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USC Football Player Josh Shaw Admits Rescue Story Was a Lie
Josh Shaw has been suspended indefinitely from all team activities, school officials say
Published August 27, 2014 • Updated on August 28, 2014 at 12:21 am
A USC football player and co-captain admitted on Wednesday that he lied when he said he hurt his ankles while jumping off a second-floor balcony to save his drowning nephew from a pool, the player said in a statement from his attorney.
Senior cornerback Josh Shaw first told USC's Ripsit Blog that he jumped off the balcony on Aug. 23, landed on the concrete and crawled into the pool to rescue the child, suffering the sprains as a result of the jump.
But on Wednesday, Shaw admitted that the story was "made up," and school officials called it "a complete fabrication."
"On Saturday August 23, 2014, I injured myself in a fall. I made up a story about this fall that was untrue. I was wrong not to tell the truth," Shaw said Wednesday in statement from his lawyer. "I apologize to USC for this action on my part."
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"My USC coaches, the USC Athletic Department, and espcially coach Sarkisian have all been supportive of me during my college career and for that, I am very grateful," the statement continued.
The Ripsit blog has since deleted its initial story about the rescue. Shaw has been suspended indefinitely from all team activities, school officials said.
"We are extremely disappointed in Josh," USC head football coach Steve Sarkisian said in a school statement."He let us all down. As I have said, nothing in his background led us to doubt him when he told us of his injuries, nor did anything after our initial vetting of his story."Sarkisian said earlier Wednesday that the campus was looking into phone calls that disputed Shaw's account of what happened.
"I appreciate that Josh has now admitted that he lied and has apologized," Sarkisian said in the statement Wednesday. "Although this type of behavior is out of character for Josh, it is unacceptable. Honesty and integrity must be at the center of our program. I believe Josh will learn from this. I hope that he will not be defined by this incident, and that the Trojan Family will accept his apology and support him."
The football player's sister, Asia Shaw, shared her reaction with NBC4: "I support him with whatever he does 100 percent – 110 percent."
Carmen Trutanich, who represented USC football players before serving as Los Angeles city attorney, says Shaw may have felt pressured to lie.
"It was a kid afraid of telling the coach, 'Hey coach I got hurt doing something stupid,'" Trutanich said. Trutanich is not representing Shaw.
Students were surprised to hear their fellow Trojan lied.
"I'm shocked," one student said. "I didn't think he'd be capable of doing something like that."
"I think that's just really disappointing, because we all thought he was a hero," another student said.
On Tuesday, Sarkisian defended Shaw and said he had "no reason, no history to not believe Josh."
Los Angeles police told NBC4 on Tuesday they had not had any contact with Shaw, but they did take a burglary report Aug. 23, the same night of his fall, in which the victim named Shaw as her boyfriend.
"He is not listed as a suspect, and police had no contact with him," LAPD Officer Sara Faden told NBC4. "His name is just listed in the body of a police report."
Officers responded to the call about 11 p.m., Faden said. While officers were speaking with people outside, a resident returned and spoke to police.
They asked her about her roommates and "people in her life," and she mentioned Shaw as her boyfriend, Faden said.
Conan Nolan and Robert Kovacik contributed to this report.
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It could be worse, Feral Interactive could have said no. So for now at least, our dreams remain intact. Take a look at the trailer embedded below and you'll most likely agree that if this version of GRID Autosport hits Apple TV, then Real Racing 3 will have a serious contender on its hands for the platform's pole position racer. Especially considering this is only alpha footage.
Feral Interactive specialises in porting big Triple A franchises to mobile, Mac, and Linux. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III recently hit macOS and Linux, and recent ports of F1 2016, ROME: Total War, and Alien: Isolation are just a few of the other big hitters the team can take credit for.
We'll stay in touch with the team and as soon as we know more (or less as the case may turn out to be), then you'll know more. Or less.
In the meantime, there are some decent racing titles to dip into on the Apple TV platform, and not long ago we put together a fun look at picking our favourite elements from some of those, and Frankensteining them into a dream Apple TV racer. Enjoy.


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The colourful characters of Munya Chawawa
Munya Chawawa has garnered legions of followers through his whip-smart videos and characters, which he shares online. Here, he discusses the importance of craft and the challenges of 60-second satire
By Rebecca Fulleylove 15/03/2021 8:25 am
For a long time, the route into comedy seemed to be gigging in clubs until you get noticed, or writing umpteen specs – again, until you get noticed. It's not the most inclusive way to break into an industry, which has often felt limited in the voices and stories that are celebrated. However, in recent years, a new wave of funny people have emerged with a sense of freedom in creating comedy content with purely online audiences in mind.
