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By Praveen Swami
December 15, 2017
In the beginning, there was blood sacrifice — the taking of a woman’s life to build the kingdom of god. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Saudi Arabia’s founding ideologue, had in 1744 begun a war against blasphemy and debauchery in the small town of al-Uyayna. He cut down trees considered holy by local tribes, destroyed shrines, and punished men who visited the tombs of saints.
Then, the chronicler Hussein ibn Ghannam recorded, “an adulterous came to him and admitted her sin”. “…He gave her several days to reconsider her confession. She remained defiant.” But the woman’s murder was a step too far — the ruler of Bani Khalid tribe, Sulayman al-Muhammad, expelled Ibn al-Wahhab from al-Uyayna. He fled to Deriyya, helped by a pious woman who introduced him to its ruler. The man who would give the preacher political power was Muhammad Ibn al-Saud, founding ruler of Saudi Arabia.
King Salman ibn Abdulaziz al-Saud made a dramatic decision this September to allow Saudi women to drive, unescorted by a male guardian, and banned from preaching a cleric who said women must not drive because their brains shrank to a quarter the size of men’s when they went shopping. Nudged by Crown Prince Muhammad ibn Salman, the King also allowed women to enter a sports stadium for the first time, and there are plans to let them hold high bureaucratic office.
However, Saudi Arabia still forces women who have fled abusive families to return — sometimes using intelligence agents to conduct kidnappings as far away as Manila and Istanbul. Saudi women cannot marry, work, study, travel or seek healthcare without the consent of male guardians. In 2016, the US State Department noted that they “continued to face significant discrimination under law and custom, and many remained uninformed about their rights”.
From the early 1930s, as the Saudi order began to consolidate into what can be recognised as a modern nation, local traditions and control over women began to be replaced by state control. “Women became important not only for the physical reproduction of the new pious nation”, social anthropologist Madawi al-Rasheed wrote, “but also as the repository of its morality, ethics, and religious purity. This required that they should then be controlled lest they undermine national piety”.
In practice, this meant the regulation of women’s lives — controls over who they could marry, their recourse to legal rights and education — devolved to clerical institutions, which played an ever greater role in shaping the Saudi state.
The new order drew extensively on the mores of the pre-modern elite. The Englishwomen Lady Anne Blunt and Gertrude Bell, who travelled in the Najd region in the 19th century, recorded elite women from the oasis of Hail proudly saying they made only two journeys in their lives — one to their husband’s home, the other to the grave. The long Abayas they wore were supposed to not just veil, but also erase their footprints in the sand.
In contrast, Bedouin tribal women travelled to gather fodder and firewood, complementing family income by producing and selling craftwork, and even encouraging the men through songs and poems as they prepared to go for raids. In 19th century photographs, many posed without a veil.
The state’s official ideology, Wahabiyya, was not just religious doctrine — it was religious nationalism, seeking to compress a diverse, layered society into a monolithic identity. This impulse was not fundamentally different from other modernising ideologies, like Arab nationalism: if in some cases, the liberation of women was a means to push back against the clerical right, in Saudi Arabia, oppression was used to cement these links.
In A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia, al-Madawi has argued that “women become boundary markers that visibly and structurally distinguish this pious nation from other ungodly polities hence, the obsession with their bodies, appearance, segregation, purity, and sexuality”.
From the 1960s, however, the Saudi state began opening the doors of primary education to women. Writers Muhammad Awad and Ahmad Sibai argued that educated women were needed to produce the men the emerging nation needed. In 1970, the kingdom opened its first university for women. Faisal ibn Abdulaziz al-Saud, king from 1964 to 1975, is credited with introducing reforms, nudged by his progressive wife, Iffat.
The reforms, however, encountered bitter resistance from clerics — and could only be pushed forward by ceding space for greater control over women’s lives, and controlling their right to make crucial decisions independently of men. In 1977, the 19-year-old Princess Mishaal bint Fahd, grand-daughter of then-king Khalid ibn Abdulaziz al-Saud’s brother Muhammad ibn Abdulaziz, was famously executed in public for seeking to elope with her lover, the son of a Saudi diplomat. In 1979, religious radicals seized the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, declaring Muhammad al-Qahtani the Mahdi, or redeemer of Islam, who had arrived to free Saudi Arabia from its corrupt, oil-rich monarchy. In need of religious legitimacy, the Saudi state rolled back its cautious liberalisation of women.
The wheel turned after 9/11, with King Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al-Saud ushering in a kind of Saudi “state feminism”. Women were for the first time given official identification, acknowledging their status as citizens. Like others in the ruling configuration, King Abdullah saw women as potential allies against Islamists threatening to overwhelm Saudi Arabia and evict the monarchy.
King Abdullah’s impulses have steadily strengthened — in 2015, women were allowed to stand in municipal elections, and the power of the religious police slowly diminished. In recent years, Saudi Arabia has also seen the emergence of a small cohort of women entrepreneurs and executives; the kingdom’s liberalisers argue that increasing women’s participation in the workforce is essential to securing its post-oil future.
Fundamental reform, though, is unlikely, for the monarchy’s own power, and its position as guardians of Islam, is contingent on clerical support. Even as Saudi women celebrate their success in securing the right to drive, they know more fundamental gains could take years of bitter struggle.

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[Samba] samba + ADS + hostname problem
bettlejuice314 at hotmail.com
Sat Feb 7 19:38:23 GMT 2004
here's the deal:
i succeed in joining a samba server to ADS, wich is,
net ads join
all work.... when i try to connect from a windows domain member using
\\<ip address> everything works fine and i can access the shares, depending
on my valid users parameters, of course. But when i try to do the same thing
by issuing \\<netbios-name> or browsing Network Neighborhood it doesn't even
show the shares complaining "\\<netbios-name> is not accessible" or
something like that. If i try to 'ping <netbios-name>' from the same windows
box the resolution goes fine.
i saw other postings about this but it isn't clear whether it's a samba bug
or misconfigured parameters.
Any tips??? perhaps something is not being reported correctly to the master
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Volume 15, Number 3—March 2009
Genus of gram-negative bacteria in the family Enterobacteriaceae, named for Japanese bacteriologist Koyoshi Shiga (1871–1957). In 1897, Japan experienced a severe dysentery epidemic; >91,000 cases were reported, and the case-fatality rate was >20%. Dr Shiga isolated the etiologic agent from patient stool samples: a bacillus, later called Shigella dysenteriae. He went on to describe the toxins that the organism produces; one that causes serious complications during infections is now known as Shiga toxin.
Sources: Trofa AF, Ueno-Olsen H, Oiwa R, Yoshikawa M. Dr. Kiyoshi Shiga: discoverer of the dysentery bacillus. Clin Infect Dis. 1999;29:1303–6; Dorland’s illustrated medical dictionary, 31st edition. Philadelphia: Saunders; 2007.
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Mexican bandits out in the middle of nowhere are using their costumes to hide their identities.
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Nov 4, 2011, 3:16 PM EST
J.J. Hickson is not going to go down in history as one of the legends of Israeli basketball.
The Sacramento Kings forward played one game for Bnei Hasharon of Israel but has been released after one game because he was late for a couple practices. Practice? Yes, we’re talkin’ ’bout practice. Noam Schiller, writer for Cowbell Kingdom and follower of the Israeli basketball league, tweeted this.
So, to recap: J.J. Hickson signs in Israel, plays ONE game in which his team loses by 39 points, is late to practice, gets released
Hickson was a -44 in that game.
Playing overseas is not a vacation. For these teams, this is their NBA, the way they make a living. NBA players who come over and treat this as if they were tourists are not going to be tolerated.
- Report: Knicks offer Phil Jackson a front office position 4
- Is Carmelo Anthony’s smart play to opt in and play out contract with Knicks? 6
- LeBron says he has open door policy, would certainly speak to Paul George 21
- Report: Knicks met with Phil Jackson about coaching them 39
- Extra Pass: Golden State Warriors defending at historically high level 5


