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The REFRAME project is a European Union-funded global action aiming at preventing and reducing abusive and fraudulent recruitment practices, and maximizing the protection of migrant workers in the recruitment process and their contribution to development. The project seeks to support the dissemination and operationalization of the ILO General Principles and Operational Guidelines for Fair Recruitment, at global, regional and national level, and is implemented under the framework of the ILO Fair Recruitment Initiative.
The REFRAME project works in the Guatemala-Mexico corridor, and the Madagascar, Sri Lanka and Pakistan-Arab States corridors. The project takes a multi-stakeholder approach, partnering with government, social partners (workers’ and employers’ organizations), business, labour recruiters, civil society and the media to address fair recruitment. The project’s three objectives are:
- Undertake integrated action on fair recruitment across migration corridors to demonstrate the benefits and feasibility of fairer recruitment models
- Enhance capacities of social partners, business, civil society organizations and the media to deliver better information and services to migrant workers throughout the recruitment process
- Produce and disseminate global knowledge and tools to inform policies and build capacities of relevant actors at different national, regional and international levels
This regional, comparative study aims to summarize the situation in the Americas, by identifying regional and national policies and legislation on defining recruitment fees and related costs and regulation of Public Employment Services (PES) and Private Employment Agencies (PEAs). The study also aims to present and discuss the most relevant issues that different stakeholders identified as challenges in agreeing upon a global definition of recruitment fees and related costs.
Examen des lois, politiques et pratiques concernant le recrutement des travailleurs migrants à Madagascar
Le présent examen offre un aperçu des cadres législatifs et politiques concernant le recrutement des travailleurs migrants à Madagascar. Le rapport contient des recommandations visant à améliorer les processus conformément aux Principes Généraux et directives opérationnelles concernant le recrutement équitable de l’OIT.
This review provides an overview of legislative and policy frameworks concerning recruitment of migrant workers in Pakistan. The review identifies gaps in relation to the ILO General Principles and Operational Guidelines for Fair Recruitment, and proposes recommendations for ensuring fair recruitment.
This brief provides an overview of fair recruitment challenges and opportunities in Pakistan, and priorities for action for the REFRAME project.
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This brief highlights trade union action to promote and protect fair recruitment for migrant workers through actions including policy advocacy, service provision and outreach.
11 February 2020
This study aims to further examine the patterns and characteristics of female migration for employment from Pakistan and explores specifically why the number of Pakistani female migrant workers remains so low. The findings and recommendations of this study will guide the interventions of the ILO, the Government of Pakistan and social partners towards fair recruitment of migrant workers, including women migrant workers, in line with the Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) (2016-20) for Pakistan, and the ILO’s Fair Recruitment Initiative.


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Don’t miss Robert T. Miller’s response, “The Pragmatic Eudaimonist: A Response to David Tubbs.”
Among faithful Catholics in the United States, former New York governor Mario Cuomo is still a figure of some notoriety. In his controversial lecture at the University of Notre Dame in September 1984, the elder Cuomo spoke about the interplay of his faith as a Catholic, his membership in the American political community, and his duties as an elected official. By arguing that certain moral teachings of the Catholic Church could not serve as the basis of public policies in a pluralist democracy like the United States, Cuomo earned the ire of many Catholics even as he won the admiration of many secular liberals.
Yet in several sections of his lecture, Cuomo nearly denied the thesis for which he gained so much attention. That is, he explicitly suggested that certain teachings of the Catholic Church could be taken as elements of “our universal public morality.” He even suggested that the Church’s teaching on contraception could serve as the basis for public policy.
After putting forth this view, however, Cuomo promptly backed away from it without any real analysis or argument. He noted that the Catholic Church does not expect any state or polity to adopt its teaching on contraception, and then concluded that states should not be expected to adopt the Church’s teaching on abortion. For these reasons, his lecture has long been considered an important statement—perhaps the definitive statement—of the “personally opposed, but publicly pro-choice” mindset.
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Although his First Things essay does not mention Cuomo, Robert T. Miller’s “Eudaimonia in America” invites comparisons with Cuomo’s lecture. Both men write as Catholics; both acknowledge the religious and cultural pluralism of the United States; both favor some kind of accommodation or rapprochement with contemporary liberalism. Finally, both install contemporary liberal views as the “default position” on several important policy questions, a move seemingly prompted by a rather vague desire for “civil peace.”
Whatever the similarities, Miller’s essay is theoretically richer than Cuomo’s lecture. In the end, however, Miller fails to vindicate the central ideas and principles of his “pragmatic liberalism.” His posture toward liberalism also raises questions about the strength of his simultaneous commitment to the moral philosophy of eudaimonism in the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition. For eudaimonists, virtuous actions are those that lead to the true happiness or human flourishing of man, which is his rightful end. And government exists to help lead man to that end. Government contributes to its attainment by enacting laws that discourage certain forms of vice, which in turn leads people in the direction of morally correct choices and virtuous actions.
As the opening paragraph of his essay shows, Miller reacts strongly to Patrick Deneen’s criticisms of the American political tradition. Deneen points to a host of social pathologies—the “mainstreaming” of pornography, widespread indifference to child-bearing outside marriage, economic recklessness at many levels—as evidence of a civilization in crisis. Writing for Public Discourse earlier this year, Deneen even characterized American society as a “civilization intent on suicide.” To Miller, this critique is hyperbolic, evoking fearsome scenarios that do not correspond with American realities.
Miller also faults Deneen for attributing so many pathologies to the political philosophy of the American republic. Because he finds Deneen’s rhetoric and criticisms excessive, Miller offers a spirited defense of American liberalism. Indeed, it is too spirited, because the institutional arrangements implicit in that defense are likely to destroy elements of the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition to which Miller purportedly subscribes.
Miller would deny this. He would say that he is offering a qualified endorsement of liberalism, as reflected in his distinction between “philosophic” and “pragmatic” liberalism. By the former, he means a liberalism based on a political philosophy consisting of “grand philosophical principles,” whether articulated by Locke, Kant, Mill, or Rawls. By the latter, he means a liberalism that is justified not by reference to some masterwork of political theory but by “practical effects.”
Pragmatic liberalism sees the liberal political order as consisting of many political compromises, some fashioned in the past, others pursued in the present. Philosophic liberalism seems potentially oppressive to Miller, and he endorses pragmatic liberalism because it gives eudaimonists like him space to live with minimal government interference. He believes that other eudaimonists should affirm pragmatic liberalism as the best practical alternative in the United States, which he refers to as an “essentially liberal” polity.
The conceptual distinction between philosophic and pragmatic liberalism is clear enough. But does the distinction matter in the world of policy?
Miller thinks so. Assessing a controversy not wholly resolved, he tries to show that philosophic liberals are apt to forbid students from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools, while the pragmatic liberal would permit its recitation, as long as no one is forced to participate.
Yet even if Miller is correct here, the usefulness of his distinction in other realms is less clear. Consider two other subjects of long-running policy debates: the growth of single-parent families in the United States and the great popularity of violent video games among American youths. For scholars like Miller, these developments are of fundamental importance because they involve the moral formation of youth, a topic central to Aristotle’s political theory.
To his credit, Deneen writes about a complex of issues relating to human sexuality and the family, including pornography, greater sexual promiscuity, and abortion. He sees certain developments as being linked, even though they can be examined discretely. Miller faults Deneen for overlooking the most plausible explanation for greater sexual promiscuity—namely, the development of “cheap reliable contraception.” Miller thinks it is fantastic for Deneen to suggest that the political philosophy of the American Founding (specifically, its “unsustainable liberalism”) could explain or illuminate this current social problem. For Miller, the matter is simple: reliable contraception has greatly diminished the costs for women to have sex outside marriage, and many women have behaved accordingly.
But Miller’s account is incomplete. Reading it, one might assume that all contraceptives developed or manufactured in the United States have been immediately available to anyone who wants them. But this is untrue, and the legal struggles over the regulation of contraceptives tell us much about American liberalism after 1945. Those struggles also tell us about the role that a new, freewheeling kind of judicial review has come to play in our political life. For anyone who embraces an Aristotelian-Thomistic eudaimonism, this is not a happy tale.
