Many states and international organisations have reacted to the ongoing war in the Donbass region of Ukraine, which began in April 2014. In August 2014 when the intervention of Russian troops in Donbass scaled up, many states condemned this violation of Ukraine's sovereignty.
European Union: The EU began imposing sanctions on Russia in March 2014, following the annexation of Crimea, with the lists of sanctioned individuals and entities having been expanded multiple times concurrently with escalations in Donbass. President of the European Council Donald Tusk stated that Russia was "[compensating] for its shortcomings by destructive, aggressive and bullying tactics against its neighbors."
NATO: NATO published a statement on the war in Donbass and the Crimean Crisis in August 2014. It attempted to debunk the Russian government's accusations against the Ukrainian government, and also other statements made by Russia to justify its presence in Ukraine. According to the statement, Russia attempted to "divert attention away from its actions" and "levelled a series of accusations against NATO which are based on misrepresentations of the facts". It also said that Russia "made baseless attacks on the legitimacy of the Ukrainian authorities and has used force to seize part of Ukraine's territory". In response to the unauthorised entry of the Russian "humanitarian convoy" on 22 August, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen stated that this incident could "only deepen the crisis in the region, which Russia itself has created and has continued to fuel. The disregard of international humanitarian principles raises further questions about whether the true purpose of the aid convoy is to support civilians or to resupply armed separatists". NATO general Philip Breedlove said on 20 September that the ceasefire implemented as part of the Minsk Protocol was "a ceasefire in name only", and criticised Russia for allowing men and equipment to flow freely across its border into Donbass.
OSCE: In July 2015, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly condemned Russia's "unilateral and unjustified assault on Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity."
United Nations: A press release issued on behalf of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed the importance of "constructive and results-oriented dialogue between all concerned", and of adherence to the terms of the Geneva Statement on Ukraine. The statement also made clear that the situation "remains extremely volatile".
Australia: In March 2014, Australia's foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop said that "International law does not allow one state to steal the territory of another on the basis of a referendum that cannot be considered free or fair,", after disputing the legitimacy of the Crimean referendum which voted to secede from Ukraine. The opposition's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Tanya Plibersek also said "Australia has a special responsibility as a member of the security council to join the international community in taking strong action to make clear our condemnation of the moves by Russia to annex Crimea and of the fatal attack on the Ukrainian serviceman in Crimea" firmly reiterating Australia's condemnation of Russian intervention across both parties in Parliament.
Belarus: Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko encouraged peace talks from the start of the Ukrainian crisis, and hosted the summits that produced the Minsk Protocol in September 2014 and Minsk II in February 2015.
Canada: In November 2014, Canadian foreign minister John Baird stated that he thought that Russian president Vladimir Putin was waging "a murderous campaign in Ukraine", and that if this continued, President Putin would "go down in history as the man who destroyed all that was once positive in Russia-Ukraine ties – historical, religious, cultural, even fraternal bonds sacrificed to his ruthless expansionism in Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk". In June 2015, Prime Minister Stephen Harper called for Putin "to end his invasion of Eastern Ukraine, to withdraw his soldiers, tanks and heavy weapons, and to cease providing military aid to insurgents."
China: premier Li Keqiang said in March 2015 that China "respects Ukraine's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity" and expressed hope for a peaceful resolution of the conflict. At the same time Russian business and financial institutions observed "ambiguous position regarding Russian banks in the wake of US and EU sanctions" from the Chinese financial institutions, meaning in practice reduced willingness of Chinese banks to finance trade and execute interbank transactions with their counterparts in Russia.
Czech Republic: Czech president Miloš Zeman said on 5 September that the situation in Donbass could "develop into a Russian invasion, but at this stage, it is a civil war between two groups of Ukrainian inhabitants". His words were at odds with statements by Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and Defence Minister Martin Stropnický, who both said there were at least 5,000 Russian troops in Ukraine. Prime Minister Sobotka also said: "I suppose that Europe should not harm itself by these sanctions. I consider the escalation of sanctions a very risky business."
Estonia: In March 2014, Estonia's president Toomas Hendrik Ilves said: "Justification of a military invasion by a fabricated need to protect ethnic "compatriots" resuscitates the arguments used to annex Sudetenland in 1938."
France: France was criticised at the time of the annexation of Crimea for continuing to prepare two Mistral class amphibious assault ships for delivery to Russia. The first one was meant to be delivered in October 2014. France eventually decided to place the delivery on hold in September, following increasing escalation in the Donbass, and reported Russian intervention there.
Georgia: In April 2014, Georgian president Giorgi Margvelashvili said in an interview, "I don't think it's a right choice to alienate Russia, to cut relations with Russia. Because alienating Russia makes Russia even more aggressive, unpredictable and dangerous". He said that Russia should be made to understand "that relations between neighbours or countries around the world aren't built through military interventions". In March 2015, he followed-up his earlier remarks, saying, "the occupation of Georgian territories in 2008, war in Ukraine in 2014 and support of separatists in Transnistria is nothing but...Georgia's, Ukraine's and Moldova's punishment by Moscow for their European choice".
Germany: According to the German Foreign Office, Merkel said that the war was never a conflict "within Ukraine", but a confrontation between Russia and Ukraine. In November 2014, Merkel stated that "old thinking about spheres of influence, which runs roughshod over international law" put the "entire European peace order into question" and said that if Ukraine had chosen the Eurasian Economic Union, the West would not have responded by making 'noise' on the Ukrainian-Polish border.
Kazakhstan: During a 22 December visit to Kiev, Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev stated "I am asking Russia and Ukraine to think about a compromise in order to end this conflict and preserve the territorial integrity of Ukraine, because this situation is nonsense and it should not have happened". He also called the international economic sanctions against Russia "a road to an impasse and a path to nowhere".
Lithuania: In September 2014, Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė said "I think that Russia is terrorising its neighbours and using terrorist methods", and that "It is a shame on all the Western leaders to allow an aggressor to do what he wants with a sovereign country in the 21st century". In November 2014, she stated that "We know that today Ukraine is fighting for peace in Europe, for all of us. If a terrorist state that is engaged in open aggression against its neighbor is not stopped, then that aggression might spread further into Europe".
Poland: In April 2015, Polish president Bronisław Komorowski said, "Today, when the sons of Ukraine are dying in the east of their country in the defence of national independence, they are also defending Europe. They are defending it against the return of imperial thinking, against policies that pose a threat to the freedom of all Europeans".
Romania: Romanian president Klaus Iohannis condemned attacks on the city of Mariupol, stating that the responsibility for these attacks did not fall only on the separatists, but also on the Russian Federation. He added that Romania condemned the violation of Ukraine's territorial sovereignty, and supported further sanctions against Russia.
Russia: The Russian Foreign Ministry accused Ukrainian authorities of "blaming" the Russian government for all its troubles and stated "Ukrainian people want to get a clear answer from Kiev to all their questions. It's time to listen to these legal claims". It also stated it was "carefully observing" events in the east and south of Ukraine, and again called for "real constitutional reform" that would turn Ukraine into a federation. In a 7 April opinion piece in The Guardian, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov wrote that it was Europe and the United States, and not Russia, that was guilty of destabilising Ukraine and that "Russia is doing all it can to promote early stabilisation in Ukraine". The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a stern condemnation of the "criminal order" by Kiev for armed aggression against Donetsk: "The Kiev authorities, who self-proclaimed themselves as a result of a coup, have embarked on the violent military suppression of the protests," demanding that "the Maidan henchmen, who overthrew the legitimate president, to immediately stop the war against their own people, to fulfill all the obligations under the Agreement of 21 February." Russian president Vladimir Putin compared the siege of the DPR and LPR-controlled cities of Donetsk and Luhansk to the Siege of Leningrad during the Second World War: "Sadly, it reminds me of World War II, when German fascist forces surrounded our cities, like Leningrad, and shelled population centres and their residents". On 4 September 2015 the Investigative Committee of Russia published an insulting letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine with treats of the Nuremberg-2 trials against the government of Ukraine and calling Ukrainian language retarded.