At a farm in the heart of Canada's capital, Ottawa, scientists are working to increase crop yields in an era of climate change and increased invasive pests. Among other things, they're turning insects against each other.
In Field 6, a strong sun is beating down on rows and rows of young wheat plants that are mostly green. Other fields of willowy corn and low-lying soybean plants lie adjacent.
Maple trees provide an attractive border for this field - while the searing sound of cicadas fills the air.
It would be easy to think you were in true countryside - but the soft din of heavy traffic and the sight of tall buildings and skyscrapers in the distance remind you that you are in the heart of a city.
Meanwhile, tall water sprinklers begin to softly sprinkle the wheat, to insure good growth.
Gavin Humphreys, one of the farm's plant breeding specialists, quickly emerges from the field to escape the spray - followed by his guests, visiting Chinese researchers. They're here to observe his work on the Fusarium wheat fungus. This pest is deadly to wheat and other crops like barley.
Since 1886, scientists at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa have been working to help farmers to increase their yields, improve their crop quality - and feed people.
Important research at this living laboratory in the heart of the Canadian capital could make a difference for survival of the human species, in a time of increased crop pestilence instigated by changing climate and greater global transport of invasive species.
Fusarium wheat fungi, actually a family of different strains of fungus, destroy about 5 percent of Canada's 5 billion Canadian dollar (3.5 billion euro) wheat crop per year.
The Chinese researchers are all too familiar with the devastating impact of Fusarium. In China, wheat is used in key food staples like noodles, bread and dumplings. If the fungus takes hold, Chinese people will have less food to eat.
Humphreys is working to make wheat more resilient to the fungus. He does this by crossing healthy varieties of wheat with susceptible plants - gradually weeding out the most vulnerable crops.
He holds two spikes of wheat in his hand, one sick and one healthy.
"Instead of the spike being completely green, the top is all yellow," Humphreys points out. "It has been infected with the fungus," he adds. These wheat shafts will not make bread - or anything edible to humans.
Climate change is changing growing conditions for crops - drought causes obvious problems. But other aspects of climate change, including too much rain or high temperatures, can also create conditions that damage crops.
For example, scientific models have linked higher temperatures to more severe Fusarium outbreaks.
No simulation necessary
Over in Field 10C, Malcolm Morrison is conducting soybean research in simulated drought conditions.
Except: there's no simulation necessary. Hot temperatures combined with little rainfall this summer mean actual drought conditions for this vast outdoor laboratory.
Up until the mid 1970s, soybean was not common in Canada - except in southern Ontario - as the colder climate and longer daylight hours in summer didn't suit the crop.
But scientists at the Central Experimental Farm developed varieties which could grow where they didn't before. Thanks to their work, there's now a soybean industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Canadian farmers.
Now, Morrison is trying to assess the impact of climate change on these lucrative crops. Although Canada is known for its hostile winters, forecasts show drier summers ahead.
"You can tell the differences between the irrigated ones and the non-irrigated ones," he says distinguishing between the thriving soybean pants - vivid and green-leafed - versus those that are wilting.
Add to climate change how as the world becomes more globalized, insects - like humans - are traveling more, and further away from their natural predators.
This creates a deadly recipe for crop failure. But through research at the Ottawa farm, help is on the way.
Good bugs, bad bugs
On the edge of the farm in a trailer-sized quarantine area, Peter Mason is also working on how to increase crop yields - with the help of insects. As he describes it: "Good bugs versus bad bugs!"
He finds insects like parasitic wasps, which specifically target invasive species like the leek moth.
"They're not interested in humans; they are interested in the insect they want to attack," Mason explains.
The leek moth, a native of Europe, first appeared in the Ottawa area 20 years ago. Due to a lack of natural enemies locally, it has been able to wreak devastation on leek, garlic and other crops in the onion family - costing farmers millions of dollars.
A heavy white door closes - and we are suddenly surrounded by miniscule wasps buzzing around in cages. Some of them are on the leek moth pupa, the last stage before the invasive species reaches maturity.
"They will bend their abdomen and insert their ovipositor into the end of the pupa and put an egg inside," he says peering into a cage.
"The pupa dies, the leek moth pupa is gone - it's dead!" Mason exclaims jubilantly.
After years of research, this wasp was released into the wild five years ago. While it's still early days, this strategy is showing promise as the wasps latch onto the leek moth population.


|Jeremy Kleeman as Magus (right)|
Kleeman has a Master of Music in Opera Performance and a Bachelor of Music from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. He has been a regular on the Victorian Opera stage since his debut with the company in 2008. He has performed Rapunzel’s Prince in Into the Woods, Marquis D’Obiginy in La traviata, Lord Valton in I puritani, and Albert the Pudding in the Green Room Award-winning world premiere The Magic Pudding – The Opera.
Jeremy Kleeman sings "Aprite un po’quegli occhi" from Marriage of Figaro:
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Kleeman previously sung in another baroque opera when he performed Teobaldo in Handel's Faramondo for the Brisbane Baroque Festival, which won five Helpmann Awards including Best Opera. He has twice been a finalist at the IFAC Australian Singing Competition and was as a finalist at the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Aria, Australia's premiere oratorio competition, placing as the joint runner-up and winning the People's Choice Award. In 2014 Jeremy won the Welsh Male Choir Singer of the Year.
In Voyage to the Moon, the great warrior Orlando has fallen into a deep madness. His friend Astolfo travels to the heavens with the mysterious Magus to find a cure and discovers the moon is home to many lost things including Orlando’s sanity. But first he must convince the all-powerful Guardian of the Moon, Selena, that Orlando is worth saving.
Performances of Voyage to the Moon at the Victorian Opera remain on February 18 and 19 and tickets are available online.


Last week DancingDinosaur looked at how organizations can extend the System z into the cloud and especially hybrid clouds. One key component, the IBM SmartCloud Entry for the z remained a bit unclear. DancingDinosaur had turned up conflicting reports as to whether the z was supported by SmartCloud Entry or not.
As you read last week: The easiest way to get started should be through IBM’s SmartCloud Entry and Linux on z. Good idea but just one catch: in the spring, IBM SmartCloud entry for z, was still only a statement of direction: “IBM intends to update IBM SmartCloud Entry to support the System z platform…” The product apparently didn’t exist. Or did it? DancingDinosaur found a Starter kit of IBM SmartCloud Entry for IBM System z. Go figure. (2 years ago DancingDinosaur wrote that SmartCloud Entry for z was imminent based on an IBM announcement that was later pulled).
IBM just got back to DancingDinosaur with a clarification. It turns out IBM rebranded the product. The rebranded product family is now IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack, announced in May. It provides support for the latest OpenStack operating system release, Icehouse, and full access to the complete core OpenStack API set to help clients ensure application portability and avoid vendor lock-in.
Most importantly to DancingDinosaur readers, it unequivocally extends cloud management support to System z, in addition to Power Systems, PureFlex/Flex Systems, System x, or any other x86 environment. The new solution also supports IBM z/VM on System z, as well as PowerVC for PowerVM on Power Systems to add more scalability and security to Linux environments. As of this writing, the Starter kit for IBM SmartCloud Entry for IBM System z was still live at the link above but don’t expect it to stay up for long.
IBM goes on to explain that the rebranded product is built on the foundation of IBM SmartCloud Entry. It offers a modular, flexible design that enables rapid innovation, vendor interoperability, and faster time-to-value. According to IBM it is an easy-to-deploy, simple-to use-cloud management offering that can deliver improved private cloud and Service Provider solutions with features like security, automation, usage tracking metering, and multi-architecture management. You can access the technology through the OpenStack Marketplace here.
Expect to hear more about the z, hybrid clouds, and OpenStack at IBM Enterprise 2014 this coming October in Las Vegas.
DancingDinosaur is Alan Radding. Follow on Twitter, @mainframeblog and at Technologywriter.com.


