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Why investors shouldn’t fear international markets
- We believe that good companies, or improving companies with good future prospects, should be able to perform well in any conditions
- We urge investors to stay the course once invested and to rely on their fund manager’s investment philosophy to prevail through volatile cycles
South Africa represents only 1% of the world’s market capitalisation according to the World Bank. Given this statistic, it’s not hard to see why investing offshore has such diversification benefits for South Africans. However, while investors are well aware of this, the uncertainty and unknowns of investing in international markets is still too overwhelming for many.
Investors should rely on the insight of offshore investment managers to make the tough decisions, particularly in times of volatility.
Where there is volatility, there is opportunity
For professional investment managers, volatility and unrest in the markets create opportunities to find value in unexpected places. We believe that good companies, or improving companies with good future prospects, should be able to perform well in any conditions.
For example, look at the market jitters around President Trump in the USA. We didn’t expect Trump to be elected. But he was – and believe it or not, the equity market actually liked it. The US Treasury market, on the other hand, didn’t and yields spiked. At the time of the election our Fund was at a very low duration and as a result investors were protected from this sharp drop in bond prices.
We believe there may even be some real investment opportunities as far as Trump’s presidency is concerned. Trump is unpredictable, which creates volatility. As bottom-up value investors this creates opportunity for us to invest at attractive price points. For example: Trump wants corporate tax cuts. If they happen, it will be good for companies’ bottom line; and if they don’t – the disappointment should create uncertainty in the market, where we can take advantage by finding value at lower prices.
The big question: is the market overvalued?
We are increasingly faced with the question from investors of whether or not the markets are overvalued. People want to know if there is there still enough to get excited about as offshore investors, and it’s perfectly understandable in this environment.
Despite being underweight equity, at 19% of the Fund relative to historic average of 25% and allowed limit of 30%, we are still finding great pockets of value. There is no denying that it’s a lot harder today than it has been in the past for us to find value – but that doesn’t mean it’s not there. It just means we need to work harder to find it now compared to post the financial crisis in 2008 when stock selection was easy as everything was cheap.
Nintendo is one of today’s exciting examples. After the disastrous launch of the Wii-U in 2012 the stock was written off and was unloved for many years. However, at the beginning of 2016 we (Chartwell) bought this stock as we started seeing positive change under the management of a new CEO. Nintendo started making their IP available outside of their consoles in the form of smart phone games (e.g. being part of the Pokemon-Go craze), Nintendo Land in partnership with Universal studios and the highly successful launch of the new Switch console which is again expected to be the top seller in the upcoming holiday season in the US. We first bought the share at $15-$18 when the company’s balance sheet was incredibly healthy at $7 of cash per share. Today, at c.$43 we believe there is still even more value to be unlocked.
Two other exciting companies for Cipolloni are Nokia (NOK) and Ericsson (ERIC). Both should ultimately benefit from the expansion of networking, especially the push forward from 3-4-5G technologies over the course of the next five years or so.
Although there is a lot of focus on the ‘game-changer’ technologies on the horizon, the ‘Internet of Things’ like the Google self-driving car will rely – heavily - on 5G connectivity. 3G and 4G will simply not cut it. What makes these two so exciting for us is the fact that they are currently completely unrecognised by the market and trading a cheap multiples. However, they both have the balance sheet strength to sustain themselves and take advantage of the inevitable growth in the tech sector.
Stay the course
We urge investors to stay the course once invested and to rely on their fund manager’s investment philosophy to prevail through volatile cycles. Today, probably more than ever, we believe that our longer-term focus when it comes to valuing opportunities is crucial.
Unlike many sell-side analysts who focus on quarterly earnings, we look 3 to 5 years out, or even longer. We focus on looking beyond the daily noise and to look for businesses that are trading at a discount, but have improving return on capital, healthy balance sheets, strong competitive positions and (new) management teams with good track records of turning companies around. These are the businesses that we believe can perform well no matter what the investment environment.

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The world’s most deadly poverty related neglected diseases, or PRNDs, afflict millions of people living in G-20 countries — the “Group of 20” largest economies brought together to advance international economic and financial cooperation.
That may come as a surprise, but it is the reality.
A majority of tuberculosis cases, and around 50 percent of HIV/AIDS and malaria cases, are found in G-20 countries, according to research by Prof. Peter Hotez, United States science envoy under President Obama. Around 12 million U.S. citizens are infected with at least one of these deadly diseases.
In light of this, we can no longer think of these as diseases of the developing world. It is critical that the G-20 countries recognize this fact, and do more to address the health needs of vulnerable groups within their borders.
Drug resistance, threats of pandemics and neglected diseases of poverty pose long-term threats to global development. Perhaps the fact that these diseases are afflicting people at home, as well as abroad, will convince governments to act.
The international community is ill-prepared for another pandemic, World Bank President Jim Kim has said at the Skoll World Forum, adding that financial support for the bank's new pandemic response mechanism has dropped to just two countries.
Inaction today will only serve to make future emergencies costlier, a lesson we should have learned from the recent Ebola epidemic.
In 2014 and 2015, Ebola claimed 11,325 lives in West Africa, and cost the three affected countries — Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone — more than $1.6 billion of their economic output for 2015; around 12 percent of their combined gross domestic product. The World Bank estimated that the final economic cost of the epidemic for the African continent would be in the region of $6.25 billion, far higher than if health systems had been prepared to cope with the threat of a pandemic.
The international community was rightly criticised by nongovernmental organizations providing services on the ground and the United Nations for failing to do enough and acting too slowly in response to the Ebola epidemic. Of an estimated $5 billion pledged by wealthy countries, only a small portion was actually made available to the affected countries.
“The world was ill-prepared,” said Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization in March 2015. “It shows. We must reduce this vulnerability as a matter of urgency.”
The scourge of antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, has produced similarly dire pathogens: A person being treated for extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis with today’s prevailing treatments has a lower likelihood of survival than the average case fatality rate for Ebola.
Plan ahead, and work across sectors
Agreement on the need for urgent action among G-20 leaders in July would help to ensure that we are better prepared to deal with future health crises.
However, the medicines, diagnostics, and vaccines needed will never exist if governments expect the private sector to do the job alone.
Product development is a long and uncertain process. Even when adequately funded, the discovery, development, manufacturing and distribution of drugs and vaccines to combat tropical and poverty related diseases often takes a decade or more.
Pharmaceutical companies have had little financial incentive to create anti-malarial drugs, for example, leaving the pipeline for new drugs empty for years.
Three African countries will be the first to participate in a widespread malaria vaccine pilot program that advocates hope could dramatically boost efforts to end the disease as well as kickstart research on an even more effective vaccine.