Sweden: In September 2014, then Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt said that "[Russian president Vladimir] Putin's actions threaten the entire basis of the post-Cold War order in Europe" and that "Ukraine is an independent nation. It has the right to choose its own destiny. If it wants to belong to the EU, that is up to Ukrainians. Russia has no right to dismember or destabilise independent countries if it doesn't agree with their choices".
Turkey: In May 2015, Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that "Nothing can justify what Russia has been doing in its neighbourhood. Ukraine. Crimea. Georgia."
United Kingdom: In a statement at a meeting of the UN Security Council on 6 August, UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations Sir Mark Lyall Grant said: "The truth of the matter is that this is not an insurrection born in the Donbas; it is an insurgency manufactured in Moscow. It is led by Russians, using Russian-supplied weapons, in a deliberate effort to destabilise Ukraine and to exert control over Kiev". Sir Mark made another statement to the Security Council on 28 August, and listed "100 main battle tanks, 80 armoured personnel carriers, 100 man-portable air-defence systems, 100 anti-tank weapons and over 100 artillery pieces" that were supplied to the Donbass insurgents directly by Russia. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon announced on 7 March 2015 that Britain would send an additional £850,000 in non-lethal aid following Ukraine's request. This included first-aid kits, night vision goggles, helmets, GPS units and laptops. On 19 January 2016, Michael Fallon said that Ukraine will receive 3,500 first-aid kits equal to £500,000 in April before the British training of Ukrainian troops. The Queen pledged that her government will continue to work to resolve the conflict in Ukraine.
United States: US Secretary of State John Kerry said on 7 April 2014 that the events "did not appear to be spontaneous" and called on Russia to "publicly disavow the activities of separatists, saboteurs and provocateurs" in a phone call to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. A spokeswoman for the US National Security Council noted that the separatists appeared to be supported by Russia. "We saw similar so-called protest activities in Crimea before Russia's purported annexation," she said in a statement, adding: "We call on President (Vladimir) Putin and his government to cease all efforts to destabilize Ukraine, and we caution against further military intervention." American ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey R. Pyatt characterised the pro-Russian insurgents as "terrorists". The US government is sending military advisors to Ukraine to aid the Ukrainian government in its fight against the insurgents. In April, the US Defence Department shipped a 7 million US dollar package of non-lethal military equipment to the Ukrainian forces. Plans for another 8 million dollar million aid package were announced on 1 August 2014. The package was meant to include armoured personnel carriers, goods and patrol vehicles, binoculars, night vision goggles and small patrol boats. On the same day, the Defence Department also proposed a 19 million dollar aid package to help train the National Guard of Ukraine. This proposal required congressional approval, and would come into effect in 2015. It had been announced in July that a group of Defence Department specialists in strategy and policy would visit Kiev to evaluate the military needs of the Ukrainian government. On 8 September 2014, The New York Times reported that only a portion of the initial non-lethal aid package had actually arrived in Ukraine. While this report cited concerns about provoking escalation in the region as the reason for the delay, a 13 September 2014 report by The Globe and Mail cited various sources that indicated that both the American package and a $200 million Canadian military aid package were delayed by concerns about diversion of saleable equipment due to corruption among Ukrainian officials. On 11 March 2015, the American government said it would send an additional 75 million US dollars worth of non-lethal aid to Ukraine. This included radios, first-aid kits, surveillance drones, counter-mortar radar systems, military ambulances, 30 armoured Humvees and 300 unarmoured Humvees. In March 2016, US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland stated that a total of 266 million dollars was spent on non-lethal aid to Ukraine. She also said that nearly 1,200 Ukrainian soldiers and 750 National Guard members had been trained by American military personnel.
Nordic countries: A joint declaration on the Ukrainian crisis by the defence ministers of Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the foreign minister of Iceland was released in Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten on 9 April 2015. The declaration stated that Russian aggression against Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea are violations of International law and other international treaties, and that the Nordic countries will evaluate Russia on the basis of its actions, rather than on rhetoric promoted by the Russian government. After pointing out that Russia had increased military exercises and intelligence gathering activity in the Baltic and the North Sea, violating Nordic borders and jeopardising civilian air traffic, the declaration stated that the Nordic countries intended to face these threats with solidarity and increased cooperation. The document said that this collaboration would be extended to include solidarity with the Baltic countries, work with the EU, and to collaboration with NATO, to maintain the transatlantic link.
In contrast to the unanimous condemnation by western governmental spokespeople of the Russian role in the conflict, European politicians representing euroscepticism, mainly on the right of the political spectrum, criticised the role of western governments in allegedly precipitating the crisis, in some cases supporting Russian president Vladimir Putin's position. Agence France-Presse reported that "From the far right to the radical left, populist parties across Europe are being courted by Russia's Vladimir Putin who aims to turn them into allies in his anti-EU campaign" and that "A majority of European populist parties have sided with Russia over Ukraine." Some of the parties have received Russian support and financing. After the May 2014 European parliament election, eurosceptic representation increased in that body from 92 seats to 150 (out of 751). Such opinions were expressed in Britain by Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party, in France by Marine Le Pen, leader of France's far-right National Front, in Austria by Heinz-Christian Strache, the chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria, in the Netherlands by Geert Wilders, founding leader of the Party for Freedom, and in Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, and Bulgaria. The shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over the Donbass conflict zone in mid-July moderated these opinions.
Reviewing votes in the EU Parliament on resolutions critical of Russia or measures not in the Kremlin's interests (e.g., the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement), Hungary's Political Capital Institute found that future members of Europe of Nations and Freedom voted "no" in 93% of cases, European United Left–Nordic Green Left in 78% of cases, and Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy in 67% of cases. The writers stated that "It would therefore be logical to conclude, as others have done before, that there is a pro-Putin coalition in the European Parliament consisting of anti-EU and radical parties."
Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov said that Russian president Vladimir Putin sought to "punish" Ukraine to prevent an anti-corruption revolution like Euromaidan from taking place in Russia. Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili said that Ukraine "is [Putin's] West Berlin – the taking of which was a matter of principle for Stalin and the successful protection of which ultimately reversed the spread of communism in Europe. The dismantlement of Ukraine is how Putin seeks to erode the values of the transatlantic alliance, and the future of Europe is no less at risk than it was decades ago in Germany". Garry Kasparov considered the West's response to be weak, saying politicians were "lining up to become a new Chamberlain." In February 2015, former Lithuanian president Andrius Kubilius said that he thought that "What we see in Ukraine is not a "Ukrainian crisis", nor is it a "conflict in Ukraine". This is Putin's war, which was initiated by him, which has been supported by him, which is being implemented by him, and which can only be stopped by him. [...] Mr. Putin, along with the mainstream political class in Russia, is still living with a lot of nostalgia for the imperial past". The Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Sviatoslav Shevchuk, stated that the signatories of the Budapest Memorandum were failing to honour their security assurances to Ukraine, which "has been attacked and needs such guarantees more than ever".