Nissan explains why its GT-R LM Nismo is FWD [Video]
Nissan is hoping to answer the biggest question surrounding the GT-R LM Nismo.
Nissan has released a new video explaining why it decided to go front-wheel drive with its latest GT-R LM Nismo race car.
When Nissan announced earlier this year that it planned to attack the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans with a front-wheel drive racer, many were left scratching their heads; throughout history the vast majority of race cars have relied on rear-wheel drive to maximize handling.
As Nissan explains it, FWD afforded some packing advantages over the typical RWD setup. The GT-R LM Nismo uses a long hood, which allowed engineers to maximize the car's aerodynamics, netting better stability and fuel economy. By placing the engine over the drive wheels, Nissan was also able to give the GT-R LM Nismo added grip for acceleration.
Nissan concedes that FWD does make the car understeer more than its RWD counterparts, but the automaker was able to overcome that pitfall with traction control management and specially tuned aerodynamics.
It remains to be seen if the unique layout will help Nissan reach the podium on race day, but the company did have success with a front-wheel drive racer in the late 1990s.


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The UAE does have a set of labour laws to protect its residents, both citizens and expats. However, in the case of expats, these laws are mostly writings on a paper.
The main problem lies within the fact that as a UAE expat, you have to go through the sponsorship system, which makes your employer not only an employer but also your sponsor, the enabler of your life here. This would be fine if you were able to easily change jobs or sponsors, but you aren’t, due to government limitations.
The UAE has indeed made some modifications to its labour law to ease up the limitations, but still, at its current state, the employer still has great power and influence, which makes you vulnerable to abuse.
Many expats willingly and voluntarily forfeit all their rights, just to keep the job. They’ll work long hours with no days off just to impress the employer, for whatever reason. This affects the rest of the expats who are not willing to live as slaves. Knowing there are people out there willing to be abused, it gives employers the confidence to kick out those who refuse it.
At the moment, the law is there, but most employers don’t follow them, because they’re not being proactively enforced. If you have an issue with your employer, it’s not going to fix itself. You’ll need to start a process that puts all the burden on you.
Here are some of your rights as an employee as per the UAE labour law:
- Get 30 days off annual leave every year.
- Be paid regularly
- Get maternity leave
- Keep your passport with you
- Not pay your visa expenses (the company must cover it)
- Work 8/9 hours daily, and 2 hours less in Ramadan
- Resign at your own will, without anyone’s approval
- Get paid your full gratuity upon leaving your work
- Get off days on public holidays
In cases where you are not getting these rights, or your job doesn’t allow it. Then you have the right to be compensated for it. For example, if you are working 12 hours daily, you should be compensated for daily extra hours either by payment or days off. Unfortunately, many are not getting their full rights.
What can you do about it?
Here’s the reality: while you are working at a job that you want to keep, there’s nothing much you can do. Any complaint will have you labelled as an “ungrateful” or “lazy” employee that needs to be removed. However, here’s what you can do:
#1 Ask for your rights
Sometimes, all you need to do is simply ask.
“Sir, last week I worked 6 hours over time. How will I be compensated for that?”
A simple polite request for your rights may just grant you what you want.
#2 Keep it official
However, if the answer to that question is a rejection or a “you should be grateful you have a job”, or a “we don’t do overtime here laugh“, then you’re going to have to move on and deal with this later. That’s why you’re going to make sure all your communications are official, such as email.
#3 Record and document
Record every single instance of your rights that you haven’t been granted. For example, If you’re being made to work extra unpaid hours daily, keep a list of all the extra hours. Keep it all documented in a clear and organized way.
#4 Collect proof
It’s going to be hard to ask for your rights without proof. Make sure that you’re collecting evidence that you have worked those extra hours (such as fingerprint records). If your leave was rejected, keep that email communication as a proof.
#5 Wait for the right time
Keep all of the above until it’s the right time to strike. You may want to wait until you’ve got a good collection of violations. Maybe you’d like to wait until you’re about to leave your job. It could also be when you’re “fired”. Chances are if your employer abused all your other rights, then you might be also facing a swindle attempt on your gratuity pay.
#6 Strike hard
Sometimes an official complaint is not enough, especially if your employer is a strong or tricky one. You, as an individual, may not be well equipped to handle laws, paperwork and legal stuff. That’s why, if you’re going to strike, strike hard. Lawyer up.
Yes, get a lawyer, there’s nothing better than a professional who is fully equipped with the law, has connections, to get you your full gratuity, overtime hours, days off and leaves compensated and to put an end to your abuse and send a clear signal to your employer that you are protected by the full extent of the law. There are specialized labour consultants in the UAE, such as JBA: Labour Lawyer in Dubai, who handle these kinds of cases on a daily basis and are able to educate you on the best course of action for your problem, and represent you legally if necessary.

