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Farhang Jahanpour CV
Professor Farhang Jahanpour is a British national of Iranian origin. He received his First Class BA Degree in Persian Literature from Shiraz University, followed by BA Degree in English Literature from Leeds University, MA Degree in American Literature from Hull University and PhD Degree in Oriental Studies from the University of Cambridge.
He is a former professor and dean of the Faculty of Languages at the University of Isfahan, and has also taught at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Reading, as well as teaching online courses for Oxford, Yale and Stanford. He spent a year as a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar at Harvard, teaching comparative literature and doing research on the influence of Persian literature on the American Transcendental Movement.
He spent many years as Editor for Middle East and North Africa at the BBC Monitoring Service.
He has lectured widely both in Europe and the United States, including at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Wilton Park, Temenos Academy, the Royal Asiatic Society and various annual conferences of the British Institute for Middle Eastern Studies. In 2003 he was the guest speaker at the New Haven Festival of Arts and Ideas and also lectured on the Middle East peace process at Yale University.
He has been a guest speaker on 'East-West Relations' on a number of Queen Mary 2 voyages as a part of Oxford University Discovery Programme. In March 2006 he gave the keynote address at the International Hotel Investment Forum Conference in Berlin attended by more than 1,350 delegates, speaking about the dialogue of civilisations.
Interesting too? Farhang Jahanpour: On Arnold Toynbee's "Civilisation On Trial" today
He has edited and written an introduction to Nuzhat Nama-ye 'Ala'i, an 11th-century encyclopaedia of natural sciences, history, and literature. He has translated Arnold Toynbee's Civilization on Trial into Persian, in addition to publishing the Directory of Iranian Officials. His articles have appeared in numerous academic journals, and he has contributed chapters to a number of books.
His main areas of interest are international relations, Middle East politics, comparative religion, religion and politics and Islam and the West.
He has been a part-time tutor at the Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford, for more than twenty years, and is a member of Kellogg College, Oxford. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of Globalisation for the Common Good.
Professor Jahanpour's wife Hilary is a lecturer in English and Drama and the head of the Creative Arts Department at Thames Valley University, England. They have three children.
Dr. Jahanpour became TFF Associate in May 2006.
Department of Continuing Education, Oxford University
1 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JA,
E-mail fjahanpour@btinternet.com
And here you'll find all Dr. Jahanpour's articles on TFF 2006-2012.
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Q: JavaScript if answer is correct, generate new string I have a program that randomly generates two numbers (x and y) and asks the user to multiply them. Once they multiply them, it will tell them if they get it right or wrong. The thing I'm having problems with is that if they get the answer correct, it should then generate a new set of numbers. I'm not sure how to make the program perform that function again. Also it has to clear the answer field no matter if they get it right or wrong. Thanks!
var x, y; // global variables for randomly generated numbers
var correct = ['Very good!', 'Excellent!', 'Correct - Nice work!', 'Correct - Keep up the good work!'];
var incorrect = ['No. please try again.', 'Wrong. Try once more.', 'Incorrect - Dont give up!', 'No - Keep trying.'];

// getting two random numbers between 1-12 then assigning them to x and y

function generateNumbers() {
    function aNumber() {
        return Math.floor((Math.random() * 12) + 1);
    }
    x = aNumber();
    y = aNumber();
}

// generating the question that will be used with the random numbers x and y
function genQuestion() {
    generateNumbers();
    document.getElementById('question').value = x + " times " + y;
}

// function that is performed when the button "check answer" is clicked. It will generate one of 4 answers depending
//if it's right or wrong and will add 1 to the value of total. If it's incorrect it won't add anything
function buttonPressed() {
    var correctans = correct[Math.floor(Math.random() * 4)]; // randomly selecting an answer if it's correct
    var incorrectans = incorrect[Math.floor(Math.random() * 4)]; // randomly selecting an answer if it's incorrect
    var answer = document.getElementById('answer').value;

    if (answer == x * y) // correct
        {
            function genQuestion() {
                generateNumbers();
                document.getElementById('question').value = x + " times " + y;
            }
            window.alert(correctans);
            var total = document.getElementById('total').value++;
        }
    else {              // incorrect
        window.alert(incorrectans);
    }
}

A: You're not calling the genQuestion function, and it makes little sense to redefine it.
