Bringgggg there goes the alarm that Claire had kindly set for me at five in the morning. Wow welcome up North, I was roughly disturbed out of my dreams by the alarm and temperatures around zero Celsius, thank you Marcelo for leaving the trailer door open! Haha he had the urge to go for a walk around 03.00 in the morning, I have to admit it is special to see that even at that hour it's not completely dark. Laura and me had set up the array in 3 layers of clothes and a sleeping bag waiting for the sun to become stronger in power. It was Howard's breakfast that really woke me up! Nothing beats a home cooked country breakfast! We filled up our bellies and the solar car his batteries. Everybody happy, time to hit the road again! We said goodbye to the fantastic people and beautiful place Bucking horse river lodge. Thanks again for all your kindness! Soon after we started driving we spotted a black bear to the side of the road. It was amazing! We were able to get really close but it was better to don't stick around and let nature be. It was a good ride ending up in Fort Nelson. Unfortunate the super 8 was not sponsoring us this time but the Ramada Inn was happy to give us a double room for the night! We had set up the array when Sue from the local newspaper arrived. She brought Marcelo to an old friend Merl who owns the Fort Nelson museum. He had built it from scratch with the help of other people. It happened to be his birthday so it took us not long before we all came over and celebrated. I drove on the funniest bike ever; you steer with the front and back wheel. It was like one big play yard. After some good times we went back to hotel and worked on our updates. Marcelo and Josh selected footage for twenty-twenty and I called it quits around 12.30am.
Woke up very cold and very early. I sat bundled and rocking in the van until the sun came up over the mountains. Willy and I removed the icy solar car cover and wheeled the car into the sun. While it charged we sat covered in blankets and sleeping bags until the morning warmed up enough to come out from our cocoon. A brother and sister and their cat had been sleeping in the yellow car next to us and after they woke up we chatted with them. They were headed back home to Alaska from Hollywood. Josh brought us some coffee and soon we were inside eating another delicious hot meal from the restaurant. With a belly full of potatoes, veggies and eggs we head out on the road and soon spotted a black bear! He courageously runs across the highway without regard for passing trucks. I envision a tragedy but the bear's speed saves him. Later on the side of the road we attach a camera to the solar car and a curious couple pulls over to take some photos of the car. They saw us on the road the day before and are happy to be able to ask questions and see the car up close. As I sit on the gravel next to he solar car, I hear grass crunching and look up to see their truck rolling into the ditch across the street. "Truck! The truck is moving!" I yell. Everyone looks over and oops! someone forgot to put it park. Willy and I take radios and block the road from either side while Marcelo uses the van to pull out their stuck truck. At one point he says over the radio that the van is now stuck in the gravel...now we'll have to use the solar car to pull the van to pull the truck! But a little more gas and the van tires spin forward. A few vehicles have lined up on my side and one driver is impatient. In a moment it's all clear and we prepare to get moving again. Super 8 of Fort Nelson declines to sponsor us but Ramada Inn is happy to have us. They give us a suite with a kitchenette. I am happy to have a place to lie down because I am still feeling horrible. Claire thinks I have meningitis and was somewhat unwilling to say so because it is a serious condition, she doesn't want me to freak out. After doing some updates on the website I try to look up my symptoms online but end up confused, feeling worse and with no real answers. So I take a bath and lay down and try to get some rest. After a few hours Josh asks me if I am feeling any better and if I need to go to the clinic. Reluctantly I say yes, I've had unexplained symptoms for a few days and better safe than sorry. Traveling, I don't have access to the herbs and things I would normally take if I get ill. Sue calls the clinic and they say they will squeeze me in if they can. We take a short ride and the doctor sees me within a few minutes. Willy comes in with me from the waiting room "What seems to be the problem?" Fever, chills, nausea, stiff neck and back, headache, no appetite, all for the past several days. He asks me to get up on the table and looks in my ears, nose, mouth, listens to my heart beat and breathing, palpates my stomach and asks me to turn my neck, I can't, asks me to touch my chin to my chest, I can't. Breath in, breathe out. He says meningitis too. Bacterial or viral infection. The only way to tell is by a inserting a needle into the lumbar area to test the spinal fluid directly. He suggests I take advil and prescribes some antibiotics. Advil maybe, antibiotics, no way! Seventy dollars later Willy and I are out on the grass in front of the clinic waiting for Sue to come pick us up. We head to the grocery store for sickie supplies: drugs, juice and soup. Back at the hotel Willy plays Momma for me preparing the soup and making sure I get right to bed. He even performs a shaman healing exorcism to rid me of the evil spirits causing the sickness! Eyeing the antibiotics I hope it is nothing so serious to warrant the destroy-all-leave-you-worse-than-you-were-drugs! I'm allergic as well as opposed to antibiotics so I take two advil with a big glass of organic apple juice and snuggle up. After soup and munching on raw garlic cloves, I am out. A few hours later we head over to the Fort Nelson Historical Museum which if you've ever seen the movie Nothing But Trouble...you'll understand. It is a whimsical yet eerie maze of old machines and cars, strange and interesting art and carvings and lots of characters around. It is Marl, the owner's, 77th birthday and we are invited to join in the festivities. The warehouse of old cars includes a hundred year old car that Marl drove from Fort Nelson to Whitehorse, traveling only about 25 mph, but not bad for a 1909! The boys try out this crazy bicycle with a spinning top and crooked frame that wobbles and they look hilariously ridiculous! We enjoy salad and bread, chips and cake and try to stay warm as the night goes on. Before we leave we get a tour of a log cabin full of really old and somewhat recognizable machines. The first waffle maker, a butter churn, knife sharpeners, vice grips, all the furniture is carved of wood and the place is dark and cozy. My energy is fading and when we get back to the hotel I pass out.
I could barely open my eyes today, as they felt like they were frozen shut. It was so cold that ice had actually collected on the solar car cover. I immediately put on some long underwear, and got a free breakfast courtesy of Buckinghorse River lodge. I thanked Howard and his son Lance for their hospitality, and we had to fill up the tires and hit the road. When all were woken up, we said our goodbyes to everyone at the ranch, and I got ready to be back driving the van on the road. Almost as soon as we got on the road, we saw a black bear on the side of the road. Everyone readied their cameras for a shot of the animal. It got pretty close to the van, but then noticed a truck coming from the opposite direction. The semi truck, seeing us pulled over, slowed down enough to avoid hitting the bear as it sprinted across the highway, barely missing getting hit by the truck. As we continued down the Alaskan Highway, seeing amazingly gorgeous mountainous scenery. We stopped to place the new video camera on the solar car, and a few passing cars pulled over to get a closer look at the solar car. One man's pickup truck rolled into a nearby ditch. We quickly unhooked our trailer, and attached his hitch to the van's. In no time, we had him pulled up to safety, and we were glad to have helped out a solar advocate. Our team went through some serious hills throughout most the day. We finally pulled into Fort Nelson, a place Marcelo had stayed a year ago. Marcelo asked the Super 8 if they would sponsor us with a room, but they declined. We had some support and amazement from the locals in Fort Nelson. Marcelo and I went looking for Earl Brown, a member of the team from last year. It turns out that he is actually in Whitehorse, waiting for the team to arrive at some point. We ended up going to a Ramada to find a place with wifi so that we could get some work done. Jim at the Ramada offered us a place to stay, and we took him up on his offer. After we got the array set up, I ran off to the store to grab some food for everyone. I put some gas in the van, got some groceries, and headed back to the Ramada. It turned out that everyone had gone over to the heritage museum to park the solar car and see the cars they had on display. It was Maral's 77th birthday, and he showed off some of his 100 year old cars. The Fort Nelson Heritage Museum had cars, a rear steering bike, plane propellers, huge pistons, and log cabins on display, just to name a few of the attractions. In the log cabin, there were animal hides, rustic tools, and more to see. It was great to see a 2008 solar car with the 1908 Buick. The press even came by to check out the Xof1 at the museum. We wished Maral a Happy Birthday, and headed back to the hotel to get some work done. Thanks Fort Nelson for the awesome memories and good times!
LET IT BE KNOWN THAT TODAY IS NOT ONLY THE DAY AFTER THE BIRTHDAY OF MY SWEET AMERICA, BUT OF COMPARATIVE IMPORTANCE IT IS ALSO THE DAY I SAW A BLACK BEAR! Once again, pulled over on the side of the road, camera already in hand and a gorgeous bear 10 yards away. They are known for not having good eyesight, which was clearly demonstrated. A moment later, the bear ran out across the road and in front of a semi coming up in the oncoming lane. I quickly thought about how horrible this sight might be, seeing the bear lunge forward without hesitation, but the truck was able to pull off to the shoulder in time to avoid this fly laden honey lover.
know how reading the word yawn makes you yawn (I'll give you a moment), well when I write cold, I shiver. The fact that I have the cold tolerance of a penguin egg is an openly expressed admission, but that doesn't mean I can't wallow in my temperature driven self-pity. I had socks, leggings, and a zip up on, a blanket and my supposed 30degree sleeping bag. I don't know who they test those sleeping bags on, maybe logs. It got down to 32 degrees, at least there was frost coating our immediate world. My sleeping bag is too tight to bend my knees up into the eversoothing fetal position, so I just kept waking up to remind myself that I was cold. I woke up at one point happy that the night was over, but the clock told me that it was only 3am. I shivered, shuddered, and shivered again, and begrudgingly started another round of nap & self-narrate. Willy had to get up to set the array and when the alarm went off at 5am I added empathy to my shudder/shiver sequence. Howard said it was "cool." (shudder/shiver).
The sun came out early, as if to make up for what we were put through the night before. And it worked, it's hard to hold a grudge against the absence of the sun when you are warm and toasty. We were treated to breakfast at Buckinghorse and headed out around 10am to Fort Nelson, British Columbia. I was to act as navigator for the next three days, which was perfect, especially since we were only on one road the whole way. I was able to take pictures the whole time and help out with computer issues. It's rare that there is ever a down moment in the van, especially with such gorgeous land surrounding us. Uploading videos, doing updates, plugging and replugging things, hanging out the window with the camera, and video taping, it doesn't stop and that's a good thing.
We got to Fort Nelson around 2:30 and stopped at the Super 8 where we set up the array. The manager was not in and so a sponsored room seemed out of the question. Willy, Laura and I waited with the car, talking to people, while Josh and Marcelo went somewhere, I don't know. We ended up getting a place to set up the array at a Ramada just down the street and they gave us a suite for the night. THANK YOU.
with antique washing machines, cranberry pickers, waffle makers, and wooden vices. Add birthday cake and a lunch of wonderfully hospitable people to that list and you've got a perfect ending to a great day. So great to meet everyone, Sue, Marl, Judy, and everyone else!
Marcelo, put some pant on, its frosty!
Will we see any bears in the Rockies?
The carefree moment before Laura yelled, "The truck! The truck!"
"I thought I put it park..."