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If you’re a geek like me, your books are a source of pride and joy. For those who love reading and learning, your book collection is something to be cherished and displayed. What follows is the best way I’ve found to inventory and search your collection.
The best resource I’ve found for inventorying your books is LibraryThing.com. Using this amazing resource you can import your books and have them displayed beautifully, with all the information you could possibly want on each entry. The system uses a database that’s linked with Amazon as well as dozens of other sources.
The sheer number of options is staggering; you can tag your books, compare collections with other LibraryThing users, and even connect with others that have similar interests.
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Being able to find what you’re looking for in a large collection is a must, and I’ve come up with a pretty cool way to search my library without even navigating to the main LibraryThing website. Using Firefox Quicksearches you can actually search your entire book collection right from the Firefox address bar. Here’s how you set it up:
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We've got nearly 2500 words coming at you in this post. First some notes: Mr. Ian Woon is an anagram of NaNoWriMo and was a character name I read about while writing my book and decided I would go ahead and throw my own body to the name. Victor is essentially Victor Ward, although I am interested in perhaps refining the concept of this for Chasing Victor, where the character would be more inspired by than pilfered from Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama. The brief cameo appearance of "Amanda" is a reference to Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City, in a similar fashion. I intended to steal her outright, but due to the nature of the scene, I feel like there's not all that much I've literally pilfered except for the name. So while I think you are able to read the book and this section and consider the two the same character, I'm not sure I feel bad about ripping off McInerney, because I would claim I haven't Now, onward and wayward into the story. Not going to write anything after these, but I'd be happy to interview in the comments section.
(narrated by the inimitable actor Mr. Ian Woon)
This is how you make someone fall in love with you.
At first meeting you must say that you are so honored to be in their presence, to be working with them, to be a subject of them; be as aggrandizing as you possibly can. No matter what people say, they all react the same way to grandiose remarks in their direction. The more you learn about this person, the more you pick and choose on your compliments. It is only a comment on something dear that will be remembered, so knowing what someone wants, what someone loves, what someone strives to accomplish does wonders for his or her feelings towards you.
It is always easier to make someone fall for you if they don’t know who you are, but that doesn’t make it all that simple. One still has to form the perfect blend of the person they are, the person they want, and the person that they’ve always wanted to be. But be cautious, do not just decide you want someone to love you as if it were a quick, meaningless decision to make. The fact of the matter is, it is quite possible that this person will never stop loving you, and it is much harder to brainwash yourself in much the same fashion.
There are steps to be followed, perhaps, but they vary drastically. What is always first is establishing their identity. For simplicity’s sake a large amount of personalities can be classified as male or female, no matter the gender of the person, and utilizing the most sexist of steriotypes. When you are trying to sketch a person, it is a lot easier to take the ethical fall and profile as much as possible. In this way, you have a quick checklist to run through, because the hardest part of defining someone is knowing where to begin. Of course it is almost always best to keep this list secret, so subtlety is a necessity.
Once you’ve roughly painted the borders of a person and once you’ve gotten to know them on a somewhat personal level, the movement to detail is a rough one. A sure fire way to help establish yourself in their mind is to share fantasies of any sort, but this also runs the risk of making yourself known. When people know that you want them, it becomes a lot harder for you to create anything on their end, unless it is already there, and also creates a sort of shield, since you will most likely get some sort of stalker treatment.
But other than all that, the number one rule is not to change the subject if the subject is your prospective lover. People love to speak about themselves, because people love to lie about themselves. Ultimately and perhaps ironically, a lack of memorable prior contact becomes all the more useful in baiting the hook. If you know this person more well than he or she thinks and you can catch this person in a lie, you are at an advantage. However, just let it go, because making any comment will definitely move the spotlight onto you, which makes it hard to stay as molding clay and basically makes who you are a statue.
“You’re very good at acting as an actor.” Victor said to me one night after we’d eaten out somewhere expensive and picked up a couple of girls. That was hours ago then, so I guess it was a morning. Victor’s one night bride had all of about three roles to her name, but had the figure of Helen of fucking Troy and a face that it wouldn’t be hard to project someone else on.
My woman, I’d met her before, at a modeling show in Manhattan, where she turned me down for drinks after, and I can’t help but think that she only said yes now so that she could get to Victor, but I can’t blame her, since we’re playing the same game, and the sex was fine enough. Her name was Amanda and she said that I reminded her of her husband, who she might or might not have been divorced from, and the only answer she had for me, when I asked why she was so far from home, was that Paris was her only home these days, and New York was just as different from France as anywhere else. Debating whether or not to tear that statement apart, I let her get me up again, and we passed more time that way, but my mind wasn’t really in it. Then I drove her to some street from which she could safely whore her way into a hotel for the night and made a call back on Victor and he told me I was good at acting like I was acting, which I couldn’t quite decipher as either a compliment or an insult.
“Yeah, I guess I am,” I said, looking for something to give him away. “Have you worked with the director before?” but of course I know he hasn’t, I know every damn thing about the man, so it’s a good thing he doesn’t have the memory to notice.
“No, hadn’t even heard of him until I got a call about this script, read it, loved it.” He’s so full of shit, the lines he’s flubbed, sometimes I have to question whether or not he could read. Victor is the prime example of someone who would already have died if he wasn’t so drop dead gorgeous.
“I was a cashier in one of his short films. I can’t think of the name, but it’s the one that put him on the map at that film festival.” This is only mostly a lie, so I just keep digging the hole. “Do you know the one I’m talking about? Story had to do with a penny I think. I had like two and a half lines.” A contradiction dawns on me, him saying he’d never heard of the director and me asking whether he knows this film, but I seriously doubt he’ll pick up on it, when he does.
“No, no, Ian, like I said, I’d never heard of the man, haven’t seen a single bit of film from the man. But interesting,” he pauses and I can’t help but look at his face, “you were playing a cashier then, nameless I’d assume, and now you’re Mr. Ian Woon.” And then something I never expected to hear from someone like him. “Do you ever get your people mixed up? Acting full-time in roles you never really leave, have you ever forgotten who you actually are?”
(narrated by the great detective Jack Kraloni)
I don’t think there was anything womblike about that whole setting, but it made me think about my parents, being so close to death there. Obviously they’d been gone for less time back then. I remembered a moment, an argument, where I had run out of the room and my father had looked at my mother and just stopped. A few seconds later he said he was sorry for everything he had ever done, would ever do, and he went out for a walk.
Course that time he came back, but the way memories fuse together, gets so they’re about as reputable as poems. With a son of my own, I try to remember the things my father did that I enjoyed, that I would like to pass on. It is a hard thing, since we are so alike, for me to push past all it is that I want to change, but sometimes you just have to remember the dead the best way you can.
I wrote him a letter and left it on his grave. I wonder if someone might come up upon it one day and read it. There is a certain feeling here, not unlike sending out a message in a bottle from somewhere other than a near inescapable desert island where your ship has wrecked. It took me a while to come up with the words and I put them down on a Vegas postcard after writing them on paper a few times. My father once told me that he’d rather write than speak, because he was never good thinking on his feet. This was, of course, a lie; you would notice if you ever saw him see a criminal in the middle of the road, whether it be a crime in front of him or a recognizable face, he would take off in spite of whatever age he might have been.
What I remember I try not to let bother me, because my memory has never been overly sound. There’s this image I see of a book somewhere open, empty pages, and someone takes a quill, and fills it with what looks like blood, and this person begins to write in a cursive scrawl much too complex for my decipherment, what this feels like is me walking in on my parents during one of their soft periods, and I feel like I need to just turn around and let things go their way, but this person beckons me forward. There’s a cloak, I think, that’s why I can’t tell the gender. I walk up to the book and notice how big it really is, so much so that it was farther away than I thought to make it the size it appeared.
That’s about where I realize this is a dream and I can imagine this kid I met out there, name of Paul, typing away at a computer in much the same way this guy is writing. Stroke by stroke, the words, sentences, paragraphs; slowly whole stories appear. At times like these, you can’t help but think back on the whole creative process. The ability to just talk so much about other people, it seems to be caused by some kind of hole in the person, something that’s missing, its absence causing a searching of terrains, of possibilities, to find a cap to that hole, although nothing will ever fit.
When my father died, I kept looking for a killer that now I can’t believe was ever there, but I also went out in search of someone else to model myself on, someone else who I could strive to be. Shamefully I’ll tell you I met O’Connell about this time and he’s got at least five years on me, which possibly means I just latched onto him because he was there, and I guess for that I should probably feel sorry. But when you look back from the edge, when you’ve been holding onto the cliff face, you lose a little of the feeling in your hands and arms and you start to care less about who you owe apologies to.
In that dream, this person starts writing things I can’t read on the paper, it feels almost as if I’m bleeding out slowly, with the ink that makes it onto the paper, I’m losing something here, but I hope there’s something to be gained, a benefit to the whole experience. That’s the way it’s all supposed to go down, you get something in the end. And I’m looking up to the sky which is reddening with a setting sun and as I look down I notice that I’m in a desert and this person keeps writing, but the words are disappearing as more are written, as if they are wiping themselves away.
And I wonder, in those words being written, the stories being told, what all there is said. What all has been done.
(narrated by the estimable gentleman Pasha Constantine)
Back, when I was very young, when I first learned how to write, I used to copy out words from the dictionary. The words I actually knew, because I still couldn’t read. I would ask my mother if she was home and she would say, “This one right here,” point to the book, “you know this one,” and she’d have me sound it out for her. But when she wasn’t around, I would go to my father. He would often give me one of various four letter words I didn’t know, but more commonly he’d just point somewhere in the book and say the word. Even if I didn’t know it, it felt better when he would just tell me how it sounded.
And maybe none of that happened, because I’m some sort of wandering Jew and when I was a lad we had no dictionaries, but believe what you will, I have so many memories these days, I have no way of telling you what’s true, what’s false. Your guess is as good as mine and perhaps better since I’m biased to see myself favorably. My point being then, that that’s what this feels like. Writing without knowing what the words actually mean.
I must admit, I liked my father’s minimalism for little reason other than it was less work on me, but there was a reason I truly hated pronouncing words I didn’t know. Even then I was predicting class period readings and all the snickers when you said something wrong; being a reader now for most all of my life, I still have a fear of not knowing how to pronounce something that has jumped from the reading to the verbal vocabulary.
Or, when I first learned who I was, I picked up my makeshift chisel and I cut into the stone of my cave a symbol. And looking up to that wall, night after night, my wife with me, or whatever you might call her in a time before marriage, I would think about my existence. And now, still here, perhaps I go back there every now and then. Possibly it is that I look up at that cave ceiling and I think about the thrill of the moment. The thought rushing through my head that this was somehow something else, something new.
Writing. It makes up me no matter which way you look at it, whether here or there, when I fill my quill, and I set it down, I begin to spill myself on the page. So far I show no sign of running dry.