In April 2014, historian Timothy D. Snyder wrote that Russia's foreign policy was "based openly upon the ethnicization of the world. It does not matter who an individual is according to law or his own preferences: that fact that he speaks Russian makes him a Volksgenosse requiring Russian protection, which is to say invasion." Although majorities in all regions voted to be part of an independent Ukraine during the 1991 referendum, former Czech president Václav Klaus, said that Ukraine was an artificially created state, and that Ukraine was in a state of civil war. In an article that appeared in Foreign Affairs, John J. Mearsheimer, an American neorealist international relations theorist at the University of Chicago, assigned most of the responsibility for the crisis to the United States and the European Union. He offered an invitation to "imagine the American outrage if China built an impressive military alliance and tried to include Canada and Mexico", and recommended that "the United States and its allies should abandon their plan to westernise Ukraine and instead aim to make it a neutral buffer". His article was criticised by Anders Åslund of the Peterson Institute, who said that Mearsheimer showed "contempt for democracy, national sovereignty, and international law", and that his thesis gave "Russia has the right to decide the fate of the countries in its neighbourhood in its own interest". Writing in World Affairs, Mariana Budjeryn also dismissed Mearsheimer's argument, saying "That the Russians failed to design a model of development and a security arrangement that would be equally attractive and did not require arm-twisting to keep together is not the west's fault. Turns out, democracy and rule of law is not the west's property to peddle around the world, but a political model post-Communist societies chose to pursue when they were free to do so".
In April 2014, a survey by infratest dimap found that 49% of Germans preferred a "middle position" for Germany between the west and Russia. This was reflected in the policy of moderation and mediation that Chancellor Angela Merkel espoused over the course of the Ukrainian crisis. After the war escalated, German public opinion turned against Russia, with 79% saying they had an unfavourable view of Russia and 82% saying Russia could not be trusted in an August 2014 poll. Ukrainian-American historian Alexander J. Motyl criticised the Social Democratic Party of Germany for its approach to Russian aggression in Ukraine, saying that they "appear increasingly committed to doing everything possible to appease Russian imperialism".
Gallup's 2014 world survey found that disapproval of the Russian leadership was highest in Norway (89%), the Netherlands (86%), Finland (86%), Switzerland (83%), Sweden (82%), Germany (81%), Ukraine (81%), Belgium (80%), Italy (78%), and Canada (77%). According to a Pew survey conducted from March to May 2015, negative views of Vladimir Putin were held by three-quarters of western Europeans, North Americans, and Australians (81%), and a majority in the Middle East, with the most negative responses found in Spain (92%), Poland (87%), France (85%) and Ukraine (84%). Outside of Russia (88%), the most favorable views of Putin were found in Vietnam (70%) and China (54%).
Some minor organisations have been formed to support the pro-Russian militants in the Donbass region, among them the Donbass Association in Sweden.
European Union: EU leaders warned that Russia faced harsher economic sanctions than the EU had previously imposed if it failed to withdraw troops from Ukraine. They later condemned the Russian actions at a summit in Brussels, and announced a new round of sanctions.
NATO: The Russian government's decision to send what it called a "humanitarian convoy" into Luhansk on 22 August without Ukrainian consent was condemned by NATO and several NATO member states, including the United States. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called it "a blatant breach of Russia's international commitments", and "a further violation of Ukraine's sovereignty by Russia". Late in August, NATO generals met and revised their assessment of the military situation in Donbass. They said that, from the Ukrainian government's point of view, the war is already lost. It was anticipated that the late-August offensive in southern Donetsk Oblast could be used to create a Russian land corridor to Crimea, consolidating the illegal annexation of the peninsula.
Australia: Australian prime minister Tony Abbott condemned Russia's actions, labelling them "an invasion" and "utterly reprehensible."
Estonia: Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves called the situation an "undeclared war," and stated that Russia's actions violated the UN Charter, the Helsinki Final Act and the Charter of Paris.
Germany: At an EU summit in late August 2014, Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that Russian president Vladimir Putin was moving toward a military escalation that could threaten Latvia and Estonia. Her stance was reported to reflect conclusions drawn from extensive conversations with Putin over the preceding nine months, together with evidence of bad faith on the part of Putin.
Latvia: Latvian foreign minister Edgars Rinkevics said that Russia's actions in August were an "act of aggression" and that the conflict was a "war".
Lithuania: Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaite said Russia's actions meant it was at war with Ukraine, and "practically" at war with Europe. She called on the European Union to assist Ukraine in defending itself, saying "Today Ukraine is fighting a war on behalf of all Europe."
Poland: Polish foreign minister Radosław Sikorski called the invasion "the greatest security crisis in Europe in decades." Poland also treats Russia's actions towards Ukraine as "fulfilling the attributes of 'aggression,' as defined in UN documents – Resolution 3314 of the United Nations General Assembly."("the most serious and dangerous form of the illegal use of force").
Ukraine: Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) Oleksandr Turchynov said that conflict was "a hybrid war that Russia has begun against Ukraine, a war with the participation of the Russian security services and the army."
United States: US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power commented on the invasion by noting that "At every step, Russia has become before this council to say everything but the truth. It has manipulated, obfuscated and outright lied. Russia has to stop lying and has to stop fuelling this conflict." In response to the August events, the American government also said that it supported stronger sanctions against Russia.
Amnesty International: This organisation said that it considered the war to be "an international armed conflict", and presented independent satellite photos and analysis that it said proved the involvement of regular Russian soldiers in the conflict. It said that both Ukrainian and separatist forces were responsible for war crimes, and called on all parties, including Russia, to stop violations of the law of war.
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Joan As Police Woman announces 'The Solution is Restless', a new album starring Dave Okumu and the late Tony Allen
By Twyla J. Carter	 Last updated Jul 26, 2021
Joan As Police Woman – the Joan Wasser project – has announced a new collaborative album titled "The Solution is Restless", written and recorded with the late Tony Allen and Dave Okumu of The Invisible.
'The Solution is Restless' is Wasser's ninth studio album as part of his long-running project. It is also one of the last studio recordings of Allen, who died in April 2020.
Born from an improvisation evening in a Parisian studio, 'The Solution is Restless' will be released on November 5 via PIAS Recordings. His first single, 'Take Me To Your Leader', has been released. Watch his music video below.
The improvised recordings laid the groundwork for Wasser to work on the album during the lockdown, according to a press release. "Take Me To Your Leader", says Wasser, is his "most incendiary" song.
"I wrote it while watching Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, sail in 2020," Wasser said. "In my dream world, the United States asks to meet her to learn how to better manage the country. "
Wasser first met Allen in 2019 through longtime friend Damon Albarn – who contributed to "The Solution is Restless" on the song "Get My Bearings". Wasser and Allen performed a song by Nina Simone live before reuniting in the studio months later. Wasser contributed to Albarn's Gorillaz Project for the Deluxe Edition of their 2020 album, 'Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez'.
In May, a full posthumous Tony Allen album was released by Blue Note, titled "There Is No End". The album features contributions from Albarn, Skepta, Danny Brown and Sampa the Great.
On the other hand, The Invisible's Dave Okumu is set to release his debut solo album, 'Knopperz', in September via Transgressive.
See 'The Solution is Restless' illustration and tracklist below.
The tracklist for 'The Solution is Restless' is:
1. "The Barbarian"
2. "Get My Bearings" (feat. Damon Albarn)
3. "Take me to your boss"
4. "Masquerade"
5. 'Dinner'
6. "Enter the dragon"
7. "Geometry of you"
8. "Love got me"
9. "Perfect shade of blue"
10. "Reaction"
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Young & Restless: Victoria stuns Adam by inviting him to his wedding
Brand USA Ready to Welcome Restless Global Travelers Ahead of Funding Increase
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Q: Java LocalDate format from reading from JSON and saving to Database In as Spring Boot app, I am reading LocalDate from a JSON in dd/MM/yyyy format e.g. 15/03/2009 and while reading, I created them to a request. The format in the request is dd/MM/yyyy.

