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How Biden could revamp worker health protections in the midst of the deadly pandemic
Eli Rosenberg, The Washington Post
Worker advocates and former labor officials say they believe President-elect Joe Biden will push to revamp and strengthen the federal agency charged with enforcing workplace safety soon after taking office in January, a significant shift in the middle of a brutal pandemic.
The Trump administration has largely avoided taking major actions against companies whose workers became sick with or died of the coronavirus, and Biden has said he wants to ramp up enforcement to better keep workers safe.
A key focus is likely to be the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which is charged with upholding workplace safety. Biden could take action immediately at OSHA by ramping up inspections, filling vacancies and creating a safety standard that workplaces would be required to follow during the pandemic.
The incoming Biden administration already has a lengthy list of recommendations from which to work.
As the Biden campaign convened working groups over the summer to help conceptualize policy for a potential Democratic White House, a group of advocates - union representatives, former Labor Department officials from the Obama years, nonprofits and local groups - helped create a set of recommendations to reboot the agency's approach to worker safety and in theory make companies adhere to a stricter set of guidelines to make workplaces more safe, some of the advocates who were part of the effort told The Washington Post.
Chief among these measures would be the creation of an "emergency temporary standard" for the coronavirus, a set of rules that workplaces would have to adhere to on such things as social distancing, hand-washing breaks, communication during outbreaks and ventilation. Failure to adhere to these standards during inspections could result in penalties from OSHA.
"This is absolutely necessary and should have been done months ago," said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. "You see the difference in a new administration that actually believes in worker protection and that workers are not dispensable."
The Trump administration has resisted calls from former officials, Democrats and labor advocates to institute such a standard during the pandemic, saying that its existing safety rules and coronavirus recommendations are sufficient.
Critics say that OSHA's regulatory power has suffered from understaffing and vacancies, and has been curtailed by the Trump administration.
OSHA said in a statement that the number of inspections completed in the last available year, 2019, were higher than in 2016 and that it has worked to replenish the ranks of inspectors. That was before the coronavirus struck, however.
There are also calls for the agency to review its whistleblowing program, which is meant to protect workers from retaliation for complaining about "unsafe or unhealthful" conditions at work. (OSHA said in a statement that its rate of closure for these complaints has been in line with historical averages.)
Labor advocates say these changes - which could be among the first major changes to labor policy after Biden's inauguration - could go a long way to reducing coronavirus transmission at workplaces, which has made for a significant portion of the pandemic's toll around the country.
"Had OSHA issued an emergency standard, had they done enforcement instead of just guidelines, we know this spread could have been mitigated," said Debbie Berkowitz, a former OSHA official. "What's critically important is that OSHA is back on the job, to issue the standard and to get out there and do enforcement which will help mitigate the spread of covid-19 - in work and in the public."
Business groups, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have thus far opposed efforts to create an emergency temporary standard for the virus, signaling they would continue to push back on these efforts in the future.
"We don't believe an emergency temporary standard is going to help employers protect employees," Marc Freedman, a vice president at the U.S. Chamber said in an interview. Freedman said the group was concerned that such a standard would be burdensome for employers and increase the potential for costly and complicated litigation. He said the Chamber also believed a standard would not give regulators the flexibility they need to change guidelines if understanding of the virus's spread continues to shift.
"It will create a whole new compliance and enforcement environment where employers will be liable for how they protect employees, not just whether they protect employees," he said. "I think it creates a lot of concern for employers."
The Biden transition team declined to comment on specific plans but said that it was actively working on plans for the incoming administration.
"Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the support of a majority of the American people in this year's election, and have a mandate to pursue the policy platform that they ran on, including their plans to build back better in the wake of COVID-19 with an ambitious agenda to support workers," the team said in a statement.
Biden's public plans have long called for OSHA to institute an emergency temporary standard for front-line workers and step up enforcement by doubling the number of inspectors.
The Trump administration has declined to set such a standard during the pandemic, issuing only recommendations with such phrases as "if feasible" and "when possible," which critics say do little to compel companies to act in the interest of safety.
When OSHA has enforced an existing safety rule, called the general duty clause, that requires companies to provide workplaces that are generally "free from recognized hazards" that are likely to cause death or serious physical harm, the penalties it has meted out have been paltry.
JBS, the largest meatpacker in the world, with a revenue of more than $50 billion last year, was given a $15,600 fine in September after 290 workers tested positive for the virus and six died at a plant in Colorado. Smithfield, which had a revenue of $14 billion last year, was given a $13,500 fine after 1,294 workers at a plant in Sioux Falls, S.D., tested positive for the coronavirus and four died.
"It's like somebody turned the switch off," Berkowitz said. "In the biggest occupational health crisis that the agency has ever faced, they decided to do nothing."
During the critical early period of the pandemic through May, OSHA had issued only one citation, although it has since picked up the pace. It has now issued 204 citations for coronavirus-related issues, out of 10,295 complaints, resulting in penalties of about $2.8 million.
Through the beginning of August, OSHA had opened up investigations for only 348 of 1,744 whistleblowing complaints from workers who said they were retaliated against by employers during the pandemic.
Fifty-four percent of the complaints were dismissed or closed without investigation, and just 2% of the total were investigated and resolved, according to a report Berkowitz co-authored at the National Employment Law Project, a worker advocacy group.
While the numbers of complaints have surged during the pandemic, full-time staffing in the program, which investigates complaints, has declined.
OSHA has also been issuing scaled down news releases in recent months, a far cry from the more detailed releases about violations that former officials and advocates say were part of the agency's work to not only stop but deter corporate wrongdoing, said David Michaels, who ran OSHA during the Obama years.
"The point of inspections and issuing fines is not solely to make that workplace safe, because if that were true, it would only impact a small number of workplaces," Michaels said. "You issue a fine to send a message to other employers."
A study of the Obama-era OSHA's work to do regulatory "shaming" showed it was effective, finding that a single OSHA news release equated to a 73% reduction in violations in workplaces within a five-kilometer radius.
OSHA said in a statement that it decided to streamline announcements during the pandemic "to make it easier for the public to see all of the establishments that were issued citations related to COVID."
In the absence of action from the federal government, workers and labor advocates have sought other means to compel employers to take workplace infections more seriously - and get OSHA to issue a standard.
Occupational health authorities in such states as Virginia and Oregon have passed emergency standards of their own, and another state, California, is in the process of drafting one.
