Discussion in 'Disney Trip Reports' started by xoSamma, Jul 30, 2018.
Today was a bright an early morning, it was our last full day in Disney and we weren't wasting it by sleeping in. I mean today Kiss was trying too and woke up basically 5 minutes before we were walking out the door. So while we waited for him I tried getting a hold of Brittany she was planning on meeting us at the resort and leaving her car there since her family was coming into town today or her birthday weekend and were staying at Riverside.
Brittany ended up showing up at our door ready too go, which honestly shocked me since it was only 7am. We all headed to the bus stop and were lucky enough to be able to squeeze onto the bus before it left.
There was a lot of early birds heading to the kingdom this morning and apparently some thing the disney rules don't apply to them. The lady in front of me asked if she needed her bag checked and then asked if she needed to go through the metal detector. Maybe is she disney royalty…..but the way the security guards looked at her made me think other wise.
It was 8am EMHs, Brittany was freaking out since she wasn't staying at a resort. I kept telling her if we split up they wouldn't know. Then I questioned what they actually saw on the scanners since she use to do that for a living working at space.
Her nerves died once she saw one of her friends working on main street and she told her she would be fine getting in for EMHs.
First up tomorrowland. And on our way we saw the cutest little duck family.
But before we could make it to tomororwland we got stopped by the purple wall. It was Brittany's request and while I already made fun of her this trip for wanting the purple wall hat I had to be at least a good friend and take some photos. I'm not a "purple wall" fan…nor do I understand the wall fads.
Finally it was time for some rides, first up space mountain.
Brittany soon got to experience the obnoxious new space mountain exit. And it seems like every time we get the joy of getting stuck thanks to the train.
After Space why not walk to the other side of the park and wait for the rope drop for frontier land at 9. We were lucky enough to get there right before 9 so we didn't have to wait long. However this was just like herding cattle. So many people…heading for both mountains. We went for thunder and the line seemed long already. Brittany was unimpressed with the humidity already and the lady behind us was king enough to use her fan to cool brittany down.
Luckily they line wasn't long at all and it was just a constant walk through the queue.
After thunder we decided to stay close and try for pirates.
Pirates was down…thanks George. So we kept walking until we got to the jungle cruise. For some reason we jumped in line and it was the longest and hottest line.
The worst part about waiting forever in a hot line is if you don't have a funny skipper to make up for the wait. We didn't have a funny skipper this time, so our wait was for nothing.
Because we dealt with a very hot humid morning already we decided it would be best if we found some AC and cooled off. The closest spot for us was the Tiki Room, so lets for listen to some birds sing.
As we were cooling off in Tiki birds it seemed like the florida was also in need of a cool down. And we ended up walking out into a nice storm. The exit is not all that big and therefore we knew we couldn't hang out there till it some what stopped. So the 3 of us came prepared…Brittany she refuses to ever bring a poncho with her. So my poncho turned into a blanket for us.
We just headed out into the storm no real direction, but found ourselves at Pirates.
One thing we learned this summer was that those cannon ball blasts were ready to hit every boat with water this summer. Be prepared to get wet. Hello new splash mountain.
We were officially off to the Poly for Kiss's choice, Kona Cafe.
Its been some time since I have been here, the last time I was here was with Brittany and we loved it.
I checked us in, we waited to be called, and then we were shown to our table.
Our waitress was great….the service though was on the slow side.
And erin got the classic bahama mama.
For my meal I got the kona coffee rubbed steak, honestly it was ok. I wish it wasn't loaded in the coffee rub since I thought it took away from the steak and was just a weird texture. So I did my best to scrap it off, the steak it self was good after that.
Kiss went with the Kona Burger, which would be good in my books if it didn't have the egg on it. But that seems to be the trend these days.
Alish went with the noodle bowl which she didn't seem all that thrilled about. At the end of our meal our waitress boxed it up for her and she ended up throwing it out in the nearest trash once we left.
Brittany and I believe erin, went with the best option on the menu, the stir fry. This is what I got the first time and LOVED it. Kind of up set I didn't go with it this time.
During the meal it got super cold, like I felt like I was going to freeze to death and all I could do was try to find warmth under the small cloth napkin.
By the time dessert came I was so full that I ate only half of my fondue and passed the rest down to Brittany. I made sure to leave one of everything, except for the ginger molasses because I love those.
Lunch came to an end, and honestly it might be awhile till I come back here again.
We all jumped back onto the monorail to head back to the kingdom. Alish had to get to work, so we said our goodbyes and we headed back to the bus stop. Cause we had a full stomach and guess what the sleepy blood disease was kicking in on all of us (or maybe just the early waking for EMHs this morning.) So we all headed back to FQ and took another solid nap…wow shocker.
After a nice siesta, we got ready for a night spent at studios. But before we left I had to give Brittany her birthday present since I wouldn't be seeing her tomorrow on her real birthday. So after gift opening we were off to Studios for some toy story land fun.
Upon arriving we started walking towards toy story land however the star wars march was starting and if you didn't know, Erin is OBSESSED with the storm troopers. So we were forced to stop and watch.
After the March it was perfect timing for our Tower FP. Since Erin doesn't ride it we left her at the star wars show and we were off down sunset boulevard.
Tonight we did not stop too watch the pre show since the other library was down for business with a code v, so they were just trying to get people through the line. And honestly I wasn't complaining.
We found Erin and we were off to TSL. We managed to get slinky Fps and that was the main reason Brittany came with us since when I was making our Fps I normally just add her to ours just in case.
It was a crowded night in the land, which was to be expected. So we knew we wouldn't be spending all that much time in the area.
What Slinky dog dash should look like…thanks budget cuts!
Right as we got off slinky we just missed the green army men show.
It was super muggy and the crowds weren't helping that much. So we decided to head out of TSL…but first pictures.
Brittany had to make her way back to Port Orleans since her family had arrived in Orlando and she wanted to make sure she was there to greet them when they got off the ME. We decided to walk with her, and in doing this we stopped for one last photo.
We said our goodbyes since we had no clue when the next time we would see each other and she was off.
We were then off to starbucks.
As we were just strolling around we noticed that the citizens of hollywood were out and I'm a huge fan of them. So we headed on over and I plopped myself down in the middle of sunset boulevard. Little did I know at that moment I would be added in their show.
Welcome to the 20th annual lollipop day parade…where we were apparently a broken down float.
During their set it was basically just throwing out jokes about guests walking passed.
Overall it was a super funny show today and by the end the 20th annual became the 5,062th annual lollipop day parade. And right at the end Kiss stood up so of course they called him out for not being broken and made him walk.
From there we headed all the way down sunset blvd and too RnR.
Its all fun and games until you see a CM freaking out on the podium phone, thinking ok we might be stuck here waiting to ride the ride for a while but nope they send you off and you can't help but wonder what happened.
Tonight my mission was to try the menu at Woody's lunchbox for dinner. So after RnR we were back at TSL. But before we could get there the storm troopers were out marching and Erin was dying. So while she went to watch from a far I decided to go grab some roasted nuts from a near by cart.
Soon the storm troopers left the area and we could finally go grab some dinner.
Kiss wasn't hungry so he decided to hold off and wait, so we went to get a table. And not just any table…the cheese table.
Erin and I got in line, and waited and waited.
I went with the famous tochos, tater tot nachos. Potato barrels smothered in chili and cheese topped with fritos. 10 out of 10. I also got the adult lemonade, if you like sweet drinks this is great.
As we were finishing up we watched as some green army men wondered around taking photos with guests. So obviously we jumped up and ran to meet one.
Everyone was saying how nice TSL looked at night…however I was too antsy to wait for it to get dark. And since we had nothing else really planned for the rest of the night we decided why not go to Disney Springs.
We headed out of studios and caught a bus to Disney springs, it did take some time for one to show up but all that matters is that it came.
Once arriving Erin went one way, Kiss wanted to go to blaze for dinner, and I wanted to go to the west side to check out the new disney store, Disney Style.
And then this store made me choose between two shirts, CoP or country bears…the bears won this round. And while I checked out Kiss went to blaze.
Its been a while since I have been over on the west side and trying to find Blaze from it was quite the adventure. First off they have added so many restaurants thats it blows my mind. Secondly the area with all said new restaurants is beautiful.
I ended up finding Blaze and Kiss had already made friends in line. I found a table and tried figuring out where Erin was. Kiss ate his pizza and we made our way over to the market place.
On our trek to the other side I kept jumping into stores. In one of them I found the ring I have been eyeing up since January. Now I have the disney Love ring with the o being a mickey head. I've been wearing since high school. However a few weeks before this trip it broke, nothing drastic just the lettering came apart and now it just lets to get stuck on everything.
Moral of the story I'm on the look out for a new disney ring, and this one just might be the one. But once again I found myself walking away from it, and who knows maybe next time I will treat myself.
Next up we went to check out the new WoD, well what was open. Since the finished product would be later. No more themed rooms, no more big characters hung from the ceiling, just another modern store.
We found Erin by the water side stage were we waited to check into our flight tomorrow and then we were off to the resort.
It turned into a somewhat early night, but that gave us time to pack up our lives since tomorrow was the dreaded going home day.
Yes you do (reference above plus JellyRolls)!
I wish I could get into the wall thing, but I just can't.
Ok I just feel super awkward posing in front of a wall, its not natural.
It was our last morning waking up in Disney, how unmagical and magical at the same time. We packed away the rest of our stuff. I forgot about my school bread in the fridge so that was a great surprise and a great breakfast.
We headed out of the room once last time, took our luggage off to be checked and then we were off to the kingdom one last time this trip. The tragical express wasn't scheduled to get us until 7pm so we had a full day of fun ahead of us.
When we got to the kingdom I met a nice security CM or as my notes say "super nice, super cute" And when he noticed my CoP he won more points in my book.
First thing once we got into the park…split up. Kiss needed to use up his snack credits so he hit up the starbucks line. While Erin and I headed down to get some photo pass photos.
Kiss was still in what seemed like a long line so we headed closer to the castle to get more pictures because can you ever have to many photos?
Kiss found us in the castle and we were off to tomorrowland.
First things first…space mountain. And before we used our FP we decided to jump in the stand by line since it was only a 15 minute wait.
This would be our official last time of the hot outside walk around space at the end of the ride because the new hallway inside is officially finished! Although it looked long, its in AC and you wont get stuck waiting for the train to pass. And for those who never had to experience it, consider yourself lucky.
That being said we got stuck from the train and then we ran back in the FP line just to get to do the walk again.
For some reason we wanted to watch the royal faire but we missed the first show thanks to the whole train situation.
So to pass the time we hung out in tomorrowland and enjoyed the incredibles photo ops.
Welcome to the tomorrowland expo….where super fans are basically the citizens of hollywood and walk around the area interacting with guests.
We didn't have a plan of what to do so we did what we do best…we wandered. And somehow we ended up at the happiest cruise to ever sail.
welcome to small world…a world full of little nuggs. Babies all around!!! Add some comments about how I want a baby or ten. But then followed by how I realized this ride would be one of my FP selections if I did have babies. And am I ready for that? ehhhh probably not.
Shout out to the native and the fact that Kiss never realized thats the only native.
Our main reason for small world was to waste some time before the next stage show. So with that being said we headed over to the hub area and waited for the next show.
head back to tomorrowland and make himself a new phone case.
About 5 minutes before the show the sun decided to blaze down and I felt like I was melting to death. At moments like these it would be great for Elsa to make me my own personal snow flurry.
Lord and ladies, princes and princesses — come one, come all to the Royal Friendship Faire!
We are links in a chain made of silver and gold.
We are part of a pattern about to unfold.
We are heroes of stories, as yet to be told.
We come together on this day!
You gotta dig a little deeper.
It's really not that far!
I know these boys. They seem a bit rough around the edges, but they're not so bad.
By the end of the show we were ready for some AC and stat.
We found Kiss and we were off to Mine Train. Luckily we had Fps so we didn't have to wait outside for very long before we got inside, although it wasn't that gust of AC we wanted or needed.
But before we got to the indoor part of the line we watched the couple in front of us switch shoes…why? who knows.
Sometimes I think its a good idea to grab a FP for the mine train and then every time I go on it I'm always let down in a way. It's just too short.
At this point we were hot and ready hungry. So we headed to our favorite QS, Pinocchio's.
They never let us down with the disney chicken nuggets, kiss on the other hand is not a fan of how they always change their menu. So today he decided to try the cheeseburger flatbread.
And with the last scan of our magic band we were at 0 QS credits let….how sad.
As we were enjoying our meal, in walks alish to come visit us one last time before she had to head to work. And she came with gifts, well just one gift. She got a toy story CM opening team lunch box and lanyard at work the other day and since she new what a crazy toy story fan I am she decided to give it too me.
After lunch we headed over to Splash.
We got hit by a nice sun shower and then we stopped multiple times. But the one time we were stopped for a solid 5 minutes.
We met back up with Alish since she didn't have a FP to go on with us. After splash we headed down frontier land and we found ourselves inside the country bears…but are we surprised about that?!
It was a cramped day inside the theater but the AC was great, the bears were great, life was great.
We hope that you'll be coming back again!
Before we could leave the kingdom I had one snack that was on my list. So we headed over to sleepy hallow. We lost Erin along the way who stopped at a near by stand to grab yet another mickey ice cream.
Today we were trying the new churro ice cream sandwich. Honestly a dream.
Once we got to sleepy hallow the sky opened and it poured. Meaning all the near by guests came running to find shelter and if you know sleepy hallow is a small area, sometimes its not even big enough to hold those waiting for their food let alone adding those who just want shelter from the rain.
I got what a came for though so I was happy. I ended up splitting it with Alish and instead of cutting it in half and having all the ice cream ooze out I decided to take the top churro and spread the ice cream on like a thick spread of cream cheese on a bagel.
Kiss got a mickey waffle with strawberries which looked pretty amazing too.
The rain stopped fairly quickly, so we were off to tomorrowland to pick up Kiss's new phone case. On our way over Alish entrained us by telling us all the disney entertainment drama. After getting his phone case we headed to Main street, Alish said it was our last chance to use her discount and I had a shirt in mind that I kept seeing this whole trip…of course when we got to the emporium they were out. So Alish headed to work, it was a quick bye since I would be back in florida in exactly 2 weeks for a family cruise.
That churro icecream sandwich looks so good. Well I mean all of the snacks are fantastic you really can't go wrong.
Have fun on your trip! It's always a relief to get those loans paid off! Are you getting another AP this year or just the one trip?
After many trips and now living about 13 miles from WDW, I finally tried the school bread. It was great. Now every time I'm in EPCOT, it's hard to pass through Norway and not get one.
It looks like you broke the rule of don't sit on the right on Splash Mountain.
IT WAS AMAZING! This churro loving girl loved it!
I had a blast! And I am so happy to be done paying for them. I decided to get another AP, its a good reason for me to say I need to go.
I LOVE SCHOOL BREAD! That is the struggle, I know there are probably so many great snacks in epcot but the school bread is a great price and a great snack.
Yeah Erin refuses to let me sit on the left anymore. Man miss seeing all of my favorite animatronics on the left.
While Erin was cool with sitting in the sun waiting for the parade, I could not just sit there. So I headed to tomorrowland to grab some roasted nuts, and too use my last snack credit.
Better paint that mickey fast sir, cause he is going to disappear very quickly in the heat.
I made it back before the parade was even near main street.
It's a Festival of Fantasy!
Oh hey ….. Pat?! Man the random name tag you get to wear when you forget to bring yours to work.
We followed the herd out of the park. But first we stopped in the crowds so Erin could grab her last mickey bar. It took her a solid minute to scarf it down, mainly for the reason that it was practically melted upon getting it.
When we got back to FQ we got our carry ons out of storage and headed right for the pool. We still had some time before the tragical express came to get us. So why not enjoy the pool while we wait. 5 minutes into swimming it started sprinkling, everyone was jumping out of the pool to put their belongings in a safe zone. All our bags were out to get soaked so we placed all of our ponchos over them, which seemed to work once the sprinkle turned into a heavy pour. We had about 10 minutes of swimming in the rain before the whistles were blown and the pool was 101.
At this point every guest had to evacuate the pool area, we were homeless and had no where to go. So we got out bags, some extra towels and headed to the covered seating area outside of the quick service.
An hour passed by, we got changed and decided to head to the front to wait for the bus.
Kiss was the last one to use the rest of his snacks and decided to try the gumbo.
While we sat in the lobby I got that dreaded text from southwest saying that our flight was delayed from 10:20 to 11:20. After learning this I headed into the gift shop hoping that they had blankets for purchase so I could sleep at the airport now that we were be there 4 hours early.
When we arrived at the airport chickfila was a must. And the security guard was shocked that we didn't have one back home (Luckily for us now we do), since both erin and I had bags full sandwiches.
And by a lovely 2am we arrived back home.
And like that our trip came to an end, so much time planning, so little time for it too fly by.
Loved your trip report! I hope you write another one for your December trip!