*ProductRequest:
@JsonFormat(shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "dd/MM/yyyy")
private LocalDate buyingDate;

And then I save the date fields to database via my Entity. It also has the same format as shown below:

*ProductEntity:
@JsonFormat(shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "dd/MM/yyyy")
private LocalDate buyingDate;

But the data in the database is shown in yyyy-MM-dd format. I think it is default format for LocalDate, but I need to be clarified about these points: Could you helps me please?
1. Does LocalDate always kept in yyyy-MM-dd format in the database independently from it had in JSON file and in Request?
2. As far as I see, the format while reading the data to ProductRequest is related to the usage when displaying data using this class (ProductRequest). IS that true?
3. Is there any need to use @JsonFormat(shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "dd/MM/yyyy") for the date field in ProductEntity? As far as I see, it does not make any sense for the format when saving to database. So, if we do not display or use date field from this entity, then there is no need to use format annotation. Is that true?

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*Does LocalDate always kept in yyyy-MM-dd format in the database independently from it had in JSON file and in Request?

The JSON representation you use has nothing to do with how data is stored in the database[*]. Each database vendor (Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, SQLServer, etc) has its own way of storing date and date+time values. It's the job of your application or framework (eg, Hibernate) to translate from Java types such as LocalDate into the appropriate format for SQL statements. So the answer is "yes," the format of a date in the application is independent from how it's stored in a database.

*As far as I see, the format while reading the data to ProductRequest is related to the usage when displaying data using this class (ProductRequest). IS that true?

Only if you serialize ProductRequest back out to JSON. @JsonFormat applies to both reading (deserializing) and writing (serializing) from/to JSON.

*Is there any need to use @JsonFormat(shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "dd/MM/yyyy") for the date field in ProductEntity? As far as I see, it does not make any sense for the format when saving to database. So, if we do not display or use date field from this entity, then there is no need to use format annotation. Is that true?

That is correct. In fact, it's very misleading to see that annotation in an entity[*]

[1] Unless you are using a database that natively understands JSON and/or stores data internally as JSON.