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Angel Broking IPO will open the market on 22 September 2020 and closes on 24 September 2020. Angel Broking, consolidated in the year 1996, is one of India’s most established stockbroking houses.
Regarding the quantity of dynamic customers on the National Stock Exchange (NSE), the organization is the nation’s fourth biggest retail stockbroking house, with a market portion of around 6.3% as of June 2020.
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Equity Shares outstanding prior to the Issue = 7,19,95,003 Shares
Fresh Issue of 98,03,921 Shares @275/- = Rs.300.00 Crores
Offer for Sale of 98,03,921 Shares @275/- = Rs.300.00 Crores
Equity Shares outstanding after the Issue = 8,17,98,924 Shares
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After months of fighting to be protected under the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, undocumented Latino Ground Zero workers from Queens finally got what they wanted.
For the several Latino clean-up workers who were left out of the $713 million settlement following a lawsuit against the city over exposure to World Trade Center dust, the legislation recently signed into law by President Barack Obama would allow them to qualify for health benefits and compensation payments. Many of them are now suffering from health issues like asthma, laryngitis, sleep disorders and cancer.
“It was a great achievement,” said Oscar Paredes, director of the non-profit organization the Latin American Workers Project, Inc. (LAWP) based in Jackson Heights. “People are very happy.”
Paredes leads a group of documented and undocumented Latino clean-up workers who meet weekly at the organization’s office. In a recent meeting, workers told him lawyers have already started contacting the workers in hopes to represent them and get the 10 percent cut offered under the legislation. Many, he said, are signing contracts with lawyers because they are afraid they won’t get anything otherwise.
“Everyone wants the business,” Paredes said. “They are even intimidating people.”


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Nollywood star Rita Dominic’s traditional wedding to her lover, the publisher of the Daily Times, Fidelis Anosike, is currently taking place in her hometown in Imo state.
Photos and videos from the much anticipated ceremony have been shared online.
In one of the videos, the groom, Fidelis Anosike, is seen arriving with his family to take his bride, Rita Dominic.
Another video from the ceremony shows the actress posing with her girls in traditional attire. Some of the actresses in attendance include Ini Edo, Chioma Akpotha, Uche Jombo, Lilian Afegbai, Nse Ikpe-Etim, and others.
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Watch video below,
The 46-year-old veteran actress, who was reportedly single for a long time, finally unveiled her lover during the Christmas festivities last year.
A while ago, the actress shared her opinion on marriage and why she won’t to rush into it.
Rita while speaking in a recent interview with Chude Jideonwo, said if she wants to get married, she’ll want it to be once and for all because she respects the institution of marriage and she wouldn’t want to make hasty decisions.
“I respect the institution of marriage as my parents were married till they died, and they had a beautiful relationship. The problem is at some point, it begins to annoy you because of how much importance people have placed on it.
I do want to marry, and I want to get it right once and for all. You know, we make such a big deal of it; we force people and put pressure on them to go in. When they eventually rush into this union, they make mistakes because they were only trying to please people.”


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FW19 Sell-In Assets
For FW19, I led the design and art direction for the Trailhead and Lifestyle tech guides. Additionally for this season, I designed a Lifestyle lookbook, and art directed a series of curated product laydowns.
Tech guides are a core component of the sell-in assets KEEN produces each season, released at each Sales Meeting
- Over the course of four seasonal cycles (from 2018-2019) I was the lead designer for this project
- In 2019, I art directed and designed the project and also did all production design
- The tech guides showcase the main feature/benefits for each marketing hero product and a selection of vibe and kneedown photography.
This project has many moving parts and pieces, and usually consists of around 10-15 key products. There is a high level of collaboration with many stakeholders including leadership, category marketing, product design, and the in-house photo team.
- Project requires attention to detail and strong organizational skills, and is fast paced and long-duration


This week’s Dilate My Mind (Change My Mind sounded a bit plain) focuses on the Falling Down video. Daily Duranie has argued that the video is one of the smartest clips they ever released. For some context on why, check out the blog here. For one of us (me), this is my first time sitting through the entire video!
Justin-fied But Ancient
The video for “Falling Down” suffers from two primary flaws: what it is, and what it is not.
Let’s begin with the former.
In their heyday, the lads of Duran Duran could be excused for dressing up and role playing in their various video romps. After all, that’s the medium that helped shoot them to worldwide stardom. However, the boys are no longer boys; they are grown men, with children, in their forties and fifties. As wonderfully clever as the videos’ premise may have seemed, the sight of them dressed up as doctors in a psych ward for super models is disturbing at best at this point in their careers. Duran has unfortunately reached the stage where their videos should only include them if they are playing their instruments.
What’s worse, the video (and by extension the song) lacks the one ingredient that could have, potentially, brought them some press: Justin Timberlake. He famously co-wrote the song with Simon over a weekend, and I suppose that’s him breathing in the beginning of the song. We’ll never know for sure if it was Duran or Justin who put the brakes on a more overt collaboration, but regardless, it certainly couldn’t have hurt from a publicity perspective.
Taken together, and it’s clear that “Falling Down” is not, by a long shot, one of the smartest videos the band has ever done. – CK Shortell
Losing Their Balance
Duran videos are at their cleverest when they flip the expected script. The self-mockery of the band in ‘Rio’ is what makes it witty. Lounging about on an expensive yacht is just showing-off. Getting yanked into the water while prancing around on your fancy yacht, by the girl one is pursuing, is self-deprecating and charming. They use the same energy delightfully in “Girl Panic” by taking on the roles of the media and hapless bellhops at the mercy of the ‘band’.
The video for “Falling Down” is almost a lot of things, but doesn’t fully commit to any of them, much less turn anything on it’s head. It’s almost a horror film. It plays at being a Hitchcockian thriller. It even approaches social commentary on the entertainment industry and its treatment of women, but veers away from making an actual statement in favor of the male gaze. Consequently, lacking an appropriate narrative follow-through, it’s almost smart, but falls down before the finish line.
One of their earlier videos even plays with these same elements of creepiness to greater effect.
“Perfect Day”, nominally a performance video, juxtaposes a gorgeous, relaxing melody with the claustrophobic confines of a colour-saturated padded room, where the Durans seem almost captive, subjected to a series of beautiful, unsettling images. Breaking the fourth wall to show that the stage is just a stage helps to build tension with the implication that they could leave at any time, but are choosing to stay and reap just what they’ve sown. Now that’s clever. – Laura Skurka
More Than A Footnote?
While it’s true that the vast majority of Duran Duran videos are not particularly clever or intelligent1 – they have always tended, especially in the early days, more towards a dreamlike escapism – I don’t believe the video for ‘Falling Down’ stands out in this respect either. It’s the usual daft ‘male gaze, models, slightly subversive themes’ nonsense that permeates the Duran fantasy world in general, and frankly that’s what makes it great.
The story of the video is as flimsy as any other – girl goes to a highly unrealistically-portrayed rehab facility,2 girl lies around in a bathtub posing in expensive lingerie, girl leaves rehab without having made any progress – and is really just an excuse for lots of provocative shots of models in furs and six-inch heels (so 2007!)3 having breakdowns and spitting out pills. It’s all very beautifully shot and directed, but let’s not pretend there’s some great meaning or substance here.
After all, you can’t say the ‘band members are suddenly rehab doctors’ narrative is any more clever or complex than ‘band members foil a revolution’ or ‘band members go to a wedding’ or ‘band members buy a sex robot’. It’s all just part of the glorious and visually pleasing episodic story that is Duran Duran. Tune in next week to see where their adventure takes them next! – Dee Cooke
1The cleverest video DD ever did was ‘Girl Panic!’. I’m not a fan of that one.
2 The glamorisation of addiction recovery here makes me uncomfortable.
3 I want to buy shoes now. Mmm, shoes.
Rehab Party Massacre
I watched the entire video for the first time tonight (gasp). I remember hearing the limpness of the guitar and instantly being turned off on Red Carpet Massacre. I never gave the video a chance and it took years for me to realize how incredible the album is. Using “Falling Down” as a lead single wasn’t very smart on the label’s part but we are here to judge the video.
Director Anthony Mandler came to the video after a year of working with some major artists: The Killers, Beyonce, Rihanna, and Nelly Furtado. He knows how to make it look pretty. Apparently, the band worked with him on two versions of the video; one of which was full of nude models (article here). I imagine the reaction to this video if the models were naked and I think the band were very smart to never release it.
As for the video, I am torn. I want to read something smart into everything they do. “Shake up the picture, the lizard mixture” has a deeper meaning, I swear. (internal voice: it does not) In this case, I’m hanging my hopes on the book that briefly flashes in the window of a door. Psychodynamically Based Psycho Therapy sounds like a great read. Based on a brief visit to PsychCentral, it likely covers this:
The goals of psychodynamic therapy are a client’s self-awareness and understanding of the influence of the past on present behavior. In its brief form, a psychodynamic approach enables the client to examine unresolved conflicts and symptoms that arise from past dysfunctional relationships and manifest themselves in the need and desire to abuse substances.
In this case, is “Falling Down” an attempt to show how past behaviors (“Girls On Film”) can manifest in the present? Both videos are nothing more than soft-porn wrapped in the artifice of “art”. According to the psychodynamic approach, the dysfunction from, for example, the male gaze and the patriarchal society that houses it could lead to substance abuse. And here we are, watching models who could have been pillow fighting in a Duran Duran video now locked in a rehab facility trying to deal with that reality. It’s uncomfortable – and sometimes art should be.
I want to read this video as an apology, or perhaps, an acknowledgement of how their videos could have had a damaging effect even though they most definitely never intended that. It was 1982 and they were conditioned to think and act as they did. As the doctors, the band seeks to help the women but in the end, they just play the song because that is all they know how to do. Only then do the models smile. There is a sadness to the entire clip that drains away any attempt to tantalize the senses. If “Falling Down” is a group of men finding some sort of enlightenment; that seems smart to me. I’m not sure we get there but it’s still smarter than lizard-men dancing underneath a desert. – Jason Lent


