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The Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB) has laid the groundwork to develop an international wellness tourism strategy and a brand development initiative within a year, to help position the country as a leading player in the US $ 2.6 trillion global wellness tourism industry, under the five-year National Export Strategy (NES).
In the first phase, the EDB procured the services of international consulting firm, Linser Hospitality GMBH, based in Austria, to undertake a 'Rapid Assessment of the Potential Wellness Tourism Industry in Sri Lanka' with financial and technical assistance from Australia's Market Development Facility (MDF) with an investment of Rs. 9 million.
The lead consultant and Linser Hospitality GMBH Managing Director Dr. Franz Linser, who was on a five-day visit to Sri Lanka, conducted a stakeholder discussion with key industry players at the EDB premises last week.
The rapid assessment would be conducted via three components: demand survey, supply survey and competitive analysis. The assessment, which is due to be completed in December, will provide an overview and analysis of the country's wellness tourism capacity and will define its existing unique selling proposition with insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the wellness tourism infrastructure and overall communication, Director General EDB Jeevani Siriwardena said.
"The European Union (EU) in principal has agreed to assist Sri Lanka with 80 percent of the funding for phase two of the international brand development exercise next year, following the conclusion of the rapid assessment study," she said
Based on the study, Dr. Linser said that Sri Lanka would be able to develop a short, medium and long-term strategy to maintain and secure new markets to position the country as an attractive destination for wellness tourists.
The second phase of the initiative is consisted of product development, brand evaluation and development and a developing marketing strategy for Sri Lanka's wellness industry.
The second phase will focus on the long-term tangible benefits, such as quality jobs in the tourism sector as a result of approaching the new sophisticated markets through a fresh product range as well as an increase in high-value wellness tourists from envisaged markets leading to a overall greater revenue generation for the sector.
The EDB plans to procure services of an international consulting firm to carry out the brand strategy development for the wellness tourism sector as similar to the ICT/BPM sector, next year.
The customisation of wellness tourism products, catering to the ne of the modern complicated lifestyles while targeting new markets, would be crucial for Sri Lanka to become a leading player in the global wellness tourism industry, Dr. Linser said. "Sri Lanka has a distinct advantage compared with other destination considering its omnipresent healing environment across the country, combined with its deep-rooted Ayurveda system and other alternative medicines. People no longer complain about flying long hours to fix their lifestyle problems, such as being overworked, anxious and stressed. However, it has to be worthwhile arriving at that particular destination. We want to design a strategy where people want to come and benefit from this incredible asset that Sri Lanka has in Ayurveda," he said.
"Sri Lanka was blessed with a centuries-old treasure trove of indigenous knowledge, environmental assets and cultural heritage. Being close to healing surroundings is a growing notion and people from around the world are looking at places to enjoy this bliss away from their busy schedules on a minimum 10-day visit to fix their lifestyle problems. Sri Lanka has abundant natural assets, such as highlands, lowlands, beaches and rainforests that allow people to be closer to nature," he added. Sri Lanka's wellness tourism industry is at an early stage of development with the growth of the sector driven randomly by private establishments concentrating on hotel spas, Ayurveda resorts and spas, beauty clinics and yoga retreats.
The EDB added wellness tourism to the export basket from last year. According to statistics, Sri Lanka earned $ 193 million from the sector in 2018. The UK, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Australia have been recognised as initial focused markets to promote wellness tourism.
In identifying constraints to growth of wellness tourism industry, it was proposed in the NES to develop a wellness tourism strategy while setting up a quality assurance system for the wellness and traditional medicine sectors is also mooted.
Further, it was proposed to amend the regulations on Ayurveda to include a new compulsory regulatory and licensing system for spas.
According to the Global Wellness Institute, in recent years, Sri Lanka has experienced a number of hotel/resort spas and traditional Ayurvedic resorts transforming themselves into destination spas and wellness retreats that provide a holistic package of services, experiences or journeys.
The Gulf/MENA states, former Soviet Union countries, Eastern Europe, the Far East and Australia have been identified as potential new markets for traditional medicine, apart from the Western European and Northern American countries.
A year into implementation, the demand-driven Wellness Tourism Strategy, steered by its public-private platform, will lead Sri Lanka to capitalise on the $ 4.2 trillion global wellness industry by 2019.
In line with the objectives of branding and promotion and the strategic Action Plan, the EDB is spearheading an International Brand Development Initiative to develop a strong national brand for wellness tourism in Sri Lanka.
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My Interview with Professor Lopez: Bolshevism and the LGBT Lobby
September 15, 2015 | Bureaucracy, Culture, Family, Free Speech, Freedom of Association, History, Language, Law, Political Correctness, Politics, Propaganda, Society
Obedience to political correctness leads to total conformity of expression. Here communists in East Berlin promote Stalin's cult of personality (1951)
In my recent interview with Professor Robert Oscar Lopez, we discuss parallels between the tactics and motives of the LGBT Lobby and the Bolsheviks in Russia a hundred years ago. Please listen by clicking here.
The modus operandi of the LGBT lobby and the Bolsheviks are strikingly similar. But that's the case with every power-grabbing scheme. A hundred years ago the Bolsheviks pretended to be the champion of the "workers." Likewise, today statists call themselves the champions of gays and transgenders. It's basically the same dynamic. The LGBT Lobby serves ultimately to consolidate power in the hands of the elite few. So what else do these movements have in common?
The abolition of the autonomous family as the ultimate goal.
Propaganda tactics that rely heavily on smear campaigns and cultivate the fear of becoming a non-person.
Conformity of expression through obedience to political correctness.
Replacement of free exchange of commerce and ideas with ironclad regulations and censorship
Nomenklatura — an elite clique in power — rules over all and directs a mammoth bureaucracy
The takeover of the media at the outset in order to control the narrative and silent dissenters
That's just for starters. And if the "Equality Act" is passed by Congress, you can bet that compliance will be enforced and dissent will be punished. That's a censorship act window-dressed as non-discrimination. It has nothing to do with protecting any minority demographic. The minority demographic — in this case gays, lesbians, transgenders — are simply being used as pawns. Their grievances are being used as a pretext to consolidate all power into the hands of an elite mob. This is very much in keeping with the pattern of the Bolsheviks who cherry-picked winners and losers once they took on the mantle of "vanguard" — or protector — of the workers. The Bolshevik mob never cared about the working class, except as a useful propaganda tool in their bid to grab power. In the Soviet Union, those deemed "counter-revolutionary" would be labelled as "enemies of the people." We see the same pattern today with the LGBT lobby. And it will get much worse if the "Equality Act" goes into effect, giving the government the power to punish those it deems "anti-gay."
So, at the end of the day, what have you got? Answer: a society ruled by elites, or a "nomenklatura." Your currency is political connections that you "earn" through compliance with the mob. That's how mammoth bureaucracies lock in power for their rulers. Instead of a society based upon the free exchange of goods, services, and ideas, you end up with gatekeepers — all up and down the bureaucratic ladder — who make sure the only kind of currency in use is political compliance and connections. In this sort of power structure all totalitarian societies poison personal relationships. They cultivate scarcity, which creates a nasty dog-eat-dog mentality. They cultivate ignorance so that free thought is dimmed. It's a divide-and-conquer scheme in which people become separated as never before. As history has proven time and again in such cases, it is submission — and not resistance — that is truly futile.
Our Gordian Knot, Part VI "The Hidden Sphere"
September 3, 2015 | Community, Culture, Free Speech, Freedom of Association, History, Language, Political Correctness, Politics, Propaganda, Society, Tradition
Vaclav Havel, 1936-2011 author of "The Power of the Powerless"
I often write and talk about how power elites have pretty much taken over all of the outlets of communication. I've assigned an acronym to the main three outlets: "HAM"– for Hollywood, Academia, and the Media. Today I want to recommend to you a major essay that focuses on a vastlly more powerful outlet of communication: the "hidden sphere." The hidden sphere is basically private life, which is outside the realm of HAM. This means the activities and exchanges that happen in your personal relationships and your private conversations. And it is these interactions which are actually considered the biggest prize of power elites. If you think what you say as "just one person" is not important, think again. The entire point of political correctness is to shut you up as "just one person." Being "just one person" makes you extremely powerful because what you freely say to others who like you and trust you — whether a neighbor, classmate, co-worker — has the power to shatter the fragile narratives of PC elites.
In the upper right hand corner of this blog, you can see a quote that's been there from the beginning:
" . . . his action went beyond itself, because it illuminated its surroundings, and because of the incalculable consequences of that illumination."
That's from Vaclav Havel's extraordinary essay "The Power of the Powerless." In it he speaks of the hidden sphere as the nucleus of freedom because it is that place in which people have one-on-one interactions that allow for the cultivation of trust and the cross pollination of ideas. It might start very small, but as the ideas are pollinated by those who are influenced, there is a ripple effect of truth that becomes irresistible. Here's another excerpt:
The singular, explosive, incalculable political power of living within the truth resides in the fact that living openly within the truth has an ally, invisible to be sure, but omnipresent: this hidden sphere. It is from this sphere that life lived openly in the truth grows; it is to this sphere that it speaks, and in it that it finds understanding. This is where the potential for communication exists. But this place is hidden and therefore, from the perspective of power, very dangerous."
Havel was an independent thinker and a lover of truth and freedom in communist Czechoslovakia. This made him dangerous to the totalitarian regime. Indeed, one could say he spearheaded the "Velvet Revolution" that ended communism in Czechoslovakia after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Havel then served as president of the Czech Republic. His essay can be a bit difficult to plow through – and it's very long — but it's fascinating because it reveals to each of us our immense power as individuals. Please get familiar with it, at least its basic premises. From it we can learn how our decision to speak truth in love is an action that goes beyond itself. It illuminates its surroundings and the consequences of that illumination are incalculable. The Hidden Sphere is the sword that can slice through the Gordian Knot of totalitarianism.
My Interview with Sandy Rios about Mass Delusion
September 2, 2015 | Community, Free Speech, Language, Political Correctness, Politics, Propaganda, Society
I sat down recently with radio host Sandy Rios to talk about propaganda, political correctness, and the mass delusion that seems to be enveloping our society. Click here for the podcast from American Family Radio. Sandy had several questions for me about my Federalist article "How to Escape the Age of Mass Delusion."
We talked about how political correctness creates a spiral of silence that ends up separating people as never before. PC not only squashes civil discourse, but creates a strange and rigid polarization in society that spawns destructive caricatures of others. As someone who used to identify on the Left, I understand well what a mindset that stereotypes others can do to people's ability to connect. The point of this kind of propaganda is to centralize power by first dividing people, quite often by demonizing those who don't subscribe to the narrative. It breaks up personal relationships. And this allows those wielding power to control who says what to whom, and to dictate who relates to whom. People who obey the narrative are allowed to partake of society, while those who don't subscribe to the narrative end up as "nonpersons." This taps into my theme that personal relationships are the ultimate source of human power. Ground zero for functioning relationships is the family unit. That's exactly why the family is the prime target for destruction by today's forces of political correctness.
PC corrupts the language, and when the language is corrupted, thought processes become corrupted as well, and people are more easily manipulated into mindless conformity. And when the masses can be mobilized to support the agendas of power elites, things never end well for human dignity. History has taught us this lesson time and again.
We have no choice but to resist. Ultimately, this is an asymmetric war that has to be fought persistently, one-on-one, and face-to-face by putting a human face on what we believe. By engaging with those we know in daily life, we can re-create the ripple effect of true community that political correctness is designed to destroy.
You can listen to the podcast by clicking here.
Breaking the Mass Delusion Machine
August 28, 2015 | Culture, Freedom of Association, Language, Political Correctness, Politics, Propaganda, Society
Solitary confinement cell
At some point the social separation enforced by political correctness begins to feel a bit like solitary confinement when it comes to expressing our thoughts. That should give us a hint about why we are susceptible to mass delusion. We are social animals and feeling isolated from others has unhealthy effects on our minds. It causes dysfunction in how we relate to others. Separation demoralizes and harms individuals and communities alike. But when we feel happily connected, our morale is boosted.
"Ten Key Ways to Break the Mass Delusion Machine" is the headline of my piece in The Federalist yesterday. It was a follow up to my lengthier article, "How to Escape the Age of Mass Delusion," an essay that Rush Limbaugh discussed at length during his June 15 show. I hope you'll take a look because it's a sort of "how to" essay.
My article expands on these ten 10 key points to consider in how to break through that machine:
1. Drop political correctness and propaganda compliance.
2. Realize that personal relationships are the target of PC.
3. Human Separation is the end result of PC.
4. Fear fuels the PC machine.
5. PC is oiled by mass ignorance.
6. Coerced silence kills democracy.
7. Resistance is the only antidote.
8. A single person has immense power.
9. "Suprising validators" are like superpowers in resistance.
10. Let's get out and engage.
We're living in an era of extreme social and political polarization. People are more loath than ever to engage with others who might have opposing views. People who hold views that are not politically correct are self-censoring in record numbers. This means we are separated from one another as never before in terms of exchanging our sincere thoughts and opinions on how we see the world. This is a really dysfunctional way for a society to operate. Political correctness fuels this separation by manipulating the primal human fear of being isolated and rejected from others. Ironic, isn't it? We try to avoid isolation by silencing ourselves, which only causes us to paint ourselves further into a corner of solitary confinement.
Our Gordian Knot, Part IV
August 20, 2015 | Community, Culture, Education, Family, Freedom of Association, History, Language, Law, Loneliness, Political Correctness, Politics, Propaganda, Society
A panel at the FDR memorial in Washington, D. C.
In summary, the Gordian Knot of totalitarianism contains at least three essential ingredients: family breakdown, censorship, and ignorance.
Family breakdown leads to community breakdown, and that leads to a sense of alienation and dependency. That, in turn, results in the sort of unrest we've recently seen in places like Ferguson and Baltimore.
Censorship is inherent in political correctness, but it's coming down the pike full force if Congress enacts the Orwellian-named "Equality Act." The purpose of censorship of that sort is to inhibit communication among individuals and therefore obstruct autonomous personal relationships. It sows distrust and fear and helps build a surveillance state.
Ignorance is cultivated first through the erosion of family bonds and community bonds because this separation destabilizes a person's sense of self and makes it difficult to connect the dots about reality in the world around us. It gets worse as the forces of this destabilization promote more ignorance by throwing knowledge of the historical record down the memory hole. At that stage of ignorance, fewer and fewer have a clue as to how propaganda works or how we are being manipulated.
At the end of the day, in such a regime only a small clique of rulers dictate who may say what to whom and who may relate to whom. As described in the panel illustrated at the FDR Memorial pictured here, these are folks who "seek to establish a system of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers."
Unfortunately, that's the goal of the agendas that are built into this Gordian Knot: control of all personal relationships. Those who are working to build this dystopia might call it a "new order." They might call it a "transformation." They can call it whatever they like. But it is definitely not new and definitely not an order. It's just an ancient divide-and-conquer scheme based on the sin of human pride and power mongering. "Order" turns out to be something like the inner workings of a clock in which people are simply cogs in a machine and there is no way out.
It's same old, same old. And history has shown that it never ends well. We can only slice through it from the bottom up. Through individuals who share their knowledge of the truth, speaking in trust and developing real friendship with others. This creates just the sort of ripple effect that family breakdown and censorship and ignorance are meant to prevent. It creates the ripple effect that can free us. Self-cocooning with like-minded folks is a trap. There is no media or pop culture or academia to help out with this. Those forces are currently all tied up in the Gordian Knot. It's now an asymmetric war in which we must all invest in the ripple effect of one-on-one communication.
Our Gordian Knot, Part III
August 8, 2015 | Bureaucracy, Culture, Education, Family, Free Speech, Freedom of Association, Language, Political Correctness, Propaganda, Society
Ostriches acting like a lot of people these days. (Hey, maybe we can try talking to the one on the Left? He probably doesn't even know he's on the Left.)
Sometimes it feels as though we're living in a tangled maze-like machine with a thousand moving parts. If we focus on any given issue, any particular moving part, we lose lose sight of the big picture. Sometimes we deliberately ignore the big picture. Sometimes we just can't see it. And, yet, other times the big picture might seem so daunting and scary we put our heads in the sand, like the ostriches in the photo here.
But it's critical we step back and assess this machine in its entirety. What is its fuel?? What does it feed on? In a word, dysfunctional relationships — and especially the declining ability of people to relate to one another as human beings equally deserving of human dignity. We can see this in the hype that directs us to view ourselves as members of select identity groups or only as a part of an activist community. Only certain lives matter in this scenario. We're all being pigeon-holed based on what we look like or where we come from. We're being driven apart. Polarized. Atomized. This sort of polarization is pure poison for happy and healthy human relationships.
And that's the big picture we all need to step back and see.
What causes people to paint themselves into such corners? I think people get sucked into this trap for a variety of reasons, but the trap cannot be laid without two essential ingredients: ignorance and enforced silencing. Cultivated ignorance and enforced silencing is the fuel of dysfunctional relationships that feed this machine.
Ignorance disables a person's ability to think deeply and independently about an issue, and even about themselves and their own motives. Family breakdown is a huge contributor to ignorance because it separates children emotionally and often physically from their first teachers about the world around them — their parents. Sadly, our public schools and universities have been cultivating ignorance for decades. This happens not only through dumbed down curricula, but also through enforcement of conformity through a regime of political correctness.
Enforced Silencing Kneecaps Relationships
Let's never forget that when you cut off communication, you cut off the potential for human relationships. While practical ignorance undermines the ability to think clearly and discern manipulations, political correctness cultivates the fear of being ridiculed and isolated for speaking logically about anything. PC cultivates ignorance by preventing people from hearing anyone share insights on a non-PC view. It encourages them to smear the "other" and prevents them from seeing such people as human. School curricula also rely more and more on the raw emotion of students in "thinking" about things. (You have Bill Ayers to thank for th at.) Popular culture is steeped in blindness to reason. And, in the end, an ignorant person is a dependent person and great fodder for mass mobilization and a culture of grievance, spite, and anger.
I think if we could bring this picture into focus, people would be better equipped to slice through the overall problem and see the humanity in others.
Radio Interview on my "Mass Delusion" piece
July 1, 2015 | Culture, Language, Political Correctness, Propaganda, Society
The other day I was a guest on the Steve Mayo Show, out of Westchester County, NY: WVOX 1460 AM. The hosts — Steve Mayo and Cornelia Morse — were fantastic. It was a great conversation focusing on my Federalist article "How to Escape the Age of Mass Delusion." And the discussion will be continued at some point. If I could extract one line of mine from this interview that I'd want you to remember, it's this one:
"If we don't have a common reality, we can't have any relationships."
You can listen here:
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Rush Limbaugh's Discussion of my "Mass Delusion" Essay
June 16, 2015 | Education, Free Speech, Language, Political Correctness, Propaganda, Society
Yesterday Rush Limbaugh talked at great length about my recent article in The Federalist: "How to Escape the Age of Mass Delusion." As you can imagine, I was thrilled to see this topic get exposure to such a wide audience. Because, as I've said before, it is absolutely key that we understand the processes and methods of coercive persuasion if we are ever going to be able to defeat them. Let's set aside the swirling mess of issues for a little while — Obamacare, Common Core, climate change, immigration, marriage, transgenderism, and on and on and on and on . . . . Those pushing "transformation" know that pitching us this vortex of chaos is a critical element in the game of attrition they are playing with us.
So I propose that we should instead focus on the Machinery itself. What exactly drives the propaganda machine and how does it work on us? I fear that people of goodwill have been in the dark about these dynamics for too long. Let's shift focus and look behind that curtain. Because we're dealing with a war on reality itself. You and I know that we're not in Kansas anymore.
Here is the link to the text of Rush's lengthy commentary related to my article:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/06/15/our_overnight_orwellian_unraveling
Mind Rape and Mass Delusion
June 9, 2015 | Culture, Education, Gender, History, Language, Political Correctness, Politics, Propaganda, Society
Yesterday I had an article in the Federalist in which I explore some of the "hows" and the "whys" of the current cultural mess we are in. It's titled "How to Escape the Age of Mass Delusion." In it I quote at length from Joost Meerloo's book "The Rape of the Mind," which I discussed in a previous post, and which I would love to see widely read today.
No doubt you've noticed that we are deeply into a phase of "transformation" in which we are being told to step off of the solid ground of reality and take ourselves for a little walk through a large pool of quicksand. The Bruce-Jenner-as-a-woman stunt is the latest signpost in our journey into the Twilight Zone. And not because Jenner says he wishes to be called "Caitlyn" or because he tells us he is a woman. We generally all agree that he can say whatever he wishes however he wishes and dress as he wishes. The fact is that this has far less to do Bruce Jenner than it has to do with all the rest of us. What's going on here is a very hard sell of Anti-Reality by a few power elites who seem to control the media, Hollywood, and what passes for universities these days.
The problem is that Americans let their guard down and weren't paying enough attention while the groundwork was being laid for this insanity. And once we are persuaded en masse — through threat of social punishment — to buy into the notion that Jenner is a woman, we have agreed as a society to descend into that rabbit hole. This is a perfect trial balloon that shows how easily we can be manipulated to go along with just about anything. Not good. Such stunts amount to attempts at mind rape. And we must resist. In the article I note that love and laughter are the best antidotes to delusion. Resistance involves outreach. It means cultivating strong and healthy relationships and speaking truth in love.
I hope you get a chance to read my essay and share it. Here's an excerpt:
The whole image of such mass delusion in America is surrealistic, especially to comfortably insulated Americans who believe our first freedoms could never really be thrown away in the face of such a full-frontal, PC-induced attack. Most cannot grasp that such mobs are mentally detached from reality. And participants in the mob action cannot comprehend that they are actually cutting off their own freedom of expression, as well as everybody else's.
Why would anyone want to build such a culture of coercion? In a word, power. "Equality" is not the reason for what is happening with such mobs. It is the pretext for what they are doing. Like all such deceptions, its sole purpose is as a vehicle to transfer power from individuals to an increasingly centralized state. The fuel, as usual, is the emotional blackmail of people of goodwill, the uses of mass mobilization to exploit that goodwill, then, finally, to render all such goodwill meaningless.
Some Recommended Reading about the Bruce Jenner Hype
June 3, 2015 | Biology, Culture, Family, Freedom of Association, Gender, Hollywood, Language, Political Correctness, Propaganda, Society, Transgender
At the Magazine Stand: Bruce Jenner on cover of People Magazine, January 2015
Bruce Jenner's Vanity Fair stunt, photo by Annie Leibowitz, June 2015
Today I just want to offer some links for reading about the Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner hype. I have not yet weighed in on this with a published article of my own, but I hope to soon.
So, the other day we had a much-ballyhooed Vanity Fair cover story in which the gold medal winner of the men's decathlon in the 1976 Olympics "came out" as a woman. Whether or not Jenner looks convincing or glamourous on the cover is neither here nor there as far as the endgame of the Transgender Project is concerned. The endgame is to erase all sex distinctions in law. The Jenner publicity stunt is basically a tool to affect and direct public opinion as a means of moving forward on that goal. The agenda is far more expansive and invasive than normalizing the desire to "present" as male or female in public.
I commend to you the following articles, if you have not already read them. These four all appeared in the Federalist:
Bruce Jenner is Not Brave, by Nicole Russell
How the Hypersexual Trans Movement hurts Feminism, by Libby Evans and David Marcus
Bruce Jenner's Transformation is a Lose-Lose for Leftists, by Daniel Davis
Bruce Jenner: Selfie Culture Hero, by Amy Otto
And Matt Walsh wrote an excellent article in which he calls the transgender movement what it is: basically, a war on reality. Read it here:
Calling Bruce Jenner a Woman is an Insult to Women
Many prefer just to turn their heads away from all of this, and I understand that. But it is crucial that we pay attention and weigh in – and push back – because it affects all of us: through the corruption of our language, through modification of our behavior, and through coercion and anti-speech laws.
We have already seen how the forces behind this movement have been conducting a war on language in which any "misgendering" of pronouns is considered an act of discrimination, or even hate. None of this bodes well for liberty in society. A good way to push back is to question the pronoun protocols and to resist them. Why resist? Because it's not really about "gendering" the transgender person. It's about de-sexing you, by default. It does this through the enforced language, which pulls you into accepting the fiction that everybody's sex — including yours — does not exist in physical reality, but only in the mind.
I'd like to add, incidentally, that I don't object in everyday life to calling someone by their preferred name, transgender or not. But there is a difference between that and being lured into a trap of language corruption through pronouns usage that basically redefines humanity for everyone. I hope to write about that soon. This corruption of language also has the effect of short-circuiting our ability to communicate freely with one another. It sows distrust and that is a force that aims to separate us all. As George Orwell noted, the corruption of language puts us at the mercy of tyrants.
In short, we really are dealing with a war on reality itself. Sadly, it's a train wreck that's been a long time coming.