// function that is performed when the button "check answer" is clicked. It will generate one of 4 answers depending
//if it's right or wrong and will add 1 to the value of total. If it's incorrect it won't add anything
function buttonPressed() {
    var correctans = correct[Math.floor(Math.random() * 4)]; // randomly selecting an answer if it's correct
    var incorrectans = incorrect[Math.floor(Math.random() * 4)]; // randomly selecting an answer if it's incorrect
    var answer = document.getElementById('answer').value;

    if (answer == x * y) // correct
        {
            //call genQuestion to create new question
            genQuestion();
            window.alert(correctans);
            var total = parseInt(document.getElementById('total').value)++;
        }
    else {              // incorrect
        window.alert(incorrectans);
    }
    //clear 'answer' field
    document.getElementById('answer').value = '';
}

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The icy slush water from the High Street Kensington sidewalk seeped into my boots again as I made my way out of the tube station and the cold blast of air that hit me as I came up the stairs was a reminder that night time was coming and almost here.
My hands were raw and cracked and they wouldn't stop shaking. They would go from red, to pink and then to white when I warmed up, but the most irritating thing were my feet, I couldn't warm them up, no matter what I did.
They were frozen, wet and numb and a large hole had worn in the right sole of my worn out boots; which were now thin from constantly walking and taking the subways and couch surfing at my friend's houses. The left boot had a crack higher up on the left side near the seam and sole, so it wasn't as terrible as the hole on the bottom of the right boot, but both feet and my socks were frozen and wet; all the time. The icy wind rattled right through my chest; and the combination was making me colder.
I knew wet and cold and sleeping outside and in doorways and hallways was not a good thing from all the war and history books I had read in the motels and when we were on the road growing up in the van with Mom and my sisters. I was Joan of Arc. I was a French Soldier fighting for freedom. I was not a match stick girl. I was a fighter who could handle this. I was not a victim.
I hurried along the sidewalk, while the last of the precious warm amber light of sunset was fading into dark purple shadows in the old stone buildings; and it was already incredibly cold outside. The city lights were on and little warm orbs of lights coming from the street shops comforted me. It was early evening on the high street and everyone was going home to their families.
I found out years later that this was some kind of freak, icy cold winter of 1990 and 1991 in London and I was just one of many unlucky homeless teenagers to be caught in it. February was the worst and the coldest.
I was trying to get to my school, Ashbourne Tutors to use their phone, I had to call my mom's sister, Aunt Nora, and beg her for help.
I didn't have a place to sleep that night and all of my friend's parents had let me stay at their places already and my situation scared their parents. Their parents wanted to know where the rest of my mom's family was and why weren't they here trying to help me? I didn't know how to answer them.
I ducked into Marks & Spencer to try to get warm inside, and pretended to be a shopper. Sometimes I would hide the department store bathroom first to warm up and clean up.
Nobody bothered me because I was blonde and white. They thought I was just another rich American teenager. I used the makeup in the beauty counters and pretended my mom was coming soon to meet me and we'd buy some stuff as soon as she got there. The pretty ladies behind the counter would give me smiles but then when they saw my scruffy boots, they knew something was up. Rich kids don't wear old boots like that. My coat and black ensemble leggings were passable, but the beat up boots gave me away.
My mom was in prison, the cops had taken my passport so I couldn't leave the country in case they needed me to testify against mom.
It was two months after my seventeenth birthday and I wasn't old or savvy enough or emotionally stable enough to get a job in a foreign country. Every time someone asked me where my family was, I would start crying and mumbling.
I was trying to make it to my school, Ashbourne Tutors, before they closed, so I could use their phone and call my Aunt Nora. She would help me and save me. There was nobody else to call, she was the only one left who could help me.
My father was a raging, abusive alcoholic and the last time I saw him, he had his hands around my mother's throat and was trying to throw her off a balcony in California.
My mother's father had died; but he had stopped stepping in to clean up her horrible messes when he got remarried about 10 years earlier.