"I love social media because there are no gatekeepers as such, in the sense that if you work in TV or radio, where I initially was trying to break through, there's one person at the top who has to like what you're doing. And if they don't, then you're not getting a show," says British-Zimbabwean comedian Munya Chawawa. "Whereas on social media, whether people like it or not, you can continue to put your work out there. You don't have to email anyone's PA with your video; you don't have to submit it via WeTransfer to this enormous portal of showreels. I love the visibility, and I love how the only limit to how far you get with your work is how much of it you make. No one's ever going to stop you from creating – apart from yourself."
Top: Munya Chawawa and characters, Photo: © Riya Hollings & Moxie; Above: Still from Unknown P for Piers Morgan video promo
Chawawa grew up in Zimbabwe and came to the UK when he was 11 due to growing political and economic tensions in the country. For around seven years, he's been creating comedy videos and sketches, sharing them on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok, and he now has over a million followers across those platforms combined. Chawawa has become known for tuning into the public psyche with nippy precision and has created a plethora of complex personalities to help him do it. There are characters who dissect world politics, others who call out hypocrisies around racism and classism in the UK, and even some that parody lockdown rulings through RnB classics. With glowing celebrity endorsements and numerous TV appearances, last year also saw Chawawa's posh drill rapper character Unknown P release his first song titled Piers Morgan, while also signing a record deal with Atlantic.
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Chanp Cutlus Recipe: Wash the chanps and pour it in a deep pan and add vinegar, turmeric, garlic paste in it and keep it on flame for cooking if one wants add water. For making better add wheat flour, Khaskash, peanuts, salt, black pepper and cheese and mix well and dip chanps in it and fry it in oil till they get golden color. Chanps are ready to eat.


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Shipping containers at the Port of Los Angeles. Photo credit: Barrett Ward via Unsplash.
What You Need to Know About West Coast Ports Labor Negotiations
West Coast ports and dockworkers are negotiating a new labor contract. If things don't go well there could be delays that undermine U.S. competitiveness.
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Vice President, Transportation, Infrastructure, and Supply Chain Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
America's seaports are critical gateways for goods entering and leaving the United States. Last year, many West Coast ports struggled to keep pace with the enormous amount of goods arriving from Asia, resulting in long delays to deliver home goods, electronics, holiday gifts, and other products to U.S. consumers. This year, the West Coast ports and their dockworkers' union are negotiating a new long-term labor contract. If these negotiations go poorly, there could be new delays that could also undermine our nation's long-term competitiveness.
What's the situation?
Seaports are critical gateways for goods and raw materials entering and leaving the United States. A good illustration: the 29 West Coast ports – including the ports in Los Angeles, Long Beach, Seattle-Tacoma, and Oakland – handle handling approximately 60% of all imports coming from Asia. Critical to the operation of these ports are the dockworkers – the men and women responsible for loading and unloading ocean vessels at these ports, who are represented by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).
ILWU workers and the port terminals renew labor contracts every few years. The current labor contract for the West Coast ILWU members will expire on June 30. The union leadership and the port terminals – represented by the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) – started negotiating a new contract on May 10. Both parties share a goal of agreeing on a new contract by July 1, but because this contract will set pay, benefits, work hours, and other issues for several years, much is at stake.
Every negotiation over the last twenty years has seen at least a short-term service disruption, snarling supply chains and hurting businesses. For example:
2002: Negotiations over technology integration led to work slowdowns and an 11-day shutdown of West Coast ports. President George W. Bush invoked the Taft-Hartley law to reopen the ports. A labor agreement was reached that moved the handling of shipping information from a manual to an electronic process.
2008: In May the ILWU engaged in an illegal day-long work stoppage that shut down all major West Coast ports. In July, three weeks of work stoppages started in Los Angeles and Long Beach and spread to the Pacific Northwest. Contract negotiations ultimately led to terminal operators securing the right to automate and the development of port automation projects.
2014: Stalled contract negotiations led to work slowdowns, creating gridlock at ports. This forced the Obama administration to intervene in 2015.
This year, the stakes are especially high. U.S. businesses are still recovering from the supply chain challenges of last year, which saw record traffic flows snarling West Coast ports. These contributed to historic delays in delivering goods and products to businesses and consumers.
Supply chain fears persist. A recent MetLife and U.S. Chamber Small Business Index survey found one in four small business owners cite supply chain issues as their biggest problem, and 61% said they changed their supply chain in the last six months in response to disruptions. Any service delays at these ports due to contract issues – even temporary ones – would be catastrophic to U.S. businesses and consumers still recovering.