If there is a race on in Latin America to halt or even reverse carbon emissions, Costa Rica wants to be the first across the line. On 24 February the government of President Carlos Alvarado launched a 2018-2050 National Decarbonisation Plan, which envisages the country reaching "zero net emissions" by the middle of this century. Will it work and will the rest of the region follow this example?


Qualcomm has unveiled the Snapdragon Sense ID 3D Fingerprint Technology – a new type of fingerprint sensor said to be able to read prints through glass, metal and plastic smartphone covers – at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC).
The Snapdragon Sense ID 3D Fingerprint Technology is the latest product from the chipmaker.
Qualcomm says its ultrasonic sound wave-based solution can scan through sweat, hand lotion and condensation.
Experts say it has the potential to outclass Apple's Touch ID.
However, they add that Qualcomm needs to provide more data before the two technologies can be properly compared.
"Snapdragon Sense ID 3D Fingerprint Technology's unique use of ultrasonic technology revolutionizes biometrics from 2D to 3D, allowing for greater accuracy, privacy and stronger authentication," said Raj Talluri, a Qualcomm executive.
Qualcomm is pitching its forthcoming component to manufacturers as part of a chipset package that would also include its processors.
The launch at MWC comes a day after Samsung confirmed that its latest Galaxy S6 phones would exclusively use its own Exynos chips.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors had featured in versions of Samsung's past flagship handsets.
The US chipmaker has also suffered other setbacks recently including a $975 million fine by China's competition regulator and news that a South Korean watchdog is also investigating whether it abused a dominant position by demanding too much money for its 3G and 4G wireless chip technologies.


Trump's comments follow UNSC's statement condemning North Korea's 15 April missile tests.
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday (20 April) that "very unusual moves" have been made to tackle the growing threats from North Korea and praised China's efforts in helping with the situation.
His comments followed the United Nations Security Council's (UNSC) statement condemning the rogue state's ballistic missile test conducted on 15 April. This was reportedly the fifth such statement made by the council this year.
The UNSC flagged concerns over Pyongyang's "highly destabilising behaviour and flagrant and provocative defiance of the Security Council". It added that 15 members of the council agreed to "closely monitor the situation and take further significant measures, including sanctions".
Following Trump's comments that came just hours after the UNSC's statement, reports claimed that the Chinese military was preparing for any possibility regarding North Korea and had placed its bombers on high alert, while carrying out intensified maintenance of its aircraft fleet.
Although the US president did not give any details on what the "unusual" measures taken are, but he said he was confident that Chinese President Xi Jinping will try his best to tackle its neighbour.
"I think he's [Xi is] working very hard. I can say that all of the pundits out there saying they've never seen China work like they're working right now," Trump told reporters during a joint news conference with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni at the White House.
He added: "Many coal ships have been sent back. Many other things have happened. Some very unusual moves have been made over the last two or three hours. I really have confidence the president will try very hard."
He also said that the US was "in very good shape" in dealing with Kim Jong-un's regime. "We're building our military rapidly. A lot of things have happened over the last short period of time. I've been here for approximately 91 days. We're doing a lot of work. We're in very good position. We're going to see what happens," Trump said, according to Yonhap news agency.
Reiterating the key discussions during his recent meeting with the Chinese president, Trump said he offered Beijing a better trade deal if it helped solve North Korea's growing "menace".
"One of the reasons that we're talking about trade deals, we're talking about all of the different things. We're slowing up a little bit. I actually told him, I said, 'You will make a much better deal on trade if you get rid of this menace or do something about the menace of North Korea' because that's what it is. It's a menace. So we'll see what happens," he said.


STORRS -- Students at the state's flagship university will be able to earn degrees in the study of black history and culture starting this fall if a state board approves the school's plans.
The University of Connecticut is asking the state Board of Higher Education to approve an interdisciplinary major it will call African-American Studies.
Ten UConn professors will teach topics ranging from politics and psychology to the roots jazz, the impacts of racism, and the culture and history of black Americans. The university's board of trustees approved the program at its meeting last month.
UConn students currently can minor in African-American studies or build their own individualized major at state universities. However, Wesleyan and Yale are the only Connecticut universities that offer majors in the field.
"It's conspicuous that there is no African-American studies major at any public university in Connecticut," said Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, a UConn history professor who also is director of its Institute for African-American Studies.
"I really think it's important because the university is positioning itself as a national or international university with a reputation that extends beyond Connecticut," he said.
UConn Provost Peter Nicholls said the major complements UConn's goals to study other cultures and attract a more diverse student body, which is now about 19 percent minority.
"Diversity is a big thing for us. It's going to be a prominent piece of our academic plan. If we are going to be able to mount a major of this sort, it speaks directly to the issue," Nicholls said.
Charles E. Jones, president of the National Council for Black Studies, said UConn's new major comes amid a renaissance in black studies.
An initial surge occurred during the 1960s and 1970s as students staged sit-ins to pressure universities to diversify their curriculums.
However, black studies programs declined in the 1980s as states faced budget cuts. Many universities downgraded these departments to programs, or blended them into a comprehensive department studying several racial groups, Jones said.
Another resurgence occurred in the early 1990s after Harvard University assembled a prestigious team of top black studies scholars. Around the same time, other universities began to offer doctoral programs.
About 300 universities nationwide currently offer black studies majors and seven -- including Yale and the University of Massachusetts-- offer doctoral programs, Jones said.


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World Huge Protest on Belarus Leader's Birthday to Demand He Resign
Huge Protest on Belarus Leader's Birthday to Demand He Resign
Sunday, August 30, 2020 at 11:17 am | י' אלול תש"פ
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -
A man stands during a rally as police block an area with a barbed wire fence in Minsk. (AP Photo)
Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered Sunday in the capital of Belarus, beginning the fourth week of daily protests demanding the resignation of the country's authoritarian President after an election many assert was rigged gave him a sixth term in office.
The protest at the "hero city" monument honoring Minsk's suffering and resilience in World War II attracted at least 100,000 people, according to the Nexta messaging app channel that is a main medium for the opposition.
Wide protests began after the Aug. 9 presidential election that officials say gave President Alexander Lukashenko a landslide 80% win over his main challenger, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, a former teacher and the wife of a jailed popular blogger.
Lukashenko, in office since 1994, has been defiant but beleaguered, unable to put down largest, most sustained wave of protests yet in this Eastern European nation of 9.5 million people. He has refused to rerun the election, which both the European Union and the United States have said was not free or fair, and refused offers to help mediate the situation from Baltic nations.
Lukashenko says he has reached an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia will send in security help if asked. But Russia has appeared hesitant to get involved deeply in the Belarus unrest.
Putin and Lukashenko talked by phone on Sunday, but a Kremlin statement gave few details of the conversation, other than noting that Putin congratulated the Belarusian leader on his sixty-sixth birthday.
Tsikhanouskaya, who fled to Lithuania after the election because of concerns about her security, gave a withering acknowledgement of the birthday.
"I wish him to overcome his fears, look truth in the eye, listen to the voice of the people and go away," she told The Associated Press by telephone from the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius.
Lukashenko has consistently blamed Western countries for encouraging the protests and contends that NATO is repositioning forces along Belarus' western border with the aim of intervening in the unrest, a claim the alliance strongly denies.
On Sunday, the Belarusian Defense Ministry said it was conducting military exercises in the Grodno region, near the borders of Poland and Lithuania, simulating defending against an invasion.
Belarus on Saturday cracked down hard on foreign news media that have been covering the protests, deporting at least four Russian journalists, including two from The Associated Press. The government also revoked the accreditations of many Belarusian journalists working for foreign news agencies, including journalists working for AP.
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ANd the time that man has, needs to be used wisely. It will make it last longer, as opposed to time spent uselessly, which only slows it down!
Nicely written! All the luck for BATOM!
liked the way u concluded the post....all the very best!
The end was smartly written. :) All the best for BATOM!
can't help but empathize with the author.....yes, everything just depends on the perspective on the looking glass through which we view things and time is the biggest healer of any wound.........all th best for BATOM!
NOw that is Indeed a Mature Post.
Nice little piece of practical philosophy written in a nice gentle flow like a river meandering along the hills.
This one's a class apart. You have given a new dimension to the topic, and I could empathize with it.
The ending was very well thought of.
Kudos! Very well done, Chetan.
a very innovative outlook... Liked it... Man if you'd just posted the last line when the topic for BAT was being discussed, ppl would not have had to go so much pains to write about time travel!