My mothers' brother Bernie lived in Connecticut and was wealthy and had a good job, but he and his wife, who was my godmother, didn't really seem to like me. I think they thought I was like Mom, and apparently I had too much emotional baggage for the people of Darien, Connecticut to handle.
Mom's family would handle her regular arrests that left her children defenseless & homeless by throwing some money her way when we lived in motels for months, but it never really helped the actual problem, because she would always fail, again. We'd move into a house and live there for three months, and then move again when we got evicted.
Our mother was unemployable and mentally ill, and everyone in her family had looked the other way for most our lives and gave her minimum amounts of money to move us out of motels; but the real problem was that she wasn't a fit parent and nobody wanted to step in and raise four physically and emotionally violated girls; especially when they resented their sick sister so much. They last thing they wanted to do was to raise her four daughters.
Mom's family didn't step in when were she had the Charlie Manson types living in our garage when we were toddlers, or when we were homeless kids living in motels and dangerous situations.
They weren't going to step in now. They had made it really clear that they had their own families and I wasn't part of it.
My mom's other sister, Aunt Maggie lived in California and was a schoolteacher. I had seen Aunt Maggie when we had gotten back from Australia when mom was on the game show there; and she wouldn't let us sleep at her house when we got back. We had taken a shuttle from the airport after a 24 hour flight and she turned us away and told us to go to a motel. It looked like she was done with Mom abusing her and said stuff was missing from her house after the last time we stayed, so we weren't welcome there anymore.
Aunt Nora was the only one I remember with any warmth, she used to take us roller-skating in Balboa Park, all of us four girls and our two cousins, little Maggie and Matt. We'd all pile into her green Volkswagen Bug and putter off to the park to skate. She was magnificent, beautiful and tall, with flowing strawberry blonde hair that gleamed in the sun. We'd listen to the album Hair and watch her dance and spin around with her hair fanning out and spinning like a gleaming hummingbird. We would make up dance routines and I planned my own rock opera and Aunt Nora would be the star of it.
Aunt Nora was there at the hospital when I was born and the first memory I have. She had lived with us until I was six years old. But in 1980, she moved away to Texas and married the computer guy from MIT and they started their own computer company and they started having their own kids.
She was my mother's youngest hippie sister who married a smart guy from MIT when he was on his bike; when they were in their 20's and were now a multi-millionaires. She and her husband owned multi-million dollar a year semiconductor brokering business in Houston that they started out of their kitchen. My oldest sister Meagan was close to her. Meagan was moving to Houston soon to go to college and be Aunt Nora's nanny. She might've even been there now, I didn't know. I hadn't talked to them in awhile because after Mom got arrested the day after Christmas; the cops locked the house we were renting and I moved in with friends and started couch surfing.
My oldest sister Meagan was a waitress at Pizza Hut and putting herself through community college. My second oldest sister, Katie was 19 and just had a baby and was raising my youngest sister, Erin, who was 15 and living with her in upstate New York. We all had been working since we were 14, because we had to. Sometimes Mom would ask for our tips. My sisters couldn't help me, and I didn't want to call them to tell them I got tricked by Mom, again. They already knew. I was the only one who really thought Mom would spin our lives into gold and we'd magically start a new life in England and she'd get a job as a writer.
I had fallen for the story again. The one where we moved to a new city and she started over and became the parent I needed her to be.
But I knew Aunt Nora would save me, she would come out here and help me get out of this horrific mess and take me home to live with her and her family, she loved me. I could help nanny too. I knew she would save me from Mom, homelessness and this terrible, terrible cold shivering that I could not shake. She would send help.
My hands stopped shaking when I finally got to the third floor of my old school, Ashbourne Tutors, above Kensington market. They had these old fashioned heaters that hissed in the hallway when you came in and I would sit there and warm up until I felt better.
The Headmaster was a kind Canadian and had let me go there for free after he had found out my Mom was in Holloway Women's Prison, but I didn't go to class anymore. I couldn't sit in class with all these super rich happy kids who had houses and parents and a bedroom to go home to and things to look forward to. They showed me everything I didn't have and parents I would never have.
I would go to the school to get warm and see my old friends. I used their phone when I needed to and leave as soon as I could. I was the homeless kid of a con artist and didn't belong there.