Product Development Partnerships, or PDPs, are working to fill this gap. Since emerging in the late 1990s, PDPs have developed and brought dozens of new health technologies targeting diseases of poverty to the market.
The PDP model, which acknowledges that the pharmaceutical sector will not sufficiently fund the high costs of research and clinical development, leverages the public and philanthropic sectors to share the risk of investing in urgently-needed medicines, vaccines and diagnostics.
This model has seen promising results. To take one example, international funding for malaria control and elimination was $2.7 billion in 2013, a threefold increase since 2005.
A version of this model should be supported by leaders in July. First and foremost, G-20 members should pool their national public health and scientific expertise to support global efforts to combat AMR.
We also need a commitment from G-20 members to steadily increase investments in health R&D, and pool their public health and scientific resources.
Build on previous experience
3 calls to action for G-20:
1. G-20 members should pool their national public health and scientific expertise to support global efforts to combat AMR.
2. A commitment from G-20 members is needed to steadily increase investments in health research and development, and offer innovative financing options.
3. The G-20 must provide political leadership to address the inter-related issues of AMR, pandemic preparedness/response and PRNDs.
One of the successes of the Millennium Development Goals was in focusing the minds of policymakers on dramatically reducing the leading causes of infant mortality — diarrhoeal disease, pneumonia and malaria, HIV incidences and the death toll from tuberculosis. That is a start, but it is not enough.
There is no excuse for tolerating a world in which millions of people — many of them in wealthy countries — die from treatable diseases because of market failure and political neglect.
Getting our own house in order would also be a giant step towards ending the epidemics of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, itself one of the U.N.’s recently agreed Sustainable Development Goals. A coordinated effort by the G-20 countries would help eliminate two-thirds of the global disease burden.
The World Bank has estimated that, without additional resources, these diseases will push an additional 28.3 million people into poverty, increase global health care costs by $1.2 trillion and cost low income countries more than 5 percent of GDP by 2050.
Saving lives while saving money should be something that all politicians can agree on.
Stay tuned for a special 10-week series featuring the latest news, views and expert analysis on how to finance the health-related Sustainable Development Goals, launching May 16 on Devex.


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The Goldstone Mission/ Why Israel requires recognition as a Jewish State
Aug 28, 2009 | AIJAC staff
August 28, 2009
Number 08/09 #08
This Update features a two part, detailed examination of the UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) Goldstone Commission – set up to examine the Gaza war – written by Irwin Cotler, a former Canadian Justice Minister and law professor.
In the first installment, Cotler looks at the way the Commission was constituted to include a mandate that pre-judged Israel guilty and seemed to rule out any examination of the Hamas behaviour that precipitated Israel’s response. He also explains his own refusal to participate in a previous one-sided UNHRC “investigation” and questions the decision of Richard Goldstone to head the inquiry despite publicly expressing concern about the one-sided mandate it was given. He also points out that another of the Commission’s members had publicly prejudged Israel guilty before ever joining the inquiry. For Cotler’s full discussion, CLICK HERE.
Next, Cotler looks at the history and goals of the UNHRC with respect to Israel as well as the damage to international law being done by the Goldstone Commission as it serves that agenda. He argues the likely outcome, condemnation of Israel while also including some condemnation of Hamas, is not good enough unless the Commission properly identifies Hamas’ crimes as “as the root cause of the Gaza conflict. Simply put, if there had been no Hamas war crimes, there would have been no need for an Israeli response.” For the rest of his eloquent argument and analysis, CLICK HERE. Another argument that international law was actually on Israel’s side during the Gaza war comes from author Yaacov Lozowick.
Finally, American academic Professor Robert Freedman looks at some arguments about the Israeli government demand that peace should entail the recognition of Israel as a “Jewish state” (the phrase PM Netanyahu actually used was recognition as “the national homeland of the Jewish people.”) He discusses some of the objections commonly raised to this idea – it’s not up to the Palestinians to determine Israel’s character, this will prejudice the status of Israel Arabs, etc.- but also suggests there is another unspoken factor in play here, namely, rejection of the idea that Israeli Jews have any national rights. He offers some thoughtful responses to all these objections, and to read them all, CLICK HERE.
Readers may also be interested in:
- Former Israeli ambassador and international law expert Alan Baker discusses both the pros and the cons of the announced plans of Palestinian PM Salam Fayyed to pursue unilateral independence within two years.
- Lots of discussion continues about the Swedish “organ stealing” story and the reactions to it – see here, here, here, here and here.
- Likewise, the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdulbaset Ali Al-Megrahi continues to excite interesting commentary – see here, here, here, here and here.
- Finally, Israeli counter-terrorism academic Yoram Schweitzer has yet more on the significance of the clash between Hamas and the al-Qaeda-linked JAA group a couple of weeks ago.
- Palestinian sources seem to be playing up claims that Jews have no historical connection to Jerusalem – see here and here.
- Israeli President Peres and the Jerusalem Post mourn the loss of US Senator Ted Kennedy, a life-long warm supporter of Israel.
THE JERUSALEM POST, Aug. 16, 2009
After nearly a decade of rocket-fire from Gaza targeting Israeli civilians – including armed attacks that continued and escalated for the three years after Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 – this year’s conflict in Gaza was nothing if not preventable and predictable.
From the moment Hamas officially announced that it would not extend its truce with Israel in December 2008, military confrontation appeared unavoidable. In the conflict that ensued, Israel – even if acting in self-defence – was bound to the rules of war like any other combatant. Yet despite the fog of war immediately covering the on-going hostilities, the international community was rife with “experts” who were ready to convict Israel of war crimes.
Among those supposed experts was Christine Chinkin, a law professor in England. As events would turn out, Chinkin would become both a member of, and an apt metaphor for, the seriously-flawed Goldstone Commission that would be called upon by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to investigate the conflict.
IF ONE wanted to have a distinguished person to head up an inquiry into the events of the Gaza War, Richard Goldstone would be a natural candidate. He was the chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He headed the South African commission on violence and intimidation. And he was a distinguished member of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He brings to the table a special expertise and experience in matters of the intersection between international human rights law and humanitarian law.
Goldstone, it would seem – and his record would indicate – is also a man preoccupied with fairness. As he himself declared: “I’m just not prepared to be involved in any inquiry, in any mission, in any report that has any unprofessional or inappropriate political agenda. I can give you that absolute assurance.” It is somewhat surprising then that he now heads yet another infamous United Nations mission to investigate Israel. That Goldstone is heading an inherently tainted inquiry whose formal mandate is to investigate Israel and not Hamas is as disturbing as it is evident.