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As I sit here writing this sentence, there is a cool, hollow feeling in my chest. I feel like I have personally lost someone close to me. Fortunately I am not mourning the loss of someone I know. I am mourning the loss of fictional character, Candy Ferocity, from the FX series, Pose. I am mourning Candy's death because Candy represents those of us who have been told that we're expendable, that we don't matter. Candy's very existence is a defiant act of self-love in a world that constantly tries to use us against ourselves.
Candy's death had such an emotional impact on me because Candy fought for everything she had. As a deeply melanated, trans, femme and loud woman who unapologetically took up space, Candy wasn't afforded the basic rights or amenities so many of us take for granted. As intelligent and driven as Candy was, she could have worked a corporate job or ran her own legal business, but because of trans phobia and racism, Candy had limited opportunities in obtaining employment, housing, and social protection.
Like many trans women past and present, Candy had to put herself in danger to be able to make a living. Candy, as co-mother of the House of Ferocity, had to most of the bills because her 'children' didn't have jobs. Black and brown trans people face obstacles in having the basics of the "American Dream-" employment and housing. In fact, these groups are 3 timesmore likely to face unemployment than non-trans people. So often, the people society deems as "bottom feeders" have the most responsibilities on their shoulders because they get little-to-no help. When life is so painful and burdensome, authentically being one's self – regardless of the cost - is the only way one makes it through.
At Candy's funeral, Pray Tell confesses to Candy's spirit that he was mean to her in life because she embodied everything he tried to hide about himself: Queer, feminine and black. After his meeting with the ball counsel, we see Pray Tell pump out his chest, as he's walking down the street, so as to appear more masculine than he genuinely is. I am happy that Pray Tell confronted his own self-hatred, the self-hate that kept him from taking the AZT medication that could save his life.
Often times we make those on the fringes of the mainstream these canonic hero figures because of everything they have overcome. And great story telling doesn't always have to go there. The genius of Pose is how they use very simple and universal themes to connect us to people mainstream society says have no value.
A big, connective theme of Poseis to love yourself. Self love allows us to choose friends, business associates, and romantic partners that align with our values. As children, we're taught how to count and follow rules, but never to how to love ourselves and why it's so important.
Lack of self-love is why Blanca settled for temporary relationships with men who didn't value her health, as they did not use condoms during sex. Lack of self -love keeps us in a job that has long outlived its purpose in our lives. And lack of self-love is what makes adults choose dangerous situations that shorten their lives. My biggest gripe about this episode is that all those people gave Candy her 10s afterher death, but not in life when she needed it the most. Candy's parents refused to be apart of her life all because they disagreed with her gender expression. I love that self-acceptance and self-love were major themes in season two. Those two things seem the simplest, but they are the hardest to obtain.
You don't have to be apart of the LGBQ+ community to connect to these characters. Like Blanca said, the ball scene isn't about trophies, it's about family. Family, in my experience, is rarely about who shares your bloodline. Family is about shared values and reciprocated love and energy. Your true family can be anyone and they can come from anywhere. In fact, we need to see ourselves in people like Candy. She's our sister, our friend. Candy is us. And we have to fight for anyone the system tries to destroy, because that could very well be us one day.