Workers and labor unions have also filed lawsuits against OSHA, including the AFL-CIO, which sought unsuccessfully to force OSHA to create an emergency temporary standard. The U.S. Chamber filed a brief opposing the lawsuit.
The fight over OSHA has also animated stimulus debates on Capitol Hill, where Democrats have been pushing for the agency to step up its enforcement. The relief packages passed by House Democrats, in May and October, both included a requirement that OSHA pass an emergency standard for the virus within seven days of its passage. But the bills have languished in the Senate.
It is possible but unlikely that the emergency temporary standard will be included in a new stimulus package, should Democrats and Republicans find middle ground in the lame-duck session.
The United States has not done a detailed study of what percentage of infections have occurred through workplace transmission, but labor advocates believe the numbers to be high.
Tens of thousands of workers have fallen ill and many have died in such industries as meatpacking, groceries, and health care, but contact-tracing efforts have been spotty and inconsistent across the country in the absence of a robust federal effort.
"A lot of my employers were trying to do the right thing," said Marc Perrone, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents thousands of grocery, meatpacking and other food and agriculture workers. "Because there was no solid standard - the CDC kept changing - it was very difficult to get uniformity among our employers."
Perrone said he supported the institution of an emergency temporary standard.
Singapore, which has done more robust contact tracing, has seen infections at workplaces range from 22% to 36% of total transmissions in the country, at various stages of the pandemic, according to local reports. In Oregon, where the state health authority is tracking workplace outbreaks with five or more cases, there have been at least 9,226 cases from workplaces - 18% of the state's total - and 45 deaths.
"It's clear that workplace exposures are making a major contribution to the pandemic," Michaels said. "There are still uncontrolled virus exposure in many workplaces and if we don't stop workplace virus transmission we'll be unable to control the epidemic."
The changes at OSHA represent structural shifts that Biden could do regardless of the opposition he faces from Republicans in the Senate. Under Trump, OSHA has never had a Senate-confirmed leader; appointee Loren Sweatt has lead the agency nonetheless, with many other senior officials in the agency's organizational chart working in an "acting" capacity.
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Being John Malkovich / ***1/2 (1999)
"Being John Malkovich" begins with the image of a saddened puppeteer putting on a performance at the streetcorner; as his talents go unrecognized and he struggles for work, his ugly duckling of a wife encourages him to accept a job as a file clerk at a Manhattan firm called LesterCorp, which specializes (not purposely) in employing individuals with a penchant for relishing in elements of the eccentric. The 7½ floor is the focus of this man's future, a 4-foot high office that forces its workers to crouch when navigating the corridors, and features workers that, if let loose in the free world, would be subjected to wearing straight jackets in asylums. Slowly but surely, he and his fellow comrades realize their personal imperfections, in what is one of the most extraordinarily inventive films of 1999.
The movie erupts with such ingenuity that we relish the density of the unusual premise, and admire the sense of otherworldliness as its characters journey through a land of fantasy-based logic by using manipulation, conceit and desperation as their resources. Certain movies are shameful for snubbing the laws of reality, but "Being John Malkovich" does not once feel sidetracked by the zany twists. In fact, its bizarre ingredient is what makes it all the more laudable.
John Cusack stars as Craig Schwartz, the puppeteer in question, who makes an intriguing discovery while behind his desk on the 7½ floor of the office building. After learning unusual things about the people he works around (his boss is a 105-year-old nymphomaniac, and the secretary can convince anyone that they have speech impediments), Craig becomes sidetracked for a brief moment at his desk, and drops papers behind a file cabinet. As he pulls it out to retrieve them, he finds a small door right behind the cabinet; one that has a tunnel extending to an unknown landscape deep inside. Curious, Craig journeys down into the portal, and for 15 minutes, is inside the very mind of actor John Malkovich.
The discovery generates an enthusiastic response for Craig, who in turn offers many others to experience this intriguing find for the sum of $200. But it all becomes rather complex, so to speak, when an office worker that Craig obsesses about named Maxine begins dating the actual Malkovich; Mr. Schwartz, and his wife, a lonely woman who wants to be a man played by Cameron Diaz, are so fond of this office worker that, when she and Mr. Malkovich engage in intercourse, the couple takes turns in traveling the portal so they can be part of the sexual activities. In a freak occurrence, the real Malkovich winds up traveling through the portal, essentially descending into the nightmarish world that is his own mind.
The key to all of this success is in the spaciousness of the approach--there is such a massive amount of atmosphere that the characters are never confined to the limits of real life (sometimes we feel that whatever happens in the next frame, whether it be unforeseen or not, is lifted straight out of one of their imaginations). Charlie Kaufman's script turns all of its characters into likable pawns of a great big chess game, in which the next move is only envisioned by those who create it; especially effective is Cameron Diaz as Craig's wife Lotte, who is ignored because of her extensive ugliness, and curious about what it would be like to live as a man. Given the massive transformation she has undergone (and the fact that she embodies the strongest emotions of anyone in the whole movie), her performance is Oscar material. Another influence--the man used as a guinea pig for these portal journeys, John Malkovich. I admire Mr. Malkovich as much as the next guy, but Kaufman's screenplay seems to hit the bullet on the nose when treating his character in the story as the non-celebrity we have often fancied (most of the people involved in the plot cannot exactly remember what movies he starred in).
The picture was directed by Spike Jonze, who is new to filmmaking, but obviously born to be associated with it. He shows all the necessary strengths in determining a strong director, from his use of distinctive camera shots to his uncanny vision of people urging to step out of their bodies to experience the life of another. Once the end credits have rolled, we realize we have journeyed through an incredible mind here, and I'm not referring to John Malkovich's.
Written by DAVID KEYES
Fantasy/Comedy (US); 1999; Rated R; 112 Minutes
John Cusack: Craig Schwartz
Cameron Diaz: Lotte Schwartz
Catherine Keener: Maxine
Orson Bean: Dr. Lester
Mary Kay Place: Floris
John Malkovich: Himself
Produced by Steve Golin, Charlie Kaufman, Michael Kuhn, Vincent Landay, Sandy Stern and Michael Stipe; Directed by Spike Jonze; Screenwritten by Charlie Kaufman
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A interesting work of localised British history exploring the city of the town of Worcester.
Scarce. A fascinating work of Worcester history, by the prolific writer John Noake. Exploring the history, religious sects, society and justice systems of the city of Worcester. Moving to Worcester as a young man in 1838, Noake became passionate about the area, with all of his literary works centring around the county of Worcestershire. A interesting work of local interest, ideal for those with a connection to the city of Worcester, or an interest in the history of the city.
In a full cloth binding. Externally, sound. Heavy rubbing to the spine, boards and extremities. Splits to the cloth of the backstrip. Odd spots to the front and rear boards. Rubbing and handling marks to the front and rear endpapers and pastedowns. Small amount of loos to the front pastedown, towards the binding. Booksellers stamp to the tail of the rear endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age toned and spotted throughout. Tape repairs to the rear of the folding map, to the rear of the volume. Heavy spots to the title page.