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The _'s Section of International Law will host its 2010 Spring Meeting April 13-17 at the Grand Hyatt New York, located at 109 E. 42 St. in New York City. The global economy and its effects on the international legal profession and its clients will be the key issue of discussion at the meeting.
Internationally renowned legal experts will be speaking, including Harold Hongju Koh, legal adviser to the Department of State and former dean of Yale Law School. Koh has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court and testified before Congress. He has authored or co-authored eight books and more than 150 articles on international and national security, international business transactions, foreign affairs and human rights. Ambassador Abdullah H. Haroon, permanent representative of Pakistan to the United Nations, will be speaking about the UN's newest Call to Action. Also speaking will be Martin Lipton, business law leader and creator of the "poison pill" defense, which was created in response to tender-based hostile takeovers.
The meeting will feature the exhibition, "Lawyers Without Rights," created by the German Federal Bar and made available for the first time in the United States to ABA International. The exhibit features detailed and poignant accounts of the lives and fates of Jewish lawyers throughout Germany who suffered at the hands of the Nazi regime.
ABA International, in conjunction with the New York State Bar Association's International Section, will host the "International Law Boot Camp," featuring the Fundamentals of International Practice, on April 13. The boot camp is a full-day series of fundamental international law programs that satisfy New York state's transitional CLE requirements. It will include career development and networking programs, addressing, among other things, how to make the most of social networking.
On April 14 the "Managing Partner Summit" will bring together leaders from 20 law firms from around the world to discuss shifting paradigms in the legal profession caused by the global economic crisis. Topics include: "Law Firm Strategy after the Recession" and "The Secrets of Attracting and Leading the Best People." On April 16 experts from academia, and the private and the public sectors, including SEC Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar and Thomas C. Baxter, general counsel at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, will examine proposed changes to the financial regulatory system and the prospects of preventing future global financial crises.
Throughout the five-day meeting, discussions and presentations will be made by prominent representatives from government, international organizations, academia and business, such as: the UN International Development Fund for Women, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Court of International Trade, Lawyers Without Borders, New York University Law School, Google Inc., the UN Development Program, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, General Electric Co., Columbia Law School, the World Bank, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Federal Trade Commission, Georgetown University Law Center, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Department of Justice and the Department of State.
Crucial developments in the international legal community will be discussed, including: changes in international investment laws, mergers and acquisitions in times of crisis, legal outsourcing, enforcement of trade preference programs, cross border e-discovery, economic underpinnings of the new administration, public-private partnerships, cross-border insolvency, global trends in corporate governance, renewable energy, the military's role in the rule of law, international criminal organizations and many more, with more than 70 programs in all.
For more information about the 2010 Spring Meeting, visit http://www.abanet.org/intlaw/spring2010/home.html.
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After another successful Faith, Reason and World Affairs Symposium, the planning committee announced today that next year's event will focus on America and the Middle West.
Sonja Wentling, Symposium planning committee co-chair, says she is very excited for the expansive amount of information next year's theme will offer.
The Middle West, more commonly known as the Midwest, consists of twelve states in the central region of the United States – if people actually want to find it on a map. Wentling chose this topic because she felt like Cobbers needed to learn far more about the place where most of them already live.
The description for next year's Symposium on Concordia's website says the goal of the topic is to "deepen our understanding of the rich and diverse history of the cultures of the Middle West and its people." The Symposium will ignore the oppression and destruction of indigenous communities already in the region, and will instead focus on the hardships that come with experiencing nine months of winter or needing to drive sixty miles to the nearest Target.
In lieu of next year's events, Wentling's co-chair Mike Bath says he has asked Concordia Dining Services to serve only traditional Middle Western foods for the day.
The salad bar will feature more than just lettuce, including Jell-O salad, cookie salad, pretzel salad, fruit salad, egg salad, ham salad, macaroni salad, potato salad, taco salad and more. The main entrees will consist of exotic foods such as tater tot hotdish and fried foods on a stick. For dessert, lefse.
Students will also have the opportunity to engage in traditional Middle Western practices. The first session is tentatively scheduled to be an hour of walking briskly around campus and asking, "How are you?" quickly enough that the questioner cannot hear the response. In this culture, the recipient can only respond with, "Good, how are you?" while quickly passing in the opposite direction.
Other events include an art display in the Cyrus M. Running Gallery, which holds a variety of Middle Western artifacts. Among these are a preserved snowball from the great blizzard of '96, half an acre of corn and a rifle.
For Bath, planning next year's Symposium comes with a different problem: preserving the true heritage of the Middle West.
Despite this, Bath says he wants next year's event to feel as authentic as possible.
Can students really feel like they are experiencing the true Middle Western culture?


