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NYUAD Freshman Wins Abu Dhabi Festival Visual Arts Award 2013
Shakhbout Al Kaabi, Class of 2016 wins the Abu Dhabi Festival Visual Arts Award 2013, one of more than 160 students to enter the competition with his photograph titled "An overthrown throne."
For NYU Abu Dhabi freshman Shakhbout Al Kaabi, an unexpected call during finals week delivered some very good news. He had won the Abu Dhabi Festival Visual Arts Award 2013. Launched this year as part of the Abu Dhabi Festival — a four-week-long celebration of music and visual and performing arts — the award recognizes an Emirati undergraduate student or emerging artist who demonstrates outstanding creativity in an original piece of work. Al Kaabi was one of more than 160 students to enter the competition.
For its inaugural year, the award asked participants to submit works inspired by 25 Years of Arab Creativity, an exhibition held in conjunction with the festival that presented a panorama of contemporary Arab art through painting, sculpture, photography, and video and installations that included special commissions and works by UAE artists. Al Kaabi, who is considering NYUAD's Visual Arts and Film and New Media majors, was especially inspired by No Return, a triptych by Driss Ouadahi, whose theme, he imagined, illustrates "the fact that a better future lies in moving forward and adapting to new circumstances."
Based on a similar theme of change, Al Kaabi's winning work — a photograph titled "An overthrown throne" — seeks to convey the "regimes, depicted here as thrones," Al Kaabi explained, that have collapsed during the past two years from the sheer will of the people. "People who were inspired by a brighter and more equal future," he continued. "Many lost their lives for such a dream; its scar is still seen on the throne." Another significant aspect of the image is its grey background, which Al Kaabi uses to communicate that "the future prospects are neither black nor white."
His photograph was selected by a jury seeking an entry with artistic merit, technical skill, evidence of original and creative thinking, and emotional impact, as well as one evidently inspired by 25 Years of Arab Creativity.
Encouraged to enter the competition by NYUAD Professor of Visual Arts Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Al Kaabi was awarded AED 10,000 in prize money, which he will give to his parents to "do whatever they want to." Al Kaabi will also be recognized in a formal award ceremony this coming September.
"I was super happy and excited for the news and proud of myself for making my professor proud," Al Kaabi said. "And I have learned from this experience that one should have faith in him or herself and try new things."
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As we memento mori, we might recall that it was on this date in 1606 that King James I, having inherited the English and Irish thrones to go with the Scottish monarchy that (as James IV) he already had, decreed the design of a new flag for his domains, according to which the flag of England (a red cross on a white background, known as St George's Cross), and the flag of Scotland (a white saltire on a blue background, known as the Saltire or St Andrew's Cross), would be joined together, forming the flag of England and Scotland for maritime purposes. King James also began to refer to a "Kingdom of Great Britaine", although the union remained a personal one. The flag– known as the Union Flag or Union Jack– was adopted as the national flag in 1707, after the completion of the Treaty of Union and the passage of the Acts of Union.


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SU awards hefty scholarship cheques to scores of its minority students
As a result of endeavors put in by VC-SU Prof. Dr Fateh Muhammad Burfat and SU Students' Financial Aid Office (SFAO), Sindh University exercised the rare privilege of awarding scholarships worth Rs. 2127600 to 107 minority students enrolled at SU in diverse academic disciplines.
SU Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Fateh Muhammad Burfat distributed the award cheques among deserving meritorious students in a solemn ceremony in the presence of SU Registrar Dr. Ameer Ali Abro, Dean, Faculty of Education Prof. Dr. Saleha Parveen, Controller of Examinations Muhammad Mashooq Siddiqui (Semester), Director Students' Financial Aid Office Dr. Fiza Qureshi and others.
The given scholarships had been sponsored by Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony, Government of Pakistan.
Offering deliberations on the occasion, Dr. Burfat eulogized the role of varsity's SFAO and its Director Dr. Fiza Qureshi towards financial facilitation of destitute yet deserving students to be able to continue higher education at SU campuses.