Having written about this matter elsewhere, I only wish to summarize a few points here. As the laws of different states show, regulations on contraceptives were widely used to promote the begetting of children within marriage, reduce the incidence of adultery, and discourage young persons from engaging in premarital sex.
The Supreme Court invalidated such regulations in a series of cases, beginning with Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), and continuing with Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972) and Carey v. Population Services International (1977). The Court struck down these laws on the basis of a judicially invented “right to privacy,” which also figured prominently in Roe v. Wade (1973). Fair-minded observers, including liberals, see that Eisenstadt and Carey were decided not in accordance with constitutional principles, but the intellectually and morally dubious ideology of a new “lifestyle liberalism.”
Miller says nothing about these matters, and one would like to know why. Before they were invalidated by the Supreme Court, the regulations were long regarded by political leaders, state judges, and other public figures as valuable measures in helping to “make men moral.” In retrospect, we can still argue that these laws were part of an effective strategy to reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock child-bearing. Recall that in the early 1960s, when most states regulated contraceptives, roughly 6 percent of American children were born outside marriage. Today, that figure exceeds 40 percent.
Miller’s analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011) is also troubling. Here the Court struck down a California statute that prohibited the direct sale or rental of violent video games to minors. Miller defends the Court’s ruling, but for curious reasons.
Above all, he worries about the possible abuse of legislative power if the law had been upheld. Allowing the government to prohibit this “appalling speech” might make it easier for the government to prohibit other speech—including religious speech—simply because a majority of citizens don’t like it. Miller also notes that there was no evidence that video-game violence leads to actual violence (a point contested in Justice Stephen Breyer’s dissenting opinion).
Miller’s anxiety about the future of religious freedom in the United States seems genuine, but one expects a fuller analysis of this case from a eudaimonist. Recalling Aristotle’s observations and insights about educating the young, we should ask why Miller’s analysis is so narrow. Why does he not take the statute on its own terms? Why is he only interested in whether the games lead to actual violence? Isn’t a eudaimonist supposed to be interested in the state of our souls and long-term capacity for virtue?
Miller grants that the law can sometimes be used to improve public morality, but stipulates that it must be a “reasonable” use of the law. His formulation is puzzling, especially when he declares that the video-game statute was “unreasonable” because legislatures might someday use another law to suppress religious speech. Miller’s worry about a possible abuse of power in the future cannot be dismissed, but his analysis of the case and defense of the ruling should not rest so heavily on one consideration.
These matters raise serious questions about the feasibility and coherence of Miller’s synthesis between “pragmatic liberalism” and an Aristotelian-Thomistic account of human flourishing. As presently conceived, his project fails because he is too partial to contemporary liberalism, and the “synthesis” reflects that bias. Accordingly, for anyone sympathetic to Miller’s project, I wish to propose three principles meant to promote its coherence.
First, even though eudaimonists may need to acknowledge that contemporary liberalism has won important policy battles, they should not take the next step and broadly affirm the principles of contemporary liberalism. They should not even characterize the American republic as “essentially liberal,” because that is misleading. As a matter of constitutional design, for example, the individualism and commercial side of American life are to be tempered by the authority of state legislatures to promote public health, safety, and morals.
Second, eudaimonists should be wary of any policy set by the Supreme Court relating to the begetting, rearing, and education of children. The Court’s decisions in these areas illustrate the impoverishment of contemporary liberal thought with respect to the moral formation of young persons. In the areas just listed, the Court has time and time again written contemporary liberal prejudices into law as it has overturned democratically enacted laws.
Third, in view of the second principle, eudaimonists should affirm civic engagement as a moral duty for themselves. In most of the Western world, liberal political principles give people the freedom to ignore politics, as was implied in Benjamin Constant’s famous essay of 1819, “The Liberty of the Moderns Compared with that of the Ancients.” But for anyone who identifies with the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition, civic indifference or civic minimalism cannot be an option—at least not today.
Like Mario Cuomo, Miller is preoccupied by the existence of cultural and religious pluralism in the United States. That pluralism seems to have spawned doubts in both men about the universality of certain moral principles by which they live.
Perhaps because of such doubts, Miller seems to want to lead a fairly quiet existence, some distance away from the often contentious arguments about what public morality in our liberal democracy requires. Acting on this desire might make for a more tranquil life, but it could also be regarded as a betrayal of the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition, with the civic engagement implied by it. Hence the appellation: “the reluctant eudaimonist.”

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Correctional staff in more than 5,100 jails and prison in the United States are using excessive force in handling mentally ill prisoners, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch. Staff are found to have sprayed painful chemicals to calm prisoners with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression. Mentally ill detainees were also shocked with powerful electric stun weapons and strapped for days in chairs or beds.
Detainees subjected to the maltreatment ended up with broken jaws, noses, ribs and lacerations, second-degree burns, deep bruises and damaged internal organs.
In some cases, the maltreatment ends with the prisoner’s death.
Human Rights Watch exposed torture of mentally ill prisoners
There is no data available that sheds light into the abuse and torture conducted by U.S. correctional staff across states. However, the Human Rights Watch has documented what goes behind bars.
While staff are allowed and authorized to use force to control disruptive behavior of mentally ill detainees, they abused this authority, Human Rights Watch has found. Staff apply force even if detainees are only behaving in a manner expected from mentally ill people.
Violent force is applied when mentally ill prisoners urinate on the floor, use profane language, bang their heads on a cell door or wall; even to the most mundane annoyance, including complaining about not receiving a meal, refusing to come out from their cell or simply vexing jail officers.
“Jails and prisons can be dangerous, damaging, and even deadly places for men and women with mental health problems. Force is used against prisoners even when, because of their illness, they cannot understand or comply with staff orders,” said Jamie Fellner, U.S. program senior adviser at Human Rights Watch.
Video documents torture suffered by mentally ill prisoners
Watch the video below. (Warning: contains graphic content)
In a video released by Human Rights Watch, one Colorado prisoner who is suffering schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type, died after hours of being chained in a restraint chair. The prisoner was initially found by the staff lying face down on the floor of his cell barely able to move. Instead of bringing him to the clinic, the staff handcuffed him, fastened the cuffs to a belly chain and shackled his ankles. He later died of hyponatremia, a blood condition that if treated immediately would have not led to the prisoner’s death.
A 62-year-old prisoners in Florida was not given medications for depression and anxiety. He kept banging and yelling on the cell door. Deputies sprayed him with chemical spray for more than 12 times just within 36 hours. He was cuffed in a restraint chair and his face was covered with a spit mask. The prisoner died from cardiac arrest.
A 58-year-old woman with bipolar disorder was imprisoned in Iowa for placing non-emergency calls to 911 and resisting arrest. She was not able to take medications while inside jail. At one point, she refused to change her jumpsuit and cursed at the jail staff who was attending to her. The staff responded by tasing her for a couple of times for eight minutes.
The Human Rights Watch released a comprehensive report detailing the maltreatment received by mentally ill detainees in prisoners across the states. The 127-page report is titled “Callous and Cruel: Use of Force against Inmates with mental Disabilities in US Jails and Prisons.”
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'Libraries in Leeds: a Historical Survey 1152 - c.1939'
On 15 January 2020 the Society, in conjunction with the Leeds Library, arranged a launch for its latest publication, 'Libraries in Leeds: a Historical Survey 1152 - c.1939' by Peter Morrish, formerly librarian of the University of Leeds Special Collections and a former President of the Society. Some 60 people attended, including librarians from other institutions. The event featured an exhibition of items from Ralph Thoresby's own library which are in the Society's possession. Chris Hindle spoke about the book and Prof. Peter Meredith introduced the exhibition.

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BMBRI Announces Research Grants for 2015-16
Following its annual Board of Directors meeting in Winnipeg on June 16, BMBRI has announced its annual research grants for 2015-16 for malting barley breeding and research. BMBRI has been providing such research funding since its establishment in 1948 in support of its core mandate – development of improved malting barley for growers and industry in Canada.