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When someone starts a new job, there is generally an onboarding process. Part of this process usually includes enrolling in employee benefits such as medical plans, insurance plans, and retirement benefits. Most of us are familiar with the benefits of 401(k)s, and some of us are familiar with the ins-and-outs of health savings accounts or HSAs (if you're not, see a refresher here). Increasingly, companies are beginning to offer another type of employee benefit known as the flexible spending account, or FSA.
Health Care FSA – this account can be used to pay for eligible medical, dental, vision, hearing, and prescription drug expenses.
Dependent Care FSA – this account can help pay for eligible child and adult care expenses like day care, before and after school care, nursery school, preschool, and summer day camp.
Limited Purpose FSA – this account will help pay for eligible dental and vision expenses. Eligible expenses may also include prescriptions, over-the-counter items and other health expenses based on the plan. Employees will use this plan if they also have an HSA.
Limited Purpose FSA- $2,700 (Note: your employer may set a lower limit. You should check your plan to know how much you can contribute.
Spend – once funds are in your FSA, you can use your FSA account debit card (if offered by your employer) to pay for your eligible expenses. Or you can simply pay out of pocket and then submit a reimbursement claim.
Save – your FSA contributions are tax-free. When you use your FSA funds on eligible expenses, you save your effective tax rate on every dollar you spend. If you are effective tax rate is 30%, that translates to a 30% savings on your normal out-of-pocket expenses.
Usually funded by employees pre-tax payroll deduction, employers can also contribute.
Can be used in conjunction with any type of health insurance (Note that HSAs require HDHP coverage).
FSAs funds are "use it or lose it", meaning money not used by the end of the year is forfeited, although employers can allow enrollees to carry over up to $500 to the next year.
All contribution amounts are immediately available for use (after the first contribution is made). If an employee uses the full amount and then quits or is terminated prior to the end of the year, FSA funds do not have to be paid back to the employer.
We all have out-of-pocket expenses throughout the year. If your employer offers a flexible spending account, consider if it provides the benefits that fit your needs. The savings can add up.