"University of Sindh serves as a last hope to thousands of rural youth. They regard SU as an ideal setting to pursue higher education due to its cost-effective tuition charges", the VC added.
Dr. Burfat observed that up until then the varsity had been able to help out thousands of students through such financial incentives.
Earlier, SFAO Administrative Officer Qamaruddin Nangraj briefed the student audience on the modalities of filling online forms for scholarships and stipends.
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Venom is the New Sous Vide
Dueling Chefs
G E Bowles kicks Steve Dolinsky out of his new eatery
Josh Habiger unloads on John Mariani
Eddie Huang unloads on everybody, most recently Marcus Samuelsson in the Observer. And Marcus responded.
We all say sh*t we don't mean to, but is it just me or is it odd that the Observer editors signed off on some of Eddie's takedown? Marcus doesn't need anyone to get his back, he is capable of taking care of himself and then some, but I have to say to take issue with the amazing work he has done (UNICEF, Ethiopia, Harlem, Restaurants, Books, Style…need I go on) in so many areas….oh and he is a badass in the kitchen…well, frankly I was stunned. Marcus has done more for his community than anyone I can think of in the last decade. Jobs, awareness, stereotype smashing, leadership…you name it…I think the new venom being spouted is one thing, editorial encouragement of it is another, and it's very dangerously close to the yellow journalism of generations past. Very disturbing.
Big Wednesday
Last night I did double duty…I was a guest on Bravo's Watch What Happens Live along with Joe Manganiello who plays the wolfish Alcide on True Blood and the equally well-endowed Big Dick Richie in the new movie Magic Mike. Then I got to see an idea that was a year in the making come to fruition, a 'Minnesota in NYC' chefs dinner that was a real career highlight for me.
Plead the Fifth
Where to begin. WWHL is a thrill ride, it's one of my favorite shows on TV and Andy Cohen, the guy who runs Bravo, is the host. I can't imagine anyone who doesn't watch it, but if so, you are missing out. We played Plead the Fifth, spun the wheel in a game of Bizarre Food or Nude? Did the after show for the www.bravotv.com and best of all, laughed our asses off. Joe is a lady killer, an exec from one of the TV production companies actually fell down staring at him…but he is also smart, funny, a great actor and a ridiculous Bizarre Foods fan. If you didn't see it, go to Bravo's website. Amazing television.
A Bit of Minnesota in the Big Apple
Before that I was a participating chef for the James Beard House's Celebrity Chef Tour dinner at Tom Colicchio's Riverpark. A year ago Bloomington's own superstar chef Gavin Kaysen and I started talking about grabbing the Beard winning chefs in Minnesota, Tim McKee of La Belle Vie and 300 other restaurants, Alex Roberts of Alma and Brasa, Isaac Becker of 112 Eatery and Bar La Grassa and doing a big dinner in NYC with the mission of bringing Minnesota chefs to Manhattan to show off their stuff. I firmly believe that the food in Minnesota restaurants is on par with any city in America and I have been trying to prove that point for a while. Keep your eyes peeled for the next issue of Food & Wine magazine to see Kate Krader's take on our dining scene. But I digress. I will put a bunch of photos on my instagram account and website, and next year if we do it again I hope to see you in New York…maybe someone will let us do a comparable meal here in our own backyard!?!?!?!
Sisha Ortuzar made a summer squash salad, I did a giant pacific clam crudo with pea puree and pea shoot salad, McKee and Mike DeCamp made a riff on salt cod, bagna cauda, Med flavors and the hit ingredient of the night a golf-tee-sized cuke in pickle cure with its flower attached, Isaac made home made noodles with foie meat balls that I couldn't stop eating as we plated it, Alex did a grilled quail and sweet potato dish that echoed Brasa flavors and Alma style, Kaysen and his team executed a flawless beef ribeye with marrow wrapped asparagus and Angie Lee put out a peach cobbler with lemon verbena ice cream….get to Riverpark next time you are in Manhattan.
