn’t correct, and what biomarkers will signal when to re-dose boys who have received treatment. Answers to these questions are now at the heart of a new paper published in the journal Molecular Therapy. “This is about the downstream consequences of the gene therapy,” says Mack. “Everything we are learning will teach us how to develop the best possible clinical management plan for patients.”
Mack also notes that the recent findings may also help inform current and future clinical trials, such as the trial being led by Audentes Therapeutics, a private company focused on commercializing treatments for rare neuromuscular diseases. In October 2019, Audentes released promising data from an XLMTM patient trial testing the gene therapy developed in part by ISCRM researchers, including Mack and former colleagues Casey Childers and Alan Beggs.
Jean-Baptiste Dupont, a former postdoc in the Mack Lab, and the paper’s lead author, explains the significance of the findings. “Over the last few years, the improvements in muscle strength and respiratory function have been so impressive compared to what we’re used to seeing in other muscle disorders. What we’re discovering now about the molecular and genetic underpinnings of the disease will help us treat boys with XLMTM even more effectively and inform how we approach other muscle diseases as well.”
In the investigation, Mack and Dupont explored how the gene therapy led to improvements in muscle function in dogs with XLMTM. By comparing dogs that received treatments with those that did not, the research team identified several genes that played particularly important roles in the progression of the disease and pinpointed RNA biomarkers that are useful in diagnosing and tracking the disease in individual patients. In a near future, these tests, which now require a muscle sample from XLMTM boys, could be done with a routine blood draw.
“We think about this as three levels of understanding,” says Mack. “At the molecular level, we are looking at the core biology of MTM. At the tissue level, we are learning how to use gene therapy to unblock muscle growth. And at a more systemic level, we are identifying new biomarkers to track and correct the disease over time.”
One challenge central to the study was how to manage the vast amount of data available to the researchers. “When you’re looking at 25 muscle samples and each muscle contains more than 15,000 active genes, that’s a lot of information,” explains Mack. “Jean-Baptiste was able to develop a brilliant visualization system that helped us get our minds around the data in ways that weren’t possible before. And, this is a platform we can we use on all the other diseases we study.”
Indeed, XLMTM is just one of the muscle diseases being studied at ISCRM and the University of Washington. One galvanizing force is the Center for Translational Muscle at UW Medicine, where cutting edge capabilities integrating mechanical devices, quantitative analysis, and metabolomics are accelerating research into muscular dystrophy, heart disease, ALS, and other muscle disorders. “The new muscle center if perfectly placed to help move our XLMTM research from the lab to clinic,” says Mack. “As we dig deeper and attempt to study this gene therapy at the protein level, access to the world-class facilities becomes even more important. And we’ve got that right here.”
Funding sources:NIH/NIAMS R01-HL115001,Will Cure Foundation, Joshua Frase Foundation,Association Française contre les Myopathies (AFM-Telethon), Myotubular Trust UK.