The tour features 9 rounds of golf at 4 top golf destinations in Thailand and Vietnam, you will play best courses in Hanoi and Saigon and then travel to Thailand and play on Thailand finest courses in Bangkok and Phuket.
Meet and greet upon arrival to Hanoi. You will be transferred by our private vehicle to hotel. Check-in and rest of time at leisure. Overnight at hotel in Hanoi.
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On the Potential of Norbert Elias's Approach in the Social Memory Research in Central and Eastern Europe
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Polish Sociological Review 2013;183(3):317–334
Symbol of the Cross in Popular Culture: an Analysis of the Use and Transformation of the Symbol in Machina Magazine
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Measurement of Subjective Well-being under Capability Approach in Poland
Struggling with Emotions in Times of Social Change: Control Restoring Operations in the Workplace and the Family
Gift and the Coefficient of Sociability Relational Sociology and the Anti-Utilitarian Movement in the Social Sciences
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We are committed to our people. We provide opportunity, cultivate talent, develop leaders and reward achievement. We believe that a team of well-trained individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences, working together in an environment that fosters respect and drives high levels of engagement, is essential to our continued success.
We believe in the Nu Globe Entertainment System. Nu Globe Entertainment business model, depicted by our "three-legged stool" of owner/operators, suppliers, and company employees, is our foundation, and balancing the interests of all three groups is key.
We operate our business ethically. Sound ethics is good business. At Nu Globe Entertainment, we hold ourselves and conduct our business to high standards of fairness, honesty, and integrity. We are individually accountable and collectively responsible.
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Q: How to pass array of objects to another screen and display them react native How do i pass the data of selected checkboxes to the previous screen in react native.
The following is what i have done so far:
This is my SelectProducts screen
import React, {useState, useEffect} from 'react'
import { StyleSheet, Text, View, Alert, Image, ScrollView, TouchableOpacity } from 'react-native';
import Checkbox from 'expo-checkbox';

const SelectProducts = ({route}) => {

    const [checkedBox, setCheckedBox] = useState([]);
    const [selectedBoxesItem, setSelectedBoxesItem] = useState([]);
    const [itemList, setItemList] = useState([]);

    const includeSelectedItem = (item, index) => {
        const newCheckedBox = [...checkedBox];
        newCheckedBox[index] = !newCheckedBox[index];
        setCheckedBox(newCheckedBox);
        setSelectedBoxesItem({
            selectedUniqueKey: item.id,
            selectedItemName: item.ad_headline,
            selectedItemPrice: item.ad_price,
            selectedItemPic: item.ad_picture
        });
    }

This is the function that I'm using to send the data to the RecordASale screen after clicking on the Done button that is below the list of checkboxes.
    const handleSelectedSubmit = () => {
        navigation.navigate({
            name: 'RecordASale',
            params: {
                post: [selectedBoxesItem],
            },
            merge: true,
        })
    }

And this is the checkbox:
    return (
         {itemList.map((item, index) => (
                <DataTable.Row>
                  <DataTable.Cell>
                  <View style={styles.checkboxContainer}>
                     <Checkbox
                      key={item.id}
                      value={checkedBox[index]}
                      onValueChange={() => includeSelectedItem(item, index)}
                      color={checkedBox ? '#800080' : undefined}
                      style={styles.checkbox}
                    />
                  </View>
                  </DataTable.Cell>
                  <DataTable.Cell>
                  <Image source = {{uri: "https://cdn.beraty.com/beraty-ads/"+item.ad_picture}} style = {{ width: 30, height: 30 }} />
                  </DataTable.Cell>
                  <DataTable.Cell>{item.ad_headline}</DataTable.Cell>
                  <DataTable.Cell>{item.ad_price}</DataTable.Cell>
                </DataTable.Row>
             ))}