Top Chef Masters returns!
Wednesday, July 25 is the premiere and betting blind, not even knowing who is in the running, and with apologies to anyone else in the field, my money is all riding on my pal Chris Cosentino from Incanto. Chris is one of the most skilled, creative, talented and technique obsessed chef-geniuses in the country, and one of the most under rated. My guess is that he destroys the competition. He is that good.
Look out for Bizarre Foods America
Why not head out to Vegas, stay the week at The Cosmopolitan like I did when I shot the Bizarre Foods America episode that kicks off the season on July 9 and sneak into the fancy schmancy premiere party they are hosting? Tell them I sent you.
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Based in the Northern regions of England, Northern Soul was the first underground club scene using DJs who presented the rarest records for highest reputation. The sounds were soul stompers, discovered for not built around, the crowd's demand to dance. This of course made the timeline of the scene finite, but fiercely tribal in the devotion to the clubs and DJs. Since the majority of this scene was ignored by commerical music forces, it gave the factory working youth of industrial England something completely their own. Amphetamines gave them the ability release and party at all-nighters, drugs being a direct connection to the Mods influence.
Two of the major clubs for this scene were The Wigan Casino and The Mecca. The Wigan Casino had a larger dancefloor and their DJs Kev Roberts and Richard Searling pumped body-soul music to keep the punters hopping. The Mecca, presided over by DJ Ian Levine was a bit more cerebral and focused more on the rarest or tightest grooves.
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Some of the biggest hits of the scene included R. Dean Taylor's 'There's a Ghost in My House' and The Four Tops 'I Can't Help Myself', (The rarest being Frankie Wilson's 'Do I Love You'). Northern Souls DJ's would often travel to America in search of the most obscure music, and like, Ian Levine, required/had the financial ability & time to hunt.
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World Day against Trafficking in Persons
Yesterday was the World Day against Trafficking in Persons. Recently 13 African countries were listed among the 23 worst offenders for human trafficking. The World Day against Trafficking in Persons was set aside to raise awareness of the situation of victims of human trafficking and for the promotion and protection of their rights. How rampant is #humantrafficking in your country?
In its 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report released in June, the United States listed 13 African countries as among the 23 worst offenders for human trafficking. Among the worst African offenders were Burundi, Central African Republic, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, South Sudan and Sudan.
Yesterday was the World Day against Trafficking in Persons, a day set aside to raise awareness of the situation of victims of human trafficking and for the promotion and protection of their rights. This year, UNODC chose 'act to protect and assist trafficked persons' as the focus of the World Day.
The United Nations says human trafficking is a crime that exploits women, children and men for numerous purposes including forced labour and sex. The International Labour Organization estimates that 21 million people are victims of forced labour globally.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) recently warned that the sexual exploitation of African migrants in Europe has reached disturbing levels.
"Over the past three years, IOM Italy has seen an almost 600 per cent increase in the number of potential sex trafficking victims arriving in Italy by sea. This upward trend has continued during the first six months of 2017, with most victims arriving from Nigeria," the report said.
Just a few days ago, a 24-year-old South African woman was rescued from a suspected sex-trafficking enterprise in Malaysia, and is expected to return home to South Africa today. According to the Minister of Police Fikile Mbalula, the woman had been lured to Malaysia under the false impression that she would take part in a modelling competition.
Read: The thin line between labour exploitation and human trafficking
The case is similar to Kenya where there are reports that women are also lured with fake jobs and end up as victims of sex trafficking. This has been necessitated by corruption in sectors of the government perpetuated traffickers' ability to obtain fraudulent identity documents from complicit officials
The Kenyan government reported 530 investigations of potential trafficking cases in 2016, of which 59 were for forced labour and 28 for sex trafficking.
Zimbabwe also learnt last year that about 200 women had been trafficked to Kuwait after being promised lucrative jobs. 128 women have since been returned to the country and more are expected back.