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can't think of one for warriors, but the years before you had ginobli dunk and ray allen 3.
2015 - http://imgur.com/lz0NPG4
2014 - http://imgur.com/J9VD2fE
2013 - http://imgur.com/CavbR7E
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2011 - http://imgur.com/w1WCeO1
2010 - http://imgur.com/lMeVUmJ
2011 Dirk with the injured left finger wins the game in the last seconds with a lefty lay up. Praise be.
Also he had a fever
Stop giving me nightmares.
The 2012 one was super iconic, but it didn't happen in the finals, which limits it a bit in my eyes.
ECF was definitely more exciting than the Finals that year.
2014 Game 5 - Ginobili's Poster Dunk on Chris Bosh and Ray Allen.
And then he followed that with one of the filthiest step-back three's I've ever seen. Part of me wishes that was Manu's final game...
my man...that dunk was just so.....satisfying
It was total redemption for his horrid showing in the 2013 Finals. People forget how badly he played in the last couple of games, and especially game 7.
-Barkley voice- GINOBILI!!
Last year has gotta be stephs stepback on delly
nah the tying 3 in new orleans
Curry's halfcourt buzzer beater against Memphis
that was so insanely sick
Probably this or the game winner vs nop.
The half pivot step back on LeBron
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I remember watching that live in absolute awe. He single-handedly decimated us; the game was virtually over by half time. And to be quite honest, Lebron's been at another level ever since game 6.
What is this?
Kobe played a huge role in slaying PHX as well. Remember the game sealing fadeaway and the patting of Gentrys ass play?
2005 - Horry's GW 3 in Game 5
1991 - The Move
1992 - The Shrug
2000 - Lakers comeback vs Portland in Game 7
2011 - Mavs comeback vs Heat in Game 2
1995 - Hakeem dream shaking the Admiral
Dirks game-winner step back left handed drive on Bosh and the fade on the baseline (travel) were 2 of my favorite moments in sports history.
2000 - Kobe oop to Shaq.
2001 - Shaq dunking on Mutumbo. Repeatedly.
2002 - Robert Horrys game winner.
2004 - Prince blocking Reggie Miller.
2006 - Wade shooting a free throw.
2008 - KGs ridiculous and 1 in the blowout game 6.
2009 - Kobe's hand switch shot over Dwight.
2010 - Artests 3.
2011 - Dirks game winner schooling Bosh in game 2.
2013 - Obvious.
1991 Jordans switch of hands on the layup
1993 Paxson's game winning 3 game 6
1997 Kerr's game winning shot game 6 followed by pippens steal and pass to kukoc to seal the deal.
1998 The shot
2010 Mwp's 3
1999-When Sean Elliot made the memorial day miracle shot.
1998 - The Shot
98 was "The Last Shot". "The Shot" was against Cleveland.
Come on at least give us credit.
2005- Fuck Robert Horry
For us I think of when Dirk backed up Chris bosh, faked the fadeaway and went under for the lefty lay up. Good times.
2015: Curry's heave 3 vs. Memphis? Clutch 3 vs. NO?
2014: Either the play in OKC game 6 that led to the Diaw corner 3 or the play in Game 3 of the Finals that led to a Ginobili layup. Both exemplified the iconic unselfish teamwork that helped the Spurs win.
2013: Jesus Shuttlesworth
2012: LeBron Game 6 vs. C's. At that point, you knew he was gonna get his ring and no one could stop him
2011: Dirk's clutch 3 to cap of the comeback in Game 2.
I remember Tony Parker falling and hitting that shot that was 2014 right?
I remember Tony Parker falling and hitting that shot
No, that was 2013
Game 1 2013 I think.
2002 Robert Horry-Game winning Three Pointer against The Kings in Game 4.
2015: The triple moving screen play that set Curry up for the 3

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Riggleman said in a news release late Monday that he wants to break up the "good ole boys system" in Richmond.
Riggleman and his wife, Christine, own Silverback Distillery, a craft distillery in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Three candidates other candidates are running on the Republican side.
Riggleman will host a campaign kickoff at Silverback Distillery on Saturday.


Detection and Segmentation of Mitochondria From Electron Microscope Tomography Images
S. F. Tasel, E. U. Mumcuoglu, R. Z. Hassanpour, and G. Perkins, “A validated active contour method driven by parabolic arc model for detection and segmentation of mitochondria,” J. Struct. Biol., vol. 194, no. 3, pp. 253–271, Mar. 2016.
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Dr. Janice Tjissen, MD, FRCPC - Paediatric Critical Care Unit, Children's Hospital, LHSC
Aaron Smith, EMS, London Middlesex Base Hospital
Leah Slamen, RN - Paediatric ED, Children's Hospital, LHSC
Kelsey Plouffe, RN - Paediatric ED, Children's Hospital, LHSC
By end of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Understand the process of prehospital care to regional ED care of the critically ill adolescent trauma patient.
2. Determine management strategies on how best to transport the critically ill trauma adolescent patient to a pediatric trauma centre or tertiary care centre.
3. Identify complications of the critically adolescent trauma patient during transport.
4. Compare and contrast strategies on optimal management of the critically adolescent trauma patient in the tertiary care trauma centre.