Yes, that's right, today is the first ever "National Stripes Day." Thanks to J.Crew, March 31st is now the official holiday to celebrate our love of stripes. Known for its unapologetic preppiness, J.Crew can make khaki look chic and bubblegum pink a perennial color. However, nothing is more rooted in the brand's DNA than stripes.
Whether it's a pair of nautical style pants or a French-inspired classic silhouette dress, stripes are a timeless print that is beloved by all and a must-have in everyone's capsule wardrobe. Stripes are like denim; they go with pretty much everything.
In honor of this "holiday," the retailer is offering a one-day-only gift with purchase of any striped item. You can choose from an array of patches to affix to your new top, bottom, sweater or jacket.
I'm wearing their Cuffed Pant in Shirting Stripe. Crafted in menswear-inspired shirting stripes with a removable tie and wider cuffs, these pants are flattering and perfect for Spring. They have a crisp, stylish look, and would look great on all body types. They are made of Cotton/Lycra spandex and are so comfortable to wear. The cute tie string belt helps cinch the waistline. It is available in sizes 000 to 16.
The yellow striped T- shirt with blue anchor patch that I'm wearing is no longer available, but a very similar Linen V-neck striped pocket T-shirt, available in both navy and red, is currently on sale of $29.50.
This outfit is so comfy chic – perfect for a day of relaxed boating.


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Wildly Underrated: Pandorum
It occurs to me that my taste in films is often wildly divergent from the consensus to be found on MetaCritic. This column aims to showcase various films and games that you might have given a pass due to poor reviews or marketing. Starting us off: Pandorum. MetaCritic score: 28.
I gave Pandorum a pass when it first came out in 2009. The marketing made it look like a sort of crappy Event Horizon or Alien knockoff that would be all jump-scare and no substance. A couple of years later I finally gave it a whirl and I'm so glad that I did, because Pandorum stands up very well on its own as a solid science fiction flick.
In this movie, the year is 2174. The Earth has suffered from some calamity that has required colony ships like our own to be dispatched to the far flung reaches of the galaxy in search of a new home. Colonists and Crew have been placed into a deep cryosleep while the ship makes its long journey. But of course, something has gone wrong.
We meet our protagonist as he is awoken from his slumber. The rest of the crew is missing and the ship seems to be in a heavy state of disrepair. Something bad has happened, and there are strange sounds coming from below decks. Our hero wants to figure out what has happened and to ensure humanity's survival by getting the ship back underway.
To my tastes, this is an awesome premise. The stakes are high but the concept is simple, and as we dig into the mysteries of this ship and the fate of its crew, I found that the plot seemed both realistic and well-imagined. This is a movie with a clear mystery and a satisfying resolution to that mystery.
Something I look for in high-quality science fiction is the sense that a work takes itself seriously - that it totally devotes itself to realistic cause and effect in the world that it has built. An example of bad science fiction (but still a good movie): the Avengers. Let me tell you who would fucking die in two seconds in that movie: everyone not named Thor or Hulk. Tony Stark would be liquified inside his Iron Man suit the first time he smashes into an obstacle at Mach 2. Hawkeye and Scarlett Johannsen would just get shot and die. Captain America would get shot like 30 times and then die. Only Thor, who is literally a God, and the Hulk, who is basically invincible in the lore, would be able to survive even a single fight. The Avengers does not apply a formula involving realistic cause and effect in its science fiction elements. Pandorum, however, does. And I respect that.
So without any spoilers on offer, I suggest that you put this one on your Watchlist and give a whirl the next time you've got 108 minutes to kill.
You can rent Pandorum on Amazon instant video for $3.99
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Lord, please give me a clear diagnosis so that I can move forward. Please help me remember all things work for the greater good. I also ask for Your continued grace and mercy.
Lord, please continue to help me through my diagnosis. I so thank you for strength and guidance. Please also continue to bless my marriage. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.


