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Q: Android instant app: Strategy for splitting up single activity apps I am currently investigating how we can get an instant app version of our app.
The main issue/question i have is how we can split up the app into smaller chunks so we meet the requirements of the max 4MB limit for instant app modules.
Now our app is a single activity containing multiple fragment views.
Our main Activity and Application class is basically holding most of the app dependencies. The same goes for the app gradle file. There is no way i can reduce this to 4mb.
At this point i see no other option than to create an entirely new project containing multiple activities with parts of the original Activity.
Problem is that the fragment views usually have a dependency with the original activity (since the activity is more or less a controller). So i need to modify those as well.
I am wondering if there is anybody out there dealing with the same challenge. Would like to hear what approach you take to solve this situation.

A: I'm not sure there's a single strategy that will work for all apps. There are many factors to consider when choosing if or how to refactor your application (for Instant Apps or otherwise).
With that said, given the information you have provided, here is some general guidance.
Option #1 - Reduce current APK down to 4MB or less
Given your current APK is ~10MB and there is clearly some room for further size optimization, it might be possible to create an Instant App feature APK that is <=4MB. The docs have some great info on reducing APK size but here are some suggestions that will likely give you the largest gains given the info you have provided. Note that you can structure your modules so that these changes only take affect on your compiled Instant App binary and not on your regular APK.

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*drawable resources - remove multiple density buckets, keeping only one bucket (the Android system still scales assets automatically for other densities you don't include), you probably want to only keep xhdpi or maybe xxhdpi

*drawable resources - if there are any large drawables, see if you can remove them (eg. splash screen drawables -- splash screens are not needed for Instant Apps as the system shows one for you before the Instant App starts)

*drawable resources - with the drawables you have left, see if you can convert to webp format which is supported natively on all Instant App devices (for some graphics you can also look at using vector drawables)

*translation strings - can you remove some of these based on your largest markets? Instant Apps are also not launched in some countries yet (exactly list will be published soon hopefully) but if you have strings for India, Indonesia or Brazil (emerging markets) you can remove those for your Instant App

*layout files - if you have specific layout files that are particularly large in size, you may want to look into using newer layout managers such as ConstraintLayout, this can help flatten and simplify your layouts (which is more performant) and potentially shrink size as well

*libraries and code - are there any libraries or sections of your code that may not pertain to the Instant App? if so, make sure you remove structure your modules so these are not included in the Instant App binary

*otherwise ensure you have Proguard minify enabled and shrinkResources on as well

Option #2 - Refactor your app
If you don't think you can reduce your current APK down to 4MB or less, then the next step is to look at refactoring. How this is accomplished is largely dependent on your current codebase and the functions of your app. However, from a high level, you should identify any logical break points in the app that would line up nicely as key entry points for the Instant App. For example, a travel app may have separate entry points for its hotels, flights and car rentals experiences.
Otherwise most of the statements you made in your original questions sound right. You will need to break your app down from a single activity into a more modularized form.

Problem is that the fragment views usually have a dependency with the
  original activity (since the activity is more or less a controller).

You should usually avoid child fragments having heavy dependencies on their parent activities. They should be quite compartmentalized if possible. This might be a good first step to tackle.

A: Despite what google advises I created an entire new project for the instant app. The whole process of refactoring an existing app into features and base projects is hard. I spend almost a month trying to get it done, but failed. I find the whole instant app structure way too over complicated and still don't understand it.
Just copy and paste code between real app and instant app is way faster. In many cases the logic between the real app and the instant app is slightly different anyway.

A: We had to do exactly this for a 200k+ lines of code project and our approach was to make a new activity only to be used by the instant app. We created this activity in the feature module.
Then we moved all fragments used by the feature to the feature model and use those fragments both in the instant app activity and the installed activity.
Then we hooked the feature activity up with the necessary callbacks.
If you want to exclude the feature activity in the installed app you can simply move that activity one more step up in the dependency chain but it didn't matter for us so we kept it in.
Pros: Saves a lot of time
Cons: Still a better design to have multiple activities.

A: As the others already stated, you have to refactor your whole app. But what anybody has not written clearly is the following sentence.
Since you have multiple fragments in one activity this structure should offer to split the fragments into multiple activities. All those small enough form then your instant app.