North of the continent, Libya's Tripoli-based government recently asked Italy to provide naval support in fighting human trafficking in Libyan territorial waters. People smugglers operating with impunity in Libya have reportedly sent hundreds of thousands of migrants to Italy by sea since the start of 2014.
It is however important to note that African countries such as Angola, Botswana, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia and Uganda are reportedly making great strides to combat human trafficking although a lot still needs to be done. However, most African governments do not fully meet the Trafficking Victims Protection Act's (TVPA) minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so. The Act seeks to combat trafficking by promoting a policy of "3 Ps": prosecution, protection, and prevention.
Also Read: Human trafficking in Malawi goes unabated
Sadly children make up almost a third of all human trafficking victims worldwide, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Global Report on Trafficking in Persons with women and girls comprising 71 per cent of human trafficking victims in multi-billion dollar global enterprise.
The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda embraces goals and targets on trafficking in persons. These goals call for an end to trafficking and violence against children; as well as the need for measures against human trafficking, and they strive for the elimination of all forms of violence against and exploitation of women and girls.
It is important therefore that we combat human trafficking by not only improving the state of our economies which have given rise to this ill but also making efforts to bring culprits to book ad empowering women and girls especially to be able to tell the difference between genuine opportunities and traffickers because there is a thin line.


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APC LGA Chairmen to Okorocha: "We can't be intimidated or blackmailed"
Posted on November 14, 2017 at 12:00 am by watchdog
– Deny allegation of oath taking
– Accuse governor of de-marketing party in Imo
The forum of local government chairmen of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has vehemently denied a recent allegation by the state Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha that they were subjected to unethical, unchristian and the satanic practice of fetish oath taking in order to be loyal to a party chieftain, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume. While denying the allegations, the chairmen opened a can of worms accusing the governor and the state party chairman Dr. Hillary Eke of subtle and deliberate attempts to sidetrack and frustrate the party structure in the state.
In a recent press release signed by the LGA chairmen at Owerri which copy was made available to the Community Watchdog Newspaper, in a quick reaction to a media statement by the Governor, who had through his Chief Press Secretary alluded that Chief Araraume subjected some party members to a fetish oath taking, the members declared that as Christians who have cut their teeth in politics, as former Chairmen, Councilors, Lawyers Engineers, Bankers and respected title holders, they had no reason whatsoever to misrepresent facts about the government they jointly laboured and risked their lives to install.
They recalled the role played by the Distinguished Senator towards the success of the 2015 general and Okigwe zonal elections that brought Okorocha to power and how the governor at a meeting of stakeholders publicly expressed gratitude to Chief Araraume who he once declared, "the foremost leader of the party in the state and Okigwe zone in particular", contending that as individuals and a group they had no secret dealings with the man, other than the welfare and progress of the party in the state.
They narrated their efforts to approach some of the party leaders in the state pledging their loyalty and seeking support for the 2019 election and that it was in the course of this efforts that they were invited by Distinguished Senator Ifeanyi Araraume along with other political groups adding that at the end of their interaction they were mobilized and were not subjected to any demonic rituals or oath taking as the convener left before the closing of the meeting.
The APC Chairmen were therefore surprised when on the 6th of November 2017, they were summoned to a meeting at the governors lodge by 10:00am and His Excellency arrived about 11:30am only to accuse them of swearing to an oath and pledging to work against his government, an allegation which they all denied after which the state governor left them in the lurch and stranded at about 2:00am with no means of transport or a place to pass the night. The governor according to the release abandoned them for not agreeing to his persuasion to accuse Senator Ifeanyi Araraume of oath administration as his chief press secretary Onwnemeodo puts it.
The aggrieved party chairmen used the occasion of the press release to highlight some of their grievances against the state governor and the party state chairman Chief Hillary Eke, and noted how the party functionaries were not remunerated for the one month re-registration exercise ordered by the National Executives of the party which had since released the money involved but which has not been paid to the LGA chairmen, secretaries, ward chairmen and secretaries etc who conducted the exercise.