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China calls for 'restraint' after India's airstrikes on terror targets in Pak
Edited By PTI Published By PTI On Feb 26, 2019 - 3:37 PM
Beijing: China on Tuesday urged India and Pakistan to "exercise restraint" and asked New Delhi to carry out its fight against terrorism through international cooperation, hours after Indian fighter jets struck Jaish-e-Mohammed's biggest camp in Pakistan in a pre-dawn attack.
When asked for China's response to India's airstrikes on terrorist camps in Pakistan, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told the media here that we have taken note of relevant reports."
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"I want to say that India and Pakistan are both important countries in South Asia. A sound relationship and cooperation between the two serves the interests of both the countries and peace and stability in South Asia," he said.
"We hope that both India and Pakistan can exercise restraint and do more to improve their bilateral relations," he said.


Perceptual interaction between real and synesthetic colors.
People with color-graphemic synesthesia experience vivid, reliable color upon viewing achromatic alphanumeric characters. Recent evidence indicates that synesthetic color experiences are as perceptually real as actual colors are for non-synesthetic observers. To investigate possible interactions between real and synesthetic colors, we tested two adult color-graphemic synesthetes on a pair of perceptual grouping tasks. In Experiment 1, we employed a well-known phenomenon of motion perception, bistable apparent motion, to explore whether synesthetic colors interact with real colors in grouping over time. Two-frame apparent motion sequences were presented with both path lengths and colors systematically manipulated. Results showed that synesthetic colors of motion tokens interacted with matching real colors of the corresponding motion tokens, which could subsequently bias perceived direction of motion. In Experiment 2, we exploited binocular rivalry, a condition under which two dissimilar monocular images compete with each other and result in perceptual switches, to explore whether synesthetic colors interact with real colors in grouping over space. Pairs of rival images with two different characters were presented dichoptically with colors of characters manipulated. Results showed that synesthetic and real colors of characters tended to group together, which, in turn, promoted the perceived global dominance during binocular rivalry. Therefore, the present results identify substantial interaction between synesthetic colors and real colors in perceptual grouping.
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Incubation period, generation time, and reproduction number of initial monkeypox cases in Italy
By Tarun Sai LomteAug 4 2022Reviewed by Aimee Molineux
In a recent study posted to the arXiv* preprint server, researchers analyzed the first human monkeypox cases in Italy.
Study: Early estimates on monkeypox incubation period, generation time and reproduction number in Italy, May-June 2022. Image Credit: FOTOGRIN/Shutterstock
The first large outbreak of human monkeypox outside Africa appears somewhat unique. Viral genome analyses indicated that the current epidemic is driven by the West African clade of the monkeypox virus. The presence of lesions near genitalia suggests a sexual mode of transmission.
In Italy, suspected cases of monkeypox based on the criteria of case definition by the World Health Organization (WHO) are reported to the Ministry of Health's surveillance system. Only cases that test positive on a monkeypox-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test are deemed confirmed.
In the present study, researchers evaluated the first monkeypox cases in Italy. Data on patient characteristics such as age, sex, date of onset of symptoms, exposure modality, foreign travel, rash, and other signs, were collected. There were 255 PCR-confirmed monkeypox cases in Italy by July 8, 2022.
The median age of patients was 37 years, and only two were females. 190 out of 200 individuals, who disclosed the information, reported having sex with males. Information on rash was available for 184 cases, and for 139 of them, the rash was localized at the perianal or genital area.
Of the 228 patients with available travel data, 86 individuals traveled overseas, and 25 had been to the Canary Islands for vacation. One person who traveled to West Africa showed symptoms at arrival. The authors determined the incubation period for patients with known symptom onset dates.
There were 30 patients with a known date of symptom onset. They assumed that the incubation period was distributed as a gamma function. The shape and scale parameters were estimated using a Bayesian approach based on Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) procedure and Metropolis-Hastings sampling.
The team computed generation time, namely, the duration between the date of exposure of a confirmed case and that of the secondary cases. They assumed a gamma-distributed generation time similar to that of the incubation period. No pre-symptomatic transmission was considered. Sixteen pairs of infector-infectee with known dates of symptom onset were identified.
The net reproduction number (Rt), the mean number of cases generated by one index case for the outbreak, was computed using the epidemic curve and the generation time distribution. Three assumptions were considered for imported cases. First, only the case with the earliest symptom onset was defined as an imported case. Second, all cases with a travel history to the Canary Islands were considered imported. Third, all cases with foreign travel were deemed imported.
The first and third assumptions were deemed unrealistic hypotheses that could be considered upper and lower bounds of monkeypox transmission. The second assumption was used as the baseline for estimating Rt. The mean incubation period was 9.1 days, and the mean generation time was 12.5 days. The mean Rt in the first week of June was 2.43, following which Rt declined progressively.
In summary, the authors estimated the mean incubation period and mean generation time using a limited number of monkeypox cases. The Rt for the outbreak was approximately 2.4. Minor variations appeared when Rt was computed using different distributions of generation time or with alternative assumptions of imported cases.
The team indicated that the estimated Rt should be considered for the community of men who have sex with men (MSM), not the general population. Further, Rt could likely be below the threshold for the general public, given the overwhelming majority of cases spread via sexual contact. Overall, it is essential to maintain a high level of public attention and provide non-stigmatizing information to those at risk to curb the spread of the monkeypox virus.
*Important notice
arXiv publishes preliminary scientific reports that are not peer-reviewed and, therefore, should not be regarded as conclusive, guide clinical practice/health-related behavior, or treated as established information.
Guzzetta G, Mammone A, Ferraro F, et al. (2022). Early estimates on monkeypox incubation period, generation time and reproduction number in Italy, May-June 2022. arXiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2207.13483 https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.13483
Tags: Genome, Monkeypox, Polymerase, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Rash, Reproduction, Virus
Tarun Sai Lomte
Tarun is a writer based in Hyderabad, India. He has a Master's degree in Biotechnology from the University of Hyderabad and is enthusiastic about scientific research. He enjoys reading research papers and literature reviews and is passionate about writing.
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Gov. Paul LePage said Friday that he won't sign a state budget package endorsed Thursday night by a special panel, ensuring a partial shutdown of state government at midnight.
The Republican governor's opposition to the budget deal would force Maine's first state government shutdown since 1991, which could stretch 10 days if LePage holds a budget bill for the full time the Constitution allows before he must act.
A budget would go to him tonight if the Legislature can muster two-thirds votes in both chambers, but even that was a big "if" on Friday.
LePage hosted House Republicans for a Friday morning meeting where he reportedly implored them to oppose the budget deal negotiated by Senate President Mike Thibodeau, R-Winterport, and House Speaker Sara Gideon, D-Freeport.
LePage told reporters his major objections were the overall cost of the budget package — around $7.1 billion — and that it proposes raising the state's lodging tax from 9 percent to 10.5 percent without income tax cuts. However, the budget package currently under consideration contains an income tax cut of 3 percent because it eliminates the surtax on income above $200,000 per year for education which was approved by voters last year.
LePage said "on June 30" — the deadline for Maine's next fiscal year — "they're trying to put a gun to the governor's head," but it won't work.
"This budget they have has no prayer, and if they're hell-bent on bringing this budget down, we will shut down at midnight tonight and we will talk to them in 10 days," LePage said.
The comments came hours before the House and Senate were due to vote on the compromise spending plan.
Gideon said the governor's threats don't change the fact that the Legislature's only priority should be sending him a budget with two-thirds support.
"If we do not do that and if the governor then does not do his job by either signing the budget or returning it to us immediately with his veto then we will be damaging the lives of too many people in this state," she said.
Senate Minority Leader Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, said during a hastily organized news conference after the governor's comments that he will personally introduce a bill to eliminate the proposed lodging tax increase if that would spur LePage and Republicans to support the budget bill, though Gideon said she wouldn't support any changes late in the process.
Legislative Democrats are likely to mostly support Senate Republicans in their budget push, but the more LePage-aligned House Republicans have enough votes to block the budget's passage there.
But when asked how many members of his caucus would vote for it before LePage spoke, Pouliot demurred — sort of.
Gideon said she is not sure how much support there is for the budget in the House.
If all House members are present, 101 would have to vote for a budget to hit the two-thirds threshold.
Under a shutdown, the state's roughly 12,000 employees will either work or stay home without pay, since no budget means Maine has no authority to pay workers.
LePage announced Thursday that state law enforcement, state parks, psychiatric hospitals, prisons and ferries will remain operational, but that was only a partial plan. In 1991, 2,000 employees were called into work at the beginning of the shutdown.
That's likely to have a wide effect in Maine: Workers represented by the Maine State Employees Association will lose wages generating $2.5 million in daily economic impact, according to an analysis from the liberal Maine Center for Economic Policy, with $944,000 in Kennebec County alone.
Some of those union members were at the State House on Friday, including Kip Mitchell, 53, a Maine Department of Transportation employee who said he's the only wage earner in a family of four. "The uncertainty is scary," he said.
Jonathan French, 38, of Hallowell, a civil engineer in the same department, said he had worries besides his job, because his young son gets services through the Maine Department of Education's Child Development Services program.