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sujithxavier June 21, 2021 TWAILR: Reflections
(Not) a curtain call: UK/Iraq after the lights go out at the ICC
Iraqis hooded and detained at Britain's Battle Group Main Headquarters, Basra, August 2003 © Baha Mousa Public Inquiry
Alice Panepinto reflects on the decision of the ICC Prosecutor to end the preliminary examination of British violence in Iraq, and thinks about how moral lessons might still emerge from those proceedings and be translated into more accurate storytelling outside the theatrics of law.
If courtrooms are stages,1 lawyers are actors and judges are storytellers. In trials, characters in literal and metaphorical legal garb narrate, interpret, twist and immortalise events. There is a rich, interdisciplinary literature on the ambivalence of justice as performance, the court as a stage, and trials as shows.2 As Julie Stone Peters notes, 'we live in a world in which law is constantly on view in our living rooms, acted and re-enacted, multiplied and refracted through its fictional and real instantiations'.3 In other words, law is performed inside the courtroom, and performances of the law occur also outside the courtroom. Some, like Hannah Arendt in Eichmann in Jerusalem, are uneasy about the theatrical dimension of courts;4 but for others, the 'dramatizing' dimension of trials on a legal stage is key,5 calling for greater recognition of the 'productive theatricality and performative force' of international legal events.6 Outside the courtroom, non-lawyers can participate in artistic endeavours (including theatrical initiatives) that seek to normatively correct well-known injustices. Augusto Boal's theatre of the oppressed and legislative theatre offer well-known experiments of how performance can be used to not only make political interventions, but enact legislative change when the odds are against a certain group.7 Thinking about the International Criminal Court (ICC), described by Oumar Ba as 'a lieu of staged performance where actors deploy their political narratives', both the 'performative dimension of trials, and trials as performative sites' emerge.8 As such, enactments of law on the stage of justice are only part of the story: the life-cycle of how law is applied to the facts transcends the courtroom and can continue to fascinate non-legal audiences over time.
In The Hague, when the Office of the Prosecutor at the ICC ended the preliminary examination of the situation in Iraq/UK, legal professionals left the stage and the official show of justice came to a halt – but that will not be the end of the story.
Shows of justice that stop before justice is seen as being done exemplify how the theatrics of trials are performed in courts and potentially live on out-of-court. In The Hague, when the Office of the Prosecutor at the ICC (OTP) ended the preliminary examination of the situation in Iraq/UK, legal professionals left the stage and the official show of justice came to a halt – but that will not be the end of the story. Instead, when the curtain falls, off-stage actors and other audiences can become protagonists of renewed (and possibly more just) interpretations of the law applied to the facts. In the documentation trail left by courts there is a wealth of information that can be repurposed for other stages, where stories are re-enacted more truthfully through other media. When historical events are dramatized they often produce an official record for the public imagination; like any form of story-telling, that account is shaped by the narrator and their agenda, which is why they must be understood in context. So even when villains are let off lightly on the stage of justice, moral lessons might still emerge from the proceedings and be translated into more accurate storytelling outside the theatrics of law.
This piece reflects on the decision by ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda of 9 December 2020 to conclude her preliminary examination of the situation in Iraq/UK, without opening an investigation. It attempts to process strong feelings of disappointment after this poor show of international criminal justice in The Hague by focusing on the 'take-home' messages. Firstly, the report stated, clearly, that there is a reasonable basis to believe that members of the British armed forces committed war crimes, including murder, torture and rape (para. 69). Secondly, it probed the extent to which there is a formal accountability gap in the UK for serious violations committed by members of the armed forces, shining a light on the problems of the draft Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill, which included a statutory presumption against prosecution (cited at para. 322, 465 and elsewhere). More significantly, however, the Prosecutor, as the authoritative narrative voice on the stage in The Hague, focuses her narrative on policies and practices of the British state, not on specific conduct of individuals. She directly challenged the narrative espoused by the British state in relation to the allegations of war crimes, and exposed the deceitful intentions behind some of the most damning ministerial statements directed against the victims and their lawyers. The performance and the report, therefore, offer a wealth information for off-stage actors to repurpose in other media to represent the story of British war crimes in Iraq more faithfully for other audiences.
Reviewing the performance in The Hague
Like theatre, when international criminal trials deliver poor performances, audiences may experience strong emotions. In the recent Iraq/UK decision to end preliminary examination activities, the ICC Prosecutor herself noted: 'While this decision might be met with dismay and disappointment by some stakeholders or perceived as an endorsement of the UK's approach by others, the technical reasons set out in the accompanying report should temper both impressions'. Yet, the technical aspects of international criminal law fail to engage what Kamari Maxine Clarke describes as 'feelings about inequality and injustice that shape how international law is perceived and how justice is experienced affectively'.9 Repeated poor performances contribute to the lukewarm reviews of the entire stage of international criminal law by Third World peoples and their allies.
For victims unlikely to obtain redress through national or international law, fiasco performances of international courts such as the ICC are a tragedy. Exclusion from the main stage of international criminal justice for whatever reason denies victim status and rights to people who have perished under, or endured, horrific violence.10 In addition to the denial of justice, the process of 'de-victimisation' strips the protagonists of their central place in the storyline. The fact that often those who are 'de-victimised' are from the Global South, places the stage of the ICC firmly on the agenda of TWAILers.11 Moreover, this also reveals the pervasiveness of what Ardi Imseis (in the context of Palestine, as an example of the global South) terms 'international legal subalternity'. In essence he argues that 'the promise of justice through international law has been repeatedly proffered under a cloak of political legitimacy', but in practice 'its realization [is] interminably withheld'. In Iraq/UK this proposition manifests itself clearly.
'Photo Op' by kennardphillips (2007)
The off-stage prologue of the Iraq proceedings is well-known: the illegality of the war on Iraq, and the well-documented abuses carried out by British forces (and their allies) during the occupation.12 The Prosecutor's decision to conclude the preliminary examination was procedural and based on a particular assessment of complementarity between the domestic (British) investigations and the Court's residual jurisdiction. The end of the preliminary examination gives the impression that British investigations as well as the ICC provides a stage for farcical justice, in contempt of victims and their families' suffering, offering further evidence of the Court's hesitance in holding Western leaders to account.13 From a TWAIL angle, evaluating the premature end of this much anticipated show of justice reveals two fundamental problems. First, drawing on Imseis' notion of international legal subalternity, it confirms that the ICC is situated firmly within the standard infrastructure of international law (including international criminal justice) in promising and in the same breath withholding justice to people in the global South. Secondly, it strips the Iraqi victims and their families from the agency to tell the story as they were subjected to it; this enables the British state to control the narrative domestically and internationally of what happened during its occupation of Iraq, staging its abridged version of recent legal histories of the colonised.
The legal moral lesson: specific war crimes are linked to British armed forces
The show of justice in The Hague has ended, but its revelations will haunt audiences for a long time. While nobody has been indicted for abuses against Iraqi civilians, the 184-page long report systematises details of the involvement of British forces. The legal and moral lesson emerging from this show of justice is the 'reasonable basis to believe that members of the British armed forces committed the war crimes of wilful killing, torture, inhuman/cruel treatment, outrages upon personal dignity, and rape and/or other forms of sexual violence' (para. 71). This declaration is monumental, and should not be overshadowed by the OTP's closure of the file for procedural reasons based on the application of a (debatable) particularly high threshold for finding 'unwillingness' to carry out genuine investigations in the UK. Substantively, however, British forces and institutions have not been cleared from the charges of war crimes. Instead, procedurally, the OTP placed the investigative onus back on the British legal system and made it clear that it will continue to monitor the situation closely (paras. 479 and 505). The procedural nature of the end of the investigations therefore does not absolve British forces.
There is further evidence in the report corroborating the distinction between procedural matters in the domestic UK investigations and the material, substantive matter of war crimes that occurred in Iraq. On the fact that nobody has been held accountable for war crimes in the UK, the OTP stated clearly that this 'does not mean that these claims were all vexatious' (para. 7). Moreover, the OTP chose to engage directly with the controversies surrounding the conduct of the law firms who brought the bulk of the claims (para. 313), rebutting the suggestion that any professional misconduct would invalidate allegations of war crimes (para. 337 and ff). The deaths, torture and mistreatment of many Iraqi detainees at the hands of the British forces is a fact that, in absolute terms, does not solely depend on the quality or findings of UK investigations, or indeed the conduct of British lawyers. Any stage of justice can only provide a second-hand representation of reality, and the abuses committed in Iraq remain the tragic, silenced, lived experience of many families, and Iraqi society at large.