In addition, they narrated how the state party hierarchy has blatantly refused to obey the orders of the National Working Committee to re-instate three LGA chairmen arbitrarily suspended by Hillary Eke who in his usual contempt and disconnection, refused vehemently to put up a representation at the burial of one of the colleagues, Chief Basil Obialor (Alika) of Isiala Mbano LGA.
Other allegations leveled against the state party chairman were his inability to disburse the non-refundable expression of interest deposit of several thousand paid by all categories of aspirants in the last general election which was to be shared by all levels of the party in the state which to date has not been paid out and that contrary to the state governors directive that the sum of twenty five million naira (N25M) for party uniforms, the chairman Hillary Eke collected N2,500 from each of the APC chairmen for the envisaged uniform. This was in addition to millions of naira undisbursed funds collected by the party during the pre-elections campaigns and rallies, which took them on a tour of the 27 LGAs.
The party chairmen who said that they cannot be intimidated or harassed into submission to accept things they did not do or discredit an innocent and compassionate leader, disclosed that their difference with their traducers is because they expressed their grievance over the poor running of the party and their inclination for a level playing ground for members and leaders which the party chairman abhors arguing that with this scenario the governor and his chairman want them to be dormant and the party dead, in Imo State.
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Mali's Constitutional Court on Monday declared Ibrahim Boubacar Keita president after the 73-year-old incumbent won elections that his opponent, former minister Soumaila Cisse, said were marred by fraud.
Keita was victor in a runoff on August 12 that, according to official results issued by the court after a one-hour session, gave him 67.16% of the vote.
"I will serve Mali according to republican principles," Keita said in his first comment since his election victory was confirmed.
He also said he "extends a hand" to help the country to his opponent Cisse, 68, who picked up 32.84% of the vote, according to the official results.
Keita's re-election came despite fierce criticism of failures to tackle jihadist violence and ethnic tensions that have rocked the impoverished Sahel state.
His major challenge as he starts the new term will be to strengthen a 2015 peace accord between the government, government-allied groups and former Tuareg rebels that the government sees as a cornerstone of peace.
In congratulating Keita, the European Union (EU) stressed the need for a rapid implementation of the peace accord-- as did the United States-- to meet the challenges of security and improved living conditions for the population.
"These challenges need more than ever an inclusive and constructive dialogue between all the political and social forces in Mali," an EU spokesperson said in a statement.
But Cisse had filed a petition with the Constitutional Court to say that that some of the results were rigged. By his calculation he won the election with 51.75% of the vote.
The court rejected his petition as being inadmissible or unsupported by evidence.
Cisse's campaign chief, Tiebile Drame told AFP, however, that "the Constitutional Court has issued a ruling that confirms the fraudulent nature and manipulation of the results."
"There's no need for transparent and credible elections in Mali any more," he added.
Observer missions sent by the EU and the African Union (AU) have said the election was not badly impaired.
The economy, alongside security, is the other major challenge facing Keita.


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Huawei: fears in the West are misplaced and could backfire in the long run
Cutting Huawei out of the picture would limit Western access to new, state-of-the art technology
By Professor Howard H. YuHoward H. Yu
Western fears of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei infiltrating their technological infrastructure are rooted in fears of China's rise. Three of the "Five Eyes Network" of English-speaking states that share intelligence – the US, Australia and New Zealand – have blocked their local firms from using Huawei tech in building their 5G networks. The UK and Canada are under pressure to follow suit.
But a lot of these fears are misplaced and cutting Huawei out of the picture could backfire in the long run. Not only would it limit Western access to new, state-of-the-art technology, it could create a world split along technological lines.