The tide of change is to the left, the left must not help turn back the tide
In a statement, Richard Boyd Barrett TD for People Before Profit has urged Sinn Fein, the Green Party and the Social Democrats against agreeing and arrangement for government that sees a return of either Fianna Fail or Fine Gael to power.
The statement from Deputy Boyd Barrett comes as Sinn Fein, the Greens and the Social Democrats prepare to meet with Fianna Fail.
Deputy Boyd Barrett said that “the general election signaled a that a historic shift to the left was underway and parties of the left who had benefited from the political earthquake seen in the election should not seek to turn back the tide for change by facilitating the return to power of either Fianna Fail or Fine Gael.”
Deputy Boyd Barret said that the “policies of Fine Gael and Fianna Fail are incompatible with giving effect to the voters demands for action and real change on the key areas of housing, health, climate action and giving working people a fair share of the wealth and growth in this country.”
Deputy Boyd Barrett said parties of the left should work together to break from the failed policies of Fianna Fail and Fine Gael to deliver public and affordable housing on the scale needed, a quality national health service, affordable childcare and to ensure working people get a fair share of the economic wealth and growth in this country.
He said: “Even a short-lived minority left government could, with public support and mobilisation, quickly take some radical measures on housing, health, wages the cost of living and climate action and defy Fianna Fail and Fine Gael to vote against them.
“The tide for change in the election can be translated into a movement of people power that would force through some genuinely effective and radical measures that it would be difficult for Fianna Fail and Fine Gael to stop.”


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MAX Lamond has lived in the district all his life and has never seen anything like yesterday’s destruction.
“I’ve lived in and around Terara for 70 years, we’ve had storms before and plenty of floods over the years but never anything like this,” he said.
“This is just amazing. The devastation is incredible. Thankfully no one was injured.
“We’ve lost a few things and there are a number of trees down everywhere but this could have been so much worse.
“It is devastating for a lot of the residents, especially the older ones, who have built up wonderful gardens over the years and many of them have just been blown away.
“It’s going to take a lot of work to clean up.”
It was a similar story told by Toby Witheridge, who has lived at Terara for 72 years.
“I have never seen anything like this,” he said.
“It was just amazing – the winds were big and then all of a sudden there was a really huge gust and then it all just went quiet.”
It wasn’t until first light that the real scale of the destruction became clear.
“It doesn’t look like it’s been that particularly wide, it’s only about 100 yards or so wide,” Mr Witheridge said.
Endeavour Energy employee Steve Hicks was among the crews out trying to restore power to the area.
“We have had crews out since 4.30 this morning and we have restored what power we can but there is a lot of damage across the area.
“It’s a massive job.”


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British Teenage Model Sally Anne Bowman Murdered
Sally Anne Bowman, a British model, was brutally murdered Sunday.
British teenage model murdered (Xinhua)
British teenage model Sally Anne Bowman was murdered after her killer had tried to rape her, police said. Detectives investigating the stabbing of the 18-year-old model have released two men without charge.
Police said on Wednesday that Sally Anne was partially clothed when her body was found by a neighbour at 6.30am on Sunday. Detectives are hoping her stolen white leather Prada handbag and black Samsung D500 mobile phone may provide vital clues. Her passport is also missing. On the night she died, Sally Anne was out with friends in Croydon town centre. She got a taxi to Katherine Street close to her home at about 2 a.m.
Sex attack on murdered Sally Anne (This is London)
Teen model Sally Anne Bowman was sexually assaulted before she was murdered, police have confirmed. Her half-naked body was found yards from her home in Croydon, south London, on Sunday morning. The 18-year-old’s Prada handbag, Samsung D500 mobile phone and passport are missing, Scotland Yard said.
Three men arrested in connection with her death have been released without charge, including her ex-boyfriend. A fourth man, 26, has been released on police bail.
Underneath a tree on the sidewalk mourners left bunches of flowers. “We’re thinking of you everyday, just like we should,” wrote a fellow student at the Brit School of performing arts in Croydon, where she studied. “No one thought things would end the way they would We may have lost a friend or a daughter. But we know we’ve gained an angel.”
Miss Bowman, who worked part time as a hairdresser and a model, was wearing white high heels, a denim mini skirt and a white bodice with butterflies.


Moixa is ‘Highly Commended’ at the BusinessGreen Technology Awards 2016
Moixa’s smart battery technology has been highly commended for ‘Solar Innovation of the Year’, for boosting ‘the performance, cost-effectiveness, and appeal of solar energy products’ at the BusinessGreen Technology Awards.
Moixa has this year launched a solar plus storage package, bundling a 2KWh Moixa Smart Battery with a 2KW, eight-panel solar photovoltaic system. Using storage in this way enables customers to save money by accessing smart tariffs and supporting the development of a reliable, cost-effective, low-carbon electricity system.
Moixa has deployed its technology in conjunction with solar panels in a bid to reduce fuel poverty in Oxford. Project ERIC (Energy Resources for Integrated Communities), is an initiative in Rose Hill, East Oxford, a social housing estate in the lowest 10% most deprived communities in the UK.
Moixa installed 2kWh smart batteries in 82 homes, a primary school and an 8kWh battery stack in a local community centre. The batteries are linked to 200kWp of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on homes and a further 100kWp of solar on the school and community centre, creating a virtual smart local energy grid.
Simon Daniel, CEO of Moixa, said: “We are pleased that the judges have recognised Moixa for its innovative technology providing storage and demand flexibility. It will help protect customers from rising electricity prices and allow them to benefit from the smart power revolution, accessing smart tariffs and making money by supporting the development of a reliable, cost-effective, low-carbon electricity system. We hope it will provide a boost to the solar installation market, which has been hit by cuts to feed-in-tariffs.”
Moixa has installed Moixa Smart batteries in more than 600 homes nationwide with a combined capacity of over 1.3MWh and over five million hours of use.
For more information and to arrange interviews, please contact:
David Mason [email protected] +44 (0) 7799 072320
NOTES TO EDITORS
Moixa Technology (www.moixa.com) is the UK’s leading home battery company. Along with smart energy sharing, we help everyone from individual homeowners, to councils and large property companies to manage and cut their electricity bills. We’re the partner of choice for leading installers, housing associations and utility companies.
Moixa’s solar plus storage bundle is a market-leading offer at £4995 including VAT to customers, for a 2KWh Moixa Smart Battery and 2KW of solar panels, including typical install costs. A 2KWh solar panel system alone typically retails at £3000-£4000.