Indeed, the mandate that was handed over to Goldstone was deeply one-sided and flawed, by his own admission. For the resolution of the UNHRC creating the mandate already served as a direct indictment of Israel – it began by “strongly condemn[ing] the ongoing Israeli military operation… which has resulted in massive violations of the human rights of the Palestinian people and systematic destruction of Palestinian infrastructure.” Canada, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the United Kingdom – among others – accordingly refused to support it.
Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson stated that “the resolution is not balanced because it focuses on what Israel did, without calling for an investigation on the launch of the rockets by Hamas. This is unfortunately a practice by the Council: adopting resolutions guided not by human rights but by politics. This is very regrettable.” Asked to head up the mission before Goldstone, Robinson refused.
Goldstone admits that he also refused the appointment – at least initially. “More than hesitate, I initially refused to become involved in any way [with the inquiry], on the basis of what seemed to me to be a biased, uneven-handed resolution of the UN Human Rights Council,” he explained. But he felt comfortable enough to proceed when the then-president of the Council, Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi, purportedly expanded the mission’s mandate for him, even though the enabling resolution behind the inquiry would remain unchanged, and though he would still be accountable to the Council that passed this resolution.
HOW GOLDSTONE could have considered his personal conversation with Uhomoibhi sufficient to quell his fears is surprising to say the least. One-sided or not, the mandate in the enabling Human Rights Council resolution is the one that determined the scope and tenor of the “fact-finding” mission. Uhomoibhi could no more have altered that mandate unilaterally than Goldstone could have himself, in defiance of the Council.
Indeed, any faith Goldstone possessed in the re-definition of his mandate should have dissipated when Uhomoibhi publicly stated on the day the inquiry was announced: “I am confident that the mission will be in a position to assess in an independent and impartial manner all human rights and humanitarian law violations committed in the context of the conflict which took place between 27 December 2008 and 18 January 2009.”
The alleged expansion of the mandate’s timeframe that Goldstone apparently fought for, to include reference to Hamas’s provocation (apparently from June 2008), was nowhere to be found in the description of his mandate.
I know from first-hand experience the baggage that comes with participating in a mission created by the UN Human Rights Council – a UN body systematically and systemically biased against Israel. For this is a Council that has a special and permanent agenda item targeting Israeli violations of human rights, and another agenda item for the rest of the world – thereby singling out Israel for differential and discriminatory treatment. This is a Council that targets some 80% of its resolutions at one member state, Israel, while the major human rights violators enjoy exculpatory immunity. This is a Council that has had more emergency “Special Sessions” directed against Israel than against all the other countries of the world combined. This is a Council that excludes only one country – Israel – from membership in any regional grouping, thereby denying it international due process.
As it happens, I was invited to participate in one of the UN Council’s exercises in Alice in Wonderland justice – where the conviction is secured even before the hearing begins – in 2006. The context was a fact-finding mission to investigate the Israeli “wilful killing of Palestinian civilians” in Beit Hanoun, Gaza, without reference to the targeting of Israeli civilians in Sderot, Israel.
Then, as now, the mandate was one-sided from the start. Then, as now, the conviction preceded the investigation. Then, as now, the mission was designed less as a true independent inquiry than as an imprimatur of legitimacy on the Council’s own, biased declarations.
I felt obliged to decline. I was told that at least I could play a part in the inquiry and, if I disagreed with its conclusions, write a dissenting opinion. But I realized that I could not validate this mission in any way, including through my mere presence, for the integrity of United Nations mandates was at stake.
Notably, one Professor Christine Chinkin accepted the appointment. Now Chinkin joins Goldstone in an inquiry that bears the hallmarks of bias and politicization that he supposedly shunned. Indeed, before the mission began – as if to add insult to injury – Chinkin notoriously signed her name to a public letter that was titled “Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is not self-defence – it’s a war crime.” Why she feels qualified at this point to hear witness evidence along with the rest of the commission – without triggering a reasonable apprehension of bias – is not entirely clear.
Rather than bestow legitimacy upon the Council’s mandate, Goldstone’s role should have been to act as a corrective. Now occupying the same Jewish figurehead role that I would have in 2006, he does not appear to have realized this fact.
Or, perhaps, he did. Though it was somewhat softer than Chinkin’s, Goldstone did also sign his name to a public letter on the Gaza conflict, stating that the events “shocked [him] to the core.” Yet he signed no such letter about Hamas’s terrorist crimes in the years that preceded the war. In an interview earlier this month, he had the temerity to excuse away the UN’s inaction vis-à-vis Hamas based on the fact that Israel never brought the matter to the Security Council’s attention.
The only problem, of course, is that Israel repeatedly did.
The writer is the former minister of justice and attorney general of Canada. He is a member of Canadian Parliament, special counsel on human rights and international justice to the Liberal Party, and a law professor (on leave) at McGill University.
THE JERUSALEM POST, Aug. 18, 2009
In Monday’s article, Prof. Cotler explained how the Goldstone Commission was tainted by the UN Human Rights Council resolution creating its mandate, as well as the predisposed views of some of its personnel. In the second part of his piece, he elaborates the systemic and systematic bias of the UN council itself, and the implications this bias has on the fact-finding mission and on the integrity of international law generally.
Disturbing as it may be, the failure to include a thorough review of Hamas’s continuous rocket attacks in the resolution establishing the Goldstone Commission – and to then staff the mission with a member who has already decided that such attacks do not alter Israel’s guilt – can be seen as evidence of the reductionist narrative that the UN Human Rights Council seeks to promulgate.
None of this is intended to suggest, nor would I wish to have it inferred, that Israel is somehow above the law, or that Israel is not to be held accountable for any violations of law. On the contrary, Israel is accountable for any violations of international law or human rights like any other state. The Jewish people are not entitled to any privileged protection or preference because of the particularity of Jewish suffering.
But the problem is not that Israel seeks to be above the law; it is that Israel has been systematically denied equality before the law in the international arena. The issue is not whether Israel must respect human rights, but that the human rights of Israel and its people have not been respected. The discrimination emerges not from suggesting that human rights standards should be applied to Israel – which they must be – but from the fact that these standards have not been applied equally to anyone else.
IT IS on this basis that the Goldstone Commission should be opposed: not because it represents an objective inquiry into Israel – because independent and impartial inquiries should be welcomed by democracies – but precisely because it does not represent such an objective inquiry.
Consistently applying discriminatory standards has the effect not only of demonizing Israel, but of undermining the integrity of the UN and the edifice of international law. Decades from now, historians looking back at the meetings of the council will be led to believe that more Palestinians died at the hands of Israelis than Darfurians at the hands of Sudan; that discrimination was institutionalized in Israel to a larger extent than in apartheid South Africa; and that Israel – the lone democracy in the Middle East – was a greater threat to international peace and security than any other state since its inception.