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In many ways, the ILWU comes to the negotiating table with significant leverage. The terminals are under immense pressure to improve service levels and not have a repeat of last year, and as shown above there is a long record of the ILWU employing work slowdowns to win concessions.
There is an additional critical element in these negotiations for our long-term competitiveness, and that is the productivity of these ports, or how quickly they can load and unload ships.
A high level of productivity means containers and goods move quickly through ports, helping keep transportation costs low and getting products to store shelves quickly. Unfortunately, our nation's ports rank as some of the least productive in the world. The World Bank Group and IHS Markit recently ranked the top ports in the world and the U.S. failed to put a single port in the top 50. Our two most important ports – Los Angeles and Long Beach – ranked #328 and #333, respectively while our most productive port was the port of Philadelphia at #89.
Cutting the performance gap will mean modernizing our ports the way the rest of the world has already done – in part through automation. With trade volumes expected to continue growing this is especially important. Many of our ports are already at capacity and cannot handle any more traffic without degradation in service levels. Without improvements from automation and other changes, our less-competitive ports will hurt the competitiveness of U.S. businesses.
This issue has created a clear battle line between the port terminals and the ILWU. The union views automation as an existential threat to their members' livelihood by eliminating jobs. Citing recent studies, the terminals disagree and contend that keeping up with growing freight flows requires automation.
Both sides are hopeful that these negotiations will not lead to service disruptions, despite history saying otherwise. But both sides agree that no one should expect negotiations to be completed by the end of the current contract on June 30.
The Chamber will be monitoring the situation to ensure no disruptions and that goods efficiently get to American companies and families.
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The objective of this policy is to provide guidelines and procedures by which open flame devices may be used upon the University of Florida campus.
Organizations, groups, and individuals are not permitted to have open flame devices within University buildings unless the building or area is specifically designed for such devices or written permission has been granted by EH&S. Open flame devices are defined as candles, torches, butane burners or any other flame producing device. Chemical, biological, engineering, or teaching labs where the open flame is part of the research/educational process, and kitchens with an exhaust hood and pre-engineered extinguishing system are exempt from this policy. Maintenance staff or construction crews in compliance with the University of Florida Hot Work Policy are also exempt.
The use of unmanned, free floating sky lanterns and similar devices utilizing an open flame are prohibited from use on or launch from University buildings, property or land.
Open flame devices are strictly prohibited for use within Dickinson Hall regardless of the reason.
The following University requirements for the use of open flame devices are drawn from the Florida Fire Prevention Code Sixth Edition (2017), National Fire Protection Associations (NFPA), Life Safety Code 101 (2015) Edition, and Fire Code NFPA 1 (2015).
Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) shall review and either approve or deny the use of open flame devices in a timely manner. The organization, group, or individual applying for the use of open flame devices must provide a layout of the venue that shall include the location of the devices, the approximate length of open flame, location and number of fire extinguishers. They shall also determine if the building is equipped with a fire alarm and/or fire sprinkler system(s).
EH&S shall determine if any additional measures shall be required prior to signing the special events form. A copy of the approved form shall be available during the event for review by EH&S or the University Police Department (UPD). UPD and/or EH&S may suspend the use of open flame devices at their sole discretion.
Organizations, groups, and individuals sponsoring events that include open flame devices must complete the "Special Events Form". Each event will be reviewed on a case by case basis to determine the appropriateness of the venue for open flame devices. Open flame devices will only be approved when appropriate measures have been taken to insure fire safety. The form may be obtained at the Student Activities Center in the Reitz Union, room 300. Call (352) 392-1671 for information.
Candles are not permitted in offices, classrooms, dorm rooms, hotel rooms, or fraternities/sororities. Candles are permitted in the Baughman Center for religious/ceremonial purposes only and must be constantly attended while they are lit. Open flame devices are not permitted in the University Auditorium or Austin Cary lodge.
Open flame devices are permitted in Phillips Performing Arts Center and Constans Theater only in conjunction with theatrical performances. Use of open flame device require prior written plan and plan approval from EH&S.
Open flame devices are permitted in the O'Connell Center with prior written plan and plan approval from EH&S. Open flame devices are strictly prohibited during any type of trade show or fair.
Candle light vigils are permitted if the venue is outside of all buildings or breezeways. Candles shall be lit outside and extinguished prior to entrance to any building.
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Mental heath is an increasingly prevalent issue for children, young people and families. Statutory service cutbacks mean that finding support that is timely and accessible is an ongoing issue. Working with Haxby Road School in York, BrightSparks intends to address this by providing a range of practical strategies and support systems via an accessible tool kit (available online and offline) which will help teachers, pastoral staff and parents to feel confident guiding children and young people towards developing emotional resilience. Once developed and tested the toolkit will be rollout across all schools in York.