Depending on who you talk to, you'll get vastly differing portrayals of Huawei. Many of the concerns are based on the idea that the company is in bed with the Chinese government and point to founder, Ren Zhengfei's background as a People's Liberation Army engineer. Yet Ren only owns about 1.4% of the company's stock – the rest is owned by more than 80,000 of Huawei's employees and it is a private company, not a state-owned enterprise.
Some say Huawei has committed systematic intellectual theft. Yet its rivals Nokia and Ericsson have been slow to release telecoms equipment as advanced as Huawei's and British telecom network BT says it is "the only one true 5G supplier".
Another story you could focus on is how Huawei came to dominate the telecoms equipment market in Africa. Economic miracles on this continent over the last decade have been generated by mobile phone services. Sticking it out in a number of adverse conditions, Huawei has been the key provider of this infrastructure.
But Huawei is not currently being scrutinized for its business conduct in Africa. The focus is on how Huawei has filed the most patents in Europe, spent more money on research than its rivals Cisco, Nokia or Ericsson, earned half of its income from outside of China, and boasts a revenue twice as much as that of Cisco and significantly more than that of IBM. This is the Huawei that Western governments and a lot of the media are becoming the most vocal against.
Keep your friends close …
When officials in Washington talk about the importance of banning Huawei from the US or forbidding US companies like Qualcomm and Intel from selling products to Huawei, they are talking about something that is harder to advocate, at least publicly. And that is to disengage from China – because disengaging is not possible in the world's globalized economy. Just about everybody, including Cisco, Ericsson and Nokia, makes their telecoms equipment in China.
What's truly at risk by disengaging from Huawei in the West is to lose the ability to scrutinize the entity they fear most. In the telecoms sector, when service providers like BT, Verizon, and AT&T buy equipment from Huawei it's not as simple as buying a book on Amazon. To become a supplier for BT, for instance, you need to pass a number of tests.
To test Huawei's qualifications, BT brought out a big team to Huawei's headquarters in Shenzhen to carry out rounds of tests, without giving prior notice. BT then picked a number of names out of Huawei's roster and conducted independent interviews using their own interpreters. So demanding were BT's criteria that the chairwoman of Huawei had to set up an independent BT support department to directly report to her, and then hired Mercer, a US consultancy firm, to develop a new governance structure.
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A different tech agenda
When I visited Shenzhen in China last year, local managers explained to me that much of the city's infrastructure will be digitized, and that Huawei will saturate it with a 5G network. This will reduce speed issues and latency problems for computers using that network.
It also means new technology like driverless cars will need far less computer power to work. The necessary computing power can simply be off-loaded onto the city's infrastructure. This is a radical vision. And it is radically different to that of Intel, which hopes to dominate the new transport market. As autonomous driving takes off, vehicles will become computers on wheels. More powerful microchips will be needed, which is where Intel comes in.
Huawei has a different idea for connected cars, which uses its own technology and bypasses the need for chips built by third-party providers. This will directly undermine Intel's strategy, in China and beyond.
And herein lies the biggest risk of shutting out Huawei: that it will accelerate a vastly different technological agenda not only in China but also in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The logic is simple. If you're a poor country that lacks the capacity to build your own data network or is distrustful of Western intervention, you're going to feel loyal to whoever helps lay the pipes at a low cost.
Shutting out Huawei therefore won't slow China from dominating both 5G and AI, a nightmare scenario for US security hawks. Shutting out Huawei simply reduces your ability to monitor, let alone influence, the growth of an emerging techno-authoritarian bloc. If the Cold War taught us anything, it's that maintaining a degree of openness with your adversary is always the best defense against a catastrophic outcome.
Howard Yu is the author of LEAP: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied (PublicAffairs, June 2018), and LEGO professor of management and innovation at IMD. In 2015, Yu was featured in Poets & Quants as one of the Best 40 Under 40 Professors. He was shortlisted for the 2017 Thinkers50 Innovation Award, and in 2018 appeared on the Thinkers50 Radar list of 30 management thinkers "most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led." Yu received his doctoral degree in management from Harvard Business School.
The article was originally published in The Conversation
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