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/EIN News/ -- ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Sept. 16, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ultra Petroleum Corp. ("Ultra Petroleum" or the "Company") (OTCQX: UPLC) announces that it has received unanimous approval from the lenders for its revolving credit facility (the "Credit Facility") and entered into an amendment that, among other items, removes the financial maintenance covenants from the Credit Facility. This amendment provides flexibility for the Company to suspend drilling in the Pinedale field while natural gas pricing remains near multi-year lows and preserve its highest value inventory for future development locations to be developed under more favorable commodity pricing conditions. In connection with the approval of the amendment to the Credit Facility, the fall borrowing base redetermination has been established at $1.175 billion, including $200 million of the commitment allocated to the Credit Facility.
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The Company will be suspending drilling activity by the end of September. Given the timing of this decision, there will be minimal impact to our 3rd quarter capital or production results. As a result, the Company is maintaining its previous guidance for the 3rd quarter.
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Team Revolver May 20, 2020
Waynick is the Indie-Pop musical project of Sara Abdo and Joe Kazan, two old friends from Beirut, Lebanon who spent their childhood summers making music.
The band currently consists of Sara Abdo (lead vocals/guitar), Joe Kazan (lead vocals/keys), Malek Nacouzi (bass guitar), Nicolas Tabanji (drums/percussions) and Roger Zouein (guitar/synth/backing vocals).
They have explored themes of cultural dissonance, grief, and identity, and self-discovery through their debut EP Before I Leave. They have recently released an intriguing music video for "Glasshouse", their newest single, directed by Laudy Issa.
We wanted to learn more about the band's different shades and their music's various shapes so we asked some questions and they gave some answers. Anyway, get to know the colorful band in the interview below.
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How did the 5 of you come together as a band?
Sara: Joe and I have known each other since we were kids. We used to spend our summers at the same beach and have been good friends ever since. My mother used to encourage me to sing (sometimes forcibly in public, haha) and Joe's parents enrolled him in piano classes at the age of five. So music joined us and made our bond stronger over the years. Fast-forward fifteen years later, I decided I wanted to do music professionally and so it was natural for me to contact Joe.
Joe: I'd like to think of Waynick as a music cooperative. We've had members come and go over the years but they're all still part of the family. Nick and I are school friends so he's been with us since the very start. Malek and Roger joined us over the years thanks to the recommendation of previous members who left Waynick.
We've been quarantined for a while now. How are you spending that time? Are you still working and producing?
Sara: It's been an interesting period. A lot of emotional ups and downs but I think we all recognize and are grateful that we somehow have a safety net. I've been trying to use this time to write music and produce things at home. It's been a rewarding experience, away from the distractions of the outside world. Joe's experience has been different because he's in his last year of medical school so he's been working at the hospital and taking shifts. Roger's stuck in the U.S. and has been trying to get on a flight back. But we're all spending some time creating music and virtually sharing it with each other.
What do you think will happen next? Do you feel that the pandemic will lead to a new way of producing music in a group?
Joe: From what I've understood from my interaction with colleagues in the medical field, we should be expecting more waves in the future. But regardless, I think the Covid-19 pandemic drastically changed the way we operate in the world, especially in our profession as musicians. We rely on live performances for promotion and revenue, which depends on our ability to 'gather'. This doesn't seem to be feasible, at least not in the near future. I believe we'll still be able to produce music as groups of 5 or even 10 but the marketing and promotion end of things will have to adapt to the new normal, with a heavy reliance on streaming and social platforms for the delivery of music.
Sara: It's an intuitive mess, hahahaha. It's a dynamic process that's not really straight-forward. Sometimes I write something on my own and share it with the band and we see how we can work with it and modify it. Other times, Joe or Roger come up with a melody or riff they want to further develop. The moment we bring an idea or a draft to the table, it is no longer a personal draft, it becomes ours as a group. We all take ownership of it and cooperate with a lot of trial and error to reach the songs in their final versions.
The songs on your album Before I Leave seem to be very different yet very similar at the same time; from the happy tunes in "Piccadilly" to the gloomy melodies in "Fumes", there seems to be different moods that are coming from the same person. How did that album come together?
Sara: The album was a culmination of two years of songwriting which were accompanied by frequent performances across Lebanon. Like most bands, we started out as a cover band but ever since we won Beirut Open Stage Wave III and recorded our first single "Carolina" in 2017, we felt like we had a story to tell and we wanted to deliver it to our listeners. I do agree that there is a paradox between songs in the EP, which is only natural since our writing is inspired by our life experiences (that aren't always strictly perky or gloomy, haha). As we wrote the music for Before I Leave, we performed the drafts live with different crowds and so the songs evolved from concert to concert.
Malek: I joined Waynick right as they were ready to record Before I Leave so the songs were already in their final form. As an observer (or listener) initially, I do agree that it very much seems like different moods coming from the same person. The more time I spent with the band, the more I understood the music and how the members' different life experiences fused into Before I Leave.
I remember attending a live concert of yours at AR_KA and hearing the whole crowd sing along from beginning to end as soon as you started singing "Carolina" as if they were part of the band. How do moments like these make you feel?
Joe: It's surreal every single time. Moments like these keep us going and drive us to keep making music. Personally, it makes me feel like our listeners are involved in our creative process. The song is theirs as much as it is ours and it's truly beyond gratifying.
What is your most cherished moment as a band?
Sara: To be completely honest, my cherished moments with the band are numerous. One, in particular, comes to mind dating back to the summer of 2018, when we released Before I Leave and shared the stage together, along with 300 attendees. The crowd consisted of family, friends, and genuine Waynick listeners whom we met that night. I will never forget how emotional it was for all of us. Sharing our baby with the world.
Joe: For me, it was about a year after we released "Carolina". It got picked up by a few local radio stations. At some point, one of the stations was playing it 3-4 times a day. I remember driving back home and I suddenly recognized the drums at the beginning of "Carolina". I initially thought it was my playlist playing and then I realized it was a local radio station. I couldn't believe it, I was freaking out. There's something magical about having your song randomly pop up on the radio.
As a Lebanese band, what is your perspective on the diversity that the country has to offer musically-speaking?
Joe: There's a hell lot of talent in this country. For example, even during quarantine, seeing the variety of local artists taking part in Beirut Jam Sessions' InstaFest by performing online has been so refreshing. So many artists we were discovering for the first time. But unfortunately, there's a clear lack of physical spaces and platforms where these artists can meet, perform, and collaborate. It's really sad because there's so much this country has to offer if it had the proper infrastructure.
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Let's talk more about your new song and video for "Glasshouse". In the video, you are wearing colorful shirts while rocking the best poker face I've ever seen, with fun tunes and very serious lyrics. Are the contradictions there on purpose? If so, what is the reason behind them?
Malek: There's definitely a contrast between the lyrics and what could be considered an 'upbeat' musical arrangement. I think the spatial idea of a glasshouse is the link between them. Our music video director Laudy Issa wanted to showcase that contradiction in the artistic direction of the video so we can also see that clash between outfits and facial expressions. The purpose was to tell a story. It's about fighting an internal dilemma and breaking free of, well, our glasshouse.
The song "Glasshouse" is very relatable, especially in times like these. The lyrics are super expressive and carry a certain depth. Do you think we are stuck, in a way, and can't really run away from ourselves or even change who we are?
Joe: I do think we are stuck, yes. From a very young age, we're thrown into these boxes and told how to behave, what to think, who to be. I think for a lot of us, especially here in Beirut, it's a long and painful process to deconstruct these learned behaviors. With the revolution in October, and then the Covid-19 pandemic, it has become even clearer that running away is no longer an option. It's really a matter of perspective and facing that wake-up call, whether on a personal or national level. That's what "Glasshouse" is really about.
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Il Warburg Institute è un centro di ricerca, ora associato all'Università di Londra e alla sua School of Advanced Study. L'istituto è specializzato nello studio dell'influenza dell'antichità classica su tutti gli aspetti della civiltà occidentale europea, perseguito mediante un peculiare approccio interdisciplinare voluto dal suo fondatore Aby Warburg (1866-1929), storico dell'arte e del Rinascimento, in particolare del Rinascimento italiano.

L'istituzione dispone di una biblioteca che raggruppa oltre 350.000 opere, famosa sia per la particolare impostazione nell'indicizzazione e nell'ordinamento dei volumi, sia per il fatto che tutti i volumi, eccetto una piccola parte di libri rari, sono liberamente accessibili su scaffali aperti. Tali caratteristiche perpetuano, nella tradizione dell'istituto, il disegno originario di Aby Warburg.