In 2015-16 BMBRI will provide a total of $124,000 in grants to various ongoing breeding and research projects across Canada. Of this, $87,000 will be provided to twelve ongoing breeding and research projects within the current national Barley Research Cluster under the federal-industry Agri Innovation Program (AIP). This is the third year of BMBRI funding for this five-year program. Over the five years of the program, BMBRI expects to contribute close to $500,000 to a funding consortium of other provincial grower agencies (including Alberta Barley Commission and Western Grains Research Foundation) and other private industry agencies, for a total industry contribution of $3 million. These industry consortium funds are leveraging about $8 million from the federal government for an overall total of $11 million over the five years of this AIP Barley Research Cluster. Projects in the Cluster supported by BMBRI grants include malting barley breeding and research at Agriculture Canada Brandon, University of Saskatchewan and Alberta Agriculture Lacombe. In addition, malting barley production and agronomy projects for western and eastern Canada, led by researchers at Agriculture Canada stations in Lacombe and Charlottetown, are also being supported.
Furthermore, BMBRI is providing a total of $37,000 grants for three ongoing malting barley research projects outside of the AIP Cluster at the CGG Grain Research Laboratory, University of Manitoba and Alberta Innovates Technology Centre in Vegreville.
More details of the above projects and lead researchers may be viewed at http://www.bmbri.ca/research/res_projects.html#2015 Or at http://www.albertabarley.com/project-category/aip-projects/
In addition to the above external grants of $124,000, BMBRI will also invest about $175,000 in carrying out internal BMBRI research and development activities in collaboration with its members. This includes coordination and completion of the annual pre-registration Collaborative Test on some elite breeder lines on eight sites grown across Canada. An annual scientific report of micro malting data from these sites is prepared for use of BMBRI members and the Prairie Recommending Committee for Oats and Barley (PRCOB) in variety registration recommending decisions.
BMBRI Board Chairman David Klinger stated – “BMBRI is very pleased that we are able to provide this funding from all our malting and brewing members for the development of improved malting barley for growers and for processors. This investment, in partnership with other agencies, is critical to the future of malting barley production and our malting and brewing industries in Canada”.
For more information, contact:
Michael Brophy, BMBRI President and CEO
Phone: (204) 927 1401

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Scheugenpflug AG welcomed more than 300 clients and attendees from 20 nations to their Technology Days 2013. The venue of the event was the recently inaugurated new production hall on the company premises.
Aside from ten outstanding technical presentations, which were held in English and German in separate panels, the invited industry audience witnessed hands-on demonstrations of the latest product innovations in vacuum technology, resin degassing and process automation in the new 6000m² production area.
The participation as speakers and exhibitors of eight leading producers of dispensing media and two renowned plant engineering manufacturers underlines once more the significance of aligning dispensing media with metering technology and vice versa.
Miro Kocevar from Sumida, Slovenia, a leading manufacturer of integral solutions for the electrical and electronics industries said he ‘was genuinely surprised by the presence of so many international speakers and attendees from all across the world. It was a good idea to hold the presentations in parallel panels in English and in German’. In his closing assessment, Mr Kocevar adds: "The level of expertise of both the guest speakers and the Scheugenpflug staff was impressive. I am looking forward to the next Technology Days and will certainly come again."
In the centre of the visitors’ attention there was the new processing module. This compact all-in-one system allows an easy and reliable integration of the latest dispensing technology into any existing production line.
All elements and processes essential for high dispensing quality, i.e. the dispensing unit, automatic needle measuring, pot life monitoring and an integrated resin weighing position form a closed, integrated module which connects to the pre-installed axis system and its control unit. External programming is not required. The perfectly tuned compact system guarantees quick integration and optimum dispensing quality right from the start.
Other highlights of the Technology Days were the increasingly important methods for effective degassing of high-performance dispensing media and the latest developments in vacuum dispensing technology. Dispensing free of air bubbles and cavities is essential for producing parts which function reliably during a long service life.
Most interest focused on the vanguard thin-film degassing technology and the advanced material preparation and feeding method, which keeps the resins absolutely air-bubble free throughout the complete metering and dispensing process.
"I was deeply impressed by the high level of technical know-how among the attendees with backgrounds in processing technology and development," said Holger Schuh from The Bergquist Company, one of the speakers and exhibitors at the Scheugenpflug Technology Days 2013. "The hands-on demonstrations of how to match dispensing media with metering and dispensing technology clearly showed which parameters are essential to obtain produced parts of high quality. We will certainly participate again next time."
Scheugenpflug AG thanks all attendees and exhibitors for the successful event and for the interesting presentations and helpful ideas. All participants agreed that such a focused event of expert interaction should be held in regular intervals also in the future.
Image: The processing module was in the focus of the visitors’ attention. The company founder, Erich Scheugenpflug (centre), explains the advantages of integrating this compact system in a production line.


We’ll go back to the 1990s.
—Ministry of Interior officer to detainee Nadr Ali Ahmad al-Salatne
By the end of the 1990s, Bahrain appeared to have cast off what had been a well-deserved reputation as a country that routinely tortured detainees. The government had taken significant steps to curtail the use of torture and other ill-treatment by its security officials, and reports of such practices became a rarity. This report concludes, however, that since the end of 2007, officials again have used torture and ill-treatment, particularly during the interrogation of security suspects. Human Rights Watch’s conclusion is based on interviews with former detainees and others, as well as its review of government documents.
This reversion to past practices came as political tensions rose in Bahrain. Street demonstrations involving young men from the country’s majority Shia Muslim community protesting alleged discrimination by the Sunni-dominated government deteriorated with increasing regularity into confrontations, sometimes violent, with security forces. Arrests often followed. Security officials appear to have utilized a specific repertoire of techniques against many of those arrested designed to inflict pain and elicit confessions.
These techniques included the use of electro-shock devices, suspension in painful positions, beating the soles of the feet (falaka), and beatings of the head, torso, and limbs. Some detainees also reported that security officials had threatened to kill them or to rape them or members of their families. Many detainees were subjected to more than one of these practices. The use of these techniques, separately and in combination, violates Bahrain’s obligations as a state party to the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Convention against Torture) and other international treaties, as well as the prohibition of torture in Bahraini law.
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For many years, government opponents have chosen December 16—Bahrain’s National Day—and the days leading up to it as an opportune time to mount street protests. December 2007 saw protests in a number of Shia neighborhoods and villages around the capital, Manama. When a young protestor died—opposition activists charge he was asphyxiated by security forces’ excessive use of tear gas, while officials claim he died of natural causes—the confrontations intensified. In one village, Jidhafs, protestors torched a security forces vehicle and allegedly stole from it an assault rifle and ammunition. Scores of arrests followed, and in subsequent weeks Bahraini human rights activists reported claims from detainees, relayed by family members and later by defense lawyers, that security forces had subjected those arrested to severe beatings, electro-shock devices, prolonged suspension in painful positions, and other forms of abuse that amounted to torture or otherwise illegal treatment. Officials categorically denied that security forces committed any such acts.
The large-scale arrests in response to the December 2007 events led to further cycles of protest and arrest. In March 2008, security forces arrested at least eight young men from around the village of Karzakan, about 20 kilometers south of Manama, following what officials claimed was an arson attack on nearby property belonging to a member of the ruling Al Khalifa family (specifically, a former head of the National Security Agency, or NSA, the security service most directly involved in suppressing the street protests). Security forces arrested some 30 young men in the same area a month later, when clashes between protestors and security forces left an NSA vehicle in flames and a Pakistani NSA officer dead, although the circumstances of his death became the subject of some dispute. Further allegations of torture and ill-treatment were made by these detainees, followed by further government denials.