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Homeless Marine veteran, woman in $400,000 GoFundMe scam plead guilty in federal court
In this Nov. 17, 2017, file photo, Johnny Bobbitt Jr., left, Kate McClure, right, and McClure's boyfriend Mark D'Amico pose at a Citgo station in Philadelphia. (Elizabeth Robertson/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
The saga of Johnny Bobbitt Jr., the homeless Marine veteran embroiled in a GoFundMe scam, is slowly coming to a close.
Bobbitt pleaded guilty Wednesday in New Jersey federal court to conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The woman involved in the scam, Katelyn McClure, also pleaded guilty Wednesday.
Bobbitt was part of a 2017 viral story shared by McClure and her boyfriend Mark D'Amico, claiming that Bobbit, a homeless Marine vet, shared his last $20 to buy McClure fuel after her car ran out of gas on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia.
This November 2018 file combination of photos provided by the Burlington County Prosecutors office shows, from left, Johnny Bobbitt, Katelyn McClure and Mark D'Amico. (Burlington County Prosecutors Office via AP, File)
The couple launched a GoFundMe campaign that raised nearly $400,000 for the former Marine. It turns out the campaign was all a hoax.
The scandal came crashing down after the trio became embroiled in legal disputes over the donated money. The three were then charged with conspiracy and theft by deception.
The homeless Marine vet who is now famous never finished his first enlistment
Johnny Bobbitt Jr. was discharged as a private after serving only 14 months in the Marines.
Bobbitt never completed his first enlistment as an ammo technician. He was discharged in 2004 as an E-1.
GoFundMe says it has since refunded everyone who contributed to the campaign.
All three still face charges in state court. D'Amico's attorney, Mark Davis, says his client denies any wrongdoing and has not been charged by federal authorities.
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Automobile
 30 mai : l'épreuve des 500 miles d'Indianapolis est pour la deuxième année consécutive remportée par un Français, René Thomas sur une Delage.