But yet it was Hamas that fired deliberately on Israeli civilians. It was Hamas that boasted – only days before the conflict exploded in December – that Israel was “hopeless and desperate” when faced with its attacks. It was Hamas that promised to continue firing rockets, that painted Israel and Jews as the sons of apes and pigs and that called for their murder in its charter and publicly incited to their genocide.
Once the war began, it was Hamas that continued to target Israeli civilians – not infrequently but as part of a systematic, widespread attack. It was Hamas that chose to position its fighters in Palestinian civilian areas. It was Hamas that decided to misuse humanitarian symbols – such as using an ambulance to transport fighters – to launch attacks. It was Hamas that recruited children into armed conflict. These are all indisputable war crimes. Yet they do not find their way, at any point, into the resolution establishing the Goldstone Commission.
The mission’s mandate is tainted through more subtle ways of prejudging its conclusions as well. For instance, the council’s enabling resolution refers to the Gaza as being “occupied Palestinian territory.” Such a description is loaded, and ignores the reality on the ground – that Israel fully withdrew from Gaza years ago. Indeed, the territory’s status under international law remains unclear. By adopting this vernacular, the council – and Goldstone himself, who uses a similar characterization – implicitly predetermines an essential part of its analysis. For under international law, what constitutes a legitimate response will be very different depending on whether rocket attacks are coming from territory a state “controls,” or whether they are coming from territory that is controlled by the attacking terrorist government, as in the case of Hamas.
In the end, whatever bargain Goldstone personally struck about his mandate, and whatever intentions he has of examining both sides of the conflict, his work will nonetheless be regrettably tarnished by its connection to the UN Human Rights Council, and may well be manipulated to satisfy the council’s ends.
AND THUS we are left with the reality that Judge Richard Goldstone, previously shocked to the core, has become the leader of a mission that is tainted to the core.
Goldstone has, to his credit, opened his commission – and listened – to the witness testimony of both Israelis and Palestinians. They heard eloquent words from, among others, Noam Schalit, whose son Gilad remains in Hamas captivity under conditions that plainly violate international law. Moreover, while many may welcome an ultimate finding from the inquiry that Hamas was guilty of human rights violations as well, such an outcome should not be considered enough.
The commission’s report is not yet written, and I would not wish to prejudge its findings. Suffice it to note, however, that the legitimacy of the report cannot be determined solely based on whether Hamas’s heinous and significant crimes are revealed; the legitimacy of the report also rests – perhaps primarily – on the fairness of its findings with respect to Israel. And this fairness, in turn, is compromised not only by the tarnished mandate, but by the witness testimony and documentary evidence controlled by the Hamas terrorist government – while there is an absence of evidence from the Israeli government, which refused to cooperate with the mission to begin with.
Moreover, there is also a clear international legal asymmetry in the conflict between Israel and the terrorist group. This asymmetry exists not only in what lawyers call jus ad bellum – or the legal context of aggression and self-defense – but also in jus in bellum – the application of international human rights law to the combatants. With respect to Hamas, any attempt at “evenhandedness” will not do justice to this reality. Indeed, no analysis of the principle of proportionality can be undertaken without a keen understanding of intentionality. Accordingly, the commission should thus be singling out Hamas’s deliberate and unprovoked acts of war, as well as its avowed and publicly-declared intention to destroy Israel and kill as many of its citizens as possible. Such intentions on the part of Hamas need to be contrasted with Israel’s objective – to prevent and deter such armed attacks in order to better protect its innocent citizens.
THE PARADIGM of false moral equivalence not only wrongly puts Israel and Hamas on the same level, but it also undermines the importance of intentionality in international law.
For this reason, we should be looking for the Goldstone report not merely to observe that Hamas fired rockets at Israeli civilians while imperilling Palestinian civilians – a double war crime – but to look at this practice as the reason behind innocent Palestinian deaths. We should be looking for the Goldstone report not merely to mention Gilad Schalit in passing, but to look at his situation as a case study in Hamas terror and impunity.
In brief: We should be looking for the Goldstone report not just to mention Hamas’s violations of international law, but to identify them as the root cause of the Gaza conflict. Simply put, if there had been no Hamas war crimes, there would have been no need for an Israeli response.
As the Goldstone inquiry is currently set up, however, expecting such an analysis to emerge clearly from its final report is likely unduly optimistic. The tarnish of the UN Human Rights Council, the enabling resolution it drafted, the personnel it grouped together, and the legal asymmetry cannot be so easily redressed. Indeed, between Goldstone – a renowned Jewish jurist who played right into the hands of a partial process – and Christine Chinkin – a law professor willing to sign off on an indictment before the evidence is in – the UN Human Rights Council no doubt found its ideal inquisitors.
And the council will no doubt be looking for their final report to be a final stamp of confirmation on the verdict it already determined.
The writer is the former minister of justice and attorney general of Canada. He is a member of the Canadian Parliament, special counsel on human rights and international justice to the Liberal Party, and a law professor (on leave) at McGill University.
Robert O. Freedman
Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) Aug 27th, 2009
In his June 2009 Bar-Ilan University speech, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asserted that Palestinian recognition of Israel as a “Jewish state” was one of Israel’s requirements for agreeing to the establishment of a Palestinian state. Both Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat,immediately rejected the requirement. However, if there is to be a long-lasting peace between Israel and a Palestinian state, Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state is a necessity.
Palestinians have three official objections to Israel being recognized as a Jewish state, as well as a fourth objection about which they do not speak openly, but which lies at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The three official objections are as follows:
- It is not the task of the Palestinians to determine the nature of the Israeli state, but that of the Israelis.
- Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state would jeopardize the position of the Israeli Arabs, who form 20 percent of the Israeli population.
- Israel did not demand recognition as a “Jewish state” in its peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan.
The fourth Palestinian objection—which they do not assert openly lest it destroy the chances for a peace treaty with Israel—is that many Palestinians simply do not accept the legitimacy of Jewish nationalism (Zionism). For the Palestinians, and for many other Arabs as well, a Jew is defined by religion, not nationality or ethnicity, and given the position of Jews as dhimmis, or second-class religious subjects in Muslim history, the Palestinians feel that Jews have no right to be rulers, let alone rule over what they consider Muslim territory.
These attitudes, partially latent during the heyday of the Oslo peace process (1993-2000), were reinforced by the Al-Aqsa Intifada, which transformed what had been a conflict between two peoples over the same piece of territory into a religious war between Muslims and Jews, and which greatly strengthened Hamas in the process. Indeed both Hamas and non-Hamas religious leaders stressed that the Palestinians were fighting the Jews, just as Muhammad had fought the Jews who they allied with his enemies as he sought to unite the Arabian Peninsula under the banner of Islam.