The political moral lesson: the UK is on a slippery slope towards formalising impunity
The conclusion of the performance in The Hague does not put an end to this story. The closing para. of the report states clearly that the Prosecutor is not precluded from considering 'the same situation in light of new facts and evidence', including 'intentional and improper interference with the conduct of genuine domestic inquiries' and 'new legislation on the ability of the competent domestic authorities to consider new allegations arising from the conduct of UK armed forces in Iraq' (para. 505). This is the political moral lesson emerging from the show of justice in The Hague: the UK should make sure it does not formalise a system of impunity for alleged war crimes. The report critically scrutinises the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill which includes a statutory presumption against prosecution of current or former personnel for alleged offences committed in the course of duty outside the UK more than five years ago (cited at paras. 322, 465 and elsewhere). Thus, the OTP made it clear that 'The effect of applying a statute of limitations to block further investigations and prosecution of crimes alleged committed by British service members in Iraq would be to render such cases admissible before the ICC as a result of State inaction or alternatively State unwillingness or inability to proceed genuinely under articles 17(1)(a)-(c)' (para. 479). Attempts to shield personnel including 'civilian and military leaders at the top of the chain of command' from criminal accountability, described by Andreas Schueller as a British practice spanning from 'Britain's colonial wars to the Troubles in Northern Ireland and, most recently, Iraq', is thus not permitted. And as restated in the final paragraph of the report and subsequent exchanges with British officials, the Prosecutor is monitoring political attempts to pass legislation shielding armed forces from accountability for atrocities overseas very closely (despite protestations of the UK Secretary of State for Defence), while engaging constructively with the preoccupations of the UK Joint Committee on Human Rights.
Centre stage: shining a light on the state, not (just) individuals
The ICC is a stage for individuals, not states. Nonetheless, the state features prominently in the Rome Statute, as the Court's jurisdiction is contingent on the principle of complementarity contained in Articles 1 and 17. In ending proceedings in Iraq/UK, the OTP engaged in a lengthy discussion of domestic proceedings (pages 55-179), placing the UK itself centre stage. In the end, based on the information available, the OTP did not 'conclude that the UK authorities have been unwilling genuinely to carry out relevant investigative inquiries and/or prosecutions (article 17(1)(a)) or that decisions not to prosecute in specific cases resulted from unwillingness genuinely to prosecute (article 17(1)(b))'. Commentators have questioned the legal requirement to apply such a particularly '"high threshold" for finding the UK to have shielded British soldiers from justice'. This is worrying for other scenarios, as Milena Sterio cautions, because it might enable 'other powerful states to evade the ICC's reach by launching their own "genuine" investigations which result in zero prosecutions', allowing them to discharge complementarity requirements with very little effort of means, let alone of result. Nonetheless, in addressing 'genuineness as the primary focus of its complementarity assessment' (para. 293), the OTP brought to light and systematised valuable information 'much of which is not publicly accessible' (para. 302 and ff). As an authoritative narrator, the Prosecutor presented this chapter of British justice in one coherent recital, placing the UK at the centre of the stage and shining a light on the borderline un/willingness and in/ability of its legal system to hold its armed forces to account for war crimes.
There is further evidence that the OTP is telling an important story about the state, and not about individuals: the report draws on international humanitarian law (IHL) for which states, not individuals, are legally accountable. Based on the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, as an occupying power British forces in Iraq had specific duties to protect civilians and individuals not actively engaged in combat (paras. 72-73). Moreover, as an original signatory of the 1899 Hague Regulations (Convention II and Annex – Art 4), at the time of dealing with prisoners of war in Iraq, the UK should have known that 'They must be humanely treated.' The same provision also reaffirms a fundamental principle of IHL: 'prisoners of war are in the power of the hostile Government, but not of the individuals or corps who capture them.' Invoking IHL on the principal stage of international criminal justice speaks to the subconscious of all international lawyers in the audience: states are responsible for violations of IHL attributable to them, including (and especially) by their armed forces. So, the audience knows that technically the ICC is concerned with individual criminal responsibility, but the Prosecutor, as narrator, convincingly (and accurately) steers the focus onto the state for allegedly violating the laws of war.
Repeat performance: Iraq/UK and the selective tradition of international criminal law
The performance of justice in Iraq/UK is situated in the long tradition of international criminal law's selectivity in deciding whom to place on its stage. For the most part, international criminal courts have not pursued 'big fish'.14 At the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, despite holding some perpetrators to account, most perpetrators remained outside the scope of accountability (for instance, industrialists and corporate actors enabling Nazi horrors15). The selectivity of international criminal justice from Nuremberg onwards suggests that all shows are repeat performances of partial accountability with different actors and scenography. When North-South dynamics come into play, the asymmetry of the stage of justice becomes a theatre of the grotesque: contradictions between the performance and substance of justice are the essence of the story.
When North-South dynamics come into play, the asymmetry of the stage of justice becomes a theatre of the grotesque: contradictions between the performance and substance of justice are the essence of the story.
The multiple forms of selectivity identified in Asad Kiyani's work uncover the twin dimensions of inter-state (i.e. the 'classic' North-South TWAIL critique) and intra-state (i.e. the further TWAIL critique of internal oppressions within the 'decolonised' state) barriers to international criminal accountability for certain categories of perpetrators.16 His conceptualisation of group-based selectivity of perpetrators to prosecute within the de/colonised state can inform, mutatis mutandis, the context of the de/coloniser state (e.g. the UK). It is not a coincidence that the Secretary of State for Defence and a Conservative member of parliament who lobbied the Prosecutor to essentially 'back off' the UK have been members of the armed forces – a strong, enduring and politically-powerful 'group-based' identity in British society. In two separate letters to the OTP they sought assurances that UK armed forces (including a named individual) should be spared scrutiny – reciting a script for domestic audiences and a particular electorate. Nonetheless, as the narrating voice in this not-quite-ended performance, the Prosecutor's response has been clear: 'any gap between the scope of coverage in the excludable offences under the proposed [Overseas Operations Bill] and conduct which might otherwise constitute a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court would risk the persistence of the prospect (…) of rendering relevant cases concerning such conduct admissible before the ICC'.
There is light outside the courtroom-stage
Despite the end of the preliminary examination into Iraq/UK, this lengthy report provides plenty of information to digest on British forces' conduct in Iraq. This material can, and indeed should, be put to good use outside the courtroom-stage to ensure social and political consciousness of war crimes committed by British forces in Iraq is not forgotten. Where can we go from here? Shoshana Felman's reflections on 'slippage between law and art' explores how art might fill the gaps left by the theatre of justice.17 On the one hand, as the 'discipline of limits and consciousness', law 'totalize(s) the evidence' in order to 'start to apprehend its contours and magnitude' but also distances us from the past event; on the other, 'art brings it closer' and its 'language of infinity' helps 'mourn the losses and to face up to what in traumatic memory is not closed and cannot be closed'.18 Art must also be scrutinised, however, to ensure it does not reinforce injustice or cement bias. The failed attribution of individual and state responsibility for war crimes in Iraq is not the end of the story: art and dramatisation can 'start to apprehend and to retrieve what the totalization [of law] left out'.19
An open-air performance by theatre group NIQASH, inspired by Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, Nasiriyah, Iraq, August 2016
When the curtain falls on the stage of law, the official programme might be overshadowed by more cutting-edge 'fringe' performances, an example of which is the reading of the Chilcot Report at the Edinburgh Festival in 2016. The UK/Iraq report is also high value: despite the Court claiming (correctly) that it is not a human rights court, the OTP went to great lengths to identify, analyse and publish important information not previously systematised. That material can – and must – be read closely and translated for non-legal audiences through other forms of cultural expression that contribute to the collective memories of the war on Iraq. Nobody might be held legally responsible for the UK's treatment of Iraqi civilians during its occupation of their country, but the OTP's painstaking research can be given renewed life through other (non-legal) productions.