Storia

L'istituto fu fondato da Aby Warburg, studioso di arte e cultura rinascimentale. Warburg, rampollo di una delle più importanti famiglie ebree di Amburgo, era insoddisfatto dell'approccio puramente stilistico alla storia dell'arte e questo fece crescere in lui l'interesse per un approccio più interdisciplinare. Studiando la cultura del Rinascimento fiorentino, si interessò sempre di più all'influenza dell'antichità sull'arte rinascimentale, così, grazie a un 'patto di famiglia' coi suoi fratelli banchieri che gli garantiva i mezzi per i suoi studi privati, costruì una sua personale biblioteca impostata su un simile approccio.

A Warburg si unì il suo collega Fritz Saxl (1890–1948), che trasformò la collezione di Warburg, bloccato in una clinica svizzera da una nevrosi dal 1918 al 1926, in un istituto di ricerca, la Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, legata all'Università di Amburgo ma di proprietà della famiglia Warburg. Nel 1933, con l'addensarsi delle ombre del Nazismo, su iniziativa di Saxl (che convinse la famiglia sui pericoli che correva l'eredità di Aby nel clima politico razzista della Germania nazista), l'istituto fu trasferito da Amburgo a Londra. Nel 1944 il Warburg Institute fu aggregato all'Università di Londra e nel 1994 è stato uno degli istituti fondanti della Scuola di studi avanzati (School of Advanced Study) dell'università londinese.

Campus
L'istituto occupa un grande edificio nel campus universitario di Bloomsbury nel centrale Borough of Camden. Costruito nel 1957, è adiacente all'Unione studenti dell'Università di Londra, alla School of Oriental and African Studies, e alla Christ the King Church. L'edificio è anche la sede di studio della Slade School of Fine Art.

Biblioteca Warburg
L'Istituto Warburg gestisce una biblioteca di ricerca di oltre 350.000 volumi. Questi titoli, fatta eccezione per un piccolo numero di libri rari e di valore, sono esposti secondo la modalità a scaffale aperto e sono quindi accessibili a tutti. Il Warburg possiede anche una vasta collezione fotografica e l'archivio personale di Aby Warburg. L'istituto è notevole per il suo unico e insolito sistema di indicizzazione: la collezione è organizzata per soggetto secondo la divisione della storia umana, cara a Warburg, nelle categorie dell'Azione, Orientamento, Parola, Lingua. I peculiari criteri di collocazione adottati in base a tale progetto tematico unitario e interdisciplinare ignorano i dettami delle disciplina della biblioteconomia per favorire l'incontro casuale del lettore con libri vertenti su temi analoghi a quello inizialmente cercato, al fine di permettere la costruzione di percorsi di ricerca.

Organizzazione e iniziative
Oltre al suo scopo principale quale biblioteca di riferimento in campo accademico, l'istituto ammette ogni anno un piccolo numero di studenti laureati. Il Warburg conferisce i titoli di Master of Arts in Cultural and Intellectual History (1300–1650), di Master of Arts in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance culture, e infine di Master e di Doctor of Philosophy; il primo e il secondo sono corsi di un anno costituiti da lezioni e ricerca, mentre il terzo è un corso della durata di tre anni che forma alla ricerca.
L'enfasi di questi programmi è posta sullo sviluppo delle abilità interpretative in un certo numero di diversi soggetti accademici, che scaturiscono dalla vocazione interdisciplinare dell'istituzione.
Una considerevole attenzione è dedicata a migliorare le abilità linguistiche e la conoscenza delle fonti primarie; l'istituto ritiene che queste aree del sapere siano ingiustamente neglette dagli aspiranti accademici che privilegiano invece focalizzare l'attenzione su studi accademici secondari e sulla teoria critica.
Il programma Master of Arts in Cultural and Intellectual History è, nel Regno Unito, uno dei pochi programmi che, pur non afferendo alla tradizione classica, richiede una conoscenza fluente della lingua latina.

L'istituto organizza ogni anno i seminari bruniani, dedicati alla figura di Giordano Bruno, "figura centrale nella storia del Warburg".

Personalità
All'istituto sono stati associati un gran numero di celebri studiosi come Ernst Cassirer, Henri Frankfort, Arnaldo Momigliano, Ernst Gombrich (che ne è stato direttore dal 1959 al 1976), Erwin Panofsky, Rudolf Wittkower, Paul Oskar Kristeller, Edgar Wind, Frances Yates, Anthony Grafton, ecc.. L'attuale gruppo di studiosi mantiene viva la tradizione di interdisciplinarità di ricerca nella storia, nella filosofia, nella religione e nell'arte. Lo staff permanente è arricchito da numero variabile di accademici e studenti laureati che sono legati da una affiliazione di breve e lungo termine. L'Istituto Warburg è fiero del tono informale e amichevole dell'atmosfera di studio e ricerca, dovuto alla piccola dimensione dello staff e al ristretto numero di studenti e utenti abituali.

Tra le figure fondamentali dell'istituto è da ricordare Anne Marie Meyer, funzionaria e attivista culturale, segretaria e Registrar dal 1939, divenuta Honorary Fellow dopo il pensionamento del 1984, protagonista di un profondo sodalizio intellettuale con Arnaldo Momigliano dal quale fu nominata esecutrice letteraria dopo la morte dello studioso.

Insieme al Courtauld Institute of Art, il Warburg pubblica la rivista The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, un annuario di circa 300 pagine, molto noto fra gli addetti ai lavori.

Direttori dell'istituto

 2017- : Bill Sherman
2017: Michelle O'Malley
2015-2017: David Freedberg
 2010-2015: Peter Mack
 2001-2010: Charles Hope
 1990-2001: Nicholas Mann
 1976-1990: J. B. Trapp
 1959-1976: Ernst Gombrich
 1954-1959: Gertrud Bing
 1949-1954: Henri Frankfort
 1929-1949: Fritz Saxl

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Bibliografia
Carlo Ginzburg, Da A. Warburg a E. H. Gombrich. Note su un problema di metodo in Miti emblemi spie. Morfologia e storia, Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1986 (nuova ed. 2000)

Voci correlate
 Aby Warburg
 The Courtauld Institute of Art
 Courtauld Gallery

Collegamenti esterni

«Ho salvato gli studi sul Rinascimento», conversazione di Peter Mack con Nuccio Ordine, Corriere della Sera, 3 gennaio 2013