 4 juillet : septième édition du Grand Prix de France à Amiens. Le pilote allemand Christian Lautenschlager s'impose sur une Mercedes.

Baseball
 22 avril : Babe Ruth (19 ans) fait ses grands débuts chez les professionnels avec les Baltimore Orioles.
 Les Boston Braves remportent les World Series face aux Philadelphia Athletics

Cricket
 Le Surrey est champion d'Angleterre.
 New South Wales gagne le championnat australien, le Sheffield Shield.

Cyclisme
 Le Français Charles Crupelandt s'impose dans le Paris-Roubaix.
 Tour de France (28 juin au 26 juillet) : le Belge Philippe Thys remporte le Tour devant Henri Pélissier et Jean Alavoine.
 Article détaillé : Tour de France 1914

Football

 25 avril : Burnley FC remporte la Coupe d'Angleterre en s'imposant en finale face à Liverpool FC, 1-0.
 26 avril : Lille Olympique est champion de France (titre unifié) en s'imposant en finale du Trophée de France face aux Bordelais de la VGA Médoc.
 10 mai : Athletic Bilbao remporte la Coupe d'Espagne face à l'Espanyol Barcelone, 2-1.
 10 mai : FC Aarau remporte le Championnat de Suisse.
 31 mai : Fürth est champion d'Allemagne en s'imposant 3-2 après prolongation en finale nationale face au VfB Leipzig.
 12 juillet : Casale champion d'Italie.
 26 août : fondation à São Paulo (Brésil) du club de football Sociedade Esportiva Palestra Itália, qui prendra, en 1942 le nom de Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras et deviendra l'un des clubs les plus populaires du Brésil.
 12 juillet : le Racing Club de Avellaneda est champion d'Argentine.
  novembre : fondation du Botafogo Sport Club, également connu sous le nom de Sport Club Botafogo, club brésilien de football basé à Salvador de Bahia dans l'État de Bahia.

 Dates non renseignées ou inconnues :
 Blackburn Rovers est champion d'Angleterre.
 Celtic FC est champion d'Écosse.
 Daring est champion de Belgique.
 Linfield FAC est champion d'Irlande.

 Article détaillé : 1914 en football

Football canadien
 Coupe Grey : Argonauts de Toronto 14, Université de Toronto 2.

Golf
 Le Britannique Harry Vardon remporte le British Open.
 L'Américain Walter Hagen remporte l'US Open.