It is our hope that the tool kit will lead to fewer children and young people reporting mental health issues and a much more confidence within the education workforce about how to support good emotional health for children and young people.
If you would like to talk to us about how our emotional resilience programme could benefit your school or organisation then please get in touch.


The ancient city of Kanazawa is a masterpiece of Japanese culture, although it is a popular tourist destination among the Japanese, but less among Western visitors. The village is the main city area of Ishikawa in Japan. Situated on the west coast of Honshu Island, bordering the Sea of Japan and its other parts are surrounded by the Japan Alps and the National Parks of Hakusan and Noto.
Literally translated, the name of Kanazawa means "marsh of gold". The ancient fortified town was called so because of the many legends associated with it. One story tells of a peasant who was a farmer and grew potatoes. After gathering the vegetables, he washed the gold dust stuck to them and gathered them in a well.
The city is perhaps the best preserved village with great architecture from the Edo period. Two major rivers pass through Kanazawa - Saigawa and Asano. For the first, they say it is lush and manly, and the second is sweet and feminine.
The biggest tourist attraction here are Kenrokuen Gardens, which were built in the 17th century, situated on approximately 10 hectares, this is perhaps the most beautiful garden throughout Japan, especially in spring. The cherry and apricot trees bloom around ponds, through which beautiful wooden bridges cross. In winter, though covered with snow, the garden is also an impressive sight.
The ancient town has very many places to visit. Situated in an area of 467.77 square kilometers in Kanazawa can be seen numerous museums, castles and temples. Interesting is the eponymous temple with its spectacular architecture and white tin tiles. It is surrounded by a maze of paths, whose purpose was to impede the enemies who want to get to the castle.
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The most convenient way to reach the city has to land at the nearest airport which is located in Komatsu. From there, the trip to Kanazawa takes about 50 minutes by car from the airport and there are direct buses.


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Why has Mauritius left Fiji so far behind?
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Mauritius was recently declared by the World Bank to be a high-income country. On the other side of the globe, but with many similar characteristics, Fiji, which used to be richer than Mauritius, now has less than half the latter's income per capita. The first in our two-blog series looked at Mauritius's superior economic, social and political performance. This post tries to explain the huge differences observed.
Both countries were dominated by sugar cane farming in the past, and are reliant on tourism today. While Mauritius generates slightly more tourism dollars per capita than Fiji, its economy as a whole is less dependent on tourism. Since 1995, Fiji's international tourism receipts as a proportion of total exports have consistently been higher than Mauritius'. Since 2010, the annual gap has been about 15 to 20 percentage points.
Figure 1: International tourism receipts trends
Sources and notes: see notes at the end of the blog for more information on all figures.
Mauritius' lower reliance on tourism reflects the fact that its economy is more diversified than Fiji's. Mauritius' top exports in 2018 were: travel; textiles; and business, professional and technical services. These constituted 39%, 11% and 10% of total exports, respectively. On the other hand, Fiji's top exports in the same year were heavily skewed towards travel, at 54% of total exports, with its next two biggest exports, bottled water and fish products, only representing 6% each.
Mauritius' exports are not only more diversified; they have grown faster as well. As Figure 2 shows, Fiji's and Mauritius' inflation-adjusted exports were virtually the same in the first half of the 1980s. Since then, however, Mauritius' exports have grown much faster – at least till around 2012. Its exports have been struggling since though: no doubt this is one reason why its growth has slowed (as shown in Figure 2 of the previous blog).
Figure 2: Exports of goods and services (in 2019 US$ billions)
As Figure 3 shows, Fiji and Mauritius had a very similar economic structure in the 1970s, the decade following independence. In 1976, both had a service sector that made up 47% of GDP, manufacturing at 11-13%, and agriculture at 20-24%. Now the two economies are very different. Agriculture is still 12% of GDP in Fiji, but only 3% in Mauritius. The share of manufacturing has changed little in either country. Mauritius has become a service-based economy, with the service sector now accounting for 67% of GDP, compared to just 54% in Fiji.
Figure 3: Fiji's and Mauritius' economies – value added of respective sectors as % of GDP
Mauritius has been particularly successful in developing competitive niches in the service sector. In 2019, the information and communications technology/business process outsourcing sector contributed 5.8% to its GDP.
Facilitating trade between Asia and Africa has also proven to be a successful strategy. According to Auty (p.271), Mauritius channelled about 40% of India's inbound foreign direct investment during the 2000s through a slew of accommodative policies such as a double taxation treaty and favourable tax rates.