December 2008 saw additional arrests, this time of approximately 35 men who, the authorities claimed, had traveled to Syria to receive training in the use of explosives and other forms of sabotage, or had been recruited by the leaders of the opposition Haq Movement for Liberty and Democracy to carry out attacks on property and foment violence. These detainees too, through family members and defense lawyers, complained that they had been subjected to torture and ill-treatment. The Public Prosecution Office broadcast a program on state-run television in which 11 of these detainees made statements that purported to be confessions confirming the government’s allegations and implicating leaders of the Haq Movement as the organizers of a planned campaign to stage violent protests and destroy property. Three Haq Movement leaders were also arrested, but did not allege that they themselves had been subjected to physical abuse.
At court hearings involving many of those arrested in connection with the above-described incidents, defendants raised allegations of torture. In several cases the court ordered that government doctors conduct medical examinations of those who complained of torture; in a good number of instances, the government doctors found evidence of injuries consistent with the detainees’ allegations.
On April 11, 2009, government officials announced that Bahrain’s ruler, Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, had granted a “pardon” to 178 persons then in custody, including many who had been detained in connection with the aforementioned incidents. Those subject to the pardon included persons already convicted and persons whose trials were ongoing. Although government officials, and the Bahraini media, referred to the king’s initiative as a pardon, it was never published in the Official Gazette and it appears to have been more of a suspension of sentences and court proceedings, which might be—and for some individuals were—subsequently reinstated.
However conditional the pardon may have been, the release of these detainees presented an opportunity for Human Rights Watch to interview them regarding their treatment in detention and particularly during interrogation. Two Human Rights Watch researchers visited Bahrain from June 6 to June 15, 2009, and met with 20 former detainees: 10 from the December 2007 incidents in Jidhafs; three from February, March and April 2008 incidents in and around Karzakan; and seven who had been arrested in December 2008. A number of other former detainees indicated that they did not feel comfortable meeting with Human Rights Watch. According to Bahraini human rights and opposition activists, authorities had warned former detainees that there might be repercussions for speaking with media or outside investigators.
Human Rights Watch also met with defense lawyers, local human rights activists, local journalists, and government officials. In addition, Human Rights Watch acquired medical reports written by Bahraini government doctors regarding the physical condition of detainees, court documents, and reports generated by the security services and prosecutors.
Most of the former detainees who spoke with Human Rights Watch said that they had been subjected to torture and ill-treatment at the headquarters of the Ministry of Interior’s General Directorate of Criminal Investigation (CID) in Adliya, a neighborhood of the capital; at the Ministry of Interior’s Short-Term Detention Unit, also known as Dry Dock because of its proximity to a ship repair yard; and/or at the offices of the NSA, also on the grounds of the Ministry of Interior. The NSA and the Ministry of Interior both report to the Supreme Defense Council, a 14-member body that is drawn entirely from the ruling family and headed by the prime minister.
Several of the detainees had also been brought in front of prosecutors who failed to respond appropriately to their complaints of ill-treatment. In a number of instances prosecutors failed to record complaints, order forensic medical examinations, or launch any investigation into a detainee’s allegations. In some cases, prosecutors returned detainees to the custody of the same security officers allegedly responsible for the abuse in the first place. Other prosecutors did appropriately send detainees for medical exams when the detainees complained of torture.
Officials with the Ministry of Interior and the Public Prosecution Office, in separate meetings with Human Rights Watch, denied that torture had been employed against those detained in connection with the incidents referenced above. They said the consistency in the accounts of the former detainees, as discussed below, reflected the fact that the detainees had been imprisoned together and had consulted the same defense lawyers. In the opinion of these officials, the consistency of the allegations was evidence that the allegations had been fabricated. The public prosecutor told Human Rights Watch that, as far as he could recall, he had not referred any complaints of torture to the Ministry of Interior for consideration in relation to the former detainees whose cases are described here. At this writing, in January 2010, Human Rights Watch had received no response to letters to the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Interior raising detailed questions about government policies with regard to torture and ill-treatment. (These letters are reproduced in the appendix to this report.)
Human Rights Watch found the accounts of torture and ill-treatment documented in this report to be credible. These accounts were consistent as to the specific techniques employed by security services, which supports their credibility. Further, the accounts of abuse provided to Human Rights Watch matched those that detainees had offered earlier in court proceedings and to their defense counsel. In addition, contrary to the assertions of government officials, there is evidence that some if not all detainees had been held in solitary confinement at the time they first reported abuse, reducing the opportunities for them to fabricate accounts prior to making such reports; with respect to the December 2008 detainees, a court ordered that they be removed from solitary confinement in March 2009, after they already had complained to the court and their lawyers about abuse. The detainees also described in consistent terms various interrogation techniques that, while deceptive, did not constitute torture or ill-treatment. None alleged, moreover, that they suffered abuse continuously, and for the most part they did not allege that abuse took place other than in connection with interrogations (or in some cases at the point of arrest).
Most significantly, the medical reports of government doctors, along with various court papers, provided the strongest corroboration of the former detainees’ allegations. In fact, the court in one of the Karzakan cases acquitted all defendants on all charges in part because it concluded—on the basis of medical reports—that the defendants had been physically coerced into confessing.
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Bahrain undertook significant reforms after Shaikh Hamad succeeded his father as ruler (amir, or prince) in 1999. Not the least of these were reforms affecting the security services and the administration of justice. Shaikh Hamad freed thousands of political prisoners and invited the return of hundreds of citizens who had been forcibly exiled. Structural changes included moving the Public Prosecution Office from the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Interior to that of the Ministry of Justice. Perhaps the most significant reform was the abolition of the State Security Court that the government had used for the previous quarter-century to imprison political opponents following closed trials that did not meet international fair trial standards. The State Security Court, which lacked any independence from the executive branch, typically relied on confessions obtained by physical coercion. Beyond these reforms, the government ratified the Convention against Torture, and invited a delegation of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions to visit the country.
A more negative development was the October 2002 decree issued by Shaikh Hamad (who in the meantime had promoted himself to king) effectively granting amnesty from criminal investigation or prosecution to officials alleged to have ordered or carried out serious crimes such as torture.
Nonetheless, while Bahrain had been notorious between 1975 and 1999 as a country where torture was a serious and systemic problem (as Human Rights Watch and other international human rights organizations documented), reports of torture or ill-treatment in detention were scarce after 1999. By 2005, when Bahrain belatedly presented its first report to the UN Committee against Torture (international experts who review the compliance of state parties to the Convention against Torture), it seemed that the government could legitimately claim to have ceased the practice of torture. Indeed, while Human Rights Watch did document serious abuses over the last decade, such as beatings by security forces at the point of arrest, complaints of torture in detention or during interrogation had grown quite rare—until recently.
It should be noted that while Bahraini government agents began to employ torture again in late 2007, the fact that government doctors are now able to provide corroboration of torture and ill-treatment marks a major improvement from the era of routine torture that characterized Bahrain in the 1980s and 1990s. During those years, doctors were intimidated from issuing reports that corroborated allegations of abuse, if medical examinations were conducted at all.
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Human Rights Watch urges the government of Bahrain to take prompt action to ensure that torture and ill-treatment are once again eradicated from the practices of security officials. The government should conduct prompt and impartial investigations into all allegations of torture or ill-treatment by security officials of any rank in the CID or the NSA (or other security services), and prosecute any offenders to the full extent of the law in a court meeting international fair trial standards. More specifically, such prosecutions should occur before an independent civilian court, rather than the Police Court of the Ministry of Interior, where such prosecutions—to the extent they occur at all—now take place.
Human Rights Watch also urges the government to suspend immediately any security official if credible evidence exists that such official ordered, carried out, or condoned acts of torture or ill-treatment. The government should further commence investigations into whether prosecutors, including those named in this report, responded appropriately to allegations of torture or whether their actions rendered them complicit in acts of abuse. If there is credible evidence that a prosecutor or other state agent was complicit in torture or ill-treatment, the government should pursue appropriate sanctions.
Human Rights Watch also calls on the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, countries with significant security links to Bahrain, to urge the government of Bahrain to take immediate and measurable steps to end the use of torture by the country’s security forces. France and the United Kingdom in particular have training and assistance arrangements with Bahrain’s NSA and the Ministry of Interior, respectively. Thus, these countries may risk being implicated in prohibited practices and violating their own legal obligations if they cooperate with law enforcement forces they know or should know are employing torture or other ill-treatment.