Lately I was going to the school to use their phone at night, before they closed, so not a lot of people would still be there. I didn't want to see my old teachers anymore. Late evening was the best time to come into the school, get warm and maybe steal a hot cup of coffee from lobby without seeing too many people.
The teachers at this school were so kind to me that I would start to sob uncontrollably. It was embarrassing. I didn't know why it hurt more to have someone be kind to me than to tell me what a loser I was.


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Who's Telling The Truth
About The Economy?
By Devvy Kidd
"But let's bear in mind and never forget that we have seen very serious dropping of our deficit over the past year. We're making progress on that front." U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison
Yes. The Outlaw Congress is made up of imbeciles and crooks. Ellison's statement is so disingenuous, it would be laughable if the situation weren't so serious. Ellison, like the majority of the Outlaw Congress has zero understanding of the U.S. Constitution or the disabilities of our monetary system. Then, there are useful fools like Paul Krugman, cheerleader of failed Keynesian economics first promoted by British economist, John Maynard Keynes, a sexual deviant among other perversions.
Dropping the deficit? The outrageous, out-of-control spending by the bandits in the Outlaw Congress hasn't stopped. The impostor in the White House continues to approve trillions in unconstitutional spending -- ALL borrowed: 'U.S. Foreign Debt Up 78% Under Obama'. With the unconstitutional Obamacare kicking in, not only are we being raped in more taxes, the monstrous bureaucracy created will cost hundreds of billions for who knows how many years to come - all of which has to be borrowed since the people's purse is overdrawn almost $17 TRILLION dollars. Not to mention skyrocketing health care premiums people aren't going to be able to pay while they're robbed to pay someone else's medical care:
• Senate Dems Vote To Provide Obamacare To Illegals
Dump 20-25 MILLION illegals into Obamacare? The numbers will go into outer space:
• Sebelius: Yep, ObamaCare is raising insurance costs.
• Will soar 62% in CA, 80% in OH, WI!
Who's telling the truth about the economy? The American people:
15% of Americans Receives Food Stamps- roughly 47 MILLION
$4 BILLION to soft drink manufacturers:
"Soda makers, for example, bag an estimated $4 billion a year in taxpayer money through the food stamp program. Efforts to kill the so-called "soda subsidy" have been met with fierce resistance and lobbying by the soda industry. In Florida, State Senator Ronda Storms (R-Valrico) introduced a bill last year that would keep taxpayer-funded SNAP benefits from being spent on non-essential items like sodas, candy, chips, ice cream, and other junk foods. "The biggest opponents I have right now are Coca Cola, the soda companies, the chip companies and the convenience store operators," said Storms in an interview with Fox News."
In 2012, the thieves in Congress stole the fruits of our labor to pay out $80.4 BILLION BORROWED dollars for food stamps. Unconstitutional. Food stamps to help families who truly need it is a Tenth Amendment right of the states, not the General Government.
Some 90 MILLION eligible workers are no longer in the work force. Many for years who end up going to jail because they can't meet financial obligations:
As economy flails, debtors' prisons thrive: "Ask Jack Dawley, 55, an unemployed man in Ohio who between 2007 and 2012 spent a total of 16 days in jail in a Huron County lock-up for failing to pay roughly $1,500 in legal fines he'd incurred in the 1990s."
Desperate Americans continue demanding the bandits aka the U.S. Congress and the impostor in the White House create more jobs. Wrong, wrong and wrong. That's one of the reasons the deficit and national debt have become unpayable:
Stop with the demand "Congress create jobs" rhetoric
The real reason for the loss of millions and millions of good paying jobs has not been reversed. No need to re-hash here as I've written about it until my fingers are numb:
• U.S. Congress, Obama/Soetoro are Anti-American Jobs
• Congress Refuses to Bring Home Jobs
• Americans Don't Want Good Paying Jobs (Conservatives need to get over their love affair with former U.S. Rep. Allen West)
• Neither Romney or the Impostor President Will Create Jobs
And yet, in 2012, the American people voted 96% of the same crooks, thieves and liars back to the Outlaw Congress.