Birthday parties are always special. It comes once in a year. Therefore, everyone wants to make the celebration perfect. However, planning a party for kids is quite easy. Throwing your children a really nice birthday party is very much important. There are a number of ways available how to throw a birthday party for little kids. Some parents are busy buying favorite toys for their children, but they forget how to throw a special birthday party. Here are some splendid ideas about arranging a birthday party.
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Justin Bieber's Birthday Is Now 'National Hotel Slipper Day'
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To some of us, Justin Bieber's birthday is a national holiday by itself but now there is an additional national holiday added to the same day (March 1st) that has now official according to Hotels.com and Elite Daily - National Hotel Slipper Day!
"Hotels.com is declaring Friday, March 1, when the superstar turns 25, as National Hotel Slippers Day, according to the travel company. Hotels.com really went above and beyond here, because holiday has been officially certified by the National Day Archives."
In December, the Biebs came out with his own line of hotel slippers with the House Of Drew fashion line so it only made sense to combine these two things - his birthday and his love for hotel slippers!
And that's not it If you book a hotel on March 1st, you get $25 off (25 because Bieber is turning 25 this year!)
"The promotion is valid on hotel stays of $250 or more. It's not a huge discount, but every little bit helps when you're traveling, IMO. To claim the deal,enter code "SLIPPERS"when you go to check out."
Easy as that! What a cool way to celebrate the Biebs right?!
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Home Finance Two more legal cases resolved successfully by AxiaFunder, Europe's first litigation funding...
Two more legal cases resolved successfully by AxiaFunder, Europe's first litigation funding platform
AxiaFunder, Europe's first for-profit litigation funding platform, has secured £1.9m from investors since launching in January 2019, with a 100% success rate on completed cases.
Co-founded by investment banker Cormac Leech and entrepreneur Sophie Liu, AxiaFunder has fully funded a total of 13 cases via its platform so far, winning all five that have been concluded with an average investors' return of 55%, and as high as 94%*. Of course, we would like to remind investors past performance is not indicative of future results
The other eight cases remain ongoing including a software case in Barcelona, AxiaFunder's first international case. Two further litigation investment opportunities have recently been added to the platform.
The current cases at the funding stage include a shareholder dispute case relating to a high-value house building business, and a group litigation claim against two retail banks the funding is in the process of closing.
Cormac Leech, the London-based company's co-founder and CEO, said one of the key attractions of litigation funding as a new asset class was the degree to which it did not correlate with the broad economic environment.
He said: "Litigation is not largely impacted by variability in economic growth in the same way traditional assets such as equities and bonds are.
"Indeed, there is an argument that litigation funding provides investors with an attractive alternative in times of economic uncertainty.
"With equities at multi-year highs many investors may think it is a good time to diversify out of equities, and litigation funding is an option for some high net worth and sophisticated investors to consider."
"With the potential high return, investors also need to be aware of the risk of capital loss in litigation funding. Investors can find more information on our website's risk warning section."
A multi-stage vetting programme ensures that only those cases with a strong chance of success – approximately one in every 20 cases reviewed by the AxiaFunder team – actually make it on to the platform.
The risk of loss is mitigated by After the Event insurance (ATE insurance), which help to reduce any liabilities of a failed case.
It is compulsory for all cases funded on the platform to have ATE insurance where adverse cost risk exists, and solicitors are typically paid at least partially on a CFA (conditional fee agreement) contingent basis to ensure alignment of interests and to keep costs down.
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For more information about AxiaFunder, visit https://www.axiafunder.com/
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5.1-Magnitude Quake Rocks Southern Iran, USGS Says
According to seismologists, the epicentre of the quake was located at a depth of 50.5 km. 14.03.2021, Sputnik International
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According to seismologists, the epicentre of the quake was located at a depth of 50.5 km.
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake has rocked the south of Iran, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported on Sunday.
The quake hit 104 km to the north and north-west of the city of Minab, the agency said.
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A New Peace Paradigm
TEL AVIV – The collapse of yet another attempt by the United States to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement should do more than provoke finger-pointing. It should spur a fundamental reconsideration of a paradigm of peacemaking – direct bilateral negotiations, under US guidance – that lost its relevance long ago.
While the US remains an indispensable global actor, it is no longer willing to use coercive diplomacy in its quest to build a new order. But it is not just a matter of willingness; the US has lost its ability to intimidate other countries, even allies and clients like Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
In the Middle East alone, the US has overstretched its capabilities in two controversial wars; repeatedly failed to broker a peace between Israel and Palestine; estranged key regional powers; and performed disappointingly on issues like Iran's nuclear program and Syria's civil war. All of this has diminished its capacity to shape the region's future.
The problem is not limited to the Middle East. Despite its professed strategic pivot toward Asia, US President Barack Obama's administration has done little to address China's increasingly assertive efforts to stake its territorial claims in the South and East China Seas or North Korea's affronts to the status quo on the Korean Peninsula. Add to that America's weak response to Russia's annexation of Crimea, and it is no wonder that Israeli and Palestinian leaders have dismissed its peace overtures.
US Secretary of State John Kerry, in his bid for an Israeli-Palestinian settlement, operated as if conflict resolution could be achieved through non-coercive solutions, deriving from the good will of the relevant parties. According to this plainly naive approach, the negotiation process operates according to its own embedded logic, independent of considerations of power, coercion, and leverage.
But treating force and diplomacy as distinct phases of foreign policy gives the negotiating parties the sense that American power lacks purpose and resolve. Diplomatic ripening sometimes requires the mediator to be a manipulator and an arm-twister.
Indeed, America's only successful attempts at peace diplomacy in the Middle East involved a masterly combination of power, manipulation, and pressure. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger used it to lead Israel toward groundbreaking interim settlements with Egypt and Syria following the 1973 Yom Kippur War. President Jimmy Carter used it to conclude the 1978 Camp David Accords, establishing diplomatic relations between Egypt and Israel. And Secretary of State James Baker used it to overcome the recalcitrance of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir during the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference.
If the US cannot provide this today, it must relinquish its monopoly on international conflict resolution. It is time for the US to recognize that it cannot resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, defuse the Iranian nuclear dispute, change North Korea's behavior, or stop the Syrian civil war on its own.
Over the last two decades, the world grew accustomed to US-led international coalitions for war in the Middle East. America should now try to form a different kind of coalition – one aimed at achieving peace. Such an alliance would entail a larger role for the other three members of the so-called "Middle East Quartet" – the European Union, Russia, and the United Nations – and key Arab countries.
Within this new peace paradigm, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would become amenable to a truly international solution. If Iran's nuclear program demands negotiations with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany, and North Korea's requires the so-called "six-party talks," why should the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict be left exclusively to the US?
As if the Israeli-Palestinian conflict's depth and duration were not enough to merit an international solution, there is also the issue of Palestine's mistrust of the US. For Palestinians, the US – a staunch ally of Israel whose leaders have strong domestic political incentives not to challenge it – cannot act as an honest broker in negotiations.
Under a truly international paradigm, the principles underlying a peace deal – two states along the 1967 border (with territorial swaps to accommodate Israel's settlement blocs), two capitals in Jerusalem, an agreed solution to the refugee problem, and robust security arrangements – could be enshrined in a Security Council resolution. After establishing the terms of a fair deal, the international alliance – under US leadership – could devise an implementation strategy.
Such an international approach would also require a broader peace process, aimed at achieving a regional settlement between Israel and its Arab neighbors. This is critical, because the future Palestinian state could not offer Israel much security. Even now, Palestine is a relatively minor security challenge for Israel; the more formidable threats, which have compelled Israel to build up its military considerably, come from the Arab states that surround it.
The promise of a regional settlement that offers Israel the needed security guarantee – not to mention a considerable boost to its international standing – would make the painful concessions, including compromises on borders and Jerusalem, which are critical to the creation of a Palestinian state, more digestible for Israeli leaders. The initiators of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative understood this; perhaps now the US will come to appreciate it as well.
Shlomo Ben Ami, a former Israeli foreign minister, now serves as Vice President of the Toledo International Center for Peace. He is the author of Scars of war, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy.