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I have been creating games for as far as I can remember.
My oldest game design memory is of me drawing a
grid-based world for a hopscotch like fantasy adventure
game. Was I five? Can't remember.
My first paid job in the industry was Gameplay Programmer.
I worked on mobile titles for a local indie studio that made some
mistakes and ceased to exist. Since then, I became part of
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I hadn’t quite expected the impact of a simple email intro from Mairead Murphy and her studio mate Sarah Hendy – but lets just say that Melbourne has shot back to the top of my “should I relocate?” list!! This DREAM space pictured here is Studio Sisu and before I go any further you need to know that they have TWO desk spaces come available…..!!!!
Mairead Murphy is obviously a considered and talented interior architect if her workspace is anything to go by! Through her business, Maike Design Studio she has worked on residential and commercial projects in Melbourne, Sydney, rural Victoria and New Zealand. But not content to only flex her creative muscles on spaces, she has just launched the illustration arm to her practice (kind of creative force, yes!) with a portfolio of prints and some exciting fabric designs in the works.
I welcome you to have a wander through Mairead’s world and if any of her prints catch your eye she has kindly offered all of you 10% off at the checkout in her online store. Simply type in ‘studiohome’ – valid until Tuesday 20th.
Loving this print in particular…Photography by Sean Fennessy and Mairead Murphy

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Listed global player in specialty food ingredients with production on 3 continents. Ingredients are subject to GHS regulations and require strict production, storage and transport conditions. Due to high growth rates and a high degree of rework, the production site had reached its limits.
The European factory is located in the middle of a residential area. The necessary expansion, replacement and improvement of existing factory parts was at odds with the need to organise logistics more efficiently and safely.
Our customer had made the choice to replace existing (external) warehouses (off-site) with a new, modernised warehouse with sufficient capacity. Gwynt has assisted the client in logistics design of warehouse, selection of project developer (financier and builder of warehouse), drafting of LOI and contract and final construction of the warehouse.
On site, a quantitative analysis of the several flows has been executed. Based on lean philosophy and based on existing spaces, a redesign has been made to optimise both required storage space and required FTE. A thorough stock analysis of raw materials in particular has been done to optimise both safety stocks and lead times of suppliers.
The new warehouse, including migration costs, will pay for itself within a year. The on-site optimisation has led to a 10% FTE reduction and almost € 0.5 million reduction of raw material stocklevel.

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Commercial Careers Series 2019
Note: In light of the current circumstances surrounding COVID-19, physical sessions/presentations concerning our annual Commercial Careers Series have been cancelled. We are currently assessing the possibility of virtual accomodations and will update this space soon!
The Commercial Careers Series encompasses the following information sessions/presentation:
- A series of seminars by top and mid-tier commercial law firms, presenting everything you need to know about applying for seasonal clerkships. Firms will focus on what is required in the application process and what they will be looking for in future seasonal clerks and graduates. It is the perfect opportunity to find out more about the firms you might be applying for and hear first hand experiences from graduates or specialists in their field.
- Practical legal training information sessions
- Career planning workshops/information sessions for early year students. These will include a mix of HR representatives from firms, the Law Institute of Victoria Young Lawyers section, academics and also experts from the La Trobe Careers Centre.
- Networking and CV writing workshops
- Clerkship Success Panel
- Careers Cocktail Night
Commercial Careers Series 2019 Dates
April 29 2019 – MinterEllison Firm Presentation
Location: Level 23, Rialto Towers 525 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC
MinterEllison will kick off our commercial careers series with a firm presentation at their beautiful offices in the Rialto building. If you’re interested in working at a top tier firm, then attendance is mandatory as MinterEllison are one of the most prestigious and innovative firms.
1 May 2019 – The College of Law and Leo Cussen Presentation
Location: Moot Court
Wondering what comes after your law degree? Come along to a presentation by Leo Cussen Centre for Law and The College of Law, and find out all you need to know about post-graduate education – practical legal training (PLT) in particular!
This is a great opportunity for final and penultimate-year students, or those looking to plan ahead for their future years!
May 13 2019 – Herbert Smith Freehills Firm Presentation
Location: 101 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC
Interested in taking your legal career international? Then Herbert Smith Freehills is the place for you, It is a leading global firm with a focus on providing innovative advice and exceptional business outcomes. As a graduate, they aim to provide opportunities for individuals to not just experience everything but to be apart of the processes. With an abundance of opportunities and 27 offices globally Herbert Smith Freehills want to engage with individuals who all have a common desire, to become brilliant lawyers!
If you’re interested in learning more about the rewarding career with Herbert Smith Freehill this is a fantastic opportunity!
May 21 2019 – Ashurst Firm Prersentation
Location: 181 Williams Street, Melbourne VIC
Ashurst is a leading multinational law firm and a trusted adviser to corporates, financial institutions and governments worldwide. Attending this firm presentation is extremely beneficial for those early in their law degrees as well as those who are getting closer to the clerkship stage. Without a doubt, Ashurst is an extremely well-known firm with 26 offices in 16 countries. They offer the international insight of a global network combined with local market knowledge, putting them in a really good position within the large pool of corporate firms around the world. Ashurst is dedicated to getting to the heart of clients’ legal needs and delivering practical, commercial solutions. So, whether you want to learn about the innovative approach this firm takes in undertaking their legal duties, or if you want to discover whether your passion lies within this sector of the law – coming to this event is a must!
May 27 2019 – Allens Linklaters Firm Presentation
Location: 101 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC
Allens is an international law firm with offices throughout Australia and Asia. Allens was named Australian Law Firm of the Year (Chambers Asia Pacific, 2017) and has a huge global network of 40 offices across 28 countries. It will be very beneficial to attend their firm presentation as it is a firm with some of the world’s longest ongoing client relationships, stretching back more than 150 years. Allens works with many of the world’s leading organisations – including 55 of the world’s top 100 companies and more than 75 of Australia’s top 100 companies. Allens is a firm with impressive results in the corporate sector of the law and has established relationships with leading organisations across the globe. So, whether you want to learn more about this firm’s success, or if you want to discover if your passion lies within this sector of the law – attending this event is highly recommended!

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Hi dolls, I hope that all of you are having a wonderful Easter. I've finally finished wearing the colors in the Surf collection and I think you'll be more than pleased! Based on the promo pictures, I was really excited for this set. The Surf collections consists of 6 shimmers that all have a foil-like finish. With the exception of Kimber, all of the shades have a heavy silver shimmer that runs through the polish. I applied 2 coats for each polish and there were no problems with the formula at all.
Up first is Zuza, a deep, saturated, oceanic turquoise with gold and silver metallic shimmer. Zuza is hands down the star of this collection! When you think of relaxing on a tropical island, with waves hitting the shore, Zuza is the color you visualize. Gosh, I love everything about this color!
bold, red-toned dark purple with iridescent red and silver metallic shimmer. While Carly seemed to stick out from the rest of the collection because of its darkness, it is one gorgeous purple. You can really see its beauty out in the sunlight.
medium mauve pink with lilac tones and gold and silver reflective metallic shimmer accents. This color may read pink or lilac based on different skin tones. Rory leans more lilac on me and I like this one a lot.
arm, medium orange coral with red undertones and gold and silver metallic shimmer. I love everything about oranges like this. Myrta literally glowed on my nails!
Meg is a light, yellow-toned mermaid green with heavy gold and silver metallic shimmer. This one is pretty, but it didn't wow me like the others in the collection.rich, bright and saturated medium magenta pink with strong gold metallic shimmer. The gold shimmer really makes Kimber stand out. This is such a gorgeous pink. I'm already planning on using Kimber for a pedicure.
Zoya really has a winner with the Surf collection! My favorites are Zuza, Kimber, and Myrta.
Are any of these calling your name???
Zoya polishes can be purchased here for $8. They also have really interactive Facebook and Pinterest pages, so check them out!
*Products featured in this post were provided by PR for review*

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Budget finalized by Ellsworth School BoardThe 2009-10 budget was finalized by the Ellsworth School Board Monday.