The head of the beast, the unconstitutional "Federal" Reserve Banking Act of 1913, is still on the books and it's killing us. In 2007, former Congressman Ron Paul introduced H.R. 2755 (110th): Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act. There were no co-sponsors. Why? Because thieves from both parties are grossly ignorant about fiat currency and what the "Fed" has done to this country for 100 years:
"Otherwise confident and intelligent people including members of Congress - defer to the Fed's wisdom mainly because they do not understand it....The only players who are left out of this conversation are the American people and, to a large extent their elected representatives. Instead, they are provided a frustrating stream of evasive euphemisms and opaque jargon and platitudinous generalities and, sometimes, even downright deception. As more than one Federal Reserve governor confided to me, it would be very difficult - perhaps impossible - for the Fed to have an honest discussion of monetary policy with Congress or the public because the level of ignorance is so profound." William Greider, author of Secrets of the Temple, testimony, House Banking Committee, October 7, 1993
The ones in the Outlaw Congress who do understand haven't served the American people for decades. Their favors are bought and paid for by mega corporations who sold out the American worker the minute the unconstitutional, sovereignty killing NAFTA (No American Factories Taking Applications) was signed into "law" by Marxist Bill Clinton, Dec. 8, 1993. Cheerleaders for that destructive trade treaty: Rush Limbaugh, John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi.
There is another bill in Congress to abolish the "Fed": H.R. 73 - Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act, introduced by Rep. Paul Broun [R-GA]. While it will never pass (to date there is one co-sponsor, Rep. Thomas Massie [R-KY]), both deserve credit for introducing the bill. One of the pieces I read nearly two decades ago you will find of interest explains how the robber barons steal us blind:
Congressman Louis McFadden spoke before Congress in 1933 about the evils of the Federal Reserve System; printed in the Congressional Record. "On May 23, 1933, Congressman, Louis T. McFadden, brought formal charges against the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank system, The Comptroller of the Currency and the Secretary of United States Treasury for numerous criminal acts, including but not limited to, conspiracy, fraud, unlawful conversion and treason. The petition for Articles of Impeachment was thereafter referred to the Judiciary Committee." Congressman McFadden died on Oct. 1, 1936.
The "Fed" creates inflation, deflation and depressions. That cabal has been sucking the life blood of this country for a century and will continue to do so until the whole evil system implodes. It's not if, it's when. Money controls our economy and our lives, and still, the masses know nothing about the subject, only begging for more scraps from the King's table. Well, it's all coming home to roost. Almost all the states of the Union continue to turn a blind eye while the financial tsunami is rolling across this country.
Utah passed a watered down version of a sound money bill; a couple of states are working it during this session. Here in Texas, our legislature, despite our efforts to get them to pass a constitutional sound money bill are not going to; down the road they will sorely regret it. Texans -- prepare for the worst. See Working Paper here and Dr. Edwin Vieira's very important speech to the Montana banking committee in 2011, which I sent to every Republican in the Texas State Legislature. They hold the majority in the house and senate.
The Road Not Taken (2011. One can easily make the argument it's now too late.)
The bandits in the Outlaw Congress need more money for all their unconstitutional spending. Besides begging from our enemies like Communist China, where else can they get it? Bernanke printing more worthless confetti. Let me give you an example: If you purchased an item in 1913 for $20.00, today that same item would cost you $469.02. A cumulative rate of 2245.1%. Today I am paying $2.48 for a small bunch of organic spinach; every week some item I purchase at the grocery store on a regular basis goes up, sometimes as much as a "dollar" or more.
The American people by the tens of millions pay no attention to what's going on over in Europe. The masses have no understanding of the trade deficit as they continue buying foreign made cars killing our economy. They simply tune out what they don't understand. Ask 100 people on the street in downtown anywhere USA what they know about derivatives and 100 will give you a blank stare.
Financial Collapse Inevitable As The Derivatives Bubble Grows
"In a previous article entitled "Why Is The World Economy Doomed? The Global Financial Pyramid Scheme By The Numbers", I noted a couple of statistics that show why derivatives are such an enormous problem:
"-$212,525,587,000,000 - According to the U.S. government, this is the notional value of the derivatives that are being held by the top 25 banks in the United States. But those banks only have total assets of about 8.9 trillion dollars combined. In other words, the exposure of our largest banks to derivatives outweighs their total assets by a ratio of about 24 to 1.