            <View style = {styles.submitButton}>
               <Text style = {styles.submitButtonText} onPress={() => handleSelectedSubmit()}>Done</Text>
            </View>
          </DataTable>

    );
}

What i want to achieve is to get the following details for every checkbox selected:

*

*item.id,

*item.ad_headline,

*item.ad_price,

*item.ad_picture

All the above data should be passed from this SelectProducts screen to RecordASale screen
To my own understanding, what I did was that I passed objects to the function of the state below:
const [selectedBoxesItem, setSelectedBoxesItem] = useState([]);
setSelectedBoxesItem({
            selectedUniqueKey: item.id,
            selectedItemName: item.ad_headline,
            selectedItemPrice: item.ad_price,
            selectedItemPic: item.ad_picture
});

So when i did this, I only get the last selected checkbox details passed to the RecordASale screen even though i selected more than one checkbox.
This is how i'm getting the details into the RecordASale screen:

const RecordASale = ({route}) => {

   return (
           {(route.params?.post) ? route.params?.post.map((item, index) => (
        <View>
           <View key={index}>
                <Image source = {{uri: "https://cdn.beraty.com/beraty-ads/"+item.selectedItemPic}} style = {{ width: 30, height: 30 }} />
                <Text>{item.selectedItemName}</Text>
                <Text>{item.selectedItemPrice}</Text>
           </View>
        </View>
           )) : <Text></Text>}
   );

}

I want the same details as above for all selected checboxes to be passed to the other screen, and not just one.
I believe I'm quite close to that but some things are missing in my code. Please help. Thanks.
I only shared the parts I'm having problems with.

A: You can use useRoute hook
const SelectProducts = ({
  route
}) => {
  const routes = useRoute();
  console.log(routes.params ? .post)

}

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Q: Is it mathematically possible to do a discrete choice experiment with uneven choice sets? Hard to express what I'm trying to ask in a short title.
I have a dataset in which respondents are asked to choose a hospital at which to deliver their baby.  However...some respondents get to choose from among 10 hospitals, some from among 100, and some from among 3, based on where they live. The full choice set of 577 hospitals is not available to any one respondent.
Is there a way to solve for this?
I could work around it: eg, I could limit respondents to min(choice set size)—3, in the example above—or I could artificially construct the 577 choices for every respondent.  But I'd prefer not to do either of those.


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Final regular season NASCAR race postponed by rain at Indy
Track driers work to dry the pit lane before the NASCAR Brickyard 400 auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway today.
INDIANAPOLIS >> Persistent rain washed out the Brickyard 400 and delayed the conclusion of NASCAR's regular season.
Rain washed out the entire weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the final race before the playoffs was moved to Monday. It will run at 2 p.m., after the rescheduled Xfinity Series race.
Indianapolis was drenched by three days of rain and NASCAR has not been able to get any cars on track.
NASCAR's playoffs begin next weekend in Las Vegas and the sanctioning body is eager to get the regular season finale concluded at Indianapolis. The race sets the field for the 16-driver playoffs.
Kyle Busch is scheduled to start on the pole alongside Kevin Harvick when the race does begin.
Myles Jack interception return leads Jags over Giants
Bengals rally, spoil Andrew Luck's return with win over Colts


Prince George, BC - In a Friday night contest at the CN Centre, the Victoria Royals squared off against the Prince George Cougars in the first game of a weekend doubleheader. The Royals gave Coleman Vollrath the start in goal, while the Cougars responded with Mac Engel.
The Cougars opened the scoring on a goal by Chase Witala at 3:39 of the opening frame. After he gained possession of the puck in the neutral zone, Witala skated down the left wing and released a slap shot high over the glove of the Royals' netminder. Vollrath turned aside 17 shots in the first frame, but Prince George led 1-0 after 20 minutes of play.
Witala notched his second goal for the Cougars before Royals' forward Alex Gogolev solved Engel. Tanner Lishchynsky and Colin Jacobs increased Prince George's lead to 4-1 before Patrik Polivka replaced Vollrath in the Victoria net. Cougars' defenceman Dallas Ehrhardt got one past Polivka and Logan Fisher netted a powerplay marker for the Royals as Prince George skated into the second intermission ahead 5-2.
Witala rounded out the scoring for the Cougars as he completed his hat-trick and the Royals were unable to draw any closer. Prince George 6 Victoria 2.
Victoria went 1/714.2% on the powerplay while Prince George was 0/50.0%. The Cougars outshot the Royals 34-30.
The Royals will wrap up their three-game road trip Saturday night in Prince George. Puck drop is set for 7:00 p.m. Victoria will then head back to Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre on Tuesday, February 5th and Wednesday, February 6th for a midweek doubleheader against the Seattle Thunderbirds. Puck drop for both games is set for 7:05 p.m.
We are Royal Blue! Are you? Guarantee yourself the best seats for upcoming Royals games by visiting www.selectyourtickets.com, calling 250-220-7777 or visiting the Select Your Tickets box-office at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre. Mini-Packs, Vouchers and special rates for groups of 10+ are available by visiting www.victoriaroyals.com or calling 250-220-7889.
Royals Roar Past Blazers to Advance to Second Round of Playoffs.


UPDATE 0145hrs 26/10/17: It has been reported that the pirates boarded the merchant vessel and the crew retreated to the citadel.
October 2017, crew were still in citadel and vessel was sailing off course on a north west bearing at 3 knots.
It has since been confirmed that 2 pirates originally boarded the vessel.
At 1200hrs 26/10/17 Vessel and crew are confirmed as safe and escorted by a Nigerian Navy vessel.