Hockey sur glace
 Les Blueshirts de Toronto remportent la Coupe Stanley.
 Coupe Magnus : les Patineurs de Paris sont Ligue Magnus champions de France.
 HC Les Avants remportent le championnat de Suisse.
 La Bohême remporte le championnat d'Europe.

Rugby à XIII
 Hull remporte la Challenge Cup anglaise.
 Salford est champion d'Angleterre.
 South Sydney remporte la Winfield Cup, championnat d'Australie.

Rugby à XV
 Perpignan est champion de France.
 L'Angleterre remporte le Tournoi des Cinq Nations en signant un Grand Chelem.
 Les Midlands est champion d'Angleterre des comtés.
 Wellington remporte le championnat de Nouvelle-Zélande par provinces, le Ranfury Shield.
 La Western Province remporte le championnat d'Afrique du Sud des provinces, la Currie Cup.

Tennis
  du championnat de France :
 Le Français Max Decugis s'impose en simple hommes.
 La Française Marguerite Broquedis s'impose en simple femmes.
  du Tournoi de Wimbledon :
 L'Australien Norman Brookes s'impose en simple hommes.
 La Britannique Dorothea Lambert Chambers en simple femmes.
  du championnat des États-Unis :
 L'Américain Richard Williams s'impose en simple hommes.
 L'Américaine Mary Browne s'impose en simple femmes.
 L'Australie remporte la Coupe Davis face aux États-Unis (3-2).

Naissances
 25 janvier : Désiré Koranyi, footballeur français
 31 janvier : Jersey Joe Walcott, boxeur américain. († 25 février 1994).
 4 février : Maurice Dupuis, footballeur français.
 23 février : Theofiel Middelkamp, coureur cycliste néerlandais, champion du monde sur route en 1947. († 2 mai 2005).
 24 février : François Bourbotte, footballeur français. († 15 décembre 1972).
 14 mars : Lee Petty, pilote automobile américain. († 5 avril 2000).
 21 mars : Michel Frutoso, footballeur français
 31 mars : André Simonyi, footballeur français
 13 mai : Joe Louis, boxeur américain, surnommé le « Bombardier noir », champion du monde des lourds entre 1937 et 1949. († 12 avril 1981).
 24 mai : Giordano Cottur, coureur cycliste italien. († 8 mars 2006).
 16 juin : Louis Gabrillargues, footballeur français
  juillet : Christl Cranz, skieuse allemande, championne olympique en Slalom et en Combiné aux J.O. de 1936 à Garmisch-Partenkirchen. († 28 septembre 2004).
 13 juillet : Gertrud Meyer, gymnaste artistique allemande. († 23 octobre 1999).
 18 juillet :
 Oscar Heisserer, footballeur français. († 7 octobre 2004).
 Gino Bartali, coureur cycliste italien. († 5 mai 2000).
 19 juillet : Marius Russo, joueur américain de baseball. († 26 mars 2005).
 9 août :
 Joe Mercer, footballeur anglais.
 Ali de Vries, athlète néerlandaise. († 20 janvier 2007).
 13 août : Mario Ricci, coureur cycliste italien. († 22 février 2005).
 20 septembre : Marcel Kint, surnommé « L'Aigle Noir », coureur cycliste belge. († 23 mars 2002).
 31 octobre : John Hugenholtz, concepteur de citcuits automobiles néerlandais, designer des circuits de Jamara (Espagne), Zandvoort (Pays-Bas) et Suzuka (Japon).. († 25 mars 1995).
 25 novembre : Joe Di Maggio, joueur de baseball américain. († 8 mars 1999).
 3 décembre : Philipp Schenk, joueur professionnel allemand de hockey sur glace.
 4 décembre : George Swindin, footballeur anglais. († 27 octobre 2005).

 Robert Busnel, basketteur français

Décès
 6 septembre : Alfred Mayssonnié joueur international de rugby à XV et adjudant au  d'infanterie est tué à l'ennemi entre Osches et Ippécourt, dans la Meuse, lors de la première bataille de la Marne.
 29 septembre : Jean Bouin, athlète français, spécialiste des courses de fond et soldat de  au  d'infanterie est tué à l'ennemi à Xivray, dans la Meuse, lors de la première bataille de la Marne. (° 20 décembre 1888).

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The number of people visiting A&E who were satisfied with the level of information they received about their care pathway.
The group also raised a range of other issues with the Committee, including the continued practice of admitting young people to adult wards and problems with the new 'One point of referral' system that the Belfast Trust has put in place as an alternative to A&E. The Committee also agreed to send on any information on the Card Before You Leave system which they receive from the Department, following their briefing to the Committee on the Protect Life Suicide Strategy on 17th February 2011.
The BMHRG's visit to the Committee received press coverage which can be viewed here.


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Aung San Suu Ki democratic party elected to lead Myanmar
Krist Muñoz-Malavé, Staff Writer
On Wednesday of last week, Aung San Suu Ki's party (the National League for Democracy or NLD) dominated it's opposition by declaring 90% of the vote in the current 47% seats declared, the BBC reported.
These results are an enormous win for the people as for the first time in 25 years they have had a free nationwide election. However, due to a constitution drafted by the military at the end of their rule, which extended to almost 50 years ago, Suu Ki herself cannot become President, but still, promises to lead the country in so other way, according to Reuters.
The opposition, also known as the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), made comment on their great loss as a senior member spoke about what occurred, "Our USDP lost completely. The NLD has won. This is the fate of our country. Let them [the NLD] work. Aung San Suu Ki has to take responsibility now … we congratulate them anyway," the Guardian said.
However, trouble flared up as the NLD claimed that the election commission was purposely delaying results so they could "play a trick". Win Htien, an NLD spokesman, spoke to reporters after a party meeting, "It doesn't make sense that they are releasing the results piece by piece. It shouldn't be like that. They are trying to be crooked."
The European Union states otherwise as they claim that the elections are well-monitored and that they're being run very fairly, the Guardian says.
The chief observer, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, talked to reporters about the subject, "On election day, EU observers reported that the voters of Myanmar turned out in large numbers and calmly casted their votes in a generally, well-run process. "The process went better than many expected beforehand," he said with dozens of international observers, "reported very positively on the voting … with 95% rating the process a 'good' or 'very good'."
Many people who are sure the NLD has won by a landslide, but Lambsdorff made sure to remind people that the process is still ongoing, "I want to say very clearly, this election is not over yet. As long as counting is going on and until final results are announced, this election is still ongoing," he said, according to the Guardian.
Despite the fact that the leader of the party, Suu Ki, cannot lead the party herself, the results of this election is a huge step forward for the people of Myanmar as the people begin to choose their future.


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Il suo caso insoluto, ritenuto frutto di episodi di nonnismo ma che venne però ufficialmente archiviato come diserzione, è stato oggetto di controversie, dibattiti e speculazioni varie.

Storia

La vicenda
Camedda viveva a Gattinara in provincia di Vercelli, con la famiglia. Qui lavorava in un salumificio col fratello Efisio. Al momento di prestare il servizio militare di leva, dopo un periodo al CAR a Diano Castello (Liguria), fu trasferito alla caserma Passalacqua di Novara. Il 31 luglio 1984 avrebbe dovuto recarsi alla caserma Perrone, poco distante. Dopo essersi regolarmente presentato all'appello mattiniero delle 8:30, nessuno prese più nota dei suoi spostamenti e la sera non si presentò all'appello.

Secondo le ricostruzioni ufficiali degli organi inquirenti, Camedda sarebbe sparito dalla caserma fra le 10:30 e le 13, anche alla luce del fatto che non si presentò all'adunata delle 13:30; ma nessuno si mise alla sua ricerca nel pomeriggio, dato che uomini del plotone dissero «che era andato a fare un servizio a Bellinzago, in un'altra caserma», secondo quanto dichiarato da Carlo Sinisi, caporale di giornata.

Le indagini interne partirono tre giorni dopo l'allontanamento, perché come spiegato dal comandante del suo plotone, Paolo Torelli, «capita abbastanza spesso che un militare manchi all'appello. Se l'assenza si protrae per una settimana scatta l'accusa di diserzione». Anche il colonnello Fausto Trioschi giustificò il ritardo delle ricerche, spiegando ai giudici incaricati nel processo del 1992 che «se non fosse rientrato dalla libera uscita, la sua assenza sarebbe stata rilevata all'appello del mattino dopo. Invece così ci volle molto più tempo per scoprirlo».