Enhance adaptive capacity
Given the challenges posed by climate change, it is important that disaster risk management interventions help people to manage and create sustainable changes that will allow them to adapt over time, as well as protect them from disasters. If not, projects to tackle disaster risk may inadvertently increase people’s vulnerability and exposure over time. The following points highlight elements which promote adaptive capacity, suggest approaches for thriving under uncertainty, and should be considered as part of any strategic approach to managing disaster risk in a changing climate:
- high levels of diversity in stakeholders, in livelihoods, and in ecology
- flexible institutions which accept that the post-disaster environment is different from the pre-disaster environment and act, experiment, learn and change accordingly
- ability to connect actions and stakeholders through networks that can operate effectively across scales rather than just at one level
- inclusion of multiple stakeholders and knowledge groups in decision-making processes
- appreciation of previous shocks and what helped to deal with such disturbances in the past
- iterative learning processes, such as scenario planning, that consider the range of possible future events and changes in the system to manage disaster risk
- approaches that promote greater equity for the distribution of risk across society
- appreciation that social values and structures inscribe risk and uncertainty, and that these need to be taken into account in the range of possible response options and
- planning for what happens when existing systems fail and to recognise that this will happen at some point.
- The National Adaptive Capacity framework. Key institutional functions for a changing climate
- World Resources Institute, Washington DC 2009
- The paper discusses the National Adaptive Capacity Framework (NAC). It indicates that under the NAC approach, adaptation is treated as an organic process - one which inevitably will grow and evolve in unexpected ways, since every coun...
- Weathering the storm: participatory risk assessment for informal settlements
- A. Holloway; R. Roomaney / PreventionWeb 2008
- Residents of informal settlements often bear the brunt of extreme weather and associated flooding. This guide is intended to strengthen participatory risk assessment capabilities for a wide range of municipal and development professio...
- Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: closing the gap
- T. Mitchell; M. Van Aalst; I. Douglas / id21 Development Research Reporting Service 2008
- There is significant overlap between the practice and theory of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation. However, there is limited coherence and convergence in institutions, organisations and policy frameworks. Bot...
- Resilience and sustainable development: building adaptive capacity in a world of transformations
- C. Folke; S. Carpenter; T. Elmqvist / International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) 2002
- This paper is a synthesis of the rapidly-changing field of resilience research and argues that humanity has powerful interactions with biogeochemical, hydrological and ecological processes, from local to global scales. It argues that ...
- Assessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate risks: methods for investigation at local and national levels
- A., T. Kuriakose; L. Bizikova; C., A. Bachofen / World Bank 2009
- This paper presents the research and learning approach of a World Bank study, and offers emerging findings on policy, as well as institutional questions surrounding adaptation arenas in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana and Mozambi...


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Jammu, July 19: Amarnath yatra from Jammu was suspended today in the wake of tension following the firing incident in Ramban district with no fresh batch of pilgrims being allowed to proceed to the Kashmir Valley.
"No fresh batch has been allowed to move to Kashmir valley from Jammu today as a precautionary measure.
It (Amarnath Yatra) has been suspended," a police officer said. Till yesterday, about 41,673 pilgrims in 22 batches had left for Amarnath from Jammu. Over 2.50 lakh pilgrims have participated in this year's yatra to see the ice lingam of Lord Shiva at Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas.
Four persons were killed yesterday when security personnel opened fire at a mob that had gathered at a BSF camp in Ramban district to protest against alleged manhandling of an Imam of the area by the force. PTI