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Ed.D. in International and Multicultural Education
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The Ed.D. in International and Multicultural Education (IME) is dedicated to understanding formal and informal education within diverse sociocultural, linguistic, political and economic contexts. Based on principles of equity, social justice, and human rights, the program critically addresses the realities of education within and beyond the borders of public schooling in the United States and around the world. Our program equips students with the skills needed to engage in scholarship, teaching and advocacy work that addresses many of the key issues impacting education today. Visit our website here to learn more about this program
Distinctive Program Features
Focus on engaged scholarship with a meaningful impact on local and global communities.
A cutting edge and intellectually rigorous curriculum grounded in critical pedagogy.
A strong sense of community composed of highly diverse faculty and students who offer personal and scholarly support.
Apprenticeship opportunities for doctoral students in becoming social justice scholars, practitioners, and advocates.
"IME is a family, a group of intelligent loving human beings that feel that social justice is at the core of being an educator. It is a place that is called our second home, a place that we come to when the outside world is frustrating and we need a place of support and reflection. It is this place that thoughts are thrown around honored, respected and gracefully challenged. It is the place that has been present in civilizations since the beginning of time...community."
—IME EdD Student
The program follows a schedule of alternate weekend classes that convene nine times a semester (Friday evenings and all day Saturdays).
The Ed.D. program is grounded in five main conceptual areas: critical social theory and schooling; intersectionality of race, class, nation, language, gender and sexuality in education; human rights and social movements; international and comparative education; and alternative research paradigms.
Rooted in the practice of critical pedagogy, this program provides a dynamic learning community where students benefit from rigorous experience both in the classroom and in the community. We believe that IME's conceptual framework and pedagogy serve to equip students in becoming leaders capable of reimagining possibilities for education in multiple contexts.
The International and Multicultural Education (IME) Doctoral Program is comprised of 60 credits of study beyond the master's degree and culminates in the completion of a doctoral dissertation. Students can choose from a range of courses in IME or concentration in either Human Rights Education or Second Language Acquisition.
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The goal of each IME program is to develop professional practitioners with expertise in three key areas:
Conceptual and Theoretical knowledge: including critical social theory, critical pedagogy, critical race theory and intersectionality, feminist theory, human rights and social movements, and alternative research paradigms.
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The IME programs are designed to enable students upon graduation, to:
Use theory as a lens for thinking critically about social inequities in local/global contexts.
Work as a transformative professional in schools, universities, and communities to bring about social change.
Be a prominent voice in the educational justice movement through scholarship and praxis
Design, implement and assess K-12 and post-secondary classroom/community programs focused on human rights, social justice, and/or critical multicultural education.
Federal financial aid, state, and university resources are available as funding to newly admitted and current USF School of Education students.
In order to offset the cost of graduate education tuition, many School of Education courses are offered in the late afternoon and evening, and/or on alternating weekends. Most students find they can maintain a full-time job while earning their credential, masters or doctoral degree. However, if your program requires you to spend time in a classroom (i.e. student teaching) or to complete a fieldwork or traineeship experience, such commitments will interfere with a normal workday.
Visit our website to learn more about financial resources for this program.
Graduates of the IME Doctoral Program work as transformative professionals in a variety of settings both in the U.S. and internationally, such as:
Faculty members at community colleges and universities
Teacher leaders in K-12 schools
School superintendents
Educational researchers
Leaders in community and non-governmental organizations
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GRADUATES OF THE IME DOCTORAL PROGRAM
Professor and Chair, Urban Education, Loyola Marymount University
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Faculty, Santa Rosa Junior College, and Solano Community College
Lecturer, American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Director, Bilingual Education, Professional Development and Special Programs, San Jose Unified School District
Teacher trainers for international organizations
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Gunmen opened fire on Qureshi and his colleague, Muhammad Siddiq Mosiani, near a newsstand in Khuzdar district in the southwestern province of Baluchistan on April 11, according to Qureshi's editor and local news reports.
Qureshi was treated in a local hospital for two gunshot wounds to the stomach, but died five days later, news reports said. Mosiani survived, according to the reports.
The motive for the attack was not immediately clear, according to Asif Baloch, the editor of the Quetta-based Daily Azadi. Local officials said they were investigating but had made no progress, he said. Although some news reports said militants from the separatist Baluchistan Liberation Army carried out the shooting, Baloch said they had not claimed responsibility and had no known reason to attack the journalist.


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451 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 318 x 230 (215 x 155) mm.
Provenance: Unidentified arms of early owner on f. 4v (or three roses argent); used from the 16th century on for birthnotes by one Durant family, living near Montargis (see inscriptions, partially effaced, final folio recto and verso); Nicolas Chevalier (1562-63), his arms were on the former old calf binding (see William Morris sales catalogue); William Morris, his sale (London 1898, n. 169; SDBM 39991) to Pickering (Pickering description inside front cover).
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by Sydney Cockerell for BPL in December 1900, accessioned 29 April 1901.
Origin: Written in France in the second half of the 13th century.
Currently shelved under call no. MS f Med 1; formerly BPL G.401.11.
Bibliography: Haraszti, Z. "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928), 57; on Cockerell's acquisition of this manuscript for the Library, see Stoneman, W. "'Variously Employed': the Pre-Fitzwilliam Career of Sydney Carlyle Cockerell" in Art, Academia and the Trade: Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) (Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, XIII:4 (2007)), 354-5.
Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (modern paper) + 451 ; 1-15⁸, 16⁶, 17-34⁸, 35-36⁶, 37-43⁸, 44⁸+¹ (fol. "346" tipped in singleton, currently loose and laid in, final canon table leaf), 45-54⁸, 55⁶, 56-58⁸ ; catchwords preserved, lower center margin of the final verso of each quire ; original foliation of roman numerals in lower margin of each recto, skips 330-339 and thus reaches 426 instead of 416 at the end of the Biblical text. The index has no original foliation.
Layout: Two columns, 56 lines, bounding and writing lines in light plummet.
Script: Written in a gothic bookhand, with some cursive features in brown ink with red rubrics. Chapter numbers alternate red and blue epigraphic capitals.
Decoration 1: f. 1r: 25-line historiated initial (the [F] of "Frater"), Jerome (nimbed) seated at a writing desk, in gold and colors with diapered blue background and a dragon in the stem of the letter; f. 4v: 22-line historiated [I] of "In principio," with the days of creation in round medallions arranged in two parallel registers (days 1-4 at left, 5-6 at right), with three rectangular panels extending from the fourth day to the right along the lower margin (Christ in Majesty; Bishop kneeling in prayer; two monks kneeling in prayer), in gold and colors, hunting scene above of a man shooting an arrow at a stork holding a gold ball in its mouth and standing on a long stem from which hangs an unidentified coat of arms (or three roses argent); 5-to-12 line evangelist portraits with attributes in gold and colors on f. "349" (Matthew), "359v" (Mark), "366" (Luke), "376" (John); Canon tables on ff. 329v-"346v:", two to four columns, lines alternating blue and red, in decorative interlaced red, green and blue frame.
Decoration 2: two-line historiated initials throughout alternating red with blue or blue with red filigree; psalm verse initials mid-line alternate red and blue; 10- to 20-line initials throughout in red and blue with elaborate red and blue filigree infill also extending into margins.
Binding: Ca. 19th-century brown morocco, with "Biblia Sacra/Latine/Manuscriptum/Saeculi XIII" stamped on the spine. Conservation rebinding performed in 2015.
1. ff. 1-329: Old Testament, begins with Jerome's Epistola 53 (Stegmuller 284): "Frater ambrosius tua. . ."
2. ff. 329v-"346v" (see pagination note below): Canon tables, that on f. 336v left blank.
3. ff. "347"-"348": chapter headings for Evangelists.
4. ff. "348"-"349": Evangelist prologue (Steg. 4779, Johannes Marchesinus, attributed to Jerome in manuscript).
6. ff. "359"-"365v": Mark (Steg. 607 and 611).
7. ff. "365v"-"376": Luke (Steg. 618 and 624).
8. ff. "376"-"383v": John (Steg. 624).
9. ff. "383v"-"388v": Romans (Steg. 651, 670, 674, 675).
10. ff. "388v"-"392": I Corinthians (Steg. 683).
11. ff. "392"-"394v": II Corinthians (Steg. 699).
12. ff. "394v"-"396": Galatians (Steg. 707).
13. ff. "396"-"397": Ephesians (Steg. 721).
14. ff. "397"-"398": Philippians (Steg. 728).
15. ff. "398"-"399": Colossians (Steg. 736).
16. ff. "399"-"400": I Thessalonians (Steg. 747).
17. ff. "400"-"400v": II Thessalonians (Steg. 753).
18. ff. "400v"-"401v": I Timothy (Steg. 765).
19. ff. "401v"-"402": II Timothy (Steg. 772).
20. ff. "402"-"402v": Titus (Steg. 780).
21. ff. "402v"-"403": Philemon (Steg. 783).
22. ff. "403"-"406": Hebrews (Steg. 793).
23. ff. "406"-"416v": Acts (Steg. 640).
24. ff. "416v"-"417v": Letter from Jacob to the Twelve Tribes (Steg. 809).
25. ff. "417v"-"419v": Epistle of Peter (no prologue).
26. ff. "419v"-"420v": Epistle of John (no prologue).
27. ff. "420v"-"421v": II Epistle of John (no prologue).
28. ff. "421"-"426": Apocalypse (Steg. 835).
29. ff. "426"-"453": Jerome's Index of the Bible.