Underlying Mauritius' superior economic performance is no doubt a better quality of governance. In a 2019 ranking of countries by ease of doing business produced by the World Bank, Mauritius ranked 13th while Fiji languished in 102nd spot. In the World Bank governance indicators (which cover about 210 countries), Fiji ranks slightly higher for control of corruption, but Mauritius ranks much higher for government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and rule of law.
Table 1: World Bank governance indicators: percentile rankings (best=100)
A deeper account would explain not only Mauritius' economic success but also its better governance and its greater political stability and freedom (as shown in our first blog). Both Fiji and Mauritius are multi-ethnic societies. Economists Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Roy have argued (in chapter 8 of this book) that Mauritius' ethnic diversity has been a strength, since it has forced the country into a moderate settlement, bound by the rule of law.
That argument doesn't stack up well in the comparison with Fiji. From that perspective, Mauritius has benefited rather by the clear numerical dominance in that country of one ethnic group, the Indo-Mauritians, who make up some two-thirds of the country's population.
Fiji by contrast has been wracked by tensions between its two main ethnic groups, and by the process of one group asserting itself over the other. Ethnic conflict has also been more intense in Fiji because one group is indigenous, the iTaukei, and the other group, the Indo-Fijians, started arriving in the late 1800s. Mauritius was uninhabited until 1638 when it was first colonised.
There were about the same number of iTaukei and Indo-Fijians in the 1940s, and slightly more Indo-Fijians by the 1980s. The subsequent backlash against the latter group (the first three coups were directed against governments popular with Indo-Fijians) changed the country's ethnic make-up as Indo-Fijians decided to leave. Indigenous Fijians are now once again safely in the majority. The last census in which ethnicity was recorded was in 2007, and it showed one-and-a-half times as many iTaukei as Indo-Fijians.
Is Fiji then becoming more like Mauritius? Certainly, there is now one dominant ethnic group in Fiji, but there is probably also greater ongoing polarisation. One interesting contrast is the very different marriage rates between ethnic groups in the two countries. We don't have recent data on this, but it was estimated to be 0.9% in Fiji in the 1990s; and ten times higher at 8.8% in Mauritius in the late 1980s.
And then there is the damage done to institutions – the rule of law, democracy – in Fiji by the country's four coups. This seems permanent or at least long term. Catching up with Mauritius – the country Fiji was once richer than, but is now twice as poor as – will not be easy. But Fiji would do well to aim to become more like Mauritius: economically more diversified, politically more free, and socially less polarised.
[1] Source for all figures: World Bank. Table 2 is from the World Bank Governance Indicators. It shows the percentile rank among all countries with 0 being the lowest and 100 the highest.
[2] To convert data for Figure 2 into 2019 USD terms, the nominal exchange rate was used to first convert from local currency units to current USD terms. The USD GDP deflator was then used to convert to 2019 USD terms. The PPP conversion factor stretches back to 1990 only and nominal LCU/USD exchange rates were therefore used as a proxy to obtain a longer series.
This is the second in a two-blog series on #Fiji-Mauritius comparisons. You can find the first blog here.
This research was supported by the Pacific Research Program, with funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The views are those of the authors only.
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Stephen Howes
Stephen Howes is Director of the Development Policy Centre and Professor of Economics at the Crawford School of Public Policy, at The Australian National University.
Sherman Surandiran
Sherman Surandiran was a Research Officer at the Development Policy Centre until July 2021.
Tipu says:
Mauritius will soon be another Fiji as the minority ethnic groups are doing their best to take over the majority ethnic group and to put their laws and way of living. And all this backed by some living room media and some toilet activists as if peace wasn't good for them.
Joseva Visikara says:
Devpolicy.org.is providing a more detailed analysis of Fiji current crises.
Albert Singh says:
Military coups, racism, corruption and mismanagement of resources and under utilisation of land drives the country in reverse gear!!!
Shailendra B Singh says:
Fiji needs to implement a systematic way to deal with social polarisation, including education and awareness campaigns starting from the school level. While social polarisation is only one of the reasons for Fiji's backwardness compared to Mauritius, it's a major reason, perhaps/arguably 'the' major reason. The ruling FijiFirst government has tried social cohesion through some bold initiatives, such as a common identity, 'Fijian' (which was not universally popular, especially among ethnic Fijians), and through electoral reforms to remove ethnic-based voting. But social polarisation based on political tensions may have increased even more in the social media era, so much needs to done to address this vexing problem wholeheartedly, in a sustained manner, given that it remains a major threat to development.