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CANBERRA -- In the Family Court, alleged perpetrators of domestic violence or sexual assault are allowed to cross examine their alleged victims. The accused can also be cross examined by alleged victims.
It happens all the time.
A federal parliamentary committee is now looking at whether this extremely fraught situation should continue as part of a victim focused look at the workings of the family law system.
Committee Chair, Liberal MP, Sarah Henderson, has told The Huffington Post Australia that the cross examination of self-represented parties is a particular focus of the inquiry and she wants submissions.
"We are not in a position to prejudge the inquiry," Henderson said. "(But) I think there is sufficient concern about this issue that committee members have raised as a particular focus of the inquiry."
"So we want to hear firsthand from people who have encountered this and what their suggestions are," she said.
"At the moment there a range of measures at the Family Court can put in place to deal with this.
"There are particular orders that the court can make in relation to protecting women, primarily, and some men, but women primarily who are subjected to cross examination by a so-called perpetrator of family violence."
The Social Policy and Legal Affairs Committee will also look at bringing in a national approach on enforcing intervention orders or apprehended violence orders, consider whether protection is adequate through consent orders and investigate how the family law system can to respond quicker to family violence.
Domestic violence is very personal for at least two of the members of the committee.
Emma Husar Delivers Passionate Domestic Violence Speech In Parliament https://t.co/BKFhURcspH
— Dr Kevin Lee (@dr_kevinlee) November 25, 2016
Labor MP Emma Husar broke down on parliament during her maiden speech to parliament as she detailed how she and her mother tried to escape her father.
"The first 13 years of my life were marred with physical domestic violence committed towards my mother at the hands of my always drunk and abusive father," the western Sydney MP revealed in November.
Henderson, herself, gave an emotional account in parliament in 2015 of a dear friend Monique Denahy murdered by an American husband in the U.S.
Today, the MP and former journalist is driven to make the system better.
"Yes, this is something very close to my own heart," she told HuffPost Australia. "I lost a good friend who was murdered in a domestic violence incident. A beautiful woman."
"For many members of parliament, and for many people right across the country, this is an very important issue. It is an issue that has taken very seriously by our government and it is area where further action, we believe, is required."
Pauline Hanson's One Nation went to the election with a policy of abolishing the Family Court and replacing it with a tribunal of "mainstream Australians".
The policy has since disappeared from the policy section of the One Nation website.
The committee wants to hear real life stories and is calling for written submissions and possible verbal statements, while launching an anonymous online questionnaire for people needing privacy.
"We are reaching out to all Australians," Henderson said.
"This is very tough stuff.
"At the moment we are seeing on average one women a week die in a family violence incident. These statistics are alarming and it is a national crisis."
Submissions close on May 3.

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I'm surprised you're hitting this with 1000 records, are you 100% sure there's no conditions caused by the larger data set (dupes or similar) that's causing an infinite loop in the code?
If there are no such bugs and you simply are hitting the limit then the first option would be to ensure the sending system sends a manageable amount of records each time, staying within a comfortable limit. If that's not possible then you'll need to restructure your solution on the Salesforce side, perhaps insert the information into holding records in a custom object, and then use a batch job to pick those up and turn them into proper accounts. If the accounts are basic but it's a lot of processing afterwards that needs to be done then maybe that's the bit to separate out, it'll depend entirely on what your code is doing.
To sum it up, there's no way to bypass this limit and you have to work within it, it's all part of being on a multi-tenancy system, but to take 10 seconds to process 1000 records definitely suggests that there's an infinite (or massively nested/recursive) loop going on somewhere.


Why do we travel? Maui residents told media of their horror at seeing tourists “swimming in the same waters our people died in”. Surely, that level of compartmentalisation in dogged pursuit of a particular experience goes beyond the pursuit of “leisure”? That’s certainly the view of the anthropologist Dean MacCannell. His 1976 book The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class argues that in a post-industrial, increasingly secular world, travel occupies a ritualistic space. Modern western societies are defined by the “freedom” they offer us – but, he writes, this is accompanied by feelings of fragmentation and alienation. Sightseeing in far-off locales is, MacCannell observes, “a way of attempting to overcome the discontinuity of modernity, of incorporating its fragments into a unified experience” (albeit one “doomed to eventual failure”, he cheerily adds). How? Leisure travel gives us perspective, it makes us feel connected to history, and helps connect personal experience with other cultures, people and places – making us feel less isolated. Tourism gives us a sense of selfhood and purpose.
Added to this is the framing of travel as an “authentic” experience in an inauthentic world; a dichotomy that has only become more stark over time. Travel offers one-off experiences; things we can only do in one place. Modern life is marked by its impossible and contradictory obsession with the “authentic”, as any lifestyle marketing bod will testify to. We see travel, rather than our everyday existence, as the portal to “finding ourselves”.