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Last week I was asked to write up an aquatic vegetable list for a water garden/hot tub pond. Let's take a look at some of the easiest and tastiest.
Kangkong covers the ground and can grow in moist soil or standing water. Photo credit.
Kangkong is a relative of sweet potatoes that you'll only find in Asian markets. In some states it's classified as an invasive so getting plants from a nursery may be impossible. Seeds are available online, though I don't recommend growing it if you're in a place where it's illegal. The leaves and young shoots are edible raw or cooked. Steamed, they taste mild with rich mushroom and asparagus undertones. You can sometimes find these greens at Asian markets. They'll eat your entire pond, so watch out. Very productive and VERY fast-growing.
Taro for sale! Photo credit.
I've written a little on taro before but haven't grown it very much.
My friend Mart grows taro in his aquaponics systems and has been working on boosting his root yields. They love the water.
Be careful when cooking taro, however, because the oxalic acid crystals in the raw roots and leaves can mess you up. Look it up online and prepare it properly, then it's a great crop.
Chinese water chestnuts are an easy-to-grow aquatic vegetable that rapidly fills a space. They'll choke out some of the competition, so plan accordingly.
The downside of Chinese water chestnuts is that they're rather a pain to process; however, the flavor of the fresh corms is marvelously sweet and nutty.
Water celery is more of an herb than a real aquatic vegetable.
Though water celery doesn't set stalks, it does have a rich zippy celery taste that will spice up any batch of chicken soup. It's a low-growing, clumping plant that spreads to fill up a space – keep it contained!
Bonus: water celery looks beautiful, particularly the green and pink variegated form.
Duck potatoes are one of those aquatic vegetables you rarely see in cultivation. Photo credit.
Duck potatoes used to be a wild-harvested aquatic vegetable of the natives and is still sought after as an excellent wild food. They grow easily in a sunny pond and will yield tasty tubers for the table in the fall. Green Deane covers duck potatoes here.
If you live further north, why not give watercress a try? This is one of the few commonly cultivated and wild harvested aquatic vegetables from outside the tropics.
Watercress is in the mustard family and likes running water the best, though it's not strictly necessary. I've gotten it to root in a glass of water from bundles of watercress I bought in the grocery store. You can also start watercress from seeds.
If you have shallow muddy areas along the edge of your pond, try planting a few of these semi-aquatic vegetables.
Grow a garden in your pond and get malanga roots.
Malanga grows great with lots of water. It's an easy root vegetable and tastes good. It also requires a lot less processing than its oxalic-acid rich cousin taro. Even the young leaves are edible when well-cooked, making it a root and a green. A friend of mine threw some roots in her pond once… and they kept growing, even though they were in standing water.
Though that's not normally the way malanga grows, it sure didn't mind it either.
Ground nut, also known as Apios americana, is a native North American plant that likes to grow in moist areas. Provide it a trellis so it can climb and it will come back year after year and provide you with lots of tasty roots.
Growing yacon roots isn't hard, provided you have plenty of moisture.
Yacon seems to really like constant moisture. Try it along the edge of your pond – I'll bet it will be happy. This crop from the Andes has tasty sweet roots that can be eaten like an apple or turned into a syrup with a remarkably low rating on the glycemic index. Though not truly a water vegetable, it should do great unless it's totally soaked.
Now that you have a list of aquatic vegetable choices… what are you waiting for? Gardening in a pond is so easy you'll wonder why you hadn't done it before. Two words: no watering.
Go hunt down some cool water vegetables and start planting.
One of my favorite sources for rare vegetables (which also contains more aquatic choices that are not on this list) is Eric Toensmeier's book Perennial Vegetables.
Pick up a copy – it's great reading and will open your eyes to the many wild and wonderful crops most gardeners overlook. Mine has been well-thumbed through and read in detail at least twice – and every time I pick it up I find something new I missed. Buy at my link and I'll make a buck or so commission – and it doesn't cost you a penny more.
So – how about you? Anyone growing some cool aquatic vegetables I left off my list?
Great! I have a small shallow pond next to my aquaponic system. I ordered the kang kong a few weeks ago. I also have Okinawa spinach and cranberry hibiscus sitting in pots in the shallow pond: they seem to be doing okay. I am putting the leaves in smoothies along with bidens alba(Spanish needle). The main thing is that I am having lots of fun.
thank you again for all you do, thank you for this list.
Sounds like a really healthy smoothie. I also add longevity spinach, Surinam purslane and moringa to mine. As long as I don't go too heavy, the taste doesn't get overwhelming.
I forgot… I have tried putting malanga in big pots and putting in the shallow pond(3-5 inches deep) without results. How long before they should sprout?
Usually within a few weeks. Check and see if the roots have rotted.
I am surprised you skipped cattails they can grow as far south as zone 9 which is mid Florida.
I have a similar problem with captcha as you. Its really annoying when they ask for something that is an ingredient in other things like eggs that are in cakes or when edible flowers are not accepted as food.
Yes, you're right. CAPTCHAs hate taxonomy.
I am growing cattails as well but I haven't harvested any yet. They grow wild all over the place, so I figure the world is my cattail garden.
Suggestions on where to buy such plants?
And as always, thanks for the great info!
Oriental markets, edible plant nurseries, ebay, permaculture groups and garden groups on Meetup.com. Those are my go-to places.
Eric Toensmeier's web site for his book has lists of nurseries across the US that carry some of the plants he recommends. You can sort through the nurseries by region and/or climate.
Thank you for the list of veggies. I have been given some water cress and am considering planting it a terra cotta pot and setting the pot(s) on the seat of an old hot tub that no longer works. I plan to add enough water to keep the lower 2-3 inches of the pots submerged, maybe add a solar powered water fountain for some water circulation. Is there any concern about chemicals that may leach out of the whatever a hot is made of, into the water and eventually into edible plants? thanks for you thoughts!
I've thought on that myself. I only used aquarium-safe silicone when I worked on mine. There's always a chance though that the tubs themselves are made of something that will leach. I couldn't find any good info saying they were toxic, plus I saw multiple other folks had done the same thing and had happy fish, so I went for it. The frogs love my ponds and they're usually quite susceptible to toxins.