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Announcement :: Environment : Globalization
Reclaim The Commons Update! April 8-10 Chicago
by Reclaim The Commons
Email: reclaimthecommons (nospam) gmail.com	 21 Mar 2006
This is an update about Reclaim The Commons – Three days of events in Chicago (April 8-10) in response to the 2006 Biotech Industry Organization convention. Also see our website: www.reclaimthecommons.net or email us at reclaimthecommons (at) gmail.com. In this update: childcare and housing, RTC consulta, basic schedule, how to help, info about the Biotech Industry Organization (BIO), and "Why Reclaim The Commons."
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!
CHILDCARE AND HOUSING will be available in Chicago during RTC. To request (or offer) housing, send email to rtchousing (at) gmail.com. To request childcare, send email to rtcchildcare (at) gmail.com.
CONSULTA for Reclaim The Commons is happening from 12-3 on Saturday, March 25th at Association House, 1116 N. Kedzie Ave, Chicago. Planning for the parade, festival, and banner action will be on the agenda. Please consider coming if you live nearby.
BASIC SCHEDULE FOR RECLAIM THE COMMONS IN CHICAGO:
Saturday, April 8th:
Joint International GMOpposition Day in 30 Countries! altercampagne.free.fr
Morning: Puppet and banner making.
Afternoon: Festival! 2-5 pm at Federal Plaza (200 S. Dearborn) Music, speakers, tabling, art making, food, kids' games, street theatre. Please contact us at reclaimthecommons (at) gmail.com about tabling, and ideas for activities!
Evening: Panel on Genetic Engineering and Human Rights – North and South.
6:30 at DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus, Schmidt Academic Ctr. 2320 N. Kenmore Ave With Anuradha Mittal (Oakland Institute), Carmelo Ruiz (Puerto Rico Project on Biosafety), Sarah Alexander (White Earth Land Recovery Project), and John Kinsman (National Family Farm Coalition and Via Campesina). Moderated by Jeffrey Smith of Institute for Responsible Technology.
Sunday, April 9th:
All day: Hands-on and educational workshops. Topics include Bioremediation and Urban Sustainability, Genetic Engineering and Indigenous Rights, Bioweapons Labs in Chicago, Tapestry of the Commons, Seed Saving, Starting an Intentional Community, Food Sovereignty and more.
Evening: Concert with Broadcast Live (hip hop from Albany NY) and others, with a presentation from the Beehive Collective (beehivecollective.org).
Monday, April 10th:
Morning: Banner action! We'll be making banners before and during the convergence, and on Monday morning we'll take them out to busy spots around the city. Please make a banner beforehand and bring it to Chicago!
Afternoon: Parade downtown with big colorful puppets and banners! Location and time TBA.
Tuesday, April 11th:
Community gardening service project.
HOW TO HELP WITH RTC!
*Forward this update far and wide!
*Please post, distribute and make copies of our flyers! Downloadable versions available at www.reclaimthecommons.net.
*Organize a group from your area to come to Chicago between April 8th and April 10th.
*Donate:WE NEED MONEY FOR A CONVERGENCE SPACE! Also - puppet and banner making supplies, printing costs, food, and transportation for speakers. You can donate by credit card on our website or by contacting us at reclaimthecommons (at) gmail.com.
*Read up on the issues: seedsofdeception.com, sunshine-project.org, gmwatch.org, indymedia.org, oaklandinstitute.org, carmeloruiz.blogspot.com, savewildrice.org, organicconsumers.org, altercampagne.free.fr, genetics-and-society.org, nffc.net and centerforfoodsafety.org/Monsantovsusfarmersreport.cfm
*Come and table at the festival on the 8th, or organize crafts, games, theatre, you name it.
*Let us know if you can help with translation at our workshops, especially Spanish translation.
*Bring seeds or plants to swap or give away at the festival on April 8th.
*Contribute: We're looking for the following:
-tables for the festival (donated or lent)
-Art Supplies: colorful acrylic house paint, staple pliers, sheets to make banners, paint brushes, permanent markers, tape, fabric, big pieces of cardboard
-5 gallon buckets (for drums), steel cans and other noisemakers
-Colorful paper for flyers
-Your own banners, puppets, antics, and plans for street theatre
-bikes, locks, helmets
-literature to hand out
-cooking utensils and food donations
-medical and wellness supplies
-cars, driving service
-people: We need people who want to make puppets and banners, put up fliers, make media, make music, face paint, silk-screen, build bikes, cook food, help set up, and most importantly- COME!
WHAT IS THE BIOTECH INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION?
The Biotech Industry Organization (BIO) is a group of the world's largest agribusiness, pharmaceutical, financial and biodefense corporations, along with various representatives from governments and academia. Each year they hold a convention in a different U.S. city, and this year they picked Chicago. Some 15,000 BIO delegates will be descending on Chicago's McCormack Place Convention Center from April 8th – 12th.
The BIO convention will bring to Chicago an unprecedented public relations bonanza promoting biotech and genetic engineering. But what BIO really represents is a global system of agriculture that is dominated by a few agribusiness corporations – from genetically engineered seeds, to pesticides, to the table. BIO will downplay the fact that so-called 'biodefense' research is equally applicable to offensive bioweapons development, and that massive new U.S. funding for bioweapons research may be spurring a new biological weapons arms race. Pharmaceutical corporations at BIO will continue to ignore the crisis in healthcare access, and focus instead on futuristic treatments designed to attract investors and, when they succeed, provide mainly for the wealthy. Their website is www.bio.org.
WHY RECLAIM THE COMMONS?
The Commons are the universal heritage of people and all living things. They are everything needed to support healthy life on earth: air, water, food, shelter, health care, seeds, and our genes. They are what is needed to sustain culture: our multicultural heritages, education, information and the means to disseminate it, essential human services, public spaces, and political space. They are equally the land, its forests, the oceans, and all ecosystems. In sum, the Commons are everything that we inherit jointly and freely, and hold in trust for future generations.
Reclaim The Commons 2006 will shed light on big biotech's attempts to expropriate and claim hold to vast areas of the Commons that belong to us all.
Agricultural heritage: Since the beginning of agriculture, farmers and gardeners have been saving, developing, caretaking and replanting seeds from the plants they grow. Genetic engineering threatens this basic right for farmers worldwide, placing control and ownership of seeds into the hands of corporations. RTC opposes genetic engineering and corporate control of agriculture, and supports sustainable local food systems and local food sovereignty.
Life Itself: Corporations are also attempting to assert control over wild plants and animals by recording and then patenting their genetic codes. In fact, over 4000 patents of human genetic codes have also been approved. RTC is dedicated to the proposition that life cannot be patented.
Food: Independent feeding studies have documented underdeveloped organs, signs of cancer, allergies, and high mortality in rats fed genetically engineered (GE) feed. Government and industry have done little substantive health research on GE products. Most people don't know that over 70% of processed foods now contain GE ingredients because there is no labeling requirement. RTC calls for a stop to this contamination of our food supply, and for universal access to safe, affordable, healthy food.
Healthcare: The largest pharmaceutical corporations in BIO - Merck, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and others - can boast some of the highest profit margins in the corporate world, while basic medical care is unaffordable for millions of people in the US and billions elsewhere. The futuristic biotech research promoted by BIO may attract investors, but it will not solve this basic healthcare crisis. RTC advocates for universal access to good healthcare.
Biosafety: In the last few years the U.S. government has dramatically increased funding for research on biological weapons. New labs that create and handle genetically engineered diseases are being built in and near several urban areas, posing potentially disastrous risks. The research is billed as biodefense, but can easily translate to offensive applications. RTC calls for a stop to the development and testing of biological weapons.
Ecosystems: By raising genetically engineered crops and animals in the open, biotech corporations are endangering the Earth's ecology and ecosystems. Examples are genetically engineered trees, alfalfa, grass and salmon – all of which can contaminate wild populations through cross-pollination and cross-breeding. Simulations have shown that this sort of contamination could have devastating effects on natural ecosystems. RTC opposes the release of genetically engineered organisms into the environment.
Science and Academia: Pharmaceutical and agribusiness corporations largely control and often are the sole beneficiaries of research done at public universities in the U.S. When it comes to regulation of biotechnology, the same people are found to rotate between corporate and government positions, providing corporate-friendly assessments when serving as regulators. RTC calls for a stop to the revolving door between industry and government, and for independent research at public universities.
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There are planned celebrations for 2018, to mark this commemoration. Notably there are events planned by The Windrush Foundation to mark this anniversary. Celebrations began as early as December 2017 and are planned throughout 2018.