Bipartisan momentum is building in the Senate to crack down on Russia, even as President Donald Trump prepares to bring Vladimir Putin to Washington.
It’s a remarkable split-screen moment, with lawmakers pressing not only for new penalties against the Kremlin but for Trump to use more of the sanctions power Congress overwhelmingly approved one year ago. The effort is still something of a long shot — Trump himself fumed over the sanctions measure he signed into law and might resist — but the possibility of a follow-up Russia sanctions package remains very much alive despite the intense partisan pressure ahead of November’s midterms.
That’s largely because of Trump’s jaw-dropping performance in Helsinki next to the Russian president, which will be a major focus of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s testimony before the Senate foreign relations committee on Wednesday.
“I understand why members would want to respond to what happened in Helsinki, and I think there’s concerns about just where the administration is with Russia,” said Senate foreign relations Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who left the door open to possible new sanctions legislation in an interview with reporters.
The Russians better quit messing around in our elections” — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) on Tuesday announced a pending proposal that would prod Trump to act faster on implementing mandatory sanctions Congress approved last year partly in response to Russian interference in the 2016 election, while also slapping on new penalties.
Senators Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) separately pushed the administration in a letter to use its existing power to sanction the 12 Russian nationals indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller for election cyber sabotage earlier this month.
“I’m looking forward for them to move full steam ahead on those sanctions, but we’ve got 12 new characters that ought to be sanctioned aggressively,” Toomey said in an interview.
Sanctioning the 12 Russian military intelligence officers would amount to a tectonic shift for Trump, who has repeatedly slammed Mueller’s probe as a “witch hunt” and cast doubt on the veracity of what U.S. intelligence officials describe as Moscow’s ongoing effort to disrupt the midterms. But that’s not stopping some Republicans from entertaining the prospect of new bipartisan action against Putin’s government following Trump’s controversial one-on-one with the Russian president.
Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Van Hollen have a proposal to automatically sanction Russia for any certified interference in this November’s elections. The measure has snagged five Republican co-sponsors in the week since Trump’s Helsinki summit, including Senate Republican Party campaigns chief Cory Gardner of Colorado. That legislation has sparked some concerns over unintended economic consequences, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) floated it Tuesday for the second time in two weeks as one option for the chamber to consider.
“The Russians better quit messing around in our elections,” McConnell told reporters. “I want to make that perfectly clear … They did it the last time. They’d better not do it again.”
McConnell has teed up a series of hearings in the banking and foreign relations committees on Russia, with Wednesday’s Pompeo hearing serving as the first instalment. Future hearings are expected to look at Russian involvement in Syria and the importance of NATO alliances, among other issues, while the banking panel is preparing for a classified briefing with the administration next week on sanctions policy.
A new congressional jab at Moscow might not go over well at the White House, where aides are gearing up for a possible second Trump-Putin meeting, but it could help the Republican Party sidestep the poor public perception of Helsinki.
Trump’s approval rating sank to 38 percent in a national poll released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Quinnipiac University and conducted after his Putin summit, with 68 percent of voters reporting that they are “very concerned” or “somewhat concerned” about his relations with Russia.
However, progress on Russia sanctions ahead of the midterms might help red-state Democrats even more than Republicans — bolstering their argument about checking Trump when necessary and working with him when possible. Rank-and-file Republicans might also be reluctant to take any action that would put them crosswise with the president.
Graham was spotted leaving Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office on Tuesday and mentioned the sanctions bill when asked what they discussed. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said “I’d like to” see the chamber move against Putin on a bipartisan basis.
It’s not about poking the president. It’s about poking at Putin” — Senator Robert Menendez
But possible resistance from Trump and the looming midterms aren’t the only forces working against the prospect of any bipartisan movement on new Russia sanctions. Banking Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), for one, isn’t yet convinced that senators should pile on new penalties before the administration uses all the authorities Congress gave it last year.
“It’s important, I think, that we remind ourselves that we just did a major Russia sanctions bill,” Crapo said in an interview, adding that last year’s legislation specifically cited “election interference.”
Crapo said the administration is “working aggressively to implement” the sanctions bill, which will mark its first anniversary next month, but Democrats and even some Republicans disagree.
Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) said that “obviously I’m not opposed to doing more” on the sanctions front, “but I think they have the authority they need now.” The Trump administration “need[s] to show why they’re not” using more of those powers to punish Russia, Lankford said.
During a recent floor speech, Menendez counted seven provisions of mandatory sanctions included in last year’s measure that the Trump administration has yet to use. And Defense Secretary Jim Mattis pressed for waivers to one of those sanctions provisions that would allow U.S. allies to keep purchasing Russian military technology, a request that was narrowly granted in the final version of defense authorization legislation released this week.
A State Department spokesman said by email that the department “cannot comment on pending legislation. We also would not preview our sanctions activity.” The Treasury Department, which also plays a central role in sanctions implementation, did not respond to a request for comment.
Trump’s White House initially attempted to defang the Russia sanctions bill, which was approved last year with only five opposing votes in the House and Senate, and Democrats have long lamented that the measure is being implemented too slowly.
The administration slapped penalties on several Russian companies and individuals for involvement in cyberattacks in March, using one component of last year’s law, but Democrats are now appealing to their Republican colleagues for the sort of united front that could secure an even harder line.
“It’s not about poking the president,” Menendez said Tuesday. “It’s about poking at Putin.”