"-$600,000,000,000,000 to $1,500,000,000,000,000 - The estimates of the total notional value of all global derivatives generally fall within this range. At the high end of the range, the ratio of derivatives to global GDP is more than 21 to 1. When the derivatives bubble finally bursts, where are we going to get the trillions upon trillions of dollars that will be needed to "fix" things this time?"
There's a lot of splashy headlines everyday on the Internet about the economy crashing "next Tuesday". America's economy is huge. It takes time for the meltdown to surface in a way people understand it at the most basic level: stores closing, losing their job, filling the gas tank and buying food. Because the U.S. Congress refuses to cut off the head of the beast, the "Fed", and most states of the Union are ignoring the problem, there's no way to stop what is already underway.
For a long, long time, I have been reading from the experts and my dear friend of 15 years, Harvey Gordin. As I have mentioned in previous columns, Harvey told me in 2005, the housing market was going to crash. I believed him and told my husband we have to get out of the house we lived in (Sacramento) because I wasn't going to stay in my home state of California once John retired. Shortly after, John was diagnosed with cancer, so we had to put off selling our home in one of the most desirable planned development communities in the U.S.
By Feb. 2006, I could see it coming and told John, it's time to start looking. I bought this house in Texas a few months later while John remained in California taking care of selling the Sacramento house. Long story short, we sold that house in September 2006; John retired because of his medical problems. Had we been able to do it in June 2005, we would have netted an additional $100,000. That's how inflated the prices were back then. We were able to realize a very small profit; believe me, I feel very lucky because millions never saw it coming. By 2007, Natomas Park was drowning in foreclosures. The couple who bought our house will never be able to sell it for what they paid us. Today it is valued $210,000 less than they paid us when the sale was completed.
Americans are loaded up with guns and ammunition, which is absolutely necessary for many reasons. So is getting your money out of 401(k)s and other retirement accounts even if you have to take a hit from the thieves at the IRS. Just my personal opinion, not investment advice. I've seen columns where people write you don't need gold, you need bread and guns. True, but how many folks are going to put $75,000, $100,000 or $250,000 into guns and butter? One has to be practical. We're talking about people's life savings being wiped out.
Do you remember what happened when ENRON folded faster than a punctured balloon? Employees lost their retirement savings; it was absolutely devastating and hard to watch. Do you know where your 401(k) money is being invested and who is doing the investing? Cities are filing for bankruptcy, companies, chain stores - going out of business because the American consumer is telling you the truth about the economy: They're broke and can't find jobs.
• Thousands more Americans are losing their homes this year with 1.5 million properties taken by banks - up nine per cent on 2012
• Retail Apocalypse: Why Are Major Retail Chains All Over America Collapsing?
• Record number of Silicon Valley residents fall into poverty as tent cities pop up across the region
• 16 Things About 2013 That Are Really Going To Stink
When people have nothing left to spend after taxes, they don't spend.
The items in the links below are to help all of us understand, without the hysterics, how dire the situation is and where things are headed. I also encourage you to call Harvey Gordin at 602.228.8203 and talk to him about liquidating worthless paper assets and buying gold. Don't be fooled by the big companies who sell gold for "lowest commissions". You're just the next one on a conveyor belt to them; too many people are sold the wrong coins by slick dealers. Do business with someone who knows what he's talking about and will take the time to help save what you've worked so hard for and protect your assets. Paper is worthless.
Links. The future we face. How is reelecting your incumbent back to Congress working out for you?