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Yuri Valentinovich Knórozov (Pivdenne, 19 de novembro de 1922 - São Petersburgo, Rússia, 30 de março de 1999) foi um notório antropólogo, linguísta, arqueólogo, egiptólogo, mesoamericanista, etnólogo, etnógrafo, escritor, professor e historiador soviético. Seus estudos tiveram fundamental importância na decifração do sistema de escrita da cultura maia; contribuindo nos estudos deste e de outros povos da Mesoamérica.

Biografia
Em 1939, na Ucrânia, Yuri Knorozov ingressou na Faculdade de História da Universidade Nacional da Carcóvia. Após a eclosão da Segunda Guerra Mundial, em outubro de 1941, Carcóvia foi ocupada por tropas nazistas, mas em 1943 Knorozov conseguiu se mudar para Moscou e continuar seus estudos na Faculdade de História da Universidade Estatal de Moscou, na qual já havia sido admitido em 1940. Pouco tempo depois, Yuri Knorozov seria recrutado para as forças armadas soviéticas, como soldado de artilharia.

No final da guerra, em maio de 1945, Knorozov e sua unidade apoiaram o avanço do Exército Soviético em direção a Berlim; foi lá, após a batalha de Berlim, que Knorozov teve a oportunidade de encontrar, por acaso, o livro que despertou seu interesse pela decifração da escrita maia. Há uma versão lendária de que em maio de 1945, participando da batalha de Berlim, Yuri conseguiu resgatar de um incêndio na Biblioteca Nacional (a Biblioteca Estatal da Prússia, hoje Biblioteca de Berlim) dois livros raros: uma edição de 1933 dos Códices Maias, escrita pelos irmãos Villacorta , e da coleção de Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg intitulada Relação das coisas de Yucatán, escrita originalmente no século XVI por Diego de Landa, um missionário espanhol da Ordem Franciscana em Yucatán que foi bispo dessa mesma província na década de 1570 e fez as primeiras investigações dos escritos maias. O próprio Knorozov daria sua versão, desmentindo esta lenda, ao afirmar em entrevista: "É uma lenda. Não houve fogo. As autoridades alemãs prepararam a biblioteca (agora Biblioteca de Berlim) para a evacuação e deveriam levá-la para os Alpes na Áustria. Os livros colocados em caixas estavam no meio da rua. Então, escolhi dois…".

Quando jovem leu um artigo sobre a história dos maias e ficou com vontade de saber mais sobre aquela civilização. Ele continuou seus estudos em egiptologia, a língua árabe e os sistemas de escrita da antiga Índia e China. Yuri Knorozov se formou na Universidade de Moscou em 1948. Knorozov interessou-se pelos glifos dos antigos Maias, dos quais muito poucos podiam ser compreendidos, e suas investigações sobre o assunto lhe renderam um doutorado em ciências históricas em 1955. Assim, descobriu que os 355 signos dos códices correspondiam à escrita fonética e morfemo-silábica. Essa foi a chave que lhe permitiu decifrar a escrita maia.

De inicio a descoberta de Yuri Knorozov não teve reconhecimento internacional. Knorozov publicou seus primeiros artigos em 1952. Knorozov publicou seu trabalho mais importante sobre a escrita maia no artigo Письменность индейцев-майя (A escrita dos maias indígenas), em 1963. Knorozov levou em consideração os manuscritos do século XVI, chamados Relação das coisas de Yucatán, de Frei Diego de Landa, como uma base sólida sobre a qual fez suas deduções. Seus trabalhos provocaram grande polêmica em todo o mundo. Seu principal rival era o arqueólogo britânico John Eric Thompson, o mais respeitado especialista dos povos Maia da época. Diante do britânico, Knorozov era um inexpressivo representante da ciência soviética baseada nos princípios do marxismo-leninismo; a Guerra Fria também eclodiu no campo linguístico e Thompson chegou a questionar a integridade pessoal e científica de Knorozov. Levaria mais de vinte anos para o mundo científico reconhecer a descoberta de Knorozov. A principal crítica era a de que Knorozov fez a descoberta, mas sem nunca ter ido às terras dos Maias. (Knórozov só pôde visitar as terras maias pela primeira vez 38 anos após sua descoberta, em 1991, viajando para a Guatemala na companhia da historiadora acadêmica, linguista e epígrafa russa Galina Gavrilovna Yershova e seu marido, o historiador Guillermo Ovando Sanz)

Apenas David H. Kelley e Michael D. Coe aceitaram que o método de Knorozov poderia estar correto. A opinião errônea de Thompson prevaleceria até sua morte em 1975. Suas hipóteses de decifração fonética rapidamente se tornariam amplamente aceitas na década de 1970, e possibilitaram a leitura de grande parte das inscrições dos antigos maias. Finalmente, os epigrafistas Linda Schele , David H. Kelleyy, Peter Mathews, Merle Greene Robertson e Floyd Lounsbury decidiram aplicar o método fonético proposto por Knórozov, e assim conseguiram decifrar a história da dinastia que governou a zona arqueológica de Palenque.

Em 1992, o pesquisador estadunidense Michael D. Coe publicou o livro Breaking the Maya Code (Quebrando o Código Maia) no qual reconhecia oficialmente o sucesso de Knórozov e os erros de Thompson. "Somos todos 'knorozovists' agora", disse Coe em entrevista.

Yuri Knorozov deduziu, com seus estudos que devia haver um túmulo de mulher em Palenque ainda não descoberto. Em 1995 sua teoria seria comprovada ao ser encontrado o túmulo da Rainha Vermelha (assim chamado por causa da quantidade de cinábrio vermelho que o cobria).