Torelli ordinò l'apertura dell'armadietto di Camedda per verificare possibili elementi che potessero confermarne l'allontanamento volontario, ma risultava tutto: abiti civili e militari, patente e documenti, danaro e libretto degli assegni e risultò che non mancava alcun oggetto dal guardaroba del soldato, nonostante il sospetto di diserzione portasse a pensare che si fosse allontanato volontariamente.

Il 25 novembre del 1984 una chiamata anonima al 112, avanzò l'ipotesi dell'omicidio e fissò un appuntamento ai carabinieri, al quale tuttavia non si presentò nessuno; l'utenza telefonica fu poi rintracciata quasi del tutto, mancava infatti solo l'ultima cifra, alla cui ricerca si mise il pubblico ministero del processo del 1992.

L'interrogazione parlamentare
Nel 1990 il deputato socialista Filippo Fiandrotti presentò una interpellanza al governo per conoscere i risultati delle indagini e sollecitarne altre; la risposta di Virginio Rognoni, allora ministro della difesa riassunse le ipotesi investigative:
 fuga in Finlandia per raggiungere una ragazza conosciuta mesi prima durante il CAR in Liguria;
 fuga causata dal nonnismo in caserma;
 morte per omicidio per aver assistito ad attività illecite in caserma ad opera di commilitoni ed occultamento del cadavere al suo interno. Il ministro aggiunse che ulteriori indagini e sopralluoghi in caserma non portarono novità.

Le lettere anonime nel 2011
Il 23 gennaio 2011 un anonimo, autodefinitosi un pregiudicato, inviò ad alcune redazioni giornalistiche e al comando provinciale dei carabinieri di Bergamo due missive. Nella prima spiegava come trovare Yara Gambirasio, una dodicenne scomparsa il 26 novembre 2010 da Brembate di Sopra, e nella seconda dichiarava d'essere al corrente di informazioni relative al caso di Camedda, utili alla definitiva risoluzione del giallo e alla condanna degli ufficiali coinvolti, risollevando in questo modo la tesi del complotto.

Le indagini
Il tribunale militare concluse comunque che Camedda si era allontanato volontariamente dalla caserma, forse per una fuga d'amore, condannandolo quindi per il reato di diserzione; ad avvalorare la tesi contribuì anche la testimonianza di Antonio Celibato che dichiarò d'aver visto una persona somigliante a Camedda tre giorni dopo la sua scomparsa, il 3 agosto alla stazione di Milano, con addosso la stessa maglia del soldato sparita dal suo armadietto (unico oggetto scomparso, portafogli e cambi furono lasciati, e non ci fu alcun movimento dopo la sparizione sul conto in banca a lui intestato).

Dopo l'archiviazione del precedente fascicolo per mancanza di prove esterne alla pista del reato di diserzione, il 21 giugno del 1989 le indagini furono riprese dal giudice istruttore di Novara, Isabella Diani, e il fascicolo relativo al caso inviato al procuratore della Repubblica; l'accusa di diserzione era presente anche nei nuovi atti. Determinante nella riapertura dell'inchiesta anche la trasmissione dedicata a casi di scomparse Chi l'ha visto?, che attraverso chiamate da parte di informatori anonimi in studio, pose il caso sotto un nuovo spettro, lontano dalla diserzione, ovvero quello di un complotto. Pasqualino Verdecchia, su incarico dello Stato maggiore dell'esercito, ordinò al terzo corpo d'armata «d'interessare la magistratura in funzione della riapertura dell'inchiesta in presenza di nuovi elementi che si ritengano utili per la soluzione del caso». Verdecchia spiegò anche che le forze armate avrebbero contribuito a chiarire la scomparsa, onde evitare «strumentalizzazioni alimentate da segnalazioni di non provata veridicità», dal momento che i servizi dei media avrebbero potuto mettersi alla ricerca del «giallo a tutti i costi» (in riferimento alle teorie del complotto, sorte sui possibili moventi della sparizione/uccisione di Camedda).

Con la riapertura del caso nel 1989 furono rivisti anche diversi elementi potenzialmente probatori dapprima ignorati dalla magistratura. Tra questi, la testimonianza telefonica a Chi l'ha visto? di una donna, rimasta anonima, secondo cui suo figlio — una volta tornato a casa, terminata la leva a Passalacqua — avrebbe raccontato dell'uccisione di un militare in caserma, e della sua sepoltura nello stesso luogo. Tuttavia, essendo stato il giovane al momento del racconto in stato di choc e agli inizi di una possibile instabilità mentale, i suoi familiari non avevano attribuito importanza all'episodio.

Il processo
Il processo, sostenuto da un tribunale militare presieduto da Alfio Coco, iniziò nel 1992. In mancanza di ulteriori approfondimenti per chiarire gli oscuri contorni della vicenda e verificare potenziali responsabilità, nella seduta del 10 giugno fu rinviato il termine al 1º ottobre. Il pubblico ministero Paolo Scafi aveva, infatti, avanzato la richiesta di sei mesi di carcere per l'autista del Battaglione Centauro di Novara, in relazione alla scomparsa di Camedda, ma le testimonianze dei militari e le informazioni fornite da fonti sotto anonimato al programma televisivo Chi l'ha visto?, spinsero la corte a proseguire le indagini.

Nonostante ciò, la testimonianza fu ritenuta da taluni ragguardevole e gli inquirenti accertarono che il militare fu picchiato e quindi minacciato durante la sua permanenza in caserma, episodio probabilmente avvenuto in congiunzione con la scomparsa del commilitone. Durante il processo, comunque sia, l'importanza delle sue dichiarazioni fu ridimensionata, una volta accertata la sua effettiva turba psichica.

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Voci correlate
 Diserzione
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Teorie del complotto
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A area of Wajir area assembly accept protested over alien two-months pay adjournment for canton staff.
Addressing journalists, the area reps claimed the adjournment has afflicted businesses and marriages of afflicted staff.
Bute MCA Issa Adan accepted an actual address from the canton government by end of anniversary but back accomplished for animadversion by Nation, Governor Mohamed Abdi said the workers will get their salaries on Monday.
Mr Adan said they would alarm for demonstrations if the affair is not resolved.
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A last-minute Law Society bid to delay the controversial Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA) until after the government's consultation on price competitive tendering (PCT) for criminal work was yesterday rejected by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).
QASA moved a significant step towards implementation after final changes to its design were approved by both the SRA and the Bar Standards Board (BSB).
The BSB's decision came with a plea from BSB chair Baroness Deech for lawyers to understand the necessity for QASA – and that most of them will "sail" through it.
The SRA's board meeting heard Law Society representations urging the delay until after the Ministry of Justice's plans for criminal legal aid were made clear. The society appeared to be responding to the arguments of criminal practitioners that QASA would be used by the government as a public demonstration of advocacy standards which would pave the way for PCT.
SRA chief executive Antony Townsend said the society believed "implementation of the scheme should be delayed… because [PCT] might have such a dramatic effect". But he said the SRA board's view was "that the two issues should not actually be associated in that way… and that the proposal should go forward".
She said QASA would help vulnerable clients unable to exercise a meaningful choice of advocate by ensuring they are "at least competent".
BSB lay member Malcolm Cohen said he could not support QASA "on a matter of principle" because he did not consider there to be sufficient evidence to support the need for it in the Crown Court and above; he also reiterated his long-held concerns about how advocacy in youth courts is not properly addressed by QASA.
Papers before both meetings revealed the initial QASA accreditation fees that criminal advocates will be charged as being between £25 and £100 for registration, depending on the level of advocacy, with a flat fee of £125 across the board for progression within the scheme, and reaccreditation fees of between £75 and £125.
Assuming the final changes receive Legal Services Board approval, the first phase of the scheme is due to launch on 30 September 2013 on the Midlands and South-West circuits, followed by London and South-East in March 2014 and the remaining circuits in June 2014. The BSB is to propose that phase one should close two months later than the planned 10 January 2014.
Silks should be able to register as a 'Level 4QC'.
If most barristers will 'sail through' the scheme it sounds as though there is absolutely no justification for imposing such a heavy-handed regulatory regime on the Bar.
The BSB's failure to provide the evidence which justifies introducing such a scheme speaks for itself.
Baroness Deech's comments above underline the absence of any such evidence.
What a self-defeating observation to make.