(Bloomberg) — New Zealand has followed Australia in banning China's Huawei Technologies Co. from supplying fifth-generation (5G) wireless equipment to the nation's telecommunications operators, citing national security concerns.
News of the ban came via Spark New Zealand, which said Wednesday its intention to use Huawei 5G equipment had been blocked by the Government Communications Security Bureau. The GCSB told Spark that, if implemented, its plan would "raise significant national security risks," the company said in a statement to the stock exchange. The GCSB confirmed the ban in a separate statement.
New Zealand's move comes after Australia in August blocked Huawei as well as ZTE Corp. from supplying 5G equipment to its telecommunications operators. The Chinese companies have come under increased scrutiny in the U.S. over fears their equipment could be used for spying.
Huawei said it's looking into the situation and that the company has signed more than 20 commercial 5G contracts around the world.
However, the U.S. is contacting key allies including Germany, Italy and Japan, to get them to persuade companies in their countries to avoid using equipment from Huawei, the Wall Street Journal reported last week.
Spark said it is confident that New Zealand's decision will not affect its plans to launch a 5G network by July 1, 2020.


It doesn't really matter who we interact with, how many students, children, friends, players, whatever the group it isn't about the quantifiable measures it is in the qualitative, the feelings, that we leave a lasting impression AND provide the invitation to work together.
Curriculum is important, that's for sure and it is another of those quantifiable components in the process of education but in the end it is about the people. It isn't enough that "teaching" brings me joy, it needs to be about the joy those I interact with get in the process of learning.
Always a bit dangerous to look too far back in the movie world but we do tend as older people (I know speak for yourself) to remember the past with a bit of gold around the edges that maybe wasn't quite so…this 1984 film "Teachers" reminds us who the schools are for and that all of us have room to learn a little from our successes and our failures.


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WebMD News Brief
Britney Spears' Father Files Petition to End Conservatorship
By Ralph Ellis
Jamie Spears, the father of pop star Britney Spears, filed a petition on Tuesday seeking to end the 13-year court-ordered conservatorship which gives him financial control of her career and finances.
In the petition, Jamie Spears referred to the June court hearings at which his daughter told a probate judge the arrangement was "abusive" and said she's been "traumatized."
"Ms. Spears has told this Court that she wants control of her life back without the safety rails of a conservatorship," Jamie Spears said in his petition, according to CNN. "She wants to be able to make decisions regarding her own medical care, deciding when, where and how often to get therapy.
"She wants to control the money she has made from her career and spend it without supervision or oversight. She wants to be able to get married and have a baby, if she so chooses. In short, she wants to live her life as she chooses without the constraints of a conservator or court proceeding.
"As Mr. Spears has said again and again, all he wants is what is best for his daughter. If Ms. Spears wants to terminate the conservatorship and believes that she can handle her own life, Mr. Spears believes that she should get that chance," the filing said.It's not clear when Jamie Spears might stop acting as the conservator of his daughter's estate, a role he took in 2008 after highly publicized incidents in which she acted erratically, sometimes while being pursued by paparazzi.
In June he said he planned to step down as conservator but didn't say when.
In a statement Tuesday, Britney Spears' lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, said: "This filing represents another legal victory for Britney Spears -- a massive one -- as well as vindication for Ms. Spears. It appears that Mr. Spears believes he can try to avoid accountability and justice, including sitting for a sworn deposition and answering other discovery under oath."
Britney Spears, 39, said during a court hearing that she wanted to press charges against her father for "conservatorship abuse."
Britney Spears, 39, has not filed her own petition to end the conservatorship, though she did ask a judge to remove her father as the conservator, The New York Times said.
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Last Friday we had the pleasure of hosting the inaugural event in our Future of Place series and what an event it was.
We were delighted to host our two international speakers the Co-Founder and Executive Director of New York's famous High Line Robert Hammond and Dan Barasch Co-Founder of the city's subterranean counterpart, Lowline who shared their perspectives on placemaking to a full house of TTF members and friends at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Robert Hammond's story is remarkable and one of enormous determination and resilience – of how he and a small team managed to transform the once abandoned West Side rail line into an elevated public park and one of New York's biggest tourist attractions.
It wasn't an easy ride with supportive and not so supportive New York mayors and various funding challenges. Yet thanks to a hard-working team, visionary landscape architects (Hammond insists we all must hug a landscape architect!), significant private and some public funding, it ultimately became a New York success story.
Not only is the story of the High Line a compelling yarn – and our guests were rivetted throughout his presentation – but a great learning for other major cities around the globe taking on a project of that magnitude.
Dan Barasch's story is just as compelling. His vision to convert the site of the historic Williamsburg Bridge Trolley Terminal on the Lower East Side of Manhattan into a stunning underground park illuminated using cutting edge solar technology and is equally ambitious.
However, his project – known as the Lowline – is in the early stages of development and facing some of the same funding challenges faced by the High Line.
Unlike here in Australia where Government support is more readily available for urban regeneration projects involving public space both the Highline and the Lowline are largely reliant on raising the funds themselves to develop and maintain their projects. In Barasch's case he needs to raise $100 million to fund the development and will use several sources including crowd funding which he has used in the past to fund the initial stages of his project.
Despite the challenges he faces I have no doubt he will succeed and look forward to visiting the completed project some time soon.
Our two excellent keynote speakers were later joined in a panel discussion by Lendlease's Head of Urban Strategy and Place Development Seamus McCartney and the Deputy Director of our very kind hosts the Art Gallery of NSW, Maude Page.
Seamus spoke about some great Sydney examples of successful placemaking projects that Lendlease has been involved in from the pioneering Australia Square to the more recent and outstanding redevelopment of the International Convention Centre and its surrounds at Darling Harbour.
Another game changing Sydney project that Lendlease have played a significant part in – the Barangaroo precinct and the wonderful new public spaces that have been created there were also highlighted by Seamus. And it's not finished yet! There is still more to come.
The Gallery's connection to its home on the edge of the Botanic Gardens and the Domain and the new public spaces included in the design are an important part of the vision, but I have to say I'm particularly excited about the underground World War Two oil tank that is being converted into its very own gallery space while still preserving its original features.
Maud talked about the importance of collaboration among Sydney's cultural institutions and I couldn't agree more. Great news is that they are all working well together and will continue to work more closely and that can only be better for our visitor economy.
While there is an ever-increasing demand for housing and development around the world as cities grow and develop, it hasn't, and nor should it, stop city planners and design professionals from inventing new and innovative ways to incorporate beautiful new green spaces, clever community spaces or transport options, in and around urban structures.
Our Future of Place series will continue to profile and debate the key developments in the placemaking movement at home and abroad and we are excited to see where it takes us.
Stay tuned for details of the next event in series in the weeks ahead.
As we sign off for the long weekend I would like to wish all our members a happy and safe Easter.