By: Bill Kirk, Pierce County Herald
The 2009-10 budget was finalized by the Ellsworth School Board Monday.
The total levy of $7,692,771 was certified by the board after members adopted the budget. A mill rate of 8.70 (tax per $1,000 of valuation) was included.
Superintendent Barry Cain explained certain pieces of information, regarding state aids, student enrollment, grants and the like, weren’t available when the initial budget proposal was presented during the district’s annual meeting in August. That missing information was received on Oct. 15, Cain said.
The superintendent reminded about the board’s earlier decision to reduce the ending fund balance in the budget, partly because of the middle school roof replacement project. He later found the balance still has a healthy amount, but isn’t at the level recommended by district auditors. It previously was at 17 percent of the total and now is around 11 percent, he said.
“We can’t continually do that,” he said, recognizing a significant number of budget cuts were made over the winter.
On the revenue side, Cain noted state aid has decreased slightly--by approximately $6,000--from last year. Money “back-loaded” into the budget from the federal government stimulus program makes it appear otherwise. At $16,739.782, total revenue is also down from last year, he added.
As for expenditures, the interfund operating transfers amount of $1,530,814 reflects a one-time reduction in maintenance of effort due to the federal stimulus money, he said. The food service fund, which can be carried over from the previous year, features a $42,140 beginning fund balance, and lunch and breakfast prices were kept the same. He was confident about this arrangement, though mindful of possible capital expenditures for food service equipment.
In the community service fund, he mentioned a $250,000 levy for the Klaas-Jonas Community Swimming Pool. Despite this fund’s beginning fund balance being a negative $144,414, its ending fund balance is a negative $98,414, showing the district’s headed in the right direction for reducing this balance, as prescribed by the auditors.
Read more in the print version of the Herald Oct. 28.


September 11, 2019 - by Jason Lisk
Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills will try to go 2 for 2 against New York teams (Photo by Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire)
With a dramatic opening week of the 2019 NFL season now in the books, it’s time for our Week 2 advice for football pick’em contests.
For the unfamiliar, this pick advice is different than what you’re probably used to reading. Of course, it’s important to identify the most likely winner of each game. But maximizing your edge in an NFL or college football pick’em pool also requires you to consider how your opponents are going to pick.
After all, you can only rise in the pool standings if you score points that your opponents miss. So you always need to be on the lookout for underrated teams that might be worth an educated gamble, and you need to avoid trendy upset picks that aren’t worth the risk.
This approach to pick making is a big reason why 80% our subscribers reported winning a prize in a football pick’em contest last year.
It was a frustrating start to the season for a value-driven pick approach, but sometimes the public has its day.
Last week, the favorites of three points or more that were the “least overrated” by the public were Chicago and Minnesota, and we highlighted both teams in our writeup. Minnesota’s 28-12 romp of Atlanta paid off for players that increased confidence points on them, but Chicago was upset 10-3 by Green Bay in a very sloppy start to the 2019 season.
The only two favorites that were underrated by the public last week were Denver (which closed as a 3-point favorite, after opening as a 2.5-point underdog, quite a big swing) and Tampa Bay (which closed as a 1-point favorite). Both teams lost, though it’s worth noting that Tampa Bay’s pick popularity jumped up to nearly 50% after hovering around 33% earlier in the week. That move erased almost all the contrarian value that the Bucs had initially shown.
(That’s also why it’s important to stay on top of pick popularity changes right up until your pick submission deadline, which our Football Pick’em Picks product does automatically.)
Meanwhile, both Carolina and Jacksonville remained top contrarian value plays heading into Sunday, if you wanted to take some extra risks in your pool. Carolina had a solid shot, only falling by three despite losing the turnover battle 3-1. The Jags fell behind early, but also lost starting QB Nick Foles to injury.
If you find yourself a couple games under the average in your pool after Week 1 because you followed value, it’s no cause for alarm. Of the six teams we highlighted last week, Vegas implied win odds expected around three wins, but only one happened. In the longer term, that bad luck will even out, and there are plenty of games left to pick this season.
Using Vegas odds, data-driven predictions, and pick popularity data from national football pick’em contests, we’ve analyzed the entire NFL Week 2 slate and identified the best and worst value picking opportunities.
Keep in mind that we are not recommending that you make all of the picks below — the upset picks especially. The best Week 2 picks for your NFL pool depend on factors such as its size, rules, and prize structure, plus situational factors like your current place in the standings and the number of weeks left in the pool.
(Our Football Pick’em Picks product recommends weekly picks that take all these factors into account.)
What we are saying is that the teams mentioned in this post offer some of the best opportunities to differentiate your Week 2 picks from your pool opponents, or they serve as prime examples of when picking against the crowd is most likely a bad idea.
Note: Win odds and estimated national pick popularity data below may change between publication time and kickoff time. If you want to see the latest numbers, our product updates multiple times per day.
[Editor’s Update: The same five teams are still in the write-up below, but the dnumbers in this post have been revised to reflect current pick popularity and odds as of Friday afternoon]
Most favorites are overrated by the public, but the team below is more fairly valued in Week 2. You should think twice about picking against them, not because we think they are a lock to win (we certainly don’t), but because other games offer more compelling upset pick opportunities.
(By the way, please don’t be that person in your pool who picks against the Patriots or the Ravens in Week 2. Given how ridiculously high New England’s win probability is as an 18-point favorite, that would just be silly given that the same percentage of pick’em players — 97% — is picking Carolina, only a 7-point favorite, to beat Tampa Bay. If you want to get all crazy, at least do yourself a favor and pick the Bucs.)
LA Rams (vs. New Orleans)
The Rams and Saints played in the NFC Championship Game a year ago, and apparently a good portion of the public expects the Saints to get revenge on the road this week. 54% of pick’em pool players are picking the Rams to win at home, a rate that is in line with LAR’s win odds as a 2-point favorite.
It’s always hard to decode the public’s view of a game, but there doesn’t seem to be any smoking gun coming out of last week that would lead the public to more fairly assess the Rams’ chances here, compared to how it typically overrates favorites. Los Angeles won on the road at Carolina by the exact margin expected by the 3-point closing spread. The Saints, meanwhile, as much larger 6.5-point home favorites, trailed Houston for much of Monday Night’s game and barely survived on a last-second 58-yard field goal.
Again, if you are dead-set on picking an underdog in this risk range this week, it’s better to go with a different one such as the Falcons over the Eagles. Atlanta is also a 2-point underdog, yet twice as many pick’em players (46%) have the similarly risky Saints pulling the upset compared to the Falcons (23%).
Week 2 features a few teams that the public is picking at a lower rate than their chance to win. These type of teams are as close as you can get to “no brainer picks” in NFL pick’em contests, since both win odds and value are on your side.
Pittsburgh (vs. Seattle)
The Steelers lost by 30 in the prime time Sunday Night game against New England, while Seattle (at home) barely squeaked by Cincinnati. While the Steelers’ offense showcased their struggles to a national audience, the Seahawks did not embarrass themselves in front of quite so many people watching on TV.
Yes, Pittsburgh looked utterly awful. But going against the team that finished dead last in yards allowed last season, Seattle managed only 233 total yards (the 4th-lowest total of last week). The Bengals also out-gained the Seahawks by nearly 200 yards. In short, Seattle got significantly outplayed last week as well; the Seahawks just happened to survive with a lucky win.
In this battle of opening week disappointments, Pittsburgh was favored by 3.5 points in the betting markets at post time, with implied win odds a bit under 63%. Our models are a bit less optimistic, giving the Steelers about 60% win odds.
Still, with the public picking Pittsburgh at a very similar 58% clip, this is not the game where you want to think upset pick. By betting odds, Pittsburgh is actually being underrated by the public, which is rare for a favorite of this magnitude.
For comparison, the Tennessee Titans, as 3-point favorites vs. Indianapolis in Week 2, have similar win odds than Pittsburgh. Yet Tennessee is being picked by a whopping 87% of the public. Compared to picking Seattle, picking Indianapolis offers similar risk but a much higher reward if you’re right.