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Do you truly love me? How much?
More than a mother protecting her only child?
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Editor's Note: The following is an op-ed. The opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Task & Purpose.
After Europe spent itself fighting two world wars, America stepped in to fill the vacuum. The Soviet Union filled the bit that America couldn't. Having nuclear weapons and a large, if poor quality, conventional force gave it superpower status. After 50 years, though, the Soviet Union couldn't pay for all the trappings that superpower status demanded.
Now known as Russia, it's living in a trailer while drunk driving a 15 year old Cadillac Escalade around the neighborhood while yelling "I used to BE somebody!" out the window and rocking out to Motley Crue.
We are rapidly approaching a similar point. The United States is going further into debt each year. Even with a rapidly growing economy, the deficit has ballooned to over $1 trillion. When the business cycle eventually tanks, it will get even worse.
The U.S. has to make hard choices about whether spending that money is worth it. Unfortunately, our approach has been that of the Yankees great Yogi Berra. "When faced with a fork in the road, take both."
The military has been in the process of pivoting to the Pacific for a decade now. The problem is that it can't shake active campaigns in at least seven countries. It is fighting a Cold War against China and Russia as it fights a hot war against ISIS, Al Qaeda, and several other terrorist groups and insurgencies.
An oft-cited statistic is that the U.S. spends more on its military than the next seven states combined. That we spend that much and are still worried about being able to confront China and Russia should tell us something.
Even before the "pivot," the U.S. spent incredible sums losing wars against Iraqi and Afghan insurgents. The average amount spent on defense since 2001 was greater in inflation-adjusted dollars than the average in any decade during the Cold War. At the time, the Communist threat far exceeded that of today's Russia, China, and smattering of terrorists and guerillas in the Middle East and North Africa.
The military has blamed sequestration for its problems for years but sequestration was like an obese person going from 5,000 calories a day to 4,000 and then complaining about starvation. For the next few years there's a budget deal that supersizes the fries. But even that spendthrift plan doesn't fully fund the military's request. The military wanted $12 billion more next year than the budget provides.
But can't we cut other federal spending? All that waste, fraud, and abuse?
When it comes to the federal budget, only a few things really matter. National security, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and interest on the national debt. Everything else put together is about 10%. You could literally zero out every other dollar of discretionary spending and only feed the growth in Defense for a few more years. Hell, even Social Security isn't doing that well, so even buying missiles with grandma's insulin money wouldn't for long, either.
The U.S. is headed for a reckoning between its military ambitions and its budget. More precisely, it is headed for a reckoning between its military ambitions and its citizens' desire to have some extra change in their pockets. Using percent of GDP to judge defense expenditures is generally the wrong way around — requirements should dictate expenditures vice the reverse.
Still, it does show the level of effort needed. In 1960, at the height of the Cold War, defense was 8.5% of GDP. Today it's 3.5%.
If we truly want to be ready to face China on its turf, or at least counter it, we need to be prepared to more than double our defense expenditures. Since our budget deficit is already at unsustainable levels, that means that doubling the defense budget would require massive tax increases that few Americans seem willing to accept.
If the U.S. wants to throw its weight around everywhere in the world, then it has to be prepared to pay for it. If not, it has to make some tough choices.
Are we preparing for a new Cold War against China and Russia or are we just going to keep dropping JDAMs in an endless game of whack-a-mole in the developing world? A valid case can be made for either, but we can't delude ourselves into thinking we can do both forever. The forces needed for those two missions are dramatically different, and we can barely afford one military, let alone two.
More importantly, freedom isn't free. That phrase has become as empty as "Thank you for your service," but it's absolutely true. It's really easy to put a flag decal on your truck and say America should have the best military in the world, but do you mean it?
If keeping China from dominating East Asia means paying 50% more taxes, are you willing to do that? If it means your elderly father has no health care, is it still worth it? The sacrifices won't all come from anonymous strangers. The easy trade offs have already been made. If we truly want to have the military dominance we used to enjoy, we're going to have to pay for it.
America is not uniquely ordained to maintain its status in the world. Maintaining globe-spanning power is, in the end, a function of troops, weapons, and the money needed to sustain them.
If we're not willing to do those things, it means America needs to accept that it is becoming just one of many great powers, that it needs alliances, that it has to negotiate deals vice dictate them, and that it can no longer expect unquestioned obedience from other states.
That's a tough pill to swallow, but perhaps one of the unanticipated side effects of the "Make America Great Again" movement is that Americans finally realize they're not willing to make the sacrifices greatness requires.
Carl Forsling is a senior columnist for Task & Purpose. He is a Marine MV-22B pilot and former CH-46E pilot who retired from the military after 20 years of service. He is the father of two children and a graduate of Boston University and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Follow him on Twitter @CarlForsling
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Fever is Book 2 of the Chemical Garden series by Lauren DeStefano. Book Nerds reviewed Wither, which is Book 1 of the series shortly after its release. We even declared whether we were team Gabriel or Linden, so you know we were anxious to get our hands on this sequel.
O.M.G! That is what I can say about Fever! I was so excited to see it on my Kindle that I could not contain myself at all. If you do not remember I am Team Linden. We actually did not see much of Linden in the book, but when we did it was GOOD! This book really took a lot of twist and turns for Rhine and Gabriel. I really admire Rhine's courage but at the same time I thought she was very weak. She actually had to rely on other people this time. I still do not like Vaughn and his vicious ways. I really enjoyed the few new characters that we meet along the way. I do not like the way Lauren DeStefano always leaves us hanging onto the end of the book. Then again that might be part of her charm!!
I hope that I do not have to wait forever for the third book, but I am sure that I am going to have to.


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Double M Hotel: A Traveler's Haven In The City of Golden Harvest—Valencia City, Bukidnon
Are you looking for a hotel in Valencia City, Bukidnon? Why don't you try the Double M Hotel?
Double M Hotel is a business hotel in Valencia City, Bukidnon in northern Mindanao that caters to travelers looking for premium accommodations in a safe and secure destination, complemented with exceptional service from well-trained staff.
The modern rustic design of the hotel is inspired by the rich countryside, complimented by elements of style, space, comfort, and quality. With well-appointed guest rooms and four restaurants, the hotel is perfectly suited for businessmen and travelers who want to relax from day to night.
To ensure security, the hotel boasts of a world-class access control system to guest floors and rooms, providing guests with a good and safe rest while away from home.
Rustic interiors will make you feel naturally relaxed. Value for comfort and quality is enhanced with top-of-the-line mattress and linens, black-out curtains and modern amenities like hot and cold shower and reading lights.
Take-out style room service is available from 6:00 AM – 8:30 PM
Comfortable accommodation with 2 customized single beds, in-room safe, writing desk, flat-screen TV with cable and coffee/tea making set.
Capacity: Good for two persons.
Premiere Room
Cozy accommodation with a king bed and leather-upholstered bedroom bench, in-room safe, sitting furniture or reading chair, writing desk, flat-screen TV with cable, mini-fridge and coffee or tea making set.
Relaxing accommodation with a queen bed and day bed, in-room safe, writing desk, flat screen TV with cable and coffee/tea making set.
Capacity: Good for two persons. Extra person applicable with special rate.
Spacious accommodation with two queen beds, in-room safe, sitting furniture, writing desk, flat screen TV with cable, mini-fridge and coffee/tea making set.
Capacity: Good for four persons.
Luxurious accommodation with a king bed and leather-upholstered bedroom bench, in-room safe, cozy couch, executive desk, flat screen TV with cable and multi-media Bluetooth speaker, mini-fridge cabinet and coffee/tea making set.
Double M Hotel has four restaurants, each conceptualized to give a unique experience for our guests. Rustic interiors of the restaurants complement the hotel's design inspiration.
Tisa Lounge
The restaurant and bar offers tapas, cocktails and wines in an al fresco setting perfect for chilling out. The brick and barrel design inspiration adds an inviting ambience where love for food and drink is worth celebrating. Not to be missed is the Tisa Ribeye Steak.
Roadhouse Café
The restaurant offers Filipino comfort food, rich and generous in flavors. Popular dishes include Pochero, Kare kare and Crispy Pata. The homey ambience is truly welcoming for families and friends out to enjoy a good meal.
Totsy's Cakes and Pastries
Named after one of the family's children, the restaurant's cakes, pastries and breads are perfect for light snacks during the day. Travelers can delight in the pasalubong treats readily available in the restaurant. Best sellers are Ube Ensaymada, Pecan Pie and Chocolate Moist Cake.
Tirso's Deli and Roasters
Named after the family patriarch, the restaurant serves deli sandwiches, light meals and steaks sourced from the family ranch raising grass-fed Angus, Brahman and Brangus cattle. Deli products like sausages, bacon, corned beef, beef tapa and pork tocino are available as pasalubong.
Telephone Number: 088 828 8282
Mobile Number: (Globe) 0917 119 7646 / (Smart) 0998 958 4585
Email Address: info@thechocolatechamber.ph
Website: https://doublemhotel.com/
Address: M. L. Quezon Street, Poblacion Valencia City, Bukidnon 8709 Philippines
Valencia City
Valencia City is nestled in the shadows of Mt. Kalatungan and Mt. Kitanglad mountain ranges, traversed by the vast Pulangi River. The city has a land area of 587.29 square kilometers or 226.75 square miles which constitutes 5.59% of Bukidnon's total area. It is a component city with 31 barangays.
Valencia City is the center of trade and commerce in Bukidnon because of its central location in the heart of Mindanao, and of its fast economic growth. Popularly called the City of Golden Harvest it is rich in natural resources. Much of the people's livelihood in the area revolves around farming, livestock, and poultry. The city is noted for its Valencia Rice, a variety of nutritious rice.
Musuan Peak or Mt. Musuan, also known as Mt. Calayo (Fire Mountain) is an active volcano in Maramag, Bukidnon, on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.
Local trike in Bukidnon. Along with the jeepney, it is one of the most common means of public or private transportation in the Philippines, especially in rural areas. Tricycles are built in a variety of styles, which differ from city to city, and are usually made locally by building a sidecar and affixing it to an imported motorcycle.
Nearby and sites to visit in Valencia City
Bukidnon Dairy
A perfect place for fresh "pasalubong." Bukidnon Dairy offers an array of dairy products fresh from the Central Mindanao University Farms, like carabao milk (plain or flavored), cheese, ice cream and more. Located in Musuan, Maramag, you can also enjoy a glimpse of Musuan Peak in the background.
Benedictine Monastery Church of the Transfiguration
For solemn reflection or personal retreat, visit this haven of peace, guidance, and prayer. Located on a hill in San Jose, Malaybalay City, this pyramid-structure designed by National Artist for Architecture Leandro Locsin also houses a museum of vestment collections. You can reach the place by private transportation or take a local public motorbike ride for a minimum fare.
Lake Apo
If you are in the mood for tranquility, this is a must-see place that should not be missed when visiting Bukidnon. Located in Barangay Guinoyuran, Valencia City, you can reach the place by private transportation or take a local public motorbike ride for a minimum fare.
Mt. Calayo (Fire Mountain)
Popularly known as Musuan Peak, this an ideal location to relax and unwind, a perfect way to commune with mother nature for the day. Enjoy a refreshing trek up to the peak. Located at Musuan, Maramag.