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Green, L.c. and Timothy J. Snyder. "Abduction". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 25 March 2015, Historica Canada. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/abduction. Accessed 19 January 2022.
Green, L., & Snyder, T. (2015). Abduction. In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/abduction
Green, L.c. , and Timothy J. Snyder. "Abduction." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Article published February 06, 2006; Last Edited March 25, 2015.
The Canadian Encyclopedia, s.v. "Abduction," by L.c. Green, and Timothy J. Snyder, Accessed January 19, 2022, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/abduction
Article by L.c. Green, Timothy J. Snyder
Abduction, literally leading away, historically meant the seizure of a wife from her husband, or a female infant or heiress from her parent or lawful guardian, for marriage, concubinage or prostitution.
Abduction, literally leading away, historically meant the seizure of a wife from her husband, or a female infant or heiress from her parent or lawful guardian, for marriage, concubinage or prostitution. From Edward I's time, 17 June 1239 to 7 July 1307, abduction was a criminal offence, and the husband or guardian was entitled to monetary damages for the woman abducted.
Under section 280 of the Canadian Criminal Code abduction occurs when a person, without lawful authority, takes or causes to be taken an unmarried person under 16 years of age out of the possession of and against the will of the young person's parent or guardian. The abductor is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to a term of imprisonment of no more than 5 years.
Section 281 deals with young people under 14 years of age and states that abduction occurs when a person, who is not the parent or guardian, unlawfully takes, entices away or conceals, detains, receives or harbours the young person with the intent to deprive a parent or guardian of the possession of the child. The abductor is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 10 years.
Sections 282 and 283 address abduction by a parent or guardian of children under 14 years of age and the definition of abduction in these sections is essentially the same as that in section 281. Under these sections, the abductor is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 10 years or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
The consent of the young person is irrelevant with respect to the abduction offences, but abduction that was necessary to protect a young person from danger of imminent harm or because the abductor was escaping from the danger of imminent harm can be defences to a charge of abduction.
With the increase of drug trafficking, a number of countries have claimed the right to abduct offenders from a safe haven, by way of a ruse, or even by entering foreign territory, and bringing them for trial before their own courts. The International Law Commission of the United Nations has declared drug trafficking a crime under international law. When the treaty based on the proposal comes into force, all parties will be obliged to try traffickers in their territory or extradite them to interested countries.
See also kidnapping
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David Saks: SCHOOLS ACCOUNTANT AND TEACHER CHARGED WITH MONEY LAUNDERING AND SHORT SALE FRAUD
SCHOOLS ACCOUNTANT AND TEACHER CHARGED WITH MONEY LAUNDERING AND SHORT SALE FRAUD
Former Detroit Public Schools Accountant, Teacher Indicted on Fraud and Money Laundering Charges
U.S. Attorney's Office February 01, 2012
Eastern District of Michigan (313) 226-9100
Sandra Campbell, a former Detroit Public Schools contract accountant and school board candidate, and her daughter, Domonique Campbell, a Detroit Public Schools teacher, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit on charges of program fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, and tax charges, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
McQuade was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in Charge Andrew Arena, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Special Agent in Charge, Erick Martinez, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation.
The nine-count indictment charges that between 2004 and 2008, Sandra Campbell, 56, and Domonique Campbell, 37, obtained in excess of $530,000.00 from the Detroit Public Schools through a fraudulent scheme in which orders were placed with the Campbells' sham company for books and educational materials never provided to the schools.
The indictment further alleges that Sandra Campbell and Domonique Campbell conspired to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and failed to report the money they fraudulently obtained from the Detroit Public Schools as income on their tax returns.
Sandra Campbell is also charged in the indictment with wire fraud.
This count alleges that Campbell obtained a $40,000 discount payoff of a $250,000 mortgage on her home through a fraudulent "short sale" of the property to her mother.
United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade said, "Anyone who considers stealing from our school children should take note that we are scrutinizing records and conduct, and will prosecute wrongdoers. "
FBI Special Agent in Charge Andrew Arena stated, "The FBI would like to thank all of our partners who continue to assist us in battling corruption. In particular, I would like to note the continued support of DPS Inspector General Van Marsh and his team, The alleged actions of these subjects do nothing more than steal the opportunity for quality education from our children. Such actions can not be tolerated and will be pursued by the FBI and it's partners."
IRS Special Agent in Charge Erick Martinez stated, ""Those who profit at the expense of our children and steal from our community will be held accountable for their greedy actions."
The case was investigated by special agents of the FBI, IRS, and Department of Education, Office of Inspector General, with the assistance of Detroit Public Schools, Office of Inspector General. The case is being investigated and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys J. Michael Buckley and Pamela Thompson of the Public Corruption Unit.
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Chuck Muth July 11, 2013
Sugar and the Brazilian Man March
While I may not be an economist, I can understand news reports written in plain English about what Brazil is doing to mess with the world sugar market, as well as reports on the "Salad Uprising" currently threatening the government of former Marxist guerilla Dilma Vana Rousseff.
By some estimates more than a million Brazilians have taken to the streets recently to protest government policies, corruption, bad services and even hikes in bus fares. And as this civilian unrest continues to simmer and grow, Rousseff's socialist government has reportedly dumped an additional $500 million into its already bloated $2.5 billion worth of subsidies to prop up the nation's sugar industry.
Not surprisingly, this resulted in a 39% jump in Brazilian sugar exports last month, further flooding an already-oversaturated market and further distorting artificially-reduced world sugar prices. Indeed, global sugar prices were already down some 17% for the year even before Brazil's latest "sugar dump."