Buffalo (at NY Giants)
The Bills played at the Meadowlands just a week ago, beating the Jets 17-16 on the road. They return to the same stadium, shared by the Jets and Giants, in Week 2.
Buffalo was able to win its first road game despite four first half turnovers, and came back in the fourth quarter from two scores down. The Bills also soundly won the yardage battle against the Jets. As a result, it looks like bad luck played a role in the slim 1-point win margin.
The Giants, meanwhile, gave up five straight long touchdown drives to the Dallas Cowboys to effectively end the game by the middle of the third quarter, and eventually lost 35-17. New York has been in the bottom quarter of the league in total defense the last two seasons, and at least for Week 1, that trend did not change. The Giants allowed 470 yards to Dallas, and New York is now 31st in our NFL predictive power ratings.
The public is siding with New York in this one, picking the Giants 56% of the time. By our current ratings, Buffalo is 3.6 points better than New York on a neutral field and should still be the favorite even after home field advantage is included. The betting markets agree, making Buffalo a 2-point favorite. Pick the Bills, and you’re getting a favorite at an underdog price.
All upset picks are not created equal. If you’re going to make a gamble on an underdog, you need to make sure that the potential reward — that is, how much your odds to win your pool will increase if your gamble pays off — is as big as possible. Take a bunch of extra risk on a super trendy upset pick, and the joke is on you.
The two picks below are definitely not appropriate for all pools. If you’re in a smaller, season-long pool with lots of games left, they’re probably not worth the risk.
However, if you’re in a single-week pool with a larger number of entries, or if you only care about winning weekly prizes in your season-long pool, or if you’re just feeling lucky, these highly unpopular underdogs with decent chances to win present compelling cases.
Detroit (vs. LA Chargers)
Detroit was an up-and-down team a year ago, putting up some highs (dominating the Patriots at home) and lows (getting blown out by the Jets). The Lions managed to showcase both sides of that split personality in the 2019 opener.
For most of the game, they dominated but did not put away Arizona. The Cardinals only had 100 total yards in the first three quarters, and Detroit built a 24-6 lead. But then, the Arizona offense got going in the fourth quarter and came all the way back. It ended in an overtime tie.
Similarly, the Chargers were unable to close out the Colts in regulation despite having a 24-9 fourth quarter lead. That game also went to overtime, but LAC was able to win the coin toss and drive for a touchdown to win the game. It could have just as easily gone the other way.
The Chargers are the slight favorite in this game, and the line has actually moved down from 2.5 points to 1.5 points by Friday in the betting markets, but the public is picking the Chargers at an extremely high rate (89%) for a less-than-field-goal favorite. That gives Detroit the biggest positive differential between win odds and pick popularity in all of Week 2.
To put the relative value in perspective, Detroit has about the same chance to pull off an upset as the Giants this week, but the Giants are over five times as popular an upset pick. If you want to take a moderate gamble to differentiate your picks from the crowd, Detroit is a great choice.
Denver (vs. Chicago)
Denver, also a strong value pick last week, closed out Week 1 with a dud of a performance against Oakland on the road, losing 24-16. A closer look at the numbers, though, shows a game that was virtually even in yards and first downs for both teams. The Raiders went an unsustainable 10 of 14 on third downs against Denver, including a 3rd-and-8 conversion at the two-minute warning that sealed the victory.
Meanwhile, Chicago opened the week with an offensive thud, managing only three points in a home loss to Green Bay. QB Mitch Trubisky struggled in the opener, and the Bears finished with more than twice as many penalty yards as rushing yards. But that game was on Thursday night, so perhaps the Bears’ struggles are not quite so fresh in the public’s mind.
Former Bears defensive coordinator Vic Fangio is making his home head coaching debut with Denver against his old team. It will be interesting to see how he game plans against Trubisky, and what surprises Chicago head coach Matt Nagy throws in against his former coordinator.
Chicago is a very popular pick here, with 80% of pick’em entries nationwide taking the Bears. But they are only a slight favorite, and both the betting lines (Denver is +2.5) and our models put the Broncos’ win odds in the 44-45% range. That’s solid differentiation potential for a team with close to a 50/50 chance to win.
Our custom betting trends tool goes back to the 1985 season, and Denver has the highest home winning percentage of any franchise over that period (70.6% winning percentage at home). Denver’s storied home field advantage is almost certainly priced into the betting lines in an accurate way, but perhaps the Monday Night Football loss is causing the public to underweight it.
Once you know the best value opportunities of Week 2, you can typically increase your odds to win your pool by making educated gambles on them. Perhaps you bump the number of confidence points you assign to a value pick like Pittsburgh or Buffalo. Maybe you take even more risk and pick a team like Detroit or Denver to win.
There are a lot of decisions to make, and not all of them make sense for your specific pool.
Our solution to winning more pick’em pools was to build technology to do all the heavy lifting. We developed a product that customizes weekly pick recommendations based on the strategy dynamics of your specific NFL pick’em pool, all driven by research-based algorithms.
It leverages betting market odds and objective game predictions, aggregates national pick popularity data to project your opponents’ picks, and adjusts your weekly recommended picks for factors like your pool’s scoring system and format, prize structure, and your position in the standings.
It also covers game winner or spread-based contests; confidence pools; and pools with end-of-season prizes, weekly prizes, or both. In fact, it’s so advanced that we had to come up with an appropriately technical, massively creative name for it: Football Pick’em Picks.
If you learned something from this article, we encourage you to check it out.
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NEW YORK (IDN) – In Out of the Shadows 2017 thriller, a newly married detective and his pregnant wife move into their dream home unaware of its dark history. When his wife claims their baby is being tormented by a supernatural force and seeks the help of a renegade demonologist, he must investigate the past to save his family.
Out of the Shadows, released by the World Childhood Foundation USA (WCF) on January 15, is a thriller with a difference. Shining light on the response to child sexual abuse and exploitation, it declares: Sexual violence against children takes place mostly in the shadows, but it is happening everywhere, regardless of a country’s economic status or its citizens’ quality of life.
It is a universal threat – no boy or girl is immune – and one that is enabled by vastly improved communications connectivity and mobility. Yet this especially pernicious form of abuse is rarely discussed, even though it has lingering and sometimes devastating socio-economic consequences, it warns.
The Index covering 40 countries was developed through a first-of-its-kind research programme conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) with support from the World Childhood Foundation, the Oak Foundation and the Carlson Family Foundation.
“The selection of the countries was designed to represent not only the global situation of children – these 40 countries collectively cover 70% of the world’s population of children – but also actions being taken across regions and income groups,” says Dr. Joanna Rubinstein, WCF President and CEO.
“Countries from all continents are represented, as are the least developed to the most developed economies. We also selected both countries who have already been acknowledged for taking actions and those that are lagging,” Dr. Rubinstein tells IDN.
“The safety and well-being of the world’s children must remain a global priority,” said Her Royal Highness Princess Madeleine of Sweden, co-founder of #EyesWideOpen initiative of WCF.
“With approximately 200 million of the world’s children experiencing sexual violence each year, the need to document and benchmark the global effort to prevent child sexual violence has never been more important. The Out of the Shadows report provides vital data to track the efforts of countries to end child sexual abuse and exploitation.”
Dr. Rubenstein will be presenting the findings of the study at a meeting of the UNESCO Broadband Commission for Sustainability in Davos, Switzerland, on January 22. She is a commissioner and a co-chair together with the CEO of Zain new Working Group on Child Safety Online.
The forthcoming meeting is important because the new index looks at the response of the telecoms and Internet service providers to child sexual abuse. “Sharing the results of this 40 country research with the major corporate leaders can help to engage them in developing safer internet platforms to minimize children’s exposure to harmful and illegal activities,” Dr. Rubinstein tells IDN.
The executive summary of the study says: “There is evidence that gender inequality is linked to the acceptance of violence against women and girls, and to sexual violence against children.” Asked how can then gender equality, Sustainable Development Goal 5, be achieved, the WCF CEO says: “The index does not try to answer how gender equality can be achieved, but it does highlight the relationship between gender-based violence and child sexual abuse.”