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Patient selection and prognostication with hypothermia treatment
M Thoresen
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For infants with perinatal hypoxiaeischaemia, the ability to give an accurate prognosis at different ages enables the clinician to make decisions on the continuation of management, and also assists in discussions regarding further treatment and prognosis with parents and families. This review suggests which outcome markers are still valid, which need new 'cut-off values' and which can no longer be used in cooled infants. The main focus is on convenient bedside technologies such as the amplitude-integrated electroencephalogram that can be easily applied in routine clinical practice.
Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine
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Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Licensing Sub-Committee - Thursday, 1st August 2019 5.30 pm
Contact: Wendy Greenwell/Claire Turner (01522 873619)
Confirmation of Minutes - 4 July 2019 PDF 65 KB
The minutes from the previous meeting were confirmed.
Exclusion of Press and Public PDF 37 KB
You are asked to resolve that the press and public be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the following item(s) because it is likely that if members of the press or public were present, there would be disclosure of 'exempt information'
RESOLVED that the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item(s) of business because it is likely that if members of the public were present there would be a disclosure to them of 'exempt information' as defined by Section 100I and Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972.
To Interview a Private Hire Licence Holder who has been Convicted of a Major Traffic Offence [08/2019]
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a) explained that the licensee had held a licence since 22nd April 2008.
b) highlighted that in April 2019 a Licensing Officer received a phone call from a member of Transport Services at Lincolnshire County Council, stating that they had recently conducted a DBS check on the Licensee as he had applied for a school contract badge and it had revealed additional relevant information which could only be disclosed at the discretion of the Police.
c) explained that an appointment was made for the 15th May 2019 by Licensing Officers with the Licensee and he was asked if he could bring his DBS from County Council with him. The Licensee brought a mandate to allow a check to take place on his driving licence.
d) highlighted that upon sight of the DBS on 15th May 2019 it showed that the Licensee had been involved in three road traffic incidents between 2014 and 2018.
e) highlighted that following the appointment in May 2019 a DVLA check was undertaken which showed that the Licensee had received 9 penalty points for careless driving in October 2018. The vehicle accident spreadsheet was also checked to see if the accident had been reported but no record was found.
Members asked the licensee relevant questions in relation to his convictions to which the licensee responded accordingly.
That the Licensee's private hire driving licence would be suspended until completion of an advanced driving course.
Reasons for the Decision
· The Sub-Committee believed that the first road traffic accident in 2014 was an unlucky incident as the Licensee was avoiding hitting a dog and damaged a traffic light.
· The Sub-Committee were not persuaded that the Licensee had reported the 2018 accident by telephone within 72 hours to Licensing Officers as required by the Licensee's private hire vehicle licence because there was no record of the telephone report ever having been made.
· The Sub-Committee noted that the Licensee pleaded guilty to the 2018 accident and was given the maximum penalty available to the court of 9 points, which indicated the seriousness of the incident.
· The Sub-Committee believed that the Licensee was not a completely bad driver as he had held a licence for nearly 11 years and had regular passengers who requested his services by name.
· The Sub-Committee noted that the accident had clearly affected the Licensee.
· The Sub-Committee noted that the Licensee did not come across as aggressive and presented himself well.
· The Sub-Committee believed that the quality of the Licensee's driving would be improved by completing an advanced driving course. The safety of the travelling public was of paramount concern and would best be protected by suspending the Licensee's private hire driving licence until the Licensee had completed the advanced driving course.
To Interview a Licence Holder Following a Complaint
a) explained that the Licensee had held a private hire drivers licence since 22nd March 2017.
b) advised that on the 24th June 2019 a complaint was received about the Licensee's conduct by the Licensing Team from the father of a young man aged 20 who had gone missing in the early hours of 23rd June 2019 after being picked up as a fare by the Licensee. His son was found at around 5am on the same day after being left on the side of a road between the pickup and drop off locations. His wallet and phone were also missing. It was later discovered that the Licensee had kept the individual's mobile phone. The passenger's disappearance on the night had caused his relatives to file a missing person's report with the Lincolnshire Police.
c) advised that a complaint had also been received about the Licensee's conduct from the mother of the passenger's fiancée.
d) highlighted that following the receipt of the complaints the Licensing Team had emailed a copy of the complaint to the Licensee's private hire operator which had spoken to the driver regarding the events that took place on 23rd June 2019.
e) stated that the Licensee was called into the Council Offices on the 24th June 2019 to go explain the incident to Licensing Officers.
f) highlighted that on the 25th June 2019, audio recordings of the conversations between the operator and the Licensee during the incident had been received by the Licensing Team from the operator.
g) highlighted that on 3rd July 2019 a statement was received from the individual who was approached by the passenger in the early hours on 23rd June 2019, who stated that the passenger seemed disorientated, lost and in a panicked state.
The Sub-Committee listened to the audio recording before asking the licensee relevant questions regarding the complaints received.
That the Licensee's private hire driver's licence be suspended until the Licensee had completed the full BTEC qualification.
· The Sub-Committee believed the Licensee's explanation that the passenger had been sick in the vehicle and had tried to leave the vehicle whilst it was in motion.
· The Sub-Committee believed that the Licensee's primary concern was payment of his fare and clean-up costs and that he regarded this as more important than the welfare and safety of his passenger.
· The Sub-Committee noted that the private hire operator had expressed concerns regarding the duty of care for the passenger during the incident, as shown by the audio recordings.
· The Sub-Committee believed that the Licensee did not fully understand the seriousness of his duty of care for the passenger.
· The Sub-Committee believed that the Licensee made a wrong moral judgement to abandon his passenger who was vulnerable and intoxicated in an agricultural area in the early hours of the morning without any means of the passenger obtaining or summoning help.
· The Sub-Committee noted that the Licensee was argumentative during ... view the full minutes text for item 13.