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Hey fellow multi-sport fanatics in the KC area, I wanted to let you know about a fun and free event being held by Coast to Coast Triathlon in December and January. Refreshments will be served, and there will be lots of free stuff given away!
I’m just crawling until I’m strong enough to walk and fast enough to run. Jay Mullings
TriAlly bills itself as “your ally in triathlon training” and it might be of use to some of you. I will take you through the features and provide a first impression. The workout plans and drills seem pretty sound though I did not try them yet in practice, but using the tool is a little cumbersome. Learn more about the features here.
Boy, am I nervous. My first tri of 2015 is April 12 in Kemah, Texas, and while that SEEMS far away it truly isn’t. Not when Kansas is freezing and windy and making it hard to ride even my mountain bike (Memmie) on the semi-protected rail trail. Every week […]
If it weren’t for bicycles, world domination would be within my grasp!


Sony Ericsson wants to get its phones talking with Palm
-driven devices better, announcing Thursday its intention to optimize
Bluetooth between the two for out-of-the-box compatibility.
Bluetooth, the wireless standard used for short-range data communications,
is expected to fuel the drive for more interoperability between digital
wireless phones and devices like PDAs.
One example officials at Ericsson give is users looking up a phone number
on a PDA and having the device autodial the number on an accompanying
Ericsson phone. Another, not mentioned though just as convenient, is the
ability to download files from the 3G phone and automatically transfer it
to the PDA. The handheld has more storage space and, enabled with
Bluetooth, is easily shared among others using the same technology.
“Palm powered handhelds are centered around mobile communications,” said
Albert Chu, PalmSource vice president of business development and wireless,
in a statement Thursday. “By working with Sony Ericsson, the entire
wireless community can benefit from the advancements in interoperability.”
has given more attention to handheld interoperability
in recent times. On Oct. 8, the company took a six percent equity
investment stake in Palm, to the tune of $20 million.
Palm officials, who are in the process of separating its hardware and OS
divisions into two separate companies, took the news as an endorsement
of its decision to split and commitment to the OS platform. PalmSource,
the software side of the company, has seen its market share crumble at the
edges as Microsoft
heavily markets its PocketPC running
on Windows CE.
As such, the company has been scrambling to renew its licensing agreements
with handheld device makers; in essence, getting more endorsements from the
business community on the Palm 5
OS, which was released earlier this year. On Wednesday, PalmSource
announced it had extended its agreement with Kyocera Wireless another three
Another worry is whether consumers will pay for a PDA anymore. But despite
sluggish handheld sales this year, research outfit IDC predicts that trend
will reverse because of Bluetooth’s variable in the equation. Through
2006, the company reports, Bluetooth-enabled handhelds will see an annual
growth of 108 percent, compounded.