Where social norms support conferring greater power to men, men are more likely to say that they have perpetuated violence against women and children. Therefore, by addressing gender-based violence we will also help to reduce violence against children.
“One way of promoting gender equality is scaling up access to secondary education for girls, which we know helps to keep them out of early marriage and improves their employability skills,” she adds.
For much of the 20th century, violence against children was not a global development priority. This changed in 1989 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), establishing a legal imperative to prevent child maltreatment.
“Even then, the elimination of sexual violence against children did not feature prominently until the UN adopted [in September 2015] its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 priorities – and more than 200 indicators – underpinning the global development agenda for 2015-30,” note the authors of the study.
The WCF expects this “groundbreaking tool” to help countries to track their progress toward reaching Sustainable Development Goal target 16.2: “ending abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against, and torture of, children by 2030.”
The Index framework was developed in close consultation with the global expert community, says a WCF media release. The quantitative and qualitative data in the Index were collected and analysed between February and December of 2018 by The EIU project team, employing country experts and regional specialists from its global network.
The Index focuses on four categories: Environment, Legal Framework; Government Commitment and Capacity; Engagement of industry, civil society and media.
The important focus areas in EIU’s research for the Out of the Shadows study included examining engagement and response from the private sector, particularly information and communications technology and travel and tourism industries.
For companies that share data and content online, such as Internet Service Providers and mobile telecoms operators, the existence of a notice and takedown system, which allows members of the public to report potentially unlawful CSA (Child Sexual Abuse) content, has emerged as a global solution and is present in 28 of the 40 countries in the Index.
In the travel and tourism industry, growth of the sexual exploitation of children over the past two decades is linked to increased international and domestic travel, cheaper flights, and the use of mobile technologies.
“The Out of the Shadows Index is a step towards understanding how effective our collective response has been to the tragic and pernicious problem of child sex abuse and exploitation globally and country-by-country. Its rigorous data-driven approach gives us the ability to evaluate the best way forward to attain the ultimate Sustainable Development Goal of ending all child trafficking by 2030,” said Kurt Ekert, president & CEO of Carlson Wagonlit Travel.
“As an organization that operates in the travel and tourism industry, we oppose the use of travel and other advances in technology to engage in child sex abuse and exploitation. We applaud the Carlson Family Foundation for supporting this first-of-its kind benchmarking tool, and we are firmly committed to tracking progress in fighting child sex trafficking and protecting all children from this type of abuse.”
The countries of the Index were scored out of 100 and the countries with the highest overall scores are: 1. United Kingdom (82.7), 2. Sweden (81.5), 3. Canada (75.3), 4. Australia (74.9) and 5. the United States (73.7). (Scores and other additional Index details for all 40 countries are available at: outoftheshadows.eiu.com)
Overall Key findings from the Out of the Shadows study demonstrate that:
CSA and child sexual exploitation (CSE) are pressing concerns for both wealthy and poor countries alike.
Social norms and attitudes toward sex, sexuality and gender matter and gender inequality is linked to the acceptance of violence and to sexual violence against children.
Boys are overlooked with more than half (21) of the 40 countries lacking legal protections for boys within their child rape laws, and only 17 countries collecting prevalence data about boys. Just five collect prevalence data for boys related to CSE.
Given the scale of the problem, preventative strategies are critical. Only four of the 40 countries have government-supported programs that make prevention services available to at-risk or prospective child sex offenders. [IDN-InDepthNews – 17 January 2019]
Photo: The index highlights the relationship between gender-based violence and child sexual abuse, says Dr. Joanna Rubinstein, President and CEO of the World Childhood Foundation USA, top left with children in the collage by IDN-INPS.
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When Connecticut’s new legislative session begins on Jan. 9, the state’s lawmakers will consider not only whether to legalize sports betting but also how that might work.
Several states (including nearby Rhode Island, New Jersey and Pennsylvania) have already passed and implemented sports betting legislation since the U.S. Supreme Court gave them the go-ahead last May, while Connecticut and others have been more deliberate in weighing whether to do so.
These are the questions that must be addressed before Connecticut residents can legally bet on sports.
Do lawmakers want to make sports betting happen?
Obviously, legal sports betting can happen in Connecticut only if lawmakers want it to. And although Democratic Gov.-elect Ned Lamont supports legalization and his party retains control over the state House and Senate, wrangling the votes won’t necessarily be simple, as legislators in both parties have voiced both support for and opposition to sports betting, for various reasons. Legislative leaders failed to pass a sports-betting bill last spring and opted against a special session last summer, letting the issue wait for a new governor.
That said, there seems to be enough legislative (and gubernatorial) support to make sports betting happen.
“It should be one of the first bills that we do [in 2019],” Speaker of the House Joe Aresimowicz said Thursday. “We’re really falling behind other states. They’re up and running, it’s happening, it’s having a positive impact on their economy. But more importantly for me, it’s having a negative impact on illegal sports betting.”
The big questions moving forward will concern how exactly legalization works.
What deal, if any, will the tribes strike?
Connecticut’s sports-betting calculus differs from that of, say, Rhode Island in one key way: The state must negotiate with the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes, owners of the Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casinos, who have exclusive rights to slot-machine gambling and claim a similar exclusive right to sports betting. If the state, which has resisted tribal claims of exclusivity, can’t reach an agreement with the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan, the sides could land in court.
Malloy made progress in negotiation with the tribes but never reached an agreement. Soon Lamont will give the talks a shot, in hopes of finding a deal that will both keep the casinos happy and maintain the state’s flexibility in moving forward with sports betting. Any agreement must be approved by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Who will operate sports betting? Where will bets be placed?
Every state that legalizes sports betting configures gambling differently. In Rhode Island, only the state’s two casinos offer sports betting. In New Jersey, bettors can wager at various casinos and racetracks, as well as on mobile apps. In Delaware, there are three casinos, plus dozens of “sports lottery” locations at convenience stores and liquor stores.
Connecticut lawmakers will have to decide who gets to run sports betting in this state. Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun and any future casinos will likely be operators, while various off track betting sites and the CT Lottery will seek a slice of the action as well.
Aresimowicz said he would prefer to limit sports betting to casinos and off-track sites to avoid “over-saturation.”
Will Connecticut have mobile betting?
State Rep. Joe Verrengia, who co-chairs the committee that oversees gambling, said in November that sports betting “would have to include a mobile platform,” which would allow bettors to place wagers from their couches, their cars or wherever else they take their smart phones (within state lines).
But other states have proceeded without mobile betting, sometimes pledging to worry later on about that form of betting. Connecticut could become the latest state to weigh the revenue potential of mobile betting against the risks of making sports gambling too accessible.
Will leagues receive an “integrity fee?"
Wherever there’s a legislature seeking to legalize sports betting, there’s usually a cohort of professional sports leagues seeking so-called “integrity fees” — or money paid to the leagues on which bets are placed to cover costs of monitoring, stat-keeping and enforcement.
Last spring, some Connecticut lawmakers pushed back against integrity fees, though some seemed more open to the idea as discussions progressed. A sports-betting bill proposed last February in the state House of Representatives included an integrity fee totaling one quarter of one percent of all wagers.
Will legislators address problem gambling?
According to the Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling, Connecticut is home to about 35,000 problem gamblers, including a growing number under age 18. Advocates worry that the legalization of sports betting would increase that figure, as gambling became more accessible.
Although concerns about problem gambling are unlikely to torpedo sports-betting legislation in Connecticut, the CCPG has asked the state to provide designated funding for treatment and prevention as it seeks to expand gambling. If they legalize sports betting, Connecticut lawmakers will have to decide how serious they are about mitigating any increased risk of problem gambling that new legislation might cause.


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PHILIA – friendship
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
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Philia (/ˈfɪljə/ or /ˈfɪliə/; Ancient Greek: φιλία), often translated “brotherly love”, is one of the four ancient Greek words for love: philia, storge, agape and eros. In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, philia is usually translated as “friendship” or affection. The complete opposite is called a phobia.


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