When the curtain falls on the stage of law, the official programme might be overshadowed by more cutting-edge 'fringe' performances, an example of which is the reading of the Chilcot Report at the Edinburgh Festival in 2016.
The gaps left by courts have been filled by non-lawyers before. An example is provided in the Italian Court of Cassation's 21,000 word judgment describing seven-time Prime Minister Christian Democrat Giulio Andreotti's dealings with organised crime and prominent mafia bosses. The statute of limitations (prescription) meant that charges were dropped, and the lifetime senator retained his seat in Parliament until his death. Nevertheless, the detailed exposition of the Court of Cassation inspired others to tell the story to much wider audiences. Among them is acclaimed filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, whose 2008 Il Divo presented a dramatised – and much more accessible – version of the story of corruption at the highest levels. I would not be surprised if the subject-matter of the Prosecutor's decision to conclude the preliminary examination of the situation in Iraq/UK without opening an investigation found its way to other storytellers, like the recent Official Secrets film starring Keira Knightley on the UK's role in the murky run-up to the war in Iraq, which also resulted in a high-profile court case that ended abruptly. Important questions may be raised on the stage of a courtroom, but judges as storytellers cannot always provide the happy endings we need. That is when the rest of society might take up the metaphorical baton, fill the gaps with art, journalism and other forms of human expression, and make sure the villains and the system that enables them are written into the storyline as they should be.
Since originally writing these reflections, the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Act became law on 29th April 2021 – but not in its initial proposed form. The provision shielding soldiers from charges of torture, genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions was successfully challenged in the House of Lords, (although this does not necessarily mean that 'soldiers and ex-soldiers will be prosecuted' domestically). The debate in the House of Lords on 27th – 28th April 2021 (and previously) offers a glimpse into the absurd: proponents of the bill's original formulation and even some of its critics seemed more preoccupied with minimising scrutiny over the actions of British forces – not preventing violations of international law in the first place. Formally, these amendments ensure the UK satisfies the complementarity requirements of the Rome Statute, and is in principle willing and able to investigate domestically – thus shielding members of its forces from scrutiny in The Hague.
Commentators have attributed this significant change to relentless human rights advocacy shaming Britain's laissez-faire attitude towards violations of the laws of war. Even the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urged the UK Parliament to amend the proposed law limiting accountability for torture and crimes within the jurisdiction of the ICC. This chorus of institutional and civil society actors adds to the ICC Prosecutor's admonishments in the aftermath of the closure of the Iraq proceedings (discussed in the main text of these reflections). So, despite the Iraq/UK proceedings in The Hague ending, the legal issue at the heart of the case-that-never-was will continue to fascinate audiences off the stage of international criminal justice.
The author expresses her thanks to the TWAIL Review editors, as well as other colleagues who provided feedback on earlier drafts, in particular Bethany Shiner, Middlesex / Oxford University. All errors remain the author's own.
Many have discussed the courtroom as a stage, including Awol Allo – see LSE, 'Gearty Grilling: Awol Allo on The Courtroom as Political Theatre' (11 December 2015); and Mark J. Osiel, Mass Atrocity, Collective Memory, and the Law (Routledge, 1997) 2-3, discussing the poetics of legal storytelling as a narrative device employed by judges in the 'theatrical' genres of the courtroom, described as a 'theatre of ideas'.
Julie Stone Peters, 'Mapping Law and Performance: Reflections on the Dilemmas of an Interdisciplinary Conjunction' in Simon Stern (et al) (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities (OUP, 2019).
Julie Stone Peters, 'Legal Performance Good and Bad' (2008) 4 Law, Culture & Human 179, at 200.
Analysed inter alia in Peter Sinclair, 'Drama and Narrative in Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem' (2013) 43:1 Journal of Narrative Theory 41.
Shoshana Feldman, 'Theaters of Justice: Arendt in Jerusalem, the Eichmann Trial, and the Redefinition of Legal Meaning in the Wake of the Holocaust' (2000) 1:2 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 465, at 495.
Rachel Hughes, 'Ordinary theatre and extraordinary law at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal' (2015) 33:4 Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 714.
Augusto Boal, Legislative Theatre: Using Performance to Make Politics (Routledge, 1998).
Oumar Ba, 'The Court Is the Political Arena: Performance and Political Narratives at the International Criminal Court' (2015) 1:2 African Journal of International Criminal Justice 174.
Kamari Maxine Clarke, Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback (Duke University Press, 2019) 226, discussed in James Thuo Gathii, 'Promise of International Law: A Third World View (Including a TWAIL Bibliography 1996–2019 as an Appendix)' (March 2020) 114th American Society of International Law Annual Meeting Proceedings 165.
The theme of 'differential treatment of similarly situated victims' on the 'basis of their group identity or affiliations within particular situations' emerges in Asad Kiyani's work on selectivity: Asad Kiyani, 'Group-Based Differentiation and Local Repression: The Custom and Curse of Selectivity' (2016) 14:4 Journal of International Criminal Justice 939, 940; and the issue of 'victims of non-prosecuted crimes [who] have their dignity and security attacked by the failure to prosecute, and afforded neither the status or rights of victims' in Asad Kiyani, 'The Three Dimensions of Selectivity in International Criminal Law' (2017) 15 Journal of International Criminal Justice 624, at 634-635.
See inter alia: Wilfried Zoungrana, 'Au-delà de la critique… Approches tiers-mondistes et scènes internationales d'exercice du droit pénal' (2016) XIII Champ pénal / Penal field [En ligne]; Obiora Chinedu Okafor, 'Praxis and the International (Human Rights) Law Scholar: Toward the Intensification of TWAILian Dramaturgy' (2016) 33 :3 Windsor Yearbook Access to Justice 1; Asad Kiyani, John Reynolds & Sujith Xavier, 'Foreword: Third world approaches to international criminal law' (2016) 14:4 Journal of International Criminal Justice 915; Michelle Burgis-Kasthala, 'Scholarship as Dialogue? TWAIL and the Politics of Methodology' 14:4 Journal of International Criminal Justice 915; Vasuki Nesiah, 'Local Ownership of Global Governance' 14:4 Journal of International Criminal Justice 985.
See for instance A.T. Williams, A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa (Vintage, 2013).
See discussion pertaining to the ICC proceedings in Afghanistan by Asad G. Kiyani, 'Afghanistan & the Surrender of International Criminal Justice' (2019) TWAILR: Reflections #10/2019. And more broadly, John Reynolds & Sujith Xavier, 'The Dark Corners of the World': TWAIL and International Criminal Justice' (2016) 14 Journal of International Criminal Justice 959.
See, inter alia, discussion in Hitomi Takemura, 'Big Fish and Small Fish Debate–An Examination of the Prosecutorial Discretion' (2007) 7:4 International Criminal Law Review 677.
See, in particular, discussion of individual criminal responsibility for prominent industrialists at Nuremberg and later as discussed in Grietje Baars, 'Capitalism's victor's justice? The hidden story of the prosecution of industrialists post-WWll' in K.J. Heller and G. Simpson (eds.), The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials (Oxford University Press, 2013); Doreen Lustig, 'The Nature of the Nazi State and the Question of International Criminal Responsibility of Corporate Officials at Nuremberg: Franz Neumann's Behemoth at the Industrialist Trials' (2011) 43 NYU Journal of International Law & Politics 965; Franziska Oehm, 'From Nuremberg to Malabo: A Re-evaluation of the Tradition of Impunity of Economic Actors in International Criminal Law' in Joanna Nicholson (ed.), Strengthening the Validity of International Criminal Tribunals (Brill, 2018).
Kiyani, 'Group-Based Differentiation and Local Repression' 939.
Felman, 'Theaters of Justice' 467.
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Chile Traditions Original New Mexico Hot Sauce comes in a bright, attention grabbing yellow bottle. The bottle looks like it's almost bursting with cayenne peppers – it's a bright, fresh looking sauce that I couldn't wait to try. Plus, it lists the peppers first, which is usually a good thing. The website advertises it as "our answer to Tabasco." I won't hold that against them. Yet.
Chile Traditions pours out a little bit thin, and is a little messy to deal with. The cayenne flavor comes through strong and proud, and the garlic is highly prevalent. The vinegar is well used, apparent but not overpowering. The heat is a little bit on the low side, hotter than tabasco but not a serious burner. Overall, this is a very well constructed sauce that brings out the best in all it's ingredients. There's not much subtlety – it's all about the cayenne peppers, and that's fine with me.
I used Chile Traditions Original New Mexico Hot Sauce on a sausage and egg breakfast sandwich. It didn't stick to the food quite as well as I'd have liked, but it mopped up with the croissant just fine. The flavor is perfect for eggs – a strong chile flavor with just the right amount of spice. This is a very solid cayenne sauce, and it will be taking a frequent place in my usual breakfast rotation.
Chile Traditions Original New Mexico Hot Sauce may not be spectacular and awe-inspiring, but it is a very solid, true to the pepper cayenne sauce for people who like a tasty, balanced pepper first flavor in their sauce. Chile Traditions didn't just answer Tabasco; they thoroughly dominated it.
I went to the Chile Traditions store while I was in New Mexico for the show. It was a pretty cool store and they gave me a couple of bottles of their sauce. I have not opened one yet, but sounds like I should. If anybody is ever in the area looking to kill some time, this store is worth going to.
I was thinking the same thing Nick!! Nothing like a egg bacon and cheese sandwhich dosed with hot sauce first thing in the morning!!!