What the Palestinians—and other Arabs—fail to understand is that Zionism arose as a national movement among Jews in Europe in the 19th century. Very much influenced by the national unification movements of Germany and Italy (as were the Arab nationalists of the time), as well as by the increasingly precarious position of the Jews in Eastern Europe who were beset by pogroms in Czarist Russia, Zionist thinkers such as Hess, Lilienblum and Herzl asserted that just as the French had France, the Germans had Germany and the Italians had Italy, the Jews deserved a state of their own where they could lead a “normal, national life,” and the ancient Jewish homeland of Israel, then occupied by the Ottoman Empire, was chosen as the site of the future Jewish state. To be sure, the land which the Zionists wanted was already populated by Arabs; however, the Arabs who lived there at the end of the 19th century had not yet developed a national identity (that was come during the British mandate of 1922-48), and at the time primary saw themselves as Muslims or Christians, or as “Southern Syrians” or as Ottoman subjects.
This being the case, one can respond to the Palestinian reasons for not recognizing Israel as a “Jewish state” in the following manner:
- While the Israelis alone can and should define the nature of their state, as the existential nature of the state is a central factor in the conflict (unlike, for example, the conflicts between France and Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries), then Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish State becomes central to ending the conflict.
- There are many minorities in the Middle East, and the often negative treatment of these minorities, whether religious (such as the Copts in Egypt and the Shi’a in Saudi Arabia) or national (such as the Kurds in Turkey and the Azeris) is, in fact, linked to the nature of the country in which they live. However these minorities could be protected by treaty arrangements (currently they are not, although Turkey has begun the process of trying to address its Kurds’ aspirations)—so long as they swear allegiance to the state. Indeed, should a Palestinian state which recognizes Israel as a “Jewish state” emerge, that could make it easier for Israeli Arabs to solve their own identity problems, which have become increasingly serious in recent years, as some Israeli Arab leaders have openly backed Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria in their conflicts with Israel. Thus, as part of a peace treaty between a Palestinian state and Israel, the protection of the rights, albeit not the national rights, of the Israeli Arabs could be stipulated.
- While acknowledgment of Israel as a Jewish state was not a component of Israel’s peace treaties with either Egypt or Jordan, in neither case was Israel involved in the type of existential conflict with these countries as it currently is with the Palestinians—a conflict in which it often appears that the assertion of one people’s national aspirations negates those of the other people. Thus it is necessary for both sides to recognize the legitimacy of the other’s national aspirations. For the Palestinian side, this involves recognizing Israel as a Jewish State.
- Finally, and perhaps most important of all, it is necessary for the Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish state to replace the image of the Jew as dhimmi, or second class citizen, with the image of the Jew as a member of a national group exercising legitimate national rights, just as the Palestinians themselves do. Once this is done, the chances for a long-lasting peace between Israel and a Palestinian state will be greatly enhanced.

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Objective: Determination of dielectric constant of PZT material with Temperature variation and thus determining Curie Temperature.
Theory: Ferro-electricity usually disappears above a certain temperature called the transition (or Curie) temperature. Knowledge of the Curie temperature and the variation of the dielectric constant below and above the Curie temperature are of interest to the physicists and the engineers.
In this experiment an LC circuit is used to determine the capacitance of the dielectric cell and hence the dielectric constant. The circuit details are shown below:
DC : Dielectric Cell
SC : Standard Capacitor
L : Induction
X : Ferroelectric Sample
The dielectric cell DC is placed in PID controlled hot air furnace. The temperature of the furnace can be measured by inserting a thermocouple in a hole (provided on one of the Teflon discs), so that it touches one of the capacitor (metal) plates.
The audio oscillator is incorporated inside the instrument. If CSC and CDC represent the capacitances of the standard capacitor and dielectric cell respectively and if VC1 and VC are the voltages across SC and DC then
By measuring VSC & VDC and using the value of CSC we can determine the capacitance of the dielectric cell containing the sample.
If C0 represents the capacitance of the dielectric cell without the crystal and the plates separated by air gap whose thickness is the same as the thickness of the crystal then C0 is given by
where r represents the radius of the crystal and d represents its thickness
The dielectric constant of the crystal at any given temp. is given by
The Setup facilitates determination of dielectric constant of PZT sample at different temperature. Dielectric Constant increases as temperature increases, and near Curie temperature, it shows a steep increase and reaches a peak at Curie Temperature.
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The successor to the PS4 is coming and will be hitting the shelves in winter later this year, which makes it a prime target for most people’s Christmas shopping and Thanksgiving. It will definitely be one hell of a rival to the Xbox Series X. It has been 7 years since the release of this predecessor, the PS4 and 4 the PS4 Pro. With next-level specs in 2016, the Pro offered some form of upgrade from its older sibling, the standard PS4 with an increase in power that made it 4K-compatible and established it as the best way to play exclusives like Horizon: Zero Dawn, Ghost of Tsushima, and The Last of Us 2. How will Sony’s next-generation console be any different if not better than the PS4 pro, we’ll dive right into that soon!
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Playstation 5 Release Date
The PS5 will be released on November 12 in the United States as well as Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Mexico, and South Korea.
The PS5 will cost $499.99 / £449.99 for the standard edition of the console, which contains a disc drive to allow you to play physical discs as well as disc copies of PS4 games. The Digital Edition of the PS5 will cost $399.99 / £359.99, which only allows you to play games downloaded from the PS5 and does not have a disc drive. The disc drive on the PS5 also allows you to play 4K UHD Blu-Ray discs.
The PS5 design was officially unveiled on June 11, 2020, gracing fans with what looked like a futuristic object. When it came to the reveal of the console itself, Sony nailed it – the icing on the PS5 games reveal event, and with a few surprises in store too. Not one, but two PlayStation 5 consoles will launch – a standard edition with a 4K Blu-ray disc drive, and a much more svelte, disc drive-free PS5 Digital Edition. Both of these devices utilize USB Type-C charging for their controllers, and can make use of an HD camera-like webcam accessory, alongside a new PS5 wireless headset and media remote. The consoles themselves feature a uniquely eclectic and striking design that’s sure to split fans’ opinions. A curvy fusion of black and white with blue highlights that are lit when activated, the ‘black box’ design is now a remnant of the distant past.
Upon scouring reviews, we have found that the PS5
- Capable of running 4K/120fps gameplay as well as support for 8K/60
- Faster loading times thanks to new SSD
- Tempest 3D audio tech is comparable to Atmos
- System runs cool and quiet nearly all the time
In terms of raw specs, the PlayStation5 is quite impressive. There's the new custom RDNA 2 GPU that can swiftly dish out 4K resolution at 120 frames per second, and the octa-core AMD Zen 2-based CPU with a 3.5GHz clock speed which essentially make it on par with some of the more powerful gaming PCs. Throw in 16GB of memory into the mix and the NVMe SSD and you would have a machine running on amazing specs which makes it almost nothing short of perfection!