Fortunately for American sugar farmers, import quotas are in place to protect them from Brazil's Soviet-style command-and-control sugar program, though such policies admittedly aren't the ideal situation for those of us who favor a free and open market on goods and services, including sugar. Something needs to be done.
Hello, Congress?
Lawmakers seem unlikely to pass a new farm bill. As such, alternatives and options are now back on the table. And one of those options is a resolution (HCR 39) introduced by Rep. Ted Yoho, with bi-partisan support, which calls on the Obama administration to pursue a "zero-for-zero" strategy to eliminate government meddling – ALL government meddling – in the global sugar market.
Yoho's resolution expresses the sense of Congress "that all direct and indirect subsidies that benefit the production or export of sugar by all major sugar producing and consuming countries should be eliminated." Who can argue with that?
Adoption of Yoho's strategy would include the elimination of import quotas and tariffs which currently protect U.S. sugar farmers. But only if countries such as Brazil agree to simultaneously stop being their own farmers' sugar daddy. Mutual disengagement.
There's no reason for Congress to throw American farmers to the wolves just to help Brazil's president continue her march towards a socialist paradise that simply doesn't exist – as millions of Brazilians in the street can attest.
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Bristol-born actor Joe Sims, who is best known for his role in the hit television drama, Broadchurch, is set to meet members of a football group, which has been set up to help people with mental health difficulties.
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A mental health worker from Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership (AWP) NHS Trust, who was recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June, has been presented with his medal.
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Last year our friends from Impuls (Agency for Applied Utopias) in Berlin started an action learning process with young campaigners (Kampagnenwerkstatt in German) to collaboratively design and put into practice a campaign that would experiment with new ways of supporting the type of changes needed for the Great Transition.
What we know from the Smart CSOs dialogue is that current CSO campaigns are mostly focusing on concrete and often very technical policy wins and are too often driven by short-term tactical considerations rather than by a strategy of long-term systemic change. In his recent book, What Money Can't Buy, Harvard's political philosopher Michael Sandel laments the vacancy in public discourse about the big moral questions that people really care about. As there are no signs from governments or political parties to fill this vacancy, it seems that civil society has a real opportunity to fill this gap and design campaigns that kick-start societal conversations and thereby play a role in a much needed cultural transformation. This is exactly what the Impuls campaign learning process arrived at.
Vision and Rationale of the Campaign
The young campaigners decided on a long-term vision where "our societal structures enable rather than prevent sustainable and self-determined life styles that are based on sufficiency rather than consumerism." As one of the concrete steps and experiments that could help to achieve such a vision, the Kampagnenwerkstatt therefore concluded that the campaign would attempt to kick-start a critical discourse among the German public about how the omnipresent advertising is manipulating consumer behaviour and preventing us from living less consumerist life styles (sufficiency).
In order to find out more about the campaign that was officially launched at the end of April (2013), we talked to Melanie Hernandez who is one their leading campaigners. Melanie tells us that the underlying ideas of the campaign — now called the Office for the Abolishment of Commercial Ads and for the Good Life (literal translation) — developed as a result of the Kampagnenwerkstatt while discussing the concept of a good life and sufficiency life styles. The participants concluded that consumption incentives created through advertising and planned obsolescence prevent sufficiency in our society. Commercial ads often create artificial needs or suggest that the advertised goods will contribute to our emotional wellbeing, thus subconsciously manipulating us into consuming more and more. Ads hence stand in clear conflict with goals like sufficiency and sustainability. Advertising also contradicts with our social values, as it restricts the democratic right of self-determination in the public space and promotes stereotype, racist and sexist pictures. Outdoor advertising is considered particularly disturbing because people are permanently exposed to it. Nevertheless, advertisements have become a natural part of the city environment and are not questioned by the majority of residents. This is where the Office for the Abolishment of Commercial Ads and for the Good Life steps in.
Initiating Public Discourse and Moving Political Leverages – Two Interrelated Goals
As Melanie explains, the Office's campaign is based on two interrelated goals: Initiating a social discourse on advertising and implementing political change by making Berlin's Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district advertising-free. The intention for a broad public discourse is to question the rationale of advertising, consumerism and economic growth and to make way for alternatives. In doing so, the campaigners wish to reach beyond expert circles already dealing with issues of a post-growth society and aim to make the concept accessible to all social classes. The campaigners have created a website (www.amtfuerwerbefreiheit.org) and a facebook page where they want to provide a room for discussion about a good life beyond consumerism and economic growth.
With regard to the second goal, the campaigners seek to implement political change at the lowest democratic level – the local district Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. They are currently formulating a resident petition for an advertising-free public space to be filed for at the local district government. Melanie explains: "Just as tobacco and alcohol advertising is already forbidden in our district due to health reasons, the petition aims to prevent the overconsumption of material goods out of social and environmental motives, and demands a reduction or abolition of advertisement in public areas." The petition involves 1000 signatures from the district's residents. The campaigners hope that the community support received within Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, a district where approximately sixty percent of its inhabitants have a migration background, will demonstrate to district representatives that the ideas and demands of their campaign are not only coming from a left-wing initiative but are based on values that are existent in different groups and social classes of the citizenry.
Another political leverage used by the Office was to get access to the German national Enquete Commission on 'Growth, prosperity and quality of life – pathways to a sustainable economy and societal progress in the social market economy'. The cooperation resulted in a discussion paper of the initiative appearing as a particular addendum in the final report of the commission.