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By Mark Armstrong, Solicitor
5 May 2020
At a time where travel companies and travellers are facing serious challenges with global travel restrictions forcing urgent changes to travel plans, and heightened sensitivities around cancellation costs, the ACCC has had a timely victory in this area. One of Australia’s most well-known travel agencies, STA Travel Pty Ltd has been found in breach of the Australian Consumer Law (ACL) for using misleading advertising in relation to a product that claimed to allow customers to change flights without paying any additional fees. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) was successful in its case, with the Federal Court ordering that STA pay $14 million in penalties for the false or misleading claims. STA Travel’s advertising strategy was problematic from a misleading or deceptive conduct perspective, as well as a pricing perspective, as many customers still paid cancellation charges. This case reinforces that price transparency is still key to avoiding severe penalties.
STA Travel tout themselves as ‘the world’s largest student and youth travel company’ and are widely regarded as having cheap flights due to the exclusive range of student and under-31 fares offered. When purchasing airfares from STA, customers are given the option to buy a MultiFLEX Pass: if the traveller decides to change their flight, they will have to pay the difference in the cost of the airfare and applicable taxes, but the Pass enables the traveller to make the change(s) without paying any additional fees or charges. Depending on the type of Pass purchased, changes to flights can be made once (for the purchase of a $49 ‘OneFLEX’ Pass), three times (for the purchase of a $99 ‘3 Change’ or ‘MultiFLEX’ Pass) or an unlimited number of times (for the purchase of a $149 ‘UltimateFLEX’ Pass).
For travellers wishing to travel on a more flexible itinerary, this appeared to be an enticing offer and between 2015 and 2019, STA Travel estimates that it sold approximately 16,000 MultiFLEX Passes each year, although the ACCC alleged that STA’s MultiFLEX Passes have been sold since at least September 2011 with over $12 million in revenue generated from MultiFLEX Pass sales alone. Despite the claims of fee-free changes made in STA Travel’s advertising, the ACCC alleged that approximately 63% of customers who used their Pass to change flights were charged additional commissions or other fees, including airline change fees. In almost 25% of cases, the additional charges paid by Pass holders were more than double the additional airfare and tax imposed by the airline, and in 12% of cases, Pass holders paid an additional charge, even though the airline had charged STA Travel nothing for the change.
The ACCC initiated proceedings in the Federal Court against STA Travel on 27 March 2019 on the basis that the representation that MultiFLEX Pass holders would not be charged any fees for date changes was false or misleading. After STA Travel admitted liability and made joint submissions with the ACCC to the Federal Court, STA Travel was ordered to pay $14 million in penalties and contribute to the ACCC’s legal costs.
Misleading or Deceptive Conduct and the ACL
The ACCC’s case was based on the ACL, in Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Law Act 2010 (Cth), which is the greatest source of rights and protections afforded to all consumers. A key consumer protection is contained in section 18(1) of the ACL, which holds that a person must not, in trade or commerce, engage in conduct that is misleading or deceptive or is likely to mislead or deceive.
The ACCC’s assertion that STA Travel engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct was bolstered by the wording of section 4 of the ACL, which holds that if a person makes a representation with respect to any future matter and the person does not have reasonable grounds for making the representation, the representation is taken to be misleading. Logically, stating that consumers will not be charged additional fees if they purchase a particular product, only to then charge said customers additional fees, makes it clear that STA Travel did not have reasonable grounds to make such a representation and had therefore engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct.
In addition to the above, the ACCC also relied on ACL protections against false or misleading representations about goods or services, and misleading conduct as to the nature of services. Section 29 of the ACL prohibits making a range of false or misleading representations, including under subsection (1)(g), that goods or services have uses or benefits. Further, under section 34 of the ACL, a person must not, in trade or commerce, engage in conduct that is liable to mislead the public as to the nature, the characteristics, the suitability for their purpose or the quantity of any services. The entire purpose of buying a MultiFLEX Pass was that travellers gain the benefit of not having to pay additional fees if they changed their flight. On that basis, STA Travel’s claims that MultiFLEX Pass customers would not have to pay any further fees were held to be false. One point to note is that as of the date of this publication, the three MultiFLEX Passes are still available for purchase from STA Travel, and are accompanied by wording such as, “With MultiFLEX we’ll waive all the date change fees, so you’ll just pay the difference in fare and taxes – if there are any” and “MultiFLEX allows you to change your flights without having to pay the change fees every time your plans change”. If STA intends to continue to charge additional fees after a customer has purchased a Pass, its current advertising may still well be problematic.
This sort of product may be lawful and offer legitimate benefits to the consumer, if it truly does offer greater flexibility and lower costs for cancellations. However, it will be fundamental to ensure that any advertising claims promoting the product are accurate and clearly disclose that potential cancellation charges may still apply.
ACCC warns of increased scrutiny on cancellations and refunds
Flight Centre has only very recently come under fire for enforcing its cancellation fees on individuals facing COVID-19 related travel disruptions. Flight Centre’s announcement on Saturday of its decision to cease charging cancellation fees has been welcomed by the ACCC. Flight Centre’s terms and conditions specified that customers would be charged $300 per person for cancelling an international flight or $50 for a domestic flight. However, following pressure from the ACCC, customers who paid Flight Centre’s cancellation charge from 13 March 2020 will now be refunded. Additional fees charged by tour operators or airlines will still apply, however, several companies that form part of the Flight Centre group, including Aunt Betty and Student Universe will also stop charging cancellation fees. The ACCC was prepared to challenge Flight Centre in court over this matter, but were pleased with Flight Centre’s decision as it would allow for a prompter resolution than that reached via litigation. Importantly for all travel providers and consumers with cancelled travel plans, the ACCC chair, Rod Sims, noted that, “[the ACCC] are continuing to discuss issues in relation to refunds and cancellations with the travel sector and encourage that travel providers treat consumers fairly in these exceptional circumstances”. In response to certain providers altering their refund policies and applying them to prior bookings, the ACCC has issued guidance warning against engaging in such conduct. Given the uncertainty surrounding the future of international travel, the ACCC’s warning and increased scrutiny on this topic, businesses across this sector will need to remain vigilant.
A Note on Component Pricing
Separately to the issue of misleading and deceptive conduct there are specific laws on component pricing. Section 48 of the ACL holds that customers must be presented with a single price for goods or services and if a single price is not appropriate, the supplier must present the price as a minimum total amount. The “single price” is the minimum quantifiable consideration for the supply of the goods or services at the time of the representation. Another matter for consideration in making price claims is whether there are other components of the price that are quantifiable at the time of making the claim that should be properly included in that total price. Arguably, it would not be possible at the time of the claim here for STA to be able to properly quantify all potential permutations of a cancellation charge that may or may not arise. However, with certain specific claims relating to cancellation costs this may be a relevant consideration. Ultimately, any possible fees or charges should be disclosed and not hidden. This is particularly important in advertising material and suppliers need to ensure that their advertising is transparent and discloses any potential costs that will be borne by consumers.
What does this mean for you?
Given the heightened focus on cancellations for travel and many social, sporting and other activities, it is likely that cancellation charges and policies will continue under the spotlight.
Reviewing your current advertising practices to ensure they cannot be construed as being misleading or deceptive is prudent. In doing so, it would also be wise to consider the manner in which you advertise prices and ensure that they are clear, accurate and not misleading. Advertising must reflect the true nature of the product or service being advertised and the price listed should accurately reflect the product. Given the substantial penalties businesses can face from non-compliance with the ACL, maintaining transparency in advertising and pricing is paramount.