Is the PS5 Tempest 3D Audio a Game-changer?
The PS5's 3D Tempest Audio is Sony's take on Dolby Atmos, or spatial audio in general. It works on any headset, with support for TV speakers coming sometime after the PS5’s launch. Reviewers have tested all kinds of spatial audio systems ranging from Windows Sonic to the Dolby Atmos before discovering that the PS5’s 3D Audio also provides a similar experience, although extensive testing on more games would be needed to fully discern how good the PS5’s audio quality is.
The Tempest 3D Audio will make you enjoy and appreciate the ambient sounds in the game. Ambient sounds is essentially the term used to describe background noises such as the ships flying past you in Astro’s Playroom or the thugs approaching you in Marvel’s Spider Man: Miles Morales. While reviewers have noted that the sounds are not that realistic in some parts, it is worth noting that the PS5 is still as fresh as a newborn and hopefully developers will add more features that include the Tempest 3D Audio mechanics in future content.
PS5 vs PS4 Pro
The PS5 is also the biggest(literally) and hottest console Sony has ever made, and it even dwarfs the sizable PS4 Pro. The PS4 Pro, on the other hand, looks more like a traditional console which sits unobtrusively within any home entertainment setup. It's slim, and lightweight at 3.3 kg while being not in the least divisive. The same can't be said about the PlayStation 5. The PS5's massive size does give it one significant advantage over the PS4 Pro, though: it's practically silent and tested to have produced a minimal amount of heat. The PS4 Pro, meanwhile, can kick up a fuss when playing certain games, and it's also found guilty of generating a lot of heat.
Sony's top-tier PS5 costs $499.99 / £449.99, while the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition (identical, except without a disc drive) comes in at $399.99 / £349.99.
The PS5 Controller
To usher this whole new world of console gaming, you need the Sony DualSense controller to light the way. The DualSense feature was first dangled in front of us when we found out that Travis Scott became the ambassador for the PS5, with a video of the rapper giving the PS5 a spin and highlighting the DualSense feature. Upon having the controller resting in your grasp, you can get a familiar sense of comfort similar to the DualShock 4 controller that came with the PS4, but more comfortable and lightweight. While the majority of the controller features a matte white plastic finish, the bottoms of the grips themselves have a slightly rougher texture that actually makes the controller easier to hold, and less likely to slip out of your hands. In fact, if you look closely, the texture is made up of tiny PlayStation face buttons, which is a neat little touch.
Most consoles don't launch with a full library of games right off the bat, so the bar might seem pretty low here and odds not that great for the PS5. That being said, what you make of the PlayStation 5's current game library largely depends on if you finished the masterpieces from the PS4's era – games like God of War, The Last of Us Part II, Marvel's Spider-Man and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. If the aforementioned games haven’t met the finish line or found their way to your console, you can take advantage of the backwards compatibility feature on the PS5 and play games from the PS4 era. Every PS5 unit also comes with a pre-installed Astro’s Playroom which showcases the features of PS5 and what the console can do. Even if Astro’s Playroom won’t win the gaming equivalent of the Grammy’s, it is still a silly yet incredibly fun game to play.
While the repertoire of video games is still limited as of now, you can try out the early list of heavy hitters like Marvel’s Spider Man: Miles Morales, Sackboy: A Big Adventure, and Demon Souls, which are from Sony’s first-party studios. To jazz up your gaming experience, you can also pick up some big-name third-party games like Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Godfall and Watchdogs: Legion.
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• Define, document, and enforce templates and standards for deployment and support of network infrastructure.
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• BS in Computer Science /Systems Management/IT Related field
• Core routing and switching design, configuration, and troubleshooting
• Strong understanding of network infrastructure and network hardware
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MANILA – Malacañang on Thursday told Vice President Leni Robredo not to worry about President Rodrigo Duterte’s earlier proposal to declare a revolutionary government, stressing that the Chief Executive has already rejected the idea.
“With all due respect to the Vice President, I don’t see what is alarming because the President time and again has said he will only resort to revolutionary government kapag lupaypay na ang gobyerno, kapag naghihingalo na ang gobeyerno and, of course, ‘di naman ganyan ang nangyayari sa gobyerno ngayon,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque told reporters in a phone interview.
“While it is true there are some of the President’s allies who want a revolutionary government, he appreciates the suggestion but he has repeatedly said there is no basis and no need for a revolutionary government for now,” Roque added.
Robredo, the highest elected official from the opposition Liberal Party, on Thursday told reporters at the commemoration of Bonifacio Day in Caloocan City that calls for a revolutionary government by Duterte’s supporters is worrisome.
“Nakakabahala ito, kasi kapag sinabi kasing revolutionary government, gusto mong isantabi iyong Konstitusyon. Laban ito sa mga existing na batas, kaya nakakabahala,” Robredo said.
“Iyong tanong nito, iyong mga sasali ba dito…may be held liable? Kasi iyong pag-alsa laban sa Konstitusyon, pag-alsa iyon laban sa pamahalaan.”
Meanwhile, Roque said the opposition may only be using the issue to cast the President in a bad light.
“The opposition is making a big deal out of this revolutionary government [issue]… Sa oposisyon, humanap na kayo ng ibang issue,” Roque said.
Duterte had himself first floated the idea of setting up a revolutionary government, where sweeping government reforms will take place, such as the scrapping of the Constitution and declaration of government posts as vacant.
He has since taken a step back, saying last week that the country “won’t get anything” from setting up a revolutionary government.
The President, however, said he might be forced to declare a revolutionary government if the country, like a ship, “is about to capsize.”
“Well, I hope there will never be a time I will be compelled to call for it. Ako, basta abogado, and we follow the Constitution,” Duterte said in an interview with Palace Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson posted on Wednesday.
“If the country is going like a ship about to capsize, then that would be the time, maybe, I will have to declare [a revolutionary government],” he added.
While the President has already dismissed the idea of setting up a revolutionary government, in recent days he said he wants an overhauled Constitution that has strong anti-corruption provisions.
To allay fears he would use charter change to extend his stay in office, Duterte assured the public he would step down once the revision of his desired version of the charter is fulfilled.


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MUMBAI (AFP) -- Limits on cash withdrawals will be removed entirely from March 13, India's central bank said Wednesday, as it left interest rates on hold for the second time since a ban on high-value rupee notes.
The Reserve Bank of India capped cash withdrawals after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's shock decision in November to take all 500 ($7.40) and 1,000 rupee notes out of circulation to deter tax-dodging -- 86 percent of the currency in the cash-reliant nation.