Wesley Morgan says:
Thank you for this piece. The comparisons between Mauritius and Fiji are super interesting, not least because both countries shifted from sugar, through clothing exports, to tourism and a more diversified services sector. Both Fiji and Mauritius benefitted from preferential access to metropolitan markets for apparel exports – in Fiji's case for exports to Australia and New Zealand in the 80s and 90s and Mauritius for exports to UK and Europe. For two decades this preferential market access was a key factor in economic growth and employment in Mauritius (91,000 people were employed in the apparel/textile export industry in 1999). This no doubt contributed to domestic savings and economic diversification subsequently. Textile exports are still significant for the Mauritius economy. Of course all of the issues around governance in Fiji are extremely important, but I think a lesson here is that preferential market access can be important for small states that struggle to compete on price and volume with other states. Not advocating protectionism, but Australia can help Pacific states by offering innovative support to export industries and where possible preferential access to the Australian market. This is something we see with regard to recent labour mobility schemes for example, where 'preferential access' to Australia and NZ labour markets is increasingly important for a number of Pacific island countries. No doubt this 'preferential access' will be all the more important for island states in the COVID era.
Philip Davies says:
Fiji has a standing army. Mauritius doesn't. Possibly relevant?
Terence O'Neill -Joyce says:
Apart from serving the needs of the United Nations, Peace Keeping role, the Republic of Fiji does not need an Army, without an Army the Four Coups, were all backed by a Military, and would have failed.
The largest visible effect on Fiji has been the four military Coups. Corruption is high, rule of Law is influenced by the Military's strong influence over law and order and general governance.
Free and fair elections to show the reality of poverty amongst the people is the only viable option for an improved economy.
John Caldeira says:
Fiji's economy is paying the price of its coups, but also the price of its strategy of keeping wage rates low. Instead of developing and retaining its human capital, low wages have caused many skilled professionals to emigrate to better opportunities overseas, leaving Fiji with fewer business leaders and a less effective government.
Sairusi Tokoniono says:
Fiji is not wrecked by tensions from the two ethnic groups it is wrecked by the people who are leading the country the Prime Minister and the Attorney General who is also the Minister for Every thing in Fiji and who is also the General Secretary of of the Fiji First Party
Vineshwar says:
It gods bless n honest with God.
Geoff King says:
Excellent accessible blog illustrating why governance matters to development. And from Economists! Well done
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A refusal to (not) forget: (Post)Empire, transpolitics and locating diaspora in the anti-imperial consciousness of Howard Gayle
Daniel Burdsey
Sport and Leisure Cultures Research and Enterprise Group
Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics
In 2016, black former professional footballer, Howard Gayle, was awarded an MBE, in recognition of his work in anti-racist education. He rejected the accolade due to its colonial associations and the experiences of his African ancestors under the British Empire. This article analyses and theorizes the geographical, cultural, political, historical and temporal contexts and consequences surrounding this refusal. While highlighting the fluid and reciprocal spatial and temporal positionalities that guide Gayle's articulations, it argues that it is essentially through and in the local spaces and places of his home city of Liverpool–a pivotal location in the historic international slave trade–that his anti-imperial consciousness is forged and enacted. The article addresses the possibilities that emerge from demands for social and reparative justice by public figures such as Gayle, in terms of decolonial thinking, anti-racist pedagogy and their status as a source rather than an object of knowledge.
Ethnic and Racial Studies
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City declares broad equity goals for pretrial services
Friday, April 10, 2020 by Ryan Thornton
In the middle of a pandemic that has led to a sharp decrease in the Travis County Jail population, Austin City Council plans to leverage its influence to keep the jail population low by reserving use of pretrial detention for cases where it is necessary to ensure public safety.
The city has a limited role in criminal justice policy under its interlocal agreement with Travis County. According to Mayor Pro Tem Delia Garza, that role includes making sure that Austin Municipal Court judges who conduct magistrate hearings following an arrest are providing "basic constitutional rights" when acting in that capacity.
Garza's resolution aims to minimize the "collateral consequences that come from getting entwined with our criminal justice system" by getting individuals charged with many low-level nonviolent misdemeanors and felonies back into their lives as soon as possible without being held up by lengthy pretrial services interviews, risk assessments or magistration, which can occur up to 48 hours after arrest.
Following release, a magistrate hearing would occur at a later date in a place where the public would be able to attend and when arrestees would have equitable access to legal counsel, a component Roger Jefferies of the county's Justice Planning Department said could cost over $4 million to provide. Additionally, the resolution aims to ensure that a magistrate judge would be required to provide on-record written findings if an individual is not released on personal bond.