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The market size is expected to grow at a CAGR of 12% during the forecast period of 2020-2025 to reach a volume of around 137.5 million metric tons by 2025. 2.4 Assumptions From March 17 for at least 30 days, the EU has closed off 26 countries – with a combined population of more than 400 million people – to nearly all visitors from the rest of the world. 6.7.2.4 Italy 6.3.2 Personal Care $6.00/kg average. 4.2 Market Analysis By using this site you agree to the During this period only food and essential medical supplies are allowed to move via road freight, Sea ports are closing at 4pm and local deliveries within Egypt are significantly delayed and are taking as long as 3 days, There are currently no restrictions on border crossing in and out of Kenya for road freight shipments, Health screenings for drivers are taking place which is causing some delays, There are currently no restrictions on in-country road freight shipments, Currently customs authorities are only processing essential products, All other borders except Ressano Garcia are closed indefinitely, There are restrictions on in-country road freight for only essential items only essential services however awaiting our government final feedback, Permit requirements – Awaiting feedback from our government department. 14.7 Kintetsu World Express, Inc. Sign up for a Flexport account or ask to see our platform in action. In today's conditions, shipping cargo loose, even at enormous volumes, is still usually more cost effective. In the recent years, the airport has been facing problems like difficulty in managing slots. What to Expect in Q4: A spike in demand and airfreight pricing is expected within the next couple of weeks but not anywhere near what was witnessed in the 2nd Quarter. Ocean and air freight rates and trends; customs and trade industry news for the week of May 20, 2020. Interest rates for overpayments will be 4% for corporations and 5% for non-corporations. Short Sea alternative available via port of Trieste (Italy), yet strongly congested, Please contact your local Agility contract for details on your country if not listed above. The demand for air freights in Africa is especially growing at a healthy, positive rate. 14.2.1 Company Overview 14.3.1 Company Overview 6.6.5.2 United Arab Emirates 6.5.1 Domestic 6.6.2.2 France Subscribe, Medical Suppliers Get Antitrust Clearance, White House Will Not Implement Duty Payment Deferrals. North America is the most significant market for air freight, with the United States being the leading regional market. My grandson says my financial adviser is steering me wrong and double-charging me. Air Freight Update. 6.6.3.5 Others 5.2 Market Restraint Analysis All transactions are subject to Flexport's standard terms and conditions, available at www.flexport.com/terms 沪ICP备16041494号. The market size is expected to grow at a CAGR of 12% during the forecast period of 2020-2025 to reach a volume of around 137.5 million metric tons by 2025. 6.6.3.2 Japan The region is also witnessing a robust growth in its automobiles industry, which is providing further impetus to the air freight market, which is extremely useful in the transportation of these products within the domestic and overseas markets. 6.6.3 Asia Pacific Customs brokerage services are provided by Flexport's wholly-owned subsidiary, Flexport Customs LLC, a licensed customs brokerage with a national permit. Though many governments have enforced a "shelter in place" rule, logistics operations fall within the current definition of "essential" business. Asia-Pacific trade volumes have been impacted the most with a 18.3% decline. 7 Global Air Freight Price Analysis Subscribe. 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The industry is further expected to grow at a CAGR of 9.5% over the forecast period of 2020-2025 to attain a valu... © 2020 EMR Business Solutions LLP All rights reserved. 6.6.2.3 United Kingdom USTR Grants New Section 301 Extensions The USTR granted an extension until the end of 2020 to 13 exclusions on the first tranche of Section 301 tariffs that had been set to expire on May 14, 2020. 12.2 Engagement Framework 2.1 Data Extraction Give a quick air freight and logistics industry overview from a global perspective. 6.6.5 Middle East and Africa 14.6 Agility 6.6.2 Europe Oman registered trucks are currently not allowed to exit Oman for any GCC countries including UAE. "Final Report will add the analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on this industry". The Purchasing Manufacturers Index (PMI) increased by 5.1% YoY however, in an unlikely event, cargo volumes did not increase at the same pace. 6.7.4.4 Others Agility trucks currently have permissions to move within the country during curfew, Road Freight Capacity is currently down by 20-30%, causing an increase in rates, Deliveries from the ports to customers in Saudi are also facing delay, All borders fees and rates remain the same but with delays: special sanitization process and dedicated driver checks are taking place at all borders and the new border process is causing delays of 1-2 days, All cargo is currently allowed in Saudi as a final destination from, We advise customers to ship cargo via sea and air where possible, Land borders between Turkey and CIS countries are subject to additional checks, but currently open without restrictions, Imports entering Turkey from the EU and CIS countries are currently facing lengthy delays and significant capacity constraints, Borders with Iraq are only allowing the movement of essential products, such as medicines and foods, There are currently no restrictions to in-country road freight, There are current restrictions on transit routes to Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan due to the new Saudi Arabia transit rule which limits the driver's transit visa issuance only through its local embassy (currently closed), Only basic goods (Food , Medicine and relief shipments) are allowed entry into Saudi Arabia subject to The Food and Medicine Authority determination, We expect border delays due to strict health screening of driver's, For in-country road freight there is currently capacity issues with availability of drivers and equipment due to high market demand on distribution and export shipments, There is currently no road restrictions on in-country road freight, Strict health screening by sea port and airports on all trucks operating in those areas, The Egyptian Customs Authority are working with restricted hours from Saturday till Thursday from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, There is currently an imposed curfew being applied for the next 15 days on all roads from 7:00 pm – 6:00 am daily. 5.4 Industry Opportunities The global air freight market size reached a volume of nearly 69.7 million metric tons in 2019. 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Woolf on the Physicians in Mrs. Dalloway:
An Examination of an Insufficient Critique
by Robert Russell
In a diary entry dated June 19 1923, Virginia Woolf wrote, "I want to give life and death, sanity and insanity; I want to criticize the social system & to show it at work, at its most intense." Two years later, with the publication of her novel Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf would attempt to criticize the scientific understanding and subsequent treatment of mental illness. Many critics claim that through her characters Dr. Holmes, Sir William Bradshaw, and Septimus Warren Smith, Woolf makes a scathing critique of the medical and scientific community surrounding mental illness. However, instead of criticizing and making commentary on the medical community as a whole in regards to understanding mental illness, Woolf critiques the individual physicians, exposing discrepancies in their respective practices and revealing their ambivalence. These discrepancies are inherent to the physicians themselves and therefore do not depict the medical community at large. A critique of one or two figures does not equate to a critique of the system.
Woolf uses Septimus Warren Smith, the post-war veteran suffering from severe PTSD in the wake of the first World War, as a focal point for revealing the apparent lack of understanding regarding mental illness. At the onset of Septimus's appearance, Woolf discloses two details that shed light onto Dr. Holmes's dubious understanding of mental illness. She writes, "For Dr. Holmes had told her [Lucrezia] to make her husband (who had nothing whatever seriously the matter with him but was a little out of sorts) take an interest in things outside himself" (MD 21). The first detail is that Dr. Holmes, believing Septimus to be "a little of sorts," undermines the severity of his illness, equating it to a simple case of confusion. Dr. Holmes downplaying Septimus's experience appears an indictment of his own culpability. That a doctor should knowingly diminish the seriousness of a patient's ailment is a criminal offense. However, in the second detail, Woolf reveals the sincerity behind Dr. Holmes's conviction. Dr. Holmes's prescribed treatment–"take an interest in things outside himself"–is a display of the courteousness inherent in a good doctor. Instead of refusing to treat Septimus, Dr. Holmes wants and tries to help him and Lucrezia. Woolf introduces Dr. Holmes as being a figure that will later foment Septimus's death, but Dr. Holmes was only doing what was best.
Subsequently, Woolf juxtaposes Septimus's worsening condition to the outward positivity of Dr. Holmes in order to convey the disconnect between patient and doctor. Septimus begins to see Dr. Holmes as "repulsive brute, with the blood-red nostrils" who is "on him" despite the fact that "Rezia could not understand him. Dr. Holmes was such a kind man…so interested in Septimus…[and] only wanted to help them" (MD 90). Woolf emphasizes the growing distance between Dr. Holmes and Septimus through the contrast of these associations. By connoting Dr. Holmes with amiability and kindheartedness while Septimus grows more indignant, Woolf aims to represent Dr. Holmes's ignorance of Septimus's condition, a lack of recognition of his own patient's needs, and a lack of communication between doctor and patient. According to Woolf, Dr. Holmes, in spite of all his kindness, is an incompetent doctor. A doctor that lacks the recognition of a patient's worsening condition is bad, however, it is even worse that a doctor is ignorant and positive in their ignorance. These are dangerous attributes in a doctor. However, these attributions do not and cannot extend to the scientific community at large. The relationship between one doctor and a patient is not universal, and as the distance between Septimus and Dr. Holmes becomes too wide, Woolf introduces a new doctor through which she attempts to critique the medical community.
The second formative character that Woolf uses as a means to expose and comment on the widespread ignorance regarding mental illness in the medical community is Sir William Bradshaw, the physician whom Lucrezia and Septimus consult after Dr. Holmes. Similar to Woolf's depiction of Dr. Holmes, Bradshaw's introduction contains many adulating details. Woolf writes,
"he had won his position by sheer ability…loved his profession; made a fine figurehead at ceremonies and spoke well–all of which had by the time he was knighted given him a heavy look…which weariness…increased the extraordinary distinction of his presence and gave him the reputation (of the utmost importance in dealing with nerve cases) not merely of lightning skill, and almost infallible accuracy in diagnosis but of sympathy, tact; understanding of the human soul" (MD 93).
Woolf includes this detailed passage not simply to paint the doctor as man very passionate about his profession, but also to reaffirm the magnitude of his medical qualifications; this is a man who knows what he is doing. This emphasis of Sir William Bradshaw's medical prowess precedes a major reveal in the lack of understanding of mental illness and communication across the medical community. Divulging Sir William Bradshaw's inner thoughts, Woolf writes, "Ah yes (those general practitioners! thought Sir William. It took half his time to undo their blunders. Some were irreparable)" (MD 93). That a renowned doctor would have to "undo" the mistakes of another doctor is critical evidence in the lack of communication between doctors, a misunderstanding of the diagnosis, which in turn spurs contradicting forms of treatment. While Dr. Holmes's prescription for Septimus consists of activity, Sir William's "was merely a question of rest…of rest, rest, rest; a long rest in bed" (MD 94). Woolf uses these discrepancies to critique the larger picture: that they would not have occurred had there been a better understanding and more communication within the science community. However, a claim based solely on these discrepancies is unsubstantiated because they exist only in the relation between the two doctors. It is unknowable if a different set of doctor would have yielded the same discrepancies. The claim is a critique on only the individuals.
Lastly, even Septimus himself does not escape Woolf's critical eye. He is in fact the means by which Woolf reveals an ambivalence in both Dr. Holmes and Sir William Bradshaw that is to represent the medical community at large. The Oxford English Dictionary defines ambivalence as the "coexistence in one person of profoundly opposing emotions, beliefs, attitudes, or urges" (OED). Woolf substitutes "one person" with two: Dr. Holmes and Sir William Bradshaw; and raises the idea that perhaps it was not the doctors who were incorrect in their contradictory treatments, but rather the patient that was at fault for their discrepancies. Could it be that Septimus was the cause in the doctors' differing treatments and not a lack of understanding on their respective ends? Septimus throughout the novel sinks deeper into delusion, becomes unpredictable, and by the end, he believes there is a conspiracy against him. Woolf writes, "So he was in their power! Holmes and Bradshaw were on him!" (MD 144). Septimus's condition has worsened, and the patient that Dr. Holmes tended to was likely not the patient Bradshaw sought to treat. Septimus is an unreliable character, and therefore insufficient as means to foment critique on the issues within the medical community.
In her novel, Woolf founds her critique on insufficient grounds: examining the respective attributes of the two doctors, Dr. Holmes and Sir William Bradshaw, seeing how they differ, and then applying those attributions to the greater medical community at large is a generalization. A critique of an individual is not a critique on a system; a man is but a man, not an institution. However, in examining the two doctors, Woolf not only analyzes the discrepancies within their practices, but also reveals an ambivalence between the two doctors, a "coexistence" between their contradictory treatments. This ambivalence in turn spurs an analysis of the patient: that Septimus himself was in fact a large factor in the source for the doctors' varying treatments because he was himself a varying patient. Similar in that the two doctors cannot represent the community at large, Septimus cannot represent all other patients, and therefore is insufficient as a mode in determining the infallibility of the scientific community in regards to mental illness. However, despite the insufficient evidence to support her critique of the medical community at large, Woolf, in Mrs. Dalloway, still raises important questions that poke through the "cotton wool" of ambiguity and shed light onto the hidden patterns behind it. Mrs. Dalloway is a subtle peek at the intricacies, inconsistencies, and irregularities that comprise one of the greatest arms of the social system: the medical community.
"ambivalence, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, September 2020, www.oed.com/view/Entry/6176. Accessed 1 October 2020.
Woolf, Virginia, and Bonnie Kime Scott. Mrs. Dalloway. Harcourt, Inc. 1925. Edited by Mark Hussey, Harvest, 2005.