The ensuing cash crunch saw long queues outside banks and ATMs, which ran dry within hours and left many without the means to buy food or daily essentials, especially in rural areas.
In a statement, the bank said withdrawal limits would be nearly doubled from 24,000 rupees to 50,000 from February 20 and removed altogether from March 13.
The bank also said it was leaving interest rates unchanged at 6.25 percent, despite pressure for a cut to stimulate the economy amid fears the cash ban had slowed growth.
"It's a bit surprising and slightly perplexing that they didn't do a cut," said Ashutosh Datar, economist at IIFL Institutional Equities.
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India's economy grew by 7.6 percent in the year to April 2016, but the government has forecast that will slip to around 7.1 percent in the current financial year.
Last month the government warned that demonetisation had hit a host of sectors including real estate and farming, but also said tax revenues could be boosted in the long run.
The cash crunch has also prompted the International Monetary Fund to knock a percentage point off its forecast for India's economy in the current fiscal year. The new estimate is 6.6 percent, bringing it below China's projected rate of 6.7 percent.
The central bank said the benchmark repo rate -- the level at which it lends to commercial banks -- would remain steady after being cut to 6.25 percent in October.


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Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday launched a full-scale attack on ruling Janata Dal-United (JDU) government in Bihar accusing it of letting rapes happen under its nose in a government shelter and aiding the prime accused in the matter. He said that Nitish Kumar-led JDU rule in the state is no less than ‘Ravana Raj’ where Draupadi is being harassed by Duryodhana and Sita is being abducted by Ravana. Tejashwi Yadav also condemned the law and order situation in Bihar under Nitish Kumar government.
After the medical examination of 42 girls living in a government shelter home in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, at least 34 of them were found to be victims of months of sexual assault. The report of rampant rapes in the shelter home came to light when Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Social Sciences interviewed several inmates of the state-run home and submitted the report.
While speaking to media on Saturday, a furious Tejashwi Yadav, who is also the Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly, slammed the law and order situation in Bihar saying “Yahan toh Draupadi ka cheerharan ho raha hai, Duryodhana kar raha hai. Sita maiya ka apharan Ravana kar raha hai. Yahan toh Rakshas Raj kaayam ho gaya hai. Ravana aur Duryodhana ki sarkar chal rahi hai.”
After the rapes came to light, 10 of the 11 accused were arrested and the case was handed over to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The non-governmental organisation which was running the shelter home has been blacklisted and all the inmates have been moved to other shelters in the district.
However, Tejashwi Yadav condemned the state government’s handling of the matter. The RJD leader said that several drugs and things related to abortion were being used at the shelter home. “Still, the main suspect Brajesh Thakur is being protected by the government. When will he be arrested? Till when minor girls will be raped in the state?”

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CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC)– The Chesterfield Fire Department has activated a team to investigate the death of a fire recruit who passed away last month.
According to Chesterfield fire, a fatality review team is now in place to look into the death of Tyvaughn Eldridge, a recruit with the department who passed away after a medical emergency during physical training in early July.
Timothy McKay, Deputy Fire Chief for Chesterfield Fire and EMS, said Eldridge started his morning on July 1, with stretching and exercises. He then went on a group jog with his recruit class, where he suffered a medical emergency. Eldridge was taken to the hospital, where he passed away two days later on the morning of July 3.
McKay told 8News, the department is still in mourning after the tragedy and continues to feel the effects.
“We continue to grieve as a group and with his family,” McKay said.
After Eldridge passed away, the child said the department immediately initiated the fatality review team. The group is made up of people from multiple jurisdictions and backgrounds, such as medicine and even human resources. They are tasked with looking into the circumstances surrounding Eldridge’s death.
“That involves everything from his hiring and onboarding process, the vetting process that got him with our agency, up to and including the events of the morning of the medical emergency he suffered while on duty,” McKay said.
The fire chief said there are many factors to consider and the team is going to be diligent.
“It’s important to us that it be as thorough and comprehensive as it possibly can be,” McKay said. “I think part of what naturally we’re looking at is updates to policies, procedures or practices that could be made or might be beneficial.”
Chesterfield Fire and EMS is currently waiting on Eldridge’s medical reports. The final report will be released when the review is finished. There is no timeline set for how long the review will take.

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The Upper Room has developed a therapeutic relationship with Research Genetic Cancer Center (RGCC), a leading-edge global research group based in Zug, Switzerland, headed by Dr. Ioannis Papasotiriou. RGCC uses world-leading technology, equipment and innovative techniques to provide targeted diagnostic solutions and personalized treatment options to a global patient community.
Research Cancer Genetic Centre (RGCC) at the Upper Room
RGCC offers a range of tests designed to give clinicians comprehensive information about a patient’s cancer genetics, as well as their physiology and immune profiles. RGCC is known for “The Greek Test”, a detailed genetic description of an individual’s cancer and how it behaves with a variety of chemo agents. A comprehensive look at a patient’s individual case can help the clinician and patient make informed decisions and empowered choices in their health.
With years of research behind them, the RGCC group is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of precision medicine and providing the most innovative solutions for their clinicians and patients.
Areas of Focus
- Cancer Genetic Testing
- Chronic Viral Infections
- Autoimmune Conditions
- Next-Gen Autologous Therapies
There are a number of tests and therapies provided through RGCC. A full list is available at your request.
Week 1: Consultation
The doctor will review your past medical records and intake forms in order to advise on potential therapeutic modalities that you qualify for with RGCC.
Week 2: Blood Draw
Our staff will then draw 30 ml of your blood. Please eat a generous meal at least 2 hours prior blood draw and drink plenty of water.
Week 4-6: Results & Next Steps
Once the physician receives your results, you will be notified and booked for a follow-up appointment to discuss your results and explore treatment options.

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William D. Kerns, DVM, MS, DACVP, VP Drug Development
Dr. Kerns has over 20 years of experience in Pharmaceutical Research and Development at SmithKline Beecham and Eisai Pharmaceuticals. As a Senior Executive he has participated in the development of drugs for over 100 Phase I studies and 13 NDAs/MAAs. Bill has chaired a FDA committee on biomarkers and he is an expert in preclinical development and regulatory strategy.
Michael Silverman, MD, Medical Director
Dr. Silverman has extensive experience in clinical development acquired through his involvement in clinical development in large pharmaceutical and small biopharmaceutical companies. He was involved in international clinical research, market-oriented strategic planning, and the challenges of managing an R&D portfolio in various capacities in Sterling Winthrop Research Institute and subsequently in Sandoz Research Institute.