Após sua primeira viagem ao México em 1991, em seguida, visitaria a Guatemala a convite do presidente do país, que o presenteou com a Grande Ordem do Quetzal, a mais importante distinção do governo guatemalteco. Em 1994, o governo mexicano concedeu-lhe a Ordem Mexicana da Águia Asteca na Embaixada do México em Moscou. Em 1995 Knorozov visitou o México para participar do III Congresso Internacional de Mayanistas e em 1997 o cientista realizou sua última viagem ao México, onde visitou vários sítios arqueológicos em Yucatán.

Durante a década de 1990, com a colaboração da doutora Galina Yershova, elaborou um dicionário de glifos maias-língua espanhola contendo mil e trinta e cinco verbetes. Intitulou-se Xcaret Compêndio da escrita hieroglífica maia decifrada por Yuri Knorozov, e foi publicada em três volumes. O primeiro volume corresponde ao dicionário com os glifos desenhados por ele mesmo, o segundo volume contém uma reprodução dos códices maias e o terceiro volume contém a transcrição, transliteração e tradução para o espanhol dos três códices.

Por muitos anos, ele foi membro sênior do Instituto Etnográfico da Academia de Ciências da URSS em Leningrado (atual cidade de São Petersburgo). Pouco antes de sua morte, Knorozov explicou em entrevista por que dedicou toda a sua vida à cultura maia:

Knorozov morreu em 1999, em São Petersburgo, devido a um Acidente vascular cerebral que foi complicado por pneumonia, que ele desenvolveu em um hospital, onde não foi devidamente tratado.

Homenagem póstuma
Em 2018 a Rússia ofertou ao povo maia de Yucatán, no México, um monumento dedicado a Yuri Knorozov, que foi inaugurado em março de 2018 durante a "Feria Internacional de Libro FILEY-2018", o governo russo enviou um emissário especial para o evento e no qual o país teve seu próprio pavilhão.
Para Eduard Malayán, o então embaixador Rússia no México, este momento foi uma honra e também um reconhecimento da contribuição dos cientistas soviéticos, em particular do famoso antropólogo Yuri Knorozov, para o desenvolvimento da ciência universal que estuda a cultura Maia.

Em 1° de julho de 2022 o presidente russo Vladimir Putin assinou o decreto para perpetuar memória de etnógrafo e linguista soviético Yuri Knorozov, instruindo o governo a estabelecer um comitê organizador e realizar eventos para comemorar o centenário de nascimento do cientista de destaque internacional.

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Civilizações mesoamericanas
Mortes por acidente vascular cerebral

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Il cimitero di Praga  è il sesto romanzo di Umberto Eco, pubblicato in Italia da Bompiani il 29 ottobre 2010.

Protagonista del romanzo è il capitano Simone (Simonino) Simonini, un falsario estremamente cinico che vive nel XIX secolo. Il romanzo è ambientato tra Parigi, Torino, Monaco di Baviera e Palermo e rielabora la storia del Risorgimento con dati e personaggi realmente esistiti, tranne il protagonista, unico elemento di fantasia del romanzo, che funge da trait-d'union dei diversi fatti e protagonisti storici e al quale l'autore attribuisce un ruolo primario nella maggior parte dei complotti dell'Ottocento.

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Il falsario e agente segreto Simone Simonini, nell'appartamento soprastante la sua bottega di rigattiere (che usa come copertura) a Parigi nel 1897, ormai anziano, inizia ad annotare in un diario gli eventi della sua esistenza. Egli spera in questo modo di far tornare alla memoria alcuni ricordi che sembra aver perso a causa di un'amnesia. Un secondo personaggio, l'abate Dalla Piccola, che egli sembra non conoscere, ma che vive in un appartamento comunicante col suo e, inspiegabilmente, conosce molte cose della vita di Simonini, si intromette con le sue annotazioni nei fogli di cronaca di quest'ultimo. Le postille si alternano a quelle dello stesso protagonista, il quale è persuaso (al pari del lettore che è tratto in inganno dalla crisi di identità di Simonini) del convincimento che i due soggetti corrispondano alla medesima identità, salvo poi ricredersi quando all'interno della narrazione della propria biografia scorge incongruenze che lo portano a meditare il contrario. La terza voce è quella del Narratore.

Ripercorrendo i fatti della sua vita, Simone Simonini ricorda di essere piemontese di nascita; rimasto molto presto orfano di madre, cresce a Torino assieme al nonno, Giovanni Battista Simonini, perché il padre, affiliato alla Carboneria, è spesso lontano, impegnato nell'organizzazione di moti insurrezionali (morirà nel 1849 durante la difesa della Repubblica Romana). Al contrario di suo figlio, Giovanni Battista è invece profondamente reazionario e bigotto, e trasmette al nipote il suo viscerale odio per gli ebrei (lo stesso nome del protagonista è stato scelto dal nonno in memoria di San Simonino, il bambino che, secondo la leggenda, fu ucciso come vittima sacrificale dagli ebrei di Trento nel XV secolo). Simone cresce quindi in un ambiente cupo, oppressivo e codino, sorvegliato dai precettori gesuiti chiamati dal nonno, tra cui il padre Bergamaschi, ambiente che alimenta in lui insensibilità, misantropia, ubbie e idiosincrasie morbose, una ossessiva misoginia e, per contrasto con la rigida educazione ricevuta, il disprezzo per la religione: si appassiona però alla lettura dei feuilleton di Alexandre Dumas, di cui apprezza soprattutto il romanzo Giuseppe Balsamo, incentrato sulla figura di Cagliostro, e di Eugène Sue.