Holy Ghost Church in West Easton hosted it's annual Summer Church camp July 16-20.2018. Sixteen happy campers joined with the pastor, seminarian Bohdan Vasyliv, and Sherry Bellfy for a chance to make memories. The Theme for this year's camp was" The Law of God : Love one another as I have loved you."" The children ranging from 5 years old to 14 enjoyed exercise, instructions on how to live by God's laws, prayer and meditation, arts and crafts and delicious lunches served by JoAnn Fulmer and Judy Palinkas.
h Bishop John Bura and Fr Robert Hitchens was the beginning of a great day in our nations capital. We proceeded to the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and then downtown to visit the Smithsonian and the national monuments along the Mall area. The children learned in the process, that law's aren't made to bind us but to help us live in freedom, with love and respect for one another, and in safety.
The week concluded with the infamous "Water Day" where, on a hot summer's day, water slides, water balloon and egg tosses make for a very wet and fun festival to end the week.
If you are interested in hosting a summer camp for the children in the parish, please contact Fr Dan Troyan at holyghostukr@outlook.com.
He'll be glad to provide you with a step by step guide to get one started in your own parish.


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Tomorrow, March 29: "Is there public reason in Strasbourg human rights analysis?"
"Is there public reason in Strasbourg human rights analysis?"
A talk by Wojciech Sadurski, Challis Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Sydney Law School
Please join us for a talk by Wojciech Sadurski, Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School, as well as the Challis Professor in Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney Law School, who will explore whether analysis by the European Court of Human Rights of permissible limitations on protected rights can be interpreted as consistent with the liberal ideal of public reason. He will examine the Court's acceptance of asserted "legitimate goals" at face value, the application of the "necessity" requirement in a manner that makes it difficult to discern true legislative aims, and the puzzling case of "protection of morals" as a legitimate ground for the restriction of rights.
Today, March 27: The struggle for women's right to justice and equality in Muslim contexts
"What Islam, whose Islam?:
The struggle for women's right to justice and equality in Muslim contexts"
A talk by Zainah Anwar, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Musawah
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Please join us for a talk by Zainah Anwar, of Musawah, who will speak on the challenges faced by women's groups living in Muslim contexts and their struggle to reform laws and practices made in the name of Islam that discriminate against women. She will share the initiatives of activists and scholars who are engaged in the production of new feminist and rights-based knowledge in Islam, and their efforts at creating a public voice at the national and international levels, pushing for the possibility and necessity of reform to uphold the principles of equality and justice.
Gender Equality,
Apply to be a Wasserstein Fellow!
The Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising (OPIA) is soliciting applications and nominations for the 2017-2018 Wasserstein Fellows Program. The deadline is April 14, 2017.
Wasserstein Fellows are outstanding public interest lawyers who have shown a demonstrated facility for mentoring and spend 2-3 days at Harvard Law School advising students individually. They also speak to students in group settings and assist the OPIA staff in developing additional advising resources. Read more about 2-3 day Wasserstein Fellow responsibilities.
In addition, OPIA will once again host a Wasserstein Fellow-in-Residence with the Human Rights Program (HRP). The OPIA/HRP Wasserstein-Fellow-in-Residence will spend four months on the HLS campus (September – December) and will split his or her time between OPIA and HRP. Learn more about what the OPIA/HRP Wasserstein Fellow-in-Residence entails.
We encourage you to apply; to nominate colleagues, mentors, or mentees; and/or to circulate this email announcement among your public interest colleagues and friends.
If you have questions about the program, please don't hesitate to contact Cathering Pattanayak, the Associate Director at OPIA, at cpattanayak@law.harvard.edu.
Tomorrow, March 23: A film screening and discussion of Palestinian women living under the occupation
"Speed Sisters":
Palestinian women living under the occupation
5:00- 7:00 p.m.
Please join us for a screening of "Speed Sisters," followed by a panel on Palestinian women living under the occupation. This is part of an ongoing film series sponsored by Islamic Legal Studies: Law and Social Change on women, rights and activism in the Muslim world.
The Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five women have sped their way into the heart of the gritty, male-dominated Palestinian street car-racing scene. Independent, determined and always on the move, they have deftly charted their own course through the pressures of social expectations, family dynamics, community politics and an ongoing Israeli military occupation.
Following the screening, our panelists Zena Agha, Rana Wahbe, and Nour Soubani will take a closer look at the complexities and vulnerabilities of Palestinian women's lives under the Israeli occupation, offering personal perspectives and first-hand accounts.
Today, March 21: Human rights in the U.S. under President Trump; Anti-impunity and the human rights agenda
Human Rights in the U.S. Under President Trump
A talk by Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno,
Co-Director, U.S. Program, Human Rights Watch
Please join us for a talk with Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, Co-Director of the U.S. Program for Human Rights Watch, on human rights in the U.S. under the Trump administration. She will reflect on the President's policies that would harm rights protections, and his positions vis-à-vis institutions of law that are essential to the functioning of democracy. She will also discuss how Human Rights Watch is responding to these challenges, and consider broader questions arising about the role of the human rights movement today.
ALSO TODAY:
"Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda"
A book talk and panel discussion
Lewis 214A
In the 21st century, fighting impunity has become both the rallying cry and a metric of progress for human rights. The new emphasis on criminal prosecution represents a fundamental change in the positions and priorities of students and practitioners of human rights and transitional justice: it has become almost unquestionable common sense that criminal punishment is a legal, political, and pragmatic imperative for addressing human rights violations. A new collection from Cambridge University Press, Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda, challenges that common sense.
Please join us for a book talk by two of the book's editors, Karen Engle, Professor, University of Texas at Austin School of Law, and Zinaida Miller, Assistant Professor, Seton Hall University, along with chapter authors Samuel Moyn, Professor, Harvard Law School, and Helena Alviar Garcia, Professor and former Dean, Los Andes Law School, Bogotá, for a discussion and celebration of the publication of Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda, chaired by Professor David Kennedy, Harvard Law School.
This event is being co-sponsored by the Institute for Global Law and Policy, the Human Rights Program, and the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas, Austin.
Moving on: Maureen Corrigan leaves HRP for fresh start in California
Just the other day, we said goodbye to one of the gentlest souls on the Harvard Law School Campus: Maureen Corrigan, HRP's longtime financial manager, is headed to family and a new job in California.
Over the course of her years at HRP, Maureen navigated the increasingly complicated finances of a program that works not only with dozens of students and staff every year, but with visitors from around the world. It was not an easy job.
Maureen Corrigan, our longtime financial manager, at left, with her fans from HRP.
The receipts alone would have done a lesser person in. They came to her ripped and wrinkled from around the world: scraps of paper with words written in Arabic, in Thai, in Bosnian, in illegible English. Maureen took them by the handful and calmly proceeded to trace them back to something expense-able, like dinner.
Certainly, there were predictable rhythms to her job, like the demands of budget season. But it was not uncommon to pass by her office, and hear the whirring and clacking of Maureen's old-fashioned calculator as she tackled a problem one of us had dropped in her lap that day. With a plea that she solve it as soon as possible. While we panicked down the hall.
She always did, and in a way that put all of us at ease.
Mostly she did it with humor. Always she did it with heart.
It was no accident that Maureen volunteered to organize the birthday celebrations for everyone in the office. She was that kind of considerate. She knew the names of the people and the pets we loved. She asked after them, and after us, and offered hugs when we didn't even know we needed them.
This is why, in the great East Coast/West Coast rivalry, none of us is pleased to cede Maureen to California. But she's headed there for a job in the financial department of Chapman University, which happens to be exactly three blocks from her new house, where she will live with her husband, her two dogs, and her college senior son.
We wish her all the happiness she's given us through the years, along with the very best luck life has to give.
Disarmament family loses loved and legendary campaigner Bob Mtonga
Posted by Bonnie Docherty
The humanitarian disarmament community lost a legend last week. Bob Mtonga, a medical doctor and long-time activist, died in his native Zambia shortly after returning from one of countless international trips to promote the protection of civilians in armed conflict. He was just 51.
Bob Mtonga celebrates the ratification of the Arms Trade Treaty by 50 countries in 2014.
Bob was a much-loved leader in the field of humanitarian disarmament, which seeks to end civilian suffering caused by indiscriminate and inhumane weapons. He campaigned for strong international law on nuclear weapons, and landmines, and cluster munitions, and the arms trade. He served on the leadership committees of several civil society coalitions and had been co-president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).
In less than two weeks, the UN General Assembly will begin negotiating a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. This coming September marks the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Mine Ban Treaty. Next year is the 10th anniversary of the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Bob contributed to each of these milestones. His absence at the nuclear negotiations and anniversary celebrations will be deeply felt.
While making international law is often a slow process, nothing would ever deter Bob from working to improve the world. One friend wrote after his death, "Wherever we all go from this place, we can be sure that since Bob has preceded us he is already organizing it to be a better place."
I met Bob more than a decade ago during the Oslo Process, which produced the Convention on Cluster Munitions. I came to know dozens of civil society advocates during those negotiations, but Bob immediately stood out as a campaigner and a personality. Continue Reading…
Bob Mtonga,
Cluster Munitions,
Disarmament,
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War,
Tracking a remnant of war in Kosovo
Posted by Jared Small, JD '18
Tomorrow, my Harvard Law School colleagues and I will board an airplane for Kosovo. Our goal: track down remnants of a war that ended nearly two decades ago.
The Kosovo War ended in 1999 after a months-long NATO airstrike crippled Yugoslav and Serbian forces and paved the way for an internationally monitored Kosovan autonomy. Kosovo has since declared independence, and is moving forward towards what it hopes will become full membership in the European Union.
Damage from depleted uranium penetrators in Gjakova/Đakovica. Credit: Naomi Toyoda / ICBUW
But there is an invisible part of this story that has largely escaped the public eye over the past decade and a half. Our team from the International Human Rights Clinic will travel to Kosovo to better understand potential environmental and human health impacts that linger from the war.
During the course of the NATO airstrikes, United States aircraft deployed at least 5,723 kg of Depleted Uranium (DU) ammunition at Serbian and Yugoslav targets. As an incredibly dense by-product of the process of enriching uranium, DU is often used by militaries in armor-piercing shells and bullets. American A-10 Thunderbolts fired DU at more than 100 ground targets during the campaign against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who was attempting to cleanse Kosovo of its nearly 90% ethnic Albanian population.
In addition to penetrating armored vehicles, DU rounds ended up in areas now returned to civilian use, including bucolic buildings and urban streets. Even 18 years after the end of the war many of these penetrators remain scattered around Kosovo.
For a minute or so after the war, the world took notice of the fact that Kosovo had been littered with DU. The media reacted to a Pentagon statement acknowledging the use of DU. The Post-Conflict Assessment Unit of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) both made site visits to Kosovo shortly after.
But concern about DU faded from the public eye as the world moved on from the Balkan Wars and new events demanded resources and attention. The initial UNEP and WHO reports cited neither a "smoking penetrator" nor any cancerous abnormalities in the civilian population. Those same reports, however, warned of potential longer-term radioactivity issues stemming from ingestion of uranium in drinking water or inhalation of uranium dust suspended in the air.
DU's chemical toxicity raises other concerns. When ingested, the greatest concentrations of DU may show up in the kidneys, liver tissue, and skeletal structure, potentially causing renal dysfunction and organ damage.
As we head to Kosovo, here's what we know: calls by concerned stakeholders for longer-term water, soil, air, and livestock monitoring in Kosovo have not been heeded. And studies of heavily targeted DU sites elsewhere in the Balkans—such as the TRZ Hadžići Tank Repair Facility in Bosnia and Herzegovina—have uncovered health and psychosocial consequences among populations exposed to DU.
Even before setting foot in Kosovo, we have begun discussing the value of increased information sharing and heightened transparency around DU target areas. Our trip will allow us to examine the state of awareness that surrounds these issues, and ultimately to offer recommendations for a response that is in line with the needs of Kosovan individuals, communities, and civil society.