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Directed by Carl Reiner
, and released on December 14, 1979 "The Jerk
" tells the "rags to riches…to rags" story of Navin R. Johnson, an imbecilic, white boy, raised by a family of poor, black sharecroppers, who decides to take his Candide-like optimism and head to the big city to find his place in the world. The film kicks off with a homeless Navin, who says, "I am not a bum. I'm a jerk. I once had wealth, power, and the love of a beautiful woman. Now, I only have two things: my friends and my thermos." Navin then goes on to recount the particulars of his personal story. He begins with the avowal, "It was never easy for me; I was a poor, black child." An obvious incongruity, this line sets the tone for the rest of the film as a comedy where absurdity is commonplace and no holds are barred.
Throughout Navin's odyssey, he holds several odd jobs, such as gas station attendant, carnival weight-guesser, and miniature train engineer. He also makes many interesting friends along the way, including Patty Bernstein, a rough n' tough motorcycle rider, who helps Navin discover what his "special purpose" is for; Marie Kimble, Navin's Kewpie doll-faced love interest; and Lifesaver, Navin's devoted dog a.k.a. Shithead. For Navin, pleasure comes from the little things. One of the highlights of his life is the detection that his name had been included in the latest edition of the phone book, "Page 73: Johnson, Navin R.! I'm somebody now! Millions of people look at this everyday!" Then, Navin really becomes somebody and strikes it rich when he haphazardly invents "Opti-Grab," a contraption that prevents eyeglasses from slipping down the nose. Unfortunately, however, Navin's triumph is only short-lived. Soon thereafter, his Cinderella success story suffers a regrettable re-pumkinification. Steve Martin
is hilarious in his turn as Navin, and this performance is a clear-cut example of why this snow-haired goofball was once known as the king of comic cinema. The film is packed with delightful sight-gags and quotable one-liners, and it provides a perfect platform for Martin to showcase that which he does best, turning imbecility into an art form. Bernadette Peters, Caitlin Adams, Jackie Mason, and M. Emmet Walsh are also great in supporting roles, but it is, without a doubt, Mr. Martin who steals the show.
Since "The Jerk," which Martin co-wrote along with Carl Gottlieb, Martin has acted in three more comedies directed by Carl Reiner: "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
" (1982); The Man with Two Brains
" (1983); and "All of Me
" (1984), which is probably his most critically acclaimed performance to date. In 1987, Martin starred with John Candy in "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
," and later that same year, he appeared in the adaptation of "Cyrano de Bergerac" called "Roxanne
," which he also co-wrote. Martin's collaborative writing efforts for this film earned him a Writer's Guild of America Award, along with the acknowledgment from Hollywood that his comedic aptitude is just as effective on the page as it is in the screen. Following "Roxanne," Martin starred in "Parenthood
" (1989), "My Blue Heaven
" (1990), and "Father of the Bride
" (1991). His most recent body of work includes, "Baby Mama
" (2008), "The Pink Panther 2
" (2009), and "It's Complicated
While Steve Martin has compiled an impressive body of work over the years, it is his proto-character Navin R. Johnson who is the most likely to stand the test of time as his most memorable performance. Thirty years after its release, "The Jerk" is still just as hilarious and un-PC as ever, but there is a sweetness factor to "The Jerk," achieved through Martin's portrayal of Navin, which makes this film more of an artistic accomplishment than the gross-out, foul-mouthed comedies of today.
Story by Michaela Zanello
Starpulse contributing writer


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Analysis: The 'fever' that Obama has not broken
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama promised this time would be different, that if he won re-election, a Republican "fever" would break and legislative gridlock would ease.
Yet just over a month into his second term, Washington is once again mired in a partisan budget battle. And rather than figuring out a way to work with Republicans, Obama is largely ignoring them, trying instead to build public support for his approach to averting automatic budget cuts -- and perhaps overplaying his hand if the dire consequences he's warning of are not quickly felt by many Americans.
For their part, Republicans are ignoring Obama, too, choosing biting news conferences on Capitol Hill over negotiations with the president.
As a result, $85 billion is almost certain to be yanked from the nation's budget beginning Friday. After more than two years of bitter, down-to-the-wire negotiations over raising the debt ceiling, shutting down the government and preventing tax hikes on most people, a failure to push off the looming cuts would mark the first time Obama and Congress actually had blown past a crucial economic deadline.
That's hardly the rosy scenario Obama promised as he ran for re-election and tried to convince voters that Washington would be a different place in his second term.
At a fundraiser in June the president told donors that if he won re-election, "the fever may break, because there's a tradition in the Republican Party of more common sense than that."
"My expectation is that after the election, now that it turns out that the goal of beating Obama doesn't make much sense because I'm not running again, that we can start getting some cooperation again," he added.
Obama advisers insist there are some signs the "fever" has eased since the November election. In a major concession, Republicans gave in to Obama during the year-end "fiscal cliff" negotiations when he insisted on higher tax rates for upper income earners. And the GOP decided last month to extend the debt limit for three months after previously demanding that any increase be paired with an equal amount of spending cuts.
But that doesn't mean the GOP is ready to give in again as Washington lurches toward Friday's deadline. Some Republicans see the sequester battle as their best opportunity to stand their ground and exact deep spending cuts from Obama -- even if it means taking money from the Pentagon, a step Republican lawmakers have traditionally opposed.
After all, many House Republicans believe they have a mandate to cut spending significantly. Despite a dismal national approval rating, the GOP maintained control of the House -- even though it lost seats -- in the November election, in part by pledging to cut government spending and block Obama's proposals for increasing taxes.
"Republicans feel very strongly that they have a substantive argument on the spending problem, particularly given the way the national debt has increased over the last four years," said Kevin Madden, a Republican strategist and former adviser to GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. "They believe that in the long run, having fought on those issues is going to be a part of bringing back the Republican Party."
And Obama isn't budging on his insistence on higher tax revenue along with spending cuts.
The White House has warned that the broad-based $85 billion in cuts could affect everything from commercial flights to classrooms to meat inspections. The cuts would slash domestic and defense spending, leading to forced unpaid days off for hundreds of thousands of workers.
But the impact won't be immediate, giving negotiators some breathing room to work on a deal.
That is, if both sides decide to actually start negotiating.
No serious talks to avert the budget cuts are under way, even among White House and congressional staff. There have been no face-to-face meetings between Obama and Republicans this year. And there's been just one known phone call this year between Obama and the top congressional Republicans, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Instead, Obama is focusing his efforts on rallying public support for his sequester offset plan, including a trip Tuesday to Newport News, Va., an area that could be hurt by the defense cuts. His message to America: The cuts will be drastic; they'll result in job loss, and Republicans will be to blame.
Polling suggests the president's strategy may be working. A new Washington Post-Pew Research poll showed that 45 percent of Americans would blame congressional Republicans if the cuts took effect, while 32 percent would blame Obama. An additional 13 percent said both sides would share in the blame.
But getting the public to blame Republicans doesn't ensure the president gets what he wants in this latest budget battle. It could also deepen the mistrust between the president and congressional Republicans.
And that may put Obama right back where he started: still searching for a way to fight a Republican "fever" that may have eased but has hardly broken.
EDITOR'S NOTE -- Julie Pace covers the White House for The Associated Press. Follow her at http://twitter.com/jpaceDC


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Biscayne Line: Wellness For Those Living On The Edge(water)
May 18, 2015 May 18, 2015
Carlos Rosso, president of Related Group, discussed his company's willingness to fund the construction of Biscayne Line in Edgewater.
Rosso stated that Jorge Perez, CEO of the Related Group, “wants to give back” to the people of Miami. They wish to create the Biscayne Line as a wellness feature, as well as helping companies sell more condos in the area.
Florida’s laws, since 1979, have required new projects to allow for 20-feet of walk space between the building and the water for anyone to use. That 20 feet is more than enough to realize their vision. Some properties built before 1979, however, were not affected by those laws. Developers are trying to think outside the box and are tapping UM student talent, such as a floating walkway idea.
The Melo Group, who owns land on the walkway, agrees with these plans and is willing to give some of the land for the walkway before they begin another project there.
Biscayne Line could potentially stretch about 12 miles, from the Julia Tuttle Causeway to the shores of the Miami River.


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To kick start the year, WineDown Yoga is teaming up again with Atticus from bhava and on a 4 week journey that starts with a Full Moon ceremony on January 12th. We'll have sacred Guatemalan cacao, fire, essential oils, song, community and HIGH VIBES.
Join us at 825 11th st NE (With Love DC & WineDown Yoga's home). The focus here is to harness the powers of the full moon and set intentions for the following 3 weeks of mind, body and soul expansion.
More details and registration at https://www.facebook.com/events/1736590213262977/

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