Alla morte del nonno, nel 1855, Simone scopre che la sua eredità è gravata da molti debiti ed è costretto, aiutato dagli studi di diritto che ha concluso, ad andare a lavorare presso il notaio Rebaudengo (al quale Simonino attribuisce la responsabilità della sottrazione indebita del patrimonio del nonno). Costui gli insegna a falsificare documenti, arte in cui ben presto Simonini diventa abilissimo, attirandosi così le attenzioni dei servizi segreti sabaudi. Divenuto una spia, Simonini viene inviato in Sicilia al seguito dei Mille di Giuseppe Garibaldi, e qui conosce lo scrittore Ippolito Nievo, tenente e tesoriere dell'esercito dei volontari, di cui si guadagna la fiducia per potersi così impossessare, su ordine dei servizi savoiardi (che gli ingiungono di limitarsi alla esclusiva distruzione delle carte), dei registri contabili da questi conservati. Allo scopo di far sparire questa documentazione, che potrebbe provare i finanziamenti elargiti sottobanco dai Savoia, Simonini provoca l'affondamento del piroscafo Ercole su cui viaggia Nievo, nonché la morte dello stesso.

Tornato a Torino, i servizi lo inviano a Parigi, dove Simonini inizia a lavorare per il controspionaggio dell'impero francese. Nel frattempo, ispirandosi ai romanzi di Dumas e Sue, ha iniziato a fabbricare un documento fittizio, dapprima indirizzato al discredito dei gesuiti, successivamente rivolto agli ebrei, in cui viene messo in scena un supposto conciliabolo notturno dei rabbini capi delle varie comunità ebraiche d'Europa nel vecchio cimitero ebraico di Praga, nel quale costoro espongono i loro piani per la conquista del mondo e la distruzione del cristianesimo. Ulteriore materiale, utile alla fabbricazione del testo, viene fornito al falsario dalla lettura di un libro contro Napoleone III, Dialoghi agli inferi tra Machiavelli e Montesquieu, scritto dal giornalista Maurice Joly, che conosce in prigione, dove era stato inviato dal governo francese per acquisire informazioni sullo stesso e constatarne la pericolosità, e che poi ucciderà, simulandone il suicidio. Sempre per conto dei servizi francesi, infiltrandosi negli ambienti dell'anarchismo, fa arrestare un gruppo di cospiratori, guidato dall'italiano Gaviali, che preparavano un attentato contro l'imperatore.

Intenzionato a vendere al miglior offerente il suo materiale sugli ebrei, che nel frattempo continua ad arricchire di particolari desunti dalle fonti più diverse e opportunamente adattati, Simonini entra in contatto anche con i servizi prussiani, conoscendo uno scrittore di nome Hermann Goedsche, il quale però si appropria della materia della sua opera che inserirà nel proprio romanzo, Biarritz. Con lo scoppio della guerra franco-prussiana, però, il Secondo Impero di Napoleone III crolla e Simonini si trova coinvolto nei giorni terribili della Comune di Parigi. Passato rapidamente al soldo della Terza repubblica francese, negli anni successivi lavora a consolidare i suoi numerosi contatti (tra i quali il suo stesso precettore di un tempo, padre Bergamaschi, anch'egli interessato a ottenere dall'antico allievo materiale contro i nemici della Chiesa, massoni ed ebrei), mentre nel frattempo anche l'attività di semplice falsario per clienti privati contribuisce ad aumentare i suoi introiti, assicurandogli una discreta fortuna, sebbene il suo stile di vita continui a essere molto modesto e solitario, non coltivando egli alcuna relazione personale e concedendosi un'unica grande passione, quella per la buona tavola.

Ma il pensiero fisso di Simonini resta l'intenzione di procacciare la sua opera migliore, il falso documento sulla congiura ebraica intitolato inizialmente Il cimitero di Praga, e ormai ribattezzato i Protocolli: in essi vengono sfruttati tutti i possibili stereotipi antiebraici, utili a suscitare la paura e l'odio di tutti gli strati sociali, dal clero, cui si rivolgono i passi in cui gli ebrei sono presentati come diabolici nemici della cristianità, fomentatori del libero pensiero e della massoneria, alla piccola borghesia, per la quale gli ebrei vengono dipinti come ispiratori di movimenti socialisti e comunisti, e in ultimo al proletariato, cui invece vengono additati come usurai, padroni della finanza e delle banche mondiali e affamatori del popolo.

Nel suo diario, Simonini rievoca anche il suo incontro con un abate di nome Dalla Piccola, che gli aveva commissionato, a nome dei gesuiti, uno scritto contro gli ebrei. Questi lo aveva poi accusato di avergli fornito materiale non originale tratto dal romanzo Biarritz (nei fatti si rivela essere il romanzo di Goedsche a essere stato copiato dai Protocolli di Simonini), il cui autore Goedsche sarà messo a tacere in seguito dai gesuiti: per evitare di essere smascherato, Simonini uccide Dalla Piccola nascondendone il corpo nella cloaca del proprio pied-à-terre.