City Council approved the resolution in a 10-0-1 vote Thursday, with an abstention from Council Member Leslie Pool, but the county may not be so unified in its response. Although resolution co-sponsor Council Member Greg Casar said County Judge Sarah Eckhardt assured him of her personal support for each recommendation, Jefferies sent the Commissioners Court a letter Wednesday saying the "spirit and letter of the resolution" is out of step with the nature of the long-standing city-county partnership.
"It is unfortunate that various county stakeholders were not consulted before this proposed resolution was developed," Jefferies said. "There is information in the resolution that is incomplete."
Of particular note, Jefferies lamented that the resolution does not include any financial analysis or a commitment from the city to cover the cost of providing round-the-clock defense counsel at magistration or any of the associated costs such as space, clerk needs and prosecutors. That could add more than $4.1 million to the county's annual criminal justice expenses at a time when it has recently committed to spend $14.8 million per year to create a public defender's office.
Jefferies also noted that, under Texas law, the county is not legally required to take in arrests from Austin Police Department until magistration has occurred, meaning much of the financial burden of the proposed services could ultimately fall on the city's shoulders since over 60 percent of all jail bookings come from the city.
With that in mind, Pool offered two amendments asking for a financial analysis from the city before making specific recommendations to amend the interlocal agreement and to collaborate with the county in the amendment process in order to "continue to have a productive relationship with the county."
"We all would like to see additional defense counsel be available to arrestees, but we need to know where the cost is and who would be bearing the cost before we can actually implement any of these good and necessary changes," Pool said.
Both amendments were included without objection, but Garza resisted the idea that a cost estimate would be necessary to determine whether or not to provide the service should the city be charged with doing so.
"If in fact the county's numbers are correct and it's going to cost $4 million to provide representation for people at magistration, if a court decides it is someone's constitutional right to have representation at their magistration, it is incumbent on the city to cover that cost if we are covering the cost to allow someone to have a constitutional right."
Besides creating a public defender's office, Jefferies said the resolution fails to account for a number of county efforts to reduce incarceration. Mary Mergler with Texas Appleseed, however, said those initiatives "in no way eliminate the need for this action."
"Even with the county's changes that they've made, the system continues to extract money, primarily from communities of color and low-income communities that can least afford to pay it, in the form of personal bond fees, pretrial supervision fees, non-refundable bail bond fees."
Additionally, Kathy Mitchell of Austin Justice Coalition and Just Liberty said Jefferies' suggestion that the 30 percent reduction in jail population from 2,123 on April 8, 2019, to 1,626 on the same day this year is misleading. On March 1, prior to the pandemic, Mitchell said jail population was actually up to 2,218, higher than average. She credited the rapid decrease of nearly 600 inmates to the response to Covid-19.
"Thanks to Covid-19, county officials have worked to quickly identify 600 people who could be released, and told us at our virtual town hall last week that they are working to release still more," Mitchell said. "It should not have taken an international pandemic to figure out that we could safely reduce incarceration. Now we're able to see that making these people safer and giving them better access to their constitutional rights did not make the rest of us less safe."
"We want to make this the new normal and this resolution gives us a process to do that in conjunction with the county," Mitchell added.
Travis County judges have recently issued two standing orders to expand use of personal bonds in charges for low-level nonviolent misdemeanors and felonies, but Emily Gerrick with Texas Fair Defense Project said the orders allow for too many exceptions to automatic release on personal bonds. She said the resolution "fills a lot of those gaps."
"It is so important right now, more than it ever has been, to minimize pretrial detention given all the associated harms that come with it, especially now with the risk of Covid-19 in the county jail."
Despite near-unanimous approval by Council, Garza expressed disappointment at the county's response.
"I would hope our partners at the county … instead of, frankly, what felt like a very defensive response for the work that we are trying to continue, would have said: 'We're ready to go. Thank you for these efforts, we're ready to continue to work.'"
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Austin City Council: The Austin City Council is the body with legislative purview over the City of Austin. It offers policy direction, while the office of the City Manager implements administrative actions based on those policies. Until 2012, the body contained seven members, including the city's Mayor, all elected at-large. In 2012, City of Austin residents voted to change that system and now 10 members of the Council are elected based on geographic districts. The Mayor continues to be elected at-large.
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THEATRE REVIEW
Alanna Mitchell. Photo by Alejandro Santiago.
by Alanna Mitchell
The Theatre Centre (Toronto)
The Cultch Historic Theatre
Feb. 9-19
www.thecultch.com or 604-251-1363
Alanna Mitchell's monologue Sea Sick opens with the ominous words, "I'm not an actor." She also explains that she's not a scientist. She's a journalist, and the story she tells over the next 65 minutes, based on her 2009 bestseller, Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis, is a journalist's journey through science and the world's oceans to understand the apocalyptic effects of global warming on ocean temperatures.