Matthew Quick is a New York Times bestselling author and one of his books-The Silver Linings Playbook- has been adapted into a film. With that said I admit that I went into this one with high expectations and as it turns out I wasn't disappointed.
From the outset we know something is going to happen. Leonard is the first person narrator of this book and we are privy to all his thoughts and his memories. Of course he doesn't reveal it all at once though we suspect something is wrong when he details how he cut of all his hair on a whim, in a very uneven manner. He then wears a hat to cover his faux pas. In a sense he is begging for attention; it is a cry for help from one who feels that here is no one he can turn to.
When he narrates his home life we begin to understand why he can't talk to someone. His mother is as self-absorbed a person as can be. She is very much into her career and seems to think that Leonard can handle himself. Leonard for his part seems closest to his neighbor Walt with whom he communicates using lines of dialogue from old Humphrey Bogart movies-very weird.
The target of Leonard's rage is a fellow student with whom Leonard has some history (to put it mildly). Through flashbacks we see how what occurred and it is a very sad situation all around. One of the few adults that Leonard does admire is a teacher he calls Herr Silverman, one of the better developed characters in this book.
I won't say much more in case I divulge more plot points but I will say that this book is definitely worth reading and discussing with students.


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Mikhail Gorbachev slams Pussy Riot case
16 Aug 2012 in 19:02
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev says he condemns the persecution of members of Pussy Riot, a Russian punk band and feminist group.
Three members of Pussy Riot were arrested after holding a performance in Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral. They prayed to the Virgin Marry to free Russia from Vladimir Putin in the form of a punk song full of curse words. The action, aimed to draw public attention to the lack of democracy and human rights violations in Russia, was considered by many as a insult to religion.
President Gorbachev told the BBC he believed the band had done nothing illegal and thus there was no cause for a lawsuit. "I am certain that there is no reason for legal action," Gorbachev said.
Many world-known artists, public figures and politicians have backed Pussy Riot. Among them are Paul McCartney, Madonna, Stephen Fry, Sting, Bjork and many others. The German Bundestag and the French National Assembly made special statements condemning the persecution of Pussy Riot.
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package org.apache.giraph.io;

import org.apache.giraph.graph.Edge;
import org.apache.giraph.graph.Vertex;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparable;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskAttemptContext;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * OutputFormat to write out the graph nodes as text, value-separated (by
 * tabs, by default).  With the default delimiter, a vertex is written out as:
 *
 * <VertexId><tab><Vertex Value><tab>[<EdgeId><tab><EdgeValue>]+
 *
 * @param <I> Vertex index value
 * @param <V> Vertex value
 * @param <E> Edge value
 */
@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
public class AdjacencyListTextVertexOutputFormat<I extends WritableComparable,
    V extends Writable, E extends Writable>
    extends TextVertexOutputFormat<I, V, E> {

  /** Split delimiter */
  public static final String LINE_TOKENIZE_VALUE = "output.delimiter";
  /** Default split delimiter */
  public static final String LINE_TOKENIZE_VALUE_DEFAULT =
    AdjacencyListTextVertexInputFormat.LINE_TOKENIZE_VALUE_DEFAULT;

  @Override
  public AdjacencyListTextVertexWriter createVertexWriter(
      TaskAttemptContext context) {
    return new AdjacencyListTextVertexWriter();
  }

  /**
   * Vertex writer associated with {@link AdjacencyListTextVertexOutputFormat}.
   */
  protected class AdjacencyListTextVertexWriter extends
    TextVertexWriterToEachLine {
    /** Cached split delimeter */
    private String delimiter;

    @Override
    public void initialize(TaskAttemptContext context) throws IOException,
        InterruptedException {
      super.initialize(context);
      delimiter = context.getConfiguration()
          .get(LINE_TOKENIZE_VALUE, LINE_TOKENIZE_VALUE_DEFAULT);
    }

    @Override
    public Text convertVertexToLine(Vertex<I, V, E, ?> vertex)
      throws IOException {
      StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(vertex.getId().toString());
      sb.append(delimiter);
      sb.append(vertex.getValue());

      for (Edge<I, E> edge : vertex.getEdges()) {
        sb.append(delimiter).append(edge.getTargetVertexId());
        sb.append(delimiter).append(edge.getValue());
      }

      return new Text(sb.toString());
    }
  }

}

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using System.Linq;
using LAN.Core.Eventing;

namespace RailsSharp.Backend.Users.List
{
	public class UserListHandler : UserRoleHandlerBase<UserListRequest> //rails# 3a) Authorization is per event, letting it be tailored to the exact use case
	{
		private readonly IUserRepository _userRepository;
		private readonly IMessagingContext _messageContext;

		public UserListHandler(IUserRepository userRepository, IMessagingContext messageContext)
		{
			_userRepository = userRepository;
			_messageContext = messageContext;
		}

		//rails# 2) Server side events are handled asyc allowing for orcastration of your backend in any way that produces a the desigerd behavior.
		protected override void Invoke(UserListRequest request, ICustomPrinciple principal)
		{
			var users = _userRepository.List(principal.CustomerId);

			this._messageContext.PublishToClient(new EventName(UserEvents.ListResponse), new UserListResponse(request) { Users = users.ToArray() });
		}
	}
}