Non si tratta, però, evidentemente, del Dalla Piccola che continua periodicamente a inserirsi nel suo racconto, perché egli riprende nuovamente la parola per narrare la sua storia: negli stessi anni, dunque, Dalla Piccola entra in contatto con personaggi equivoci quali il sacerdote satanista Joseph-Antoine Boullan e soprattutto lo scrittore Léo Taxil, autore di scritti violentemente anticattolici, con i quali organizza un'elaborata truffa. Taxil, un tempo affiliato alla massoneria, simula una sua sorprendente conversione al cattolicesimo, e inizia a produrre una serie di scritti polemici dal vastissimo successo commerciale in cui denuncia le pratiche esoteriche e misteriose che sarebbero praticate nelle varie logge. Per rendere ancora più credibili le descrizioni degli inquietanti riti, Dalla Piccola prende in custodia dal dottor Du Maurier, direttore di una clinica psichiatrica a Vincennes, una giovane paziente dal passato misterioso, di nome Diana, soggetta a crisi isteriche, nel corso delle quali soffre di un curioso caso di sdoppiamento della personalità, passa dall'essere pia e devota ed estremamente pudica ad assumere atteggiamenti lascivi e provocanti, abbandonandosi alla descrizione di fantastici culti satanici e a messe nere cui avrebbe partecipato. Rinchiusa la ragazza in un appartamento di sua proprietà, Dalla Piccola, assieme a Taxil, attinge da lei i racconti con cui alimentare il flusso di pubblicazioni antimassoniche, che hanno una straordinaria diffusione negli ambienti cattolici, tanto da far guadagnare a Taxil persino un incontro con papa Leone XIII in persona. A un certo punto, poi, è la stessa Diana, cui viene dato il cognome Vaughan, a essere presentata come l'autrice dei libri: Dalla Piccola, Taxil e Boullan ne inventano la storia, immaginando che ella sia stata un'adepta del culto palladiano pentitasi e tornata alla fede cattolica. Dopo qualche tempo, comunque, iniziano a sorgere i primi dubbi sull'autenticità della storia di Diana. Taxil, dopo che il dottor Charles Hacks (autore de Le diable au XIX siècle, pubblicato con lo pseudonimo di Bataille), artefice insieme a Taxil, Dalla Piccola e Boullan delle pubblicazioni tese a infangare la massoneria, ha rivelato la falsità della conversione di Diana Vaughan dichiarando di aver voluto sfruttare la dabbenaggine dei cattolici, ansioso di far parlare ancor più di sé, prepara una clamorosa ritrattazione e abbandona il gruppo.

Intenzionato a raccogliere informazioni sulla massoneria, Simonini si accredita presso gli ambienti repubblicani, a suo giudizio, un buon pretesto per entrare in contatto con i massoni. Nello stesso periodo, attraverso la mediazione di Juliana Glinka, alla quale aveva cercato di sbolognare fantasticherie antiebraiche, entra in contatto con il responsabile delle investigazioni all'estero del servizio segreto russo Pyotr Rachkovskij. Inizia a collaborare dunque con l'Okhrana, la polizia segreta della Russia zarista, anch'essa interessata a reperire prove della cospirazione semitica per i suoi scopi. Nel frattempo, Simonini viene coinvolto nel celebre "affare Dreyfus", contribuendo, mediante la fabbricazione di un documento falso che imita la calligrafia dell'ufficiale ebreo-alsaziano Alfred Dreyfus (attribuendogli la responsabilità di attività spionistiche in funzione antifrancese), a farlo incriminare di tradimento e a farlo confinare sull'Isola del Diavolo.

La sera del 21 marzo 1897 (il giorno precedente alla misteriosa amnesia di Simonini, e alla sua prima annotazione nel diario), Dalla Piccola partecipa, assieme a Diana, a una messa nera, poi risoltasi in sabba, officiata da Boullan, nel corso della quale la donna, in preda a frenesia erotica, abusa dell'abate. La mattina dopo, Dalla Piccola scopre con orrore che Diana è ebrea e, fuori di sé all'idea di aver avuto un rapporto sessuale con una donna e di poter diventare padre di un bambino ebreo, uccide Diana e Boullan, nascondendone i cadaveri nel condotto fognario sottostante la propria abitazione. Tali eventi sono stati la causa del trauma che ha determinato la parziale perdita di memoria in Simonini, il quale ha cancellato dalla sua mente tutto quanto gli era accaduto quando impersonava Dalla Piccola: si scopre infatti che Simonini e Dalla Piccola (personaggio sotto le cui spoglie Simonini aveva iniziato a nascondersi quando era stato costretto da Lagrange a entrare in contatto con Boullan) sono la stessa persona. A causa dello choc seguito ad un evento molto traumatico le due personalità si sono sdoppiate e l'una non aveva più coscienza dell'altra. Grazie al metodo di rievocare i ricordi attraverso la scrittura (suggerito al protagonista da un incontro casuale con un giovane e ancora sconosciuto Sigmund Freud), Simonini ricompone le storie dei due personaggi rielaborando gli accadimenti della propria vita.

Dopo un'interruzione della redazione del diario, che si protrae per circa un anno, Simonini riprende a scrivere e riporta di essere ancora alle prese con i servizi segreti russi che continuano a incalzarlo per avere i Protocolli, arrivando anche a ricattarlo minacciando di far uscire allo scoperto i suoi delitti. Simonini teme che il suo nome possa essere ricollegato al falso documento che ha incriminato Dreyfus, ma riceve le rassicurazioni di Rachkovskij il quale dichiara che è interesse della Francia che il bordereau fittizio sia creduto autentico. Finalmente porta a termine il suo lavoro e lo consegna a un agente di nome Matvei Golovinskij. Non può sapere che il suo testo è destinato ad avere una sinistra influenza su tutto il XX secolo.

L'ultima annotazione nel diario è del dicembre 1898: il romanzo si chiude con la preparazione di un attentato nella costruenda metropolitana di Parigi, in cui Simonini è incaricato di piazzare