Zivit Harpaz, MA, Director Clinical Operations
Zivit Harpaz gained her M.A. at the Haifa University, Israel. She has over 6 years of experience in Clinical Trial Management where she has led the logistic and monitoring affairs of Phase I/II, Phase II and Phase III clinical studies in the fields of Oncology, Ophthalmic and autoimmune Inflammatory Diseases.

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17 - 21 April
PORTRAIT: A MOMENT OF SHARING
This exciting five-day course aims to help participants improve their portrait skills. It will be based on constructive, helpful discussions but sometimes they will need to leave their "comfort zone" to break habits and experiment with new things.
Every step in making a portrait will be covered, especially the development of a personal project, but the emphasis will be on light and exchanges with the person photographed. Participants will work on finding the right position and distance from the model.
Relying on Jean-François Robert’s tips and broad experience, they will determine their own ways of interacting with the model. The challenge will involve knowing how to guide the person photographed while giving him or her a degree of freedom and directing a shoot while being ready for surprises and adjusting to what the model sends back.
Light will also have a key place: it allows certain aesthetic choices to be made and brings coherence to a set of portraits. Lighting must be thought out and prepared in advance in order to interfere with the meeting as little as possible while remaining modular and adjustable.
Taking the human being into account and sharing will punctuate the project’s execution. As the days go by, participants will compose a series of portraits based on the many contacts pre-established by the Rencontres d'Arles.
Works and lives in Paris.
He photographs anonymes and personality from arts, culture or politics for great magazines as Elle, M le Monde, Télérama, Libération, GQ, Le Monde, Madame Figaro, Marie-Claire, D La Républica, Surface, Stylist, L’équipe Magazine, L’obs, IO Donna, The Times Magazine…
His work is often exhibited and published : "Faces/Public" (Ed Verlhac, 2007) and "Fucking good question!" ( Ed Belles Balades, 2019).
He is represented by MODDS.Son site personnel : www.jean-francoisrobert.com
- Discussions of participants’ prior work
- Shooting exercise, management of light, framing and the model
- Shooting sessions in small groups and alone
- Preselection and management of digital files
- Editing sessions with the workshop instructor
- Discussions and experiments with photo equipment
- Finalization of a coherent series
- End-of-workshop assessment
- A selection of around 30 images attesting to your practice (preferably on paper/format of your choice)
- Your camera, charger and cables
- 2 or 3 memory cards
- A Mac-compatible hard drive or your computer if you wish
- Number of participants: 6 to 12
- Begins: 10:00 a.m. on Monday
- Ends: 6:30 p.m. on Friday (it followed by an exhibition until 9:30 pm)
- Location: historic center near the Arles arena
- Access : stairs. 3 floors.
- Learn the various steps involved in creating a photo series
- Develop a point of view based on a selection of photographs
- Teaching staff : a professional photographer instructor, helped by an assistant from 6 attenders
- Logistic staff to facilitate shooting sessions (places, material, contacts…)
- Workshop held in both French and English :
Collective parts in French with a translation for non-French speakers.
One-to-one interviews could be in English.
- Mac computers
- Contact prints (6x4 in.)
- Studios with various accessories
- Lightening set up (Flashs, LED, Fresnel…)
- Digital camera (on demand)
- A photo library (app. 500 references)
- Private end-of-course interview and evaluation
- The instructor continuously evaluates the personal series
- Oral end-of-course evaluation
FORMALISATION AT THE END OF THE COURSE
- End-of-course certificate
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Mars Retail Group is relocating its existing M&M'S experiential store from Orlando to Disney Springs at Walt Disney World Resort.
Construction at the outdoor shopping and entertainment complex was expected to begin in December with an anticipated 2020 grand opening date.
The state-of-the-art, experiential M&M'S store at Disney Springs will be one of five owned and operated by Mars Retail Group, bringing the best experience of the M&M'S brand to life in locations across North America, Europe and Asia. These include locations in New York, Las Vegas, London and Shanghai.
"Disney Springs is one of the most popular retail destinations in the country, making it the perfect location for our new M&M'S experiential store," said Patrick McIntyre, director of global retail at Mars Retail Group. "Guests will be fully immersed into an interactive chocolate experience that will create more moments and more smiles through the colorful fun of M&M'S."
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Incredible WWI story of Catholic and Protestant from same street
‘Medal in the Drawer’, a production by Belfast playwright Dr Brenda Winter-Palmer, charts the real-life war journey of two volunteers – one Protestant and one Catholic – from west Belfast, who joined up to fight with the 36th Ulster Division.
For Brenda, this was a labour of love inspired by her personal connection to one of the brave men depicted in the play – her great uncle, Rifleman Willie Kerr.
She explained: “As a child I was always fascinated by a plaque that hung in the hallway of our Andersonstown home. It was inscribed with the name of William Kerr.
“When asked, my mother told me that it was a medal that her uncle had received for fighting in the First World War.
“No one in her family had talked much about him. Indeed in the 1970s in west Belfast not very many people talked freely about family connections with the British Army.”
Medal in the Drawer shines a light on the fact that, in the midst of the Home Rule crisis, a time of great unrest between nationalists and unionists in Ireland, William Kerr, a west Belfast Catholic, chose to join Carson’s predominantly Unionist 36th Ulster Division, rather of one of the Irish regiments.
The young man enlisted almost immediately after the outbreak of war in 1914, along with Tom Martin, a Protestant who lived two doors away at Forthriver Gardens off the Springfield Road.
The pair joined the 14th (Young Citizen Volunteer) Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles and were shipped off to the Western Front, from where neither would ever return.
Tom perished in a trench collapse in the lead up to the Somme, while William was killed in 1917 at Langemarck during the Third Battle of Ypres.
The play also features two entirely fictional characters, who are based upon the experiences of real people.
When she took on the daunting task of writing Medal in the Drawer, Brenda conceded that she knew comparatively little about the First World War. However, she did know about her ‘Uncle Willie’, and was keen to know more.
“For me the act of writing and directing Medal in the Drawer has been a reclamation of my family history which has never been properly commemorated,” she told the News Letter.
A former drama lecturer at Queen’s University, Brenda’s 35-year career as an actress, writer and director has spanned professional theatre, film and television.
She is now involved with the Living Legacies project, a new research centre based at Queen’s which provides a focal point for connecting academic and community researchers interested in how the First World War lives on in the 21st century world.
“I consider myself to be a historical dramatist, and researching and writing this play gave me a huge kick, as it allowed me to delve into my roots like never before,” Brenda said.
Now, following successful performances at the Brian Friel and Lyric theatres in Belfast, Medal in a Drawer is to feature as part of ‘Belfast Somme 100’, a programme of commemorative events marking the centenary of the Battle of the Somme.
For a full list of the dates and venues, and to book tickets, visit www.belfastsomme100.com

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