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Voices of Vietnam
Larry talks about his experience with the Dega People of the Vietnam central highlands on With Good Reason Radio on Episode Two, Part Four.
Historical Talk
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Candidates Announced for Northern California Cherry Blossom Queen Program
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Five young Japanese American women were introduced March 13 as candidates for the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival's Queen Program. The event, a highlight of the 43rd annual Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival, will be held on Saturday, April 10, at 6 p.m., (5 p.m. doors) at the Sundance Kabuki Cinema in San Francisco's Japantown.
The court will serve as representatives of the Northern California Japanese American community at various events throughout the coming year.
The emcees of the program will be television news personalities Jana Katsuyama of KTVU Channel 2 News and George Kiriyama of NBC Bay Area. Tickets are $25. For more information, contact Tosh Mitsuda at tocamit@lanset.com.
The five candidates are as follows:
2010 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL QUEEN CANDIDATES — Left to right, from top: Ashley Kiyoko Nakatani, Corey Yasuye Fujioka, Arisa Hiroi, Ayae Yamamoto and Jennifer Kiyomi Tanaka. photo by Jeff Huang//Nichi Bei Weekly
Jennifer Kiyomi Tanaka
Jennifer Kiyomi Tanaka, 22, a Yonsei on her mother's side and Shin-Nisei on her father's side, was born and raised in San Francisco, where she currently resides. She is the daughter of Harry Hidejiro Tanaka of Hawai'i and Susan Hisako Tanaka of San Francisco.
A graduate of Wallenberg High School in San Francisco, Tanaka matriculated to the Dominican University of California, where she earned her bachelor's of science in health science and minor in psychology. She expects to receive her master's degree in occupational therapy from Dominican University in May.
Currently an intern at the Acute Rehab Facility at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, she has also served as an after school science instructor at Knowledge Learning Corporation-Champions.
Her goals are to be a knowledgeable and innovative therapist and to advocate for and empower others on personal and community levels.
As a youth, Tanaka attended the Japanese Bilingual Bicultural Program at Clarendon Elementary School, as well as the Nihonmachi Little Friends preschool in San Francisco's Japantown. More recently, she has been a volunteer on the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival Executive Committee, the Nihonmachi Street Fair, Nakayoshi Young Professionals and nihonmachiROOTS, a new group of young people focusing on issues regarding San Francisco's Japantown.
Her hobbies include community service, attending concerts and food-related events, travel and reading.
Tanaka's sponsor is the Golden Gate Optimist Club of San Francisco.
Ayae Yamamoto
Ayae Yamamoto, 23, is a Shin-Issei who was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, raised partially in Urbana, Ill., and currently resides in San Francisco. She is the daughter of Tadashi and Masako Yamamoto of Fremont, Calif.
A graduate of Mission San Jose High School, she earned her bachelor's degree in integrative biology from UC Berkeley in August of 2009.
Yamamoto is currently volunteering at both San Francisco General Hospital and University of California, San Francisco Hospital. She previously worked at the University Eye Center in Berkeley as a patient services assistant.
Her goals are to become a physician (OB/GYN) volunteering in third-world countries, as she has a desire to serve underserved countries.
Self-described as "pretty fluent" in Japanese — having taken Japanese language classes in Illinois — Yamamoto's hobbies include playing the clarinet. She performed in the University Symphony at UC Berkeley.
Yamamoto's sponsor is the Nikkei Lions Club of San Francisco.
Arisa Hiroi
Arisa Hiroi, 19, is a Shin-Nisei born and raised in San Francisco, where she currently lives. She is the daughter of Kunihiko and Mari Hiroi of San Francisco.
A graduate of Lincoln High School in San Francisco, she is expected to earn her bachelor's degree in 2012 from the University of California, Davis in Japanese and sociology, with a minor in education.
Hiroi currently serves as a reader in UC Davis' East Asian Languages and Cultures Department and Japanese Department. Last summer, she served an internship at a children's home in Japan.
Her goals include becoming a Japanese language teacher in the U.S.
Hiroi, who describes herself as "pretty much fluent" in Japanese, attended a Japanese language school for 11 years. Her hobbies include foreign languages and cultures, playing piano and music.
Hiroi's sponsor is the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California.
Corey Yasuye Fujioka
Corey Yasuye Fujioka, 22, is a Sansei on her father's side and a Yonsei on her mother's side. Born in Huntington Beach, Calif., the current resident of San Luis Obispo, Calif., is the daughter of Robert Masami and Diane Keiko Fujioka of Fremont.
A graduate of Irvington High School in Fremont, she earned her bachelor's degree in food science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in December of 2009.
Fujioka currently works in chocolate production at Sweet Earth Chocolates in San Luis Obispo.
Her future goals include changing "the way we eat," and to be "physically, mentally, environmentally and financially healthy."
A former high school athlete, Fujioka played basketball, volleyball, track and bowling at Irvington High. She also played basketball in the Japanese American leagues with San Jose Community Youth Services (CYS).
Her hobbies include cooking and baking, and spending time with family and friends.
Fujioka's sponsor is Takara Sake USA Incorporated.
Ashley Kiyoko Nakatani
Ashley Kiyoko Nakatani, 22, is a Yonsei who was born and raised in San Jose. She is the daughter of Neal Kanji Nakatani and Patricia Kiyoko Sakauye of San Jose.
A graduate of Del Mar High School in San Jose, she is expected to earn her bachelor degree, in international relations and communications, with a minor in writing in June from the University of California at Davis.
Nakatani is currently a server and hostess at the Minato Japanese Restaurant in San Jose's Japantown.
Her goals are to work in international relations, in an American company that works closely with Japan.
Nakatani, who grew up playing basketball in San Jose CYS (Community Youth Services) and Foster City Flyers, has served as a volunteer at Lotus Preschool and Yu-Ai Kai senior center in San Jose's Japantown. A former class president in her freshman and junior years, Nakatani served as Associated Student Body president in her senior year of high school.
Among her hobbies is hula, which she has been teaching since she was 13, and traveling.
Nakatani's sponsor is NikkeiWest.
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