1 - Leading Economist: "We're In a No Win Situation -
This Is End of the World Type Stuff"
2 - Poverty hits the suburbs
3 - The Chart That Proves That The Mainstream Media Is Lying To You
About Unemployment
4 - The Chart That Will Crash The Market: "We Have Reached the Terminus"
5 - 20 Signs That The U.S. Economy Is Heading For Big Trouble In The Months Ahead
6 - David Stockman: We've Been Lied To, Robbed, And Misled
7 - David Stockman Predicts A Major Stock Market Crash
8 - America's Economic Depression in 5 Charts
9 - Toxic Derivatives That Blew Up The Economy Are Back
10 - Shadow Government Statistics
Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting
11 - Sears, JC Penney, Barnes, Best Buy To Close 100s Of Stores
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Human Rights Reel- Film Festival 2019 concludes marking the Human Rights Day
Islamabad, 10 December 2019: The 5th edition of the "Human Rights Reel- Film Festival concludes marking the Human Rights Day (HRD) in Islamabad. The closing ceremony of the festival and commemoration of the HRD was co-organised by the Embassy of Switzerland and United Nations in Pakistan. The theme of this year's HRD was "Youth Standing Up for Human Rights".
The objective of the film festival was to amplify the importance and enhance knowledge about the universality and diversified nature of the human rights issues among Pakistani audience especially the Youth through the creative medium of films.
H.E, Thomas Kolly, Ambassador of Switzerland to Pakistan said in his welcome remarks: "Human rights stand at the core of Swiss values and are based on the democratic principles of non-discrimination, gender equality, peaceful coexistence and mutual respect between different population groups. Advocacy for the universal, interdependent and indivisible character of human rights is need of the hour. As responsible state actors, it is our shared duty to comply with the international obligations and international agreements such as the UN agenda 2030 for sustainable development goals."
Mr. Ignacio Artaza, Resident Representative a.i., UNDP focused on youth in his opening remarks. He said: 'With 68% of Pakistanis under the age of 30, Pakistan is one of the youngest countries in the world. They are the driving force of the country and need to be supported in the building of a future where everyone's rights are respected. This is why youth is one of the main focuses of the UN here in Pakistan.'
Ms. Rabia Javeri Agha, Secretary, Ministry for Human Rights, who attended the event as the chief guest congratulated the United Nations, Swiss Embassy, European Union Delegation to Pakistan and all partners for successfully advocating and supporting the human rights through the film festival. In her remarks she said that films are unique tools of telling the stories. Young people should derive inspirations from these stories, as well as from the positive developments made by Pakistan about safeguarding the human rights in the country.
The participants attentively watched stunning investigative film, Dick Marty, a Scream for Justice. The Director of the film Fulvio Bernasconi, who was also invited to participate in the event built the story of the film on a breathless investigation and the portrait of a quite extraordinary man. The story was based on a case when the CIA (after 11 Sep 2001) signed a secret agreement with several European States that allowed them kidnapping and torture of suspected Islamists. The case was revealed by the Washington Post in 2005 and the Council of Europe mandates Swiss citizen, Dick Marty to lead the investigation. With minimal means but armed with formidable tenacity, Marty defied America, Europe and Switzerland.
The screening was followed by an interactive moderated panel discussion among the Youth and experts on law, justice and human rights. The panellists included: Fulvio Bernasconi, Director of film, "Dick Marty, a Scream for Justice"; Sibah Farooq, Senior Partner at S & S Law Associates and Kamran Rajar, Director-General of the Ministry of Human Rights.
The festival toured through 10 cities in Pakistan including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Gujrat, Karachi, Quetta, Peshawar, Mardan, Multan and Faisalabad from 1-10 December 2019.
We pay our profound gratitude to the European Union Delegation to Pakistan, EU and UN member states and diplomatic missions, as well as the cultural, govt. and educational institutions for their solid partnership in making the 5th edition of the film festival a tremendous success.
The films and documentaries screened in the film festival showed multicultural dimensions of the human rights challenges faced by people from across the globe. We hope that these films and thematic debate sessions have helped people, particularly Youth to understand diversity and the universality of the human rights issues and have guided them ways to take actions in support of the human rights for themselves and for everyone.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on 2019-12-17 by Umair Khaliq.
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If you get a call like this, officials encourage you to get the phone number of the scammer, and report it to police.
BRAZIL, Ind. (WTHI) - The Brazil Police Department is warning residents of another scam.
The Department says it's received a complaint about a scammer pretending to be an officer.
The scammer told a local resident there was an outstanding "failure to appear warrant" in their name.
If the resident didn't pay the scammer, they'd be arrested.
The scammer also told the victim to put money on a pre-paid Visa and share the debit card number over the phone.