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Sex For Grades: Foursquare Gospel Church Reacts To The Video Of Their Pastor Exposed By BBC [READ]
Hours after the video surfaced online, The Foursquare Gospel Church in an official statement has reacted to the documentary made by BBC Africa Eye exposing sexual harassment of students across public tertiary institutions in West Africa.
The video which surfaced online showed Dr Boniface Igbeneghu, a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Arts, UNILAG, and former sub-dean trying to force himself on a journalist who disguised herself as a 17-year-old admission seeker.
Dr Boniface Igbeneghu is a pastor of a Foursquare Gospel Church in Lagos.
In an official statement released on Monday, The Foursquare Gospel Church dissociated itself from the SexForGrades allegation labeled against its Pastor, stating that they will take strict action on anyone involved in such action.
Excerpts From The Statement.. Read Below
"The attention of the leadership of The Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria has been drawn to a video clip trending on social media platforms titled "Sex for grades: Undercover in West Africa Universities – BBC News" wherein a lecturer in University of Lagos named Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu also described as a pastor in Foursquare Gospel Church was allegedly involved in sexual misconduct with some female students of the university.
The general public is hereby informed that as a holiness and Bible-believing Church, we do not condone such heinous and unscriptural act among our ministers.
We totally dissociate ourselves from the purported conduct of Dr. Igbeneghu and promise to take appropriate measure as soon as the ongoing investigation is concluded.
Meanwhile, the pastor in question has been asked to step down from all ministerial assignments."
Earlier on Monday, a 13-minute documentary published by the British public service broadcaster was centered on the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and the University of Ghana.
Mordi, in the documentary, said she too was a victim of sexual harassment during her days in the university.
She said her team took the initiative due to the clamour to expose lecturers in the habit of sexually abusing students.
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He was one of the leading thinkers of naturalism and enlightened hedonism. Only now it became known that the philosopher Bernulf Kanitscheider died on June 21 at the age of 77. A eulogy by Michael Schmidt-Salomon.
There are few books by other authors I would have liked to have written myself. A remarkable number of these books were written by Bernulf Kanitscheider: "Im Innern der Natur" ("In the Interior of Nature") and "Die Materie und ihre Schatten" ("Matter and its Shadows") are milestones of modern natural philosophy. "Auf der Suche nach dem Sinn" ("In Search of Meaning") and "Entzauberte Welt" ("Disenchanted World") demonstrate in captivating clarity what it means to lead a meaningful existence in a "meaningless universe". "Von Lust und Freude" ("Of Pleasure and Joy") and "Das hedonistische Manifest" ("The Hedonistic Manifesto") are masterpieces of "enlightened hedonism" that brilliantly capture the thoughts of the ostracized philosophers Epicurus and La Mettrie, and transport them into the 21st century.
In the first decades of his academic career Bernulf Kanitscheider published highly complex texts peppered with mathematical formulas (including "Geometrie und Wirklichkeit" - "Geometry and Reality", "Philosophie und moderne Physik" - "Philosophy and Modern Physics"), which at best a handful of mathematicians and theoretical physicists could fathom. This earned him the reputation of being a particularly difficult, highly intellectual representative of the philosophers' trade. His colleagues reacted all the more disconcerted when, from the 1990s onwards, he of all people published generally comprehensible works which praised the human body as a "biological Stradivarius", placed "love, lust, and passion" at the centre of ethics, and proved with a sometimes quite explicit language that the business of philosophy by no means had to be conducted by "drift-weak intellectualists".
Interestingly, these so different strands of Kanitscheider's philosophy were all linked logically. His arguments for existential serenity, for a free, uninhibited enjoyment of the world, as well as for a more liberal drug and sexual policy resulted almost necessarily from his fundamental scientific-theoretical and cosmological considerations. This enormous spectrum and consistency of argumentation always impressed me - and soon after my first encounter with the author I became quite the "Kanitscheiderian".
I first met Bernulf Kanitscheider at the end of the 1990s at one of the infamous interdisciplinary seminars organized in Nuremberg by Georg Batz, who unfortunately died far too early. At that time I was 30 years old and had just received my PhD, while Bernulf, born in 1939, had already taught for 25 years as a professor of "philosophy of natural science" at the University of Giessen. Despite the great difference in age and competence, Bernulf approached me unbiased, curious, interested, without any class conceit. I was particularly fascinated by the vitality, the almost youthful enthusiasm of the 60-year-old philosopher in presenting his theses. He embodied the "pleasure of thinking" like almost no other - and yet this first Kanitscheider lecture was a veritable shock for me, because I suddenly realized how little I knew about the world. As a typical graduate of the humanities and social sciences, I had largely ignored the findings of the natural sciences until then. After Bernulf's lecture I realized that I had to deepen my knowledge of physics, chemistry, and biology, which led to a "naturalistic turn" in my thinking that soon led me to the concept of evolutionary humanism.
When we established the Giordano Bruno Stiftung in 2004 on the basis of evolutionary humanism, Bernulf was immediately willing to support us as an advisory board member. In 2005 he gave an important lecture at the foundation's headquarters on the key topic at the time: "Leitkultur Humanismus und Aufklärung" ("Leading Culture: Humanism and Enlightenment"). I have particularly vivid memories of what happend next: After the event we sat together - as Epicureans should - with good food and good wine in a convivial atmosphere and discussed life, the universe, and everything. When eventually new concepts of cosmology were discussed, one of Bernulf's few weaknesses was revealed in a quite amusing way. In his loveably modest nature, he tended to project his own character onto others and so he assumed that his listeners had a level of education and cognitive processing ability that was probably only given in the rarest cases. This is what happened on that evening: When Bernulf was asked if he could explain the concept of the multiverse in a somewhat simpler way, he nodded enthusiastically and presented us with a series of highly complex mathematical formulas that would certainly have filled three pages in print. When he had finished, the entire group was speechless until gbs founder Herbert Steffen broke the silence with a little joke: "Okay, now I get it!". The result was roaring laughter - only Bernulf sat silently and strangely content on his chair and I am not sure to this day whether he really understood how little we had understood.
In his 13 years as a member of the gbs advisory board, Bernulf Kanitscheider has been committed to the work of the foundation. He participated in many foundation meetings and enriched our debates with wise, nuanced contributions. You could also rely on him one hundred percent in media communication. As a master of intellectual integrity, he always remained polite in form but determined when it came to the matter at hand (as for example in this discussion with physicist Gerhard Börner). Logical inconsistency or inconsequence were atrocious to him. We will remember Bernulf not only as a brilliant universal scholar, but also as an extraordinarily cosmopolitan, warm-hearted, humorous, and versatilely interested person who lived in wonderful harmony with his philosophy. The latter did not change when he was informed of his cancer in autumn 2016. Those who had the opportunity to talk to him shortly before his death were amazed at the calm and existential serenity with which he looked toward the inevitable. In the end he evidently profited greatly from the fact that he had dealt with the transience of man, the solar system, and even the entire universe consistently and without illusions throughout his life like few others.
"The cosmos remains silent to us" - Bernulf Kanitscheider gladly transferred his cosmological and existential philosophical insights to this short formula. We can all consider ourselves fortunate that Bernulf did not remain silent, but was generous enough to share his enormous knowledge with us. Future generations will be enriched by this as well, provided that evidence-based, sensory, and intellectually plausible concepts prevail. Bernulf Kanitscheider created important foundations to this end. This will remain of him - far beyond his death.