Platform provider FSB is breaking new ground in the Caribbean thanks to its recent roll-out of a digital sports betting and online casino for operator PowerPlay.
FSB's trading tools are tailor-made for the demands of live betting and have been readily pressed into service with PowerPlay, who are now providing gaming experiences customised to the Central American and Caribbean markets, where live betting on football, cricket, tennis and basketball are proving particularly popular.
Just a fortnight after launch, the increased activity and figures for the new betting site are stunning. According to Alexa rankings, PowerPlay.com is now among the Top 100 most visited sites in Jamaica alone, where in excess of 150,000 unique users equate to 10% of the active online community.
Running off FSB's unique pricing models, Caribbean customers now enjoy the most sophisticated and reactive odds available across all sports. FSB's mobile-first strategy neatly complements trends in the Caribbean market whose internet usage is composed of approximately 80% mobile traffic.
This partnership's cutting-edge architecture also demonstrates a rare ability to mould the platform organically to the brand, as opposed to generically bolting on a cover. This has allowed PowerPlay to reframe and partition headline markets, homepage sliders and betslips to speak to any territory.
FSB always works with worldwide operators to deliver flexible front-ends which connect with core brand identity, allied to a personalised user interface. The new site is the first in the region for FSB and a new venture for their partner, which currently runs operations in the nightlife and entertainment industry in Barbados, including land-based casinos.
FSB's proprietary platform, which features real-time algorithmic pricing models coupled to CRM tools for player segmentation and bonusing, has also delivered a live casino complete with a full portfolio of casino games from leading industry suppliers.
The site has been launched across twenty countries including Jamaica, Barbados, Curaçao, Trinidad & Tobago and Mexico, with plans to extend its reach throughout South America and beyond, thanks to FSB's nimble integration which facilitates multiple translations and currency payments. It's the latest step in FSB's growing global footprint.
FSB's Business Development Director, Richard Thorp, said: "We were delighted when PowerPlay chose us for their online launch and proud the platform has engaged with their customers so quickly.
Dean Serrao, CEO of PowerPlay, added: "After just two weeks of operation, we're already thrilled with our new site and our blossoming relationship with FSB. Our combined package has helped capture players' imaginations and drive their engagement to new levels, while the platform itself is effortlessly handling the increased trading volume.


In their newly-released album, the award-winning composer Chen explores new possibilities by combining the sounds of traditional Chinese musical instruments with Western ensembles. Ma plays the pipa, a pear-shaped fretted instrument and is the protagonist in the recording who tells her life story as a new immigrant in New York.
The Brooklyn Metro Chamber Orchestra presents a concert on December 2, 2018 celebrating the ever growing Chinese community in the borough. Brooklyn's premiere classical ensemble, the BMCO, will perform contemporary and traditional music featuring two of China's young and upcoming musicians Lin Ma considered one of the world's finest pipa players and the pianist and composer Zhen Chen.
Ms Ma's international career has blossomed as she is renowned for her virtuosity on the pipa (the Chinese mandolin). This traditional instrument takes on an entirely new and different dimension in the hands of this young master.
Mr. Chen is the resident chamber music pianist of the NY Philharmonic and principal pianist of the prestigious Issac Stern International Violin Competition held annually in Shanghai.
Already high on the Classical Billboard chart, Mr. Chen's "On and Between" the story in music of Chinese immigrants in New York will open the program The world premiere of this work was sold out and played to a standing ovation. Incorporating traditional instruments with a new fresh score Mr. Chen paints a vivid picture of the Chinese immigrant experience in New York. Joining Mr. Chen will be Ms Ma and members of the BMCO.
Rounding out the program, the string section of the BMCO led by Artistic Director Philip Nuzzo join Mr. Zhen in the world premiere of his new work based on beautiful traditional Chinese folk melodies.
The concert will take place Sunday afternoon December 2 , 2018 at 4 PM at Roulette Intermedium 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn. Tickets can be purchased at Brown Paper Student and Senior discounts are available.


When it comes to sharing information through a public forum such as Facebook, there are so many factors that play into what we can't control online. On a more global level we are discovering that our "private" information is not so private anymore. Edward Snowden, a former contractor of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) leaked top-secret details of U.S. and British government. His leaks have been the subject of great controversy. Some people consider him a hero and whistleblower, while others describe him as a traitor. Similarly, Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks, said this about social-media, "Facebook, Google, and Yahoo are allowing the CIA to access user data via a specially designed interface. Facebook is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented." Through their actions and statements, these two individuals brought global awareness of just how easily outside sources can gain access to our private information.
Your Facebook profile may be filled with photos of your children, your thoughts about your in-laws, your plans to overthrow the government and perhaps even a whole lot of evidence on the chapters of your life that you would, say, prefer to be "unpublished." It can be searched by your partner, stalked by your ex and probed by marketers, future colleges and employers. Facebook's new search tools even allow strangers to follow your next move. Your photos get tagged and people know where you are because of location check-ins. Nothing is sacred as long as you post it and our sense of control over what we post is an illusion. Think about the last time you posted something on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter and deleted it later the same day just to realize that your post was already forwarded to those you hoped wouldn't see it. Perhaps you tried to alter your privacy settings. If you're like me, you probably went through what seemed like 27 steps to make sure what you post would only be seen by your Facebook friends. Then a few months later you realized that Facebook decided to change their privacy settings—again.
In a lot of ways, Facebook itself controls your privacy. This lack of control often leads to unfamiliar anxiety. Facebook maintains it is up to every user to decide how much others see and this is true, to some extent. You can tweak who has access to certain photos, but you cannot stop your friends from sharing them and talking about them behind your back. You may be able to limit who can see certain posts but you cannot stop someone from taking a photograph of your Facebook timeline and sharing it on their mobile devices. Additionally, with Facebook's new search features, there's simply no way that you can completely prohibit who can see what anymore. Everything you post nowadays is even easier to find. Realistically, the most that you can do is to limit your photos, edit what you share and decide just how much you really want to share on a public social-media site.
All of this is not to say that I'm suggesting that we get off Facebook for lack of privacy. What I am suggesting is that perhaps we need to take a closer look at what we believe is private on social-media and realize that we have less control over our privacy than we formerly thought.


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Bradley Wilfred Schlegel (* 22. července 1968, Kitchener) je bývalý kanadský hokejový obránce.

Vystudoval menonitskou střední školu v Kitcheneru, hrál za juniorský tým London Knights, v roce 1988 byl zařazen do výběru Team Canada, se kterým se zúčastnil olympijských turnajů v Albertville a Lillehameru, v obou případech získal stříbrnou medaili. Reprezentoval také na mistrovství světa v ledním hokeji 1995 (3. místo) a mistrovství světa v ledním hokeji 2002 (6. místo). Hrál National Hockey League za Washington Capitals (22 zápasů, 2 asistence) a Calgary Flames (26 zápasů, 1 gól, 6 asistencí). Později působil v Rakousku a Německu, s týmem Kölner Haie se stal v roce 2002 mistrem německé bundesligy.

Externí odkazy
 http://www.legendsofhockey.net/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=11461
 http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sc/brad-schlegel-1.html

Kanadští lední hokejisté
Kanadští hokejoví obránci
Hráči Washington Capitals
Hráči Calgary Flames
Kanadští stříbrní olympijští medailisté
Stříbrní olympijští medailisté v ledním hokeji
Narození v roce 1968
Žijící lidé
Muži
Narození 22. července
Narození v Kitcheneru
Hráči draftovaní Washingtonem Capitals

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