The facts themselves are terrifying, or should be. As the oceans absorb more and more CO2 from the atmosphere, and their temperature keeps rising, the world seems headed straight for another Mass Extinction. The previous one occurred 65 million years ago. Because the facts and statistics themselves are so patently damning, perhaps the makers of this show thought it was not really necessary for Mitchell to deliver them dramatically. She is a good storyteller. She's relaxed and articulate, and has been telling this story on stage since 2014.
But this is billed as a theatrical event. And she is not an actor. Nor have Toronto's Theatre Centre directors Franco Boni and Ravi Jain given her much in the way of design elements to work with besides a blackboard, chalk, a pitcher of vinegar, and some snippets of a Bob Dylan soundtrack. The logic seems to be: Why sugarcoat the pill. Give it to them straight.
So Mitchell tells us about the scientists she has met and what they have told her.She recounts her first-hand experiences of dying coral reefs and oceanic dead zones. She puts diagrams and numbers on the blackboard and explains their significance in terms of the oceans' changing chemistry. She drops a piece of chalk into the pitcher of vinegar, and we see what acidic ocean water does to shellfish.
Earlier, talking about the influence of her science professor father and artist mother on her, Mitchell asserts that science provides the facts but art is necessary to explain what they mean. I appreciated getting the horrifying facts from this cross between a Ted Talk and a Fringe show. But I missed the rich theatrical art that could make those facts so visceral and memorable that we might be moved to act on them.
Sea Sick is the first of six shows between now and the end of March that comprise The Cultch's Femme Festival: "Highlighting the strength and power of female-identifying voices."
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Ja Rule, actor, singer, songwriter, and one of the most multi-dimensional rap artists of his time, tells his compelling story—from his youth to his rise to international fame to his transformative two years in Federal prison—and reveals the man beneath the legend.
Unruly is two stories that offer one complete picture of a man and his world: the angry, fatherless rapper, Ja Rule who was "raised by the streets"; and Jeffrey Atkins, the insightful, reflective father and loyal husband who learned the hard way how to be a good man.
Filled with never-before-revealed anecdotes and sixteen pages of black-and-white photos, Unruly shows the determination that it takes to become a man in today's society. Ja Rule considers the lack of role models for many young black men today—a void that leads to bad choices and the wrong paths. Recalling his youth, he illuminates the seductive pull of the streets and the drug dealers who were his earliest role models.
Jeffrey Atkins offers practical wisdom—reflection, growth and hope learned first-hand as an inmate, father, husband, and community role model. He speaks fondly of men who inspired Unruly—the inmates he met in prison whose misguided ideas of masculinity landed them behind bars—and Louis Farrakhan who mediated the televised encounter with Ja Rule's adversary, 50 Cent.
Unruly is a compelling, personal look at the duality and conflicts that arise in the African-American male psyche from a man who has enjoyed breathtaking fame and suffered heartbreaking misfortune.
Ja Rule has sold 30 million records worldwide. His unwavering talent has relentlessly captured our attention with his addictive beats, clever lyrics and his undeniable presence. Ja Rule has been performing for over a decade to audiences that can't get enough of his distinctively raw sound. His triumphs have brought him undreamed-of success and celebrity; his tribulations have visited upon him notoriety and unforgiving media attention. But who is Ja Rule?
Unruly reveals the real man behind the persona that dominates the stage and emerges from his music. In this emotive page-turner, we get to know who lives behind the performer. Ja Rule, honestly and unapologetically, delves into the pain of being a fatherless child, raised by a single mother, and eventually growing to fulfill his dreams of becoming an iconic figure in hip-hop and beyond. He shares his humble and bold reflections, which are meant to be proof for young people everywhere that if you can see it, you can be it. And he speaks with brutal candor of his own staggering mistakes, including gun possession, senseless violence, drug dealing, petty theft, substances and alcohol, and, ultimately, landing behind bars.
Unruly is riveting and humorous—as Ja Rule shares stories close to his heart: losing his virginity in a stairwell landing, falling head over heels in love with his junior high school sweetheart and going on to make her his wife and the mother of his children—and refreshing and surprising, with rich stories ranging from renting $30,000-a-month mansions, to scrubbing his own prison cell, to traveling the world, becoming enriched by foreign cultures and sounds.
This intimate book is a collection of powerful memories and lessons, reflecting a certain vulnerability that can only be interpreted as inner strength. Here we see Ja Rule for the sensitive, loving person that he has become. Unruly shows that the souls of young urban men are often unseen. Here is a truly revolutionary effort from a gifted, passionate artist.


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