The Brazil Police Department wants to remind everyone that officers do not call residents asking for money.
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For those of us who are concerned about the integrity of the organic seal, the National Organic Program's (NOP) recent announcement that they have issued a proposed rule to define animal welfare standards was a cause for celebration. Should the proposed rule stand as is, gone will be the day of poultry house "porches" and other semblances of outdoor access. Controversial physical alterations such as poultry de-beaking and cattle tail-docking will also be prohibited.
A comprehensive omnibus bill (S.2171) aimed to "promote agriculture in the Commonwealth" is making progress within the State House. This bundle of legislation, which just recently made its way out of the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture, addresses issues ranging from farm-specific tax reforms to a veteran agriculture program and much else in between. Many of the provisions included are specific recommendations that reflect the Massachusetts Local Food Action Plan which was put together last year.
The PPE for mixing Actinovate includes a long-sleeved shirt and long pants, and a dust/mist filtering respirator.
The Worker Protection Standard (WPS) is a federal law designed to protect agricultural workers and pesticide handlers from the risks associated with pesticide exposure. The law requires that employers on farms provide protections for their workers from exposure to pesticides, training about pesticide safety, and mitigations in the case of exposure. The WPS was first issued in 1992 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
It was a busy month at the State House!
"Rule Ten Day," the final day for bills to move out of the committee to which they were originally assigned, so that they can move forward in the legislative process, passed on March 16th.
An omnibus ag bill was reported favorably out of the Joint Committee for Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture (ENRA) as bill S2171. Read more about that here.
New Policy Director Dan Bensonoff and Policy Organizer Amie Lindenboim have been working on a number of policy issues of interest to our members. Here's the latest.
Federal GMO Labeling Update: Sen. Pat Roberts's (R-Kan.) bill to kill GMO labeling will likely be the subject of a heated Senate Ag Committee debate on Tuesday, March 1st. While there has been plenty of discussion as to what will come out of that debate, given the timing of it, I think I will refrain from speculating on what may be old news by the time you read this! The good news is that thus far, the Massachusetts delegation has stood up for food labeling transparency, and is not interested in passing a bill that would restrict the rights of states to act on behalf of their citizens.
This year NOFA/Mass's Winter Conference convened the first ever summit of grassroots activists and organizers to discuss Massachusetts's pending GMO labeling bill (H3242). The gathering brought together a consortium of farmers, consumer advocates, and interested citizens who are concerned about the risks and lack of transparency associated with genetic engineering of our foods.
Our new online workshop series, "Inspiring Ideas from Experts in the Field," attempts to make quality education easily accessible to all. On the last Tuesday of every month anyone can call or go online to join a one-hour workshop focused on farm management issues. Remote learning will never surpass the value of on-farm, in-person workshops, but our online series removes the added burdens of travel time and cost, increasing the likelihood of participation from beginning and experienced farmers alike.
If we pause for an instant to consider this historical moment in agriculture we come across the following findings: Based on the New England Food Vision, we have lost 63% of all American farms since 1900. In New England, we are currently left with roughly 30,000 farms, down from a high of 250,000 just 100 years ago. And even though, according to the Economic Research Service of the USDA, the average American farmer now husbands roughly 500 acres of land, 85%-95% of a farmer's income derives from off-farm sources.


Diane Barnes is a paralegal in the estate planning group, although her experience covers a wide range of fields; including real estate, estate and trust administration and corporate. Her practice includes all areas of trust funding and assisting clients complete beneficiary designations for retirement accounts. She specializes in the preparation of deeds to fund clients' trusts with real estate; as well as the formation and funding of limited liability companies, and the funding of a wide variety of sophisticated estate planning vehicles such as irrevocable trusts, qualified personal residence trusts and grantor retained annuity trusts.
Diane began her legal career with the suburban satellite office of a large Chicago firm. During her 16 years at that firm, her areas of expertise included estate and trust administration, both residential and commercial real estate, and corporate work. She joined Huck Bouma in 2000 in an effort to further challenge herself, and to deepen her knowledge of estate planning.
Diane attended Northern Illinois University and received a bachelor's degree in Business. Diane lives in the western suburbs with her family and enjoys bicycling and showing her dog in agility.


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