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U.S. firms should exercise normal commercial prudence when doing business in the Australian market and are advised to perform due diligence on likely business partners and customers.
The U.S. Commercial Service-Australia provides the International Company Profile (ICP) program, giving useful background information on an Australian firm including financial data, trade references, company size, marketing operations, and a listing of key officers. We can also visit the company premises to interview principals in the Sydney, Canberra, and Perth metropolitan areas.
Another avenue for due diligence information is the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC), a government agency that enforces and administers Australia's Corporations Law and registers all companies. For a small fee, ASIC can provide you with a "historical company extract" which will tell how long a company has been in business, whether it is registered, its principal place of business, a list of directors, and details about its share capital. ASIC can also advise on whether any of the directors have been disqualified from managing a company.
Joint Ventures/Licensing
Joint ventures (JV) are a common feature of Australia's commercial and legal environment, and take one of several typical forms:
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The rights and obligations of these joint venture parties are set out extensively in the JV documents. An unincorporated JV is sometimes more suitable for a single project or business venture, for example, in sectors like the mining, oil, and gas industries. The joint venture document usually expresses the limitations and conditions of the JV so that a broader partnership is not implied. The application of partnership laws comes with other tax and liability implications.
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For example, one participant in an unincorporated JV could be the trustee of a unit trust, while one shareholder in an incorporated JV could also be the trustee of a unit trust.
License agreements involving Australian companies should contain the usual terms one would find in a license in the United States. For example, the agreement should detail the type of license being granted (i.e., sole, exclusive or non-exclusive), territory covered, license fee or royalty, licensee's duties and obligations, period of grant and field use of the technology involved, maintenance of quality control, ownership rights in improvements and innovations made by licensee, warranties and indemnities, technical assistance and confidentiality, sub-licensing and assignments, and termination.
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The full range of professional services such as human resources, executive recruitment, legal, financial, and real estate exist in Australia, with a greater choice and concentration in metropolitan centers such as Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, and Brisbane. For the benefit of U.S. exporters, the U.S. Commercial Service-Australia maintains a list of firms known to us on our website under the heading Business Service Providers. Legal services include: Law Council of Australia, The Law Society of NSW, Queensland Law Society, The Law Society of Western Australia, The Law Society of SA, The ACT Law Society, and The Law Society of NT.
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This paper introduces a new methodology to formally verify hybrid systems modeled with DEVS formalism. Hybrid systems where continuous and discrete phenomena interact are found in many natural and artificial systems. One exam-ple of such systems are real-time embedded systems where a discrete controller interacts with a continuous plant. Verify-ing real-time systems for correctness is of most importance as results of incorrect behavior could be catastrophic. Simula-tion is one of most used tools to study hybrid real-time systems due to lack of robust formal methods. In this paper, we in-troduce a verification method to verify real-time hybrid systems modeled by DEVS formalism.


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Marina Ottaway
Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center
Marina Ottaway is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a long-time analyst of political transformations in Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East. She is working on a project at the Wilson Center about the countries of the Arab Spring and Iraq. Ottaway joined the Wilson Center after 14 years at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, during which she played a central role in launching the Middle East Program. Prior to that, she carried out research in Africa and in the Middle East for many years and taught at Georgetown University, the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, the American University in Cairo, the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, the University of Zambia, and Addis Ababa University. Her extensive research experience is reflected in her publications, which include nine authored books and six edited ones. Her most recent publications include Getting to Pluralism, co-authored with Amr Hamzawy and Yemen on the Brink, co-edited with Christopher Boucek. While at Carnegie, she also supervised their Guide to Egypt's Transition, a website that provides background and analysis on issues that will shape Egypt's political future, and Iraqi Elections 2010, an online guide to Iraqi politics. Ottaway received her Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Rethinking post-Mosul Iraq
Five assumptions about Iraq that the international community needs to abandon. By Marina Ottaway.


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Comfortable, functional and situated in the centre of the capital, the single rooms at The Guardian are perfect for those who find themselves in the city on their own either for business or for pleasure. The flooring is tiled and has its own private bathroom with a shower, complimentary toiletries and a hairdryer. The rooms are a complete reflection of the philosophy of this designer hotel which has been newly built in a young, contemporary style.
The "Cosy" is a double room that is ideal for couples holidaying in Rome. The perfect place to sleep in the capital and to enjoy the many facilities on offer at the designed The Guardian. A true delight for anyone who wants to discover the Italian capital and is looking for comfortable and stylish accommodation at great prices.
The "Classic" rooms at The Guardian are a triumph of style and charm offering accommodation with a harmonious and contemporary feel, designed to delight our guests by offering them a young designer ambience with the very best of modern comforts.
The Superior rooms at The Guardian are perfect for a stay in Rome with an exceptional location and the pleasure of staying in a designer hotel at a very reasonable price. The "Superior" rooms can accommodate up to 3 people and are characterised by their spaciousness at 21 square metres. Tiled flooring, minimalist furnishings and the carefully chosen colours and lines all give life to a unique and original stylish atmosphere which is typical in a superior hotel. Each room has its own private bathroom with a shower, complimentary toiletries and a hairdryer.
Perfect for those who are holidaying in Rome with children, the "Family Room" at The Guardian offers the combination of comfort, good location and excellent service. The "Family Rooms" are available in different sizes ranging from 24 to 30 square metres and can accommodate up to 5 people. The rooms are decorated with real attention to detail, furnished in a modern style and finished off with accessories and colour choices that envelop our guests with a feeling of security and wellbeing as if they were at home. It is also possible to add a cot which makes it possible for families with small babies to count on this hotel which is perfect for their needs. Each room has its own private bathroom with a shower, bidet, complimentary toiletries and a hairdryer.


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Q: Check for key exists in the Aerospike database Could you please explain why the Aerospike::exists method throws Fatal Error:
Code:
$aerospike = new Aerospike(
    [
        'hosts' => [
            ['addr' => '127.0.0.1', 'port' => 3000]
        ],
        'shm' => [],
    ],
    false,
    []
);

$bins = ['value' => 99];
$akey = $aerospike->initKey('test', 'cache', 'test-data');

$putStatus = $aerospike->put(
    $akey,
    $bins,
    0,
    [Aerospike::OPT_POLICY_KEY => Aerospike::POLICY_KEY_SEND]
);
var_dump($putStatus); // Aerospike::OK here

$deleteStatus = $aerospike->remove($akey);
var_dump($deleteStatus); // Aerospike::OK here

$existsStatus = $aerospike->exists($akey, $metadata); // Fatal error

Environment:

*

*Ubuntu 16.04.1

*PHP 7.0.13

*Arospike PHP Cient 3.4.13

*Aerospike Docker Image (Server): aerospike:3.10.1
Test:
$ php aerospike.php
/tmp/aerospike.php:24:
int(0)
/tmp/aerospike.php:27:
int(0)
PHP Fatal error:  Aerospike::exists(): exists/getMetadata:
    unable to fetch the record in /tmp/aerospike.php on line 29
PHP Stack trace:
PHP   1. {main}() /tmp/aerospike.php:0
PHP   2. Aerospike->exists() /tmp/aerospike.php:29

I found in src/aerospike/aerospike_record_operations.c:
if (AEROSPIKE_OK != (status = aerospike_record_operations_exists(as_object_p, &as_key_for_put_record, error_p, metadata_p, options_p TSRMLS_CC)))
{
    DEBUG_PHP_EXT_ERROR("exists/getMetadata: unable to fetch the record");
    goto exit;
}

and in src/aerospike/aerospike_common.h:
#define DEBUG_PHP_EXT_ERROR(args...) DEBUG_PHP_EXT_COMPARE_LEVEL(AS_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR, E_ERROR, args)

#define DEBUG_PHP_EXT_COMPARE_LEVEL(log_level, php_log_level, args...)            \
do {                                                                              \
    if (!(((as_log_level) PHP_EXT_AS_LOG_LEVEL_OFF) == php_log_level_set))        \
        if (php_log_level_set >= log_level) {                                     \
            php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, php_log_level, args);                \
            aerospike_helper_log_callback((log_level | 0x08), __func__ TSRMLS_CC, \
                    __FILE__, __LINE__, ##args);                                  \
        }                                                                         \
} while(0)

I checked the documentation but found no hint of how this can be fixed.
Thanks

A: Fixed by compiling the php client with the following flags:
CFLAGS="-std=gnu99 -g -D__AEROSPIKE_PHP_CLIENT_LOG_LEVEL__=PHP_EXT_AS_LOG_LEVEL_OFF"

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