According to Melanie, the two goals of initiating public discourse on the relationship between advertisement and consumerism and moving political leverages are supposed to reinforce each other: Filing a petition or using other means of democratic participation requires the wide support and acceptance of the respective constituency - in other words, it needs enough people that have engaged with and can relate to the topic in question. For this to happen, residents need to get informed and mobilized through an ongoing public discourse. On the other hand, action and changes achieved on the political level, such as working with the Enquete Commission, supposedly intensify an already existing discourse or stimulate an even wider dialogue on the issue, possibly beyond the local level. Ultimately, the campaign wishes to enable as many people as possible to get engaged and involved – in the discourse as well as concrete political steps.
High Media Attention with Mixed Responses
Though sparking mixed reactions and sentiments, Melanie and her colleagues were thrilled about the relatively high media attention to the campaign. Several German newspapers have reported on the initiative, triggering virtual discussions that reflect the wide spectrum of responses: There are supporters who share the feeling of disturbance when it comes to outdoor advertising and are enthusiastic about the campaign. There are defenders for whom advertising serves as an information broker for new products, a necessity for economic growth or simply a means to instil a glowing glamour into the city. And there are the unconcerned who commonly state that they remain unaffected by outdoor advertising as it can easily be ignored by them.
Melanie says that the greatest worry of the group is to be labelled as isolated, left-wing weirdoes. The campaigners are hence in the process of discussing strategies on how to get into dialogue with the people that are sceptical of their initiative. Currently, they are drafting Frequently Asked Questions to be added to their web and facebook page. The FAQ are supposed to explain and draw attention to the underlying thoughts and rationales behind the campaign. Melanie stresses that the campaigners' concern is to not remain in a bubble of people who are already convinced of the issues in question ('preaching to the converted'), but also reach out to people outside this circle. Making those caught in conventional mental infrastructures, unable to see the bigger picture, aware of how advertising intensifies our consumerist culture with all its negative effects on society and environment and elaborating on the concept of a good life is certainly one of the more difficult challenges of the campaign.
Insofar as the positive responses are concerned, twenty supporters have joined the initial group of seventeen apprentice campaigners and now work voluntarily for the goals of the Office. Concrete methods and processes on measuring and reflecting the campaign's success are still in discussion. Two success factors that Melanie mentioned ad hoc during the interview were utilizing the broad expertise of people involved for crowd sourcing and recognizing the value of base camp software in helping to coordinate the different working groups.
From a Smart CSOs perspective this is an interesting experiment of innovative campaigning that we will follow closely. As Melanie herself acknowledges, the challenge seems to be to avoid being a campaign mainly perceived as anti advertising but to achieve that it keeps its focus on the need for a reflective discourse about the absurdity of consumerist life styles and its many positive alternatives (The Good Life).
By Lara Kirch and Michael Narberhaus
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Lionel C. Savage Named Vice President of Market Development & Industry Relations for First American
September 27, 2005, SANTA ANA, Calif.
The First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF), the nation's largest data provider, today announced that Lionel C. Savage has been named vice president of market development and industry relations for The First American Corporation. Savage will continue in his current responsibilities of advancing First American's corporate emerging markets strategy and managing several of the company's strategic industry relationships in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Washington, D.C.
Savage, who joined First American in 2003, has played a vital role in managing agency relationships, building strategic partnerships and furthering the corporation's emerging markets strategy. Prior to his work at First American, Savage held key positions at Fannie Mae, where he worked for 15 years. His background includes integral roles in mortgage operations, small lender strategy, technology marketing and customer technology support. Savage has received numerous corporate awards for performance, customer service and leadership throughout his career.
"Lionel's leadership and contributions to several of First American's primary corporate strategies have been invaluable," said Craig I. DeRoy, president of The First American Corporation. "He is a core member of our corporate market development team, and we look forward to the further acceleration of our initiatives that Lionel is helping to shape and drive forward."
Savage graduated from Ben Franklin University in Washington, D.C., with a bachelor's degree in accounting. His professional affiliations include a position on the board of directors of Residential Mortgage Corporation and LendersOne, a mortgage banking cooperative; and a recent appointment to the mid-Atlantic board of directors of Operation Hope, Inc., a national financial literacy organization.
Savage is actively involved with a number of programs for children in his community and serves as a financial literacy instructor at a Washington, D.C.-area high school. He also volunteers as a leader with Youth Against Peer Pressure, a ministry of From The Heart Ministries of Temple Hills, Md., and participates in weekly youth mentoring activities and an annual week-long Youth Institute retreat. He currently resides in Fort Washington, Md., with his wife, Donna, and their three children, Brit'ne, Brandon and Briana.
The First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF), a Fortune 500 company that traces its history to 1889, is the nation's largest data provider. First American combines advanced analytics with its vast data resources to supply businesses and consumers with valuable information products to support the major economic events of people's lives, such as getting a job, renting an apartment, buying a car or house, securing a mortgage and opening or buying a business. The First American Family of Companies, many of which command leading market share positions in their respective industries, operate within six primary business segments, including: Title Insurance and Services, Specialty Insurance, Mortgage Information, Property Information, Credit Information and Screening Information. With revenues of $6.72 billion in 2004, First American has approximately 2,000 offices throughout the United States and abroad. More information about the company and an archive of its press releases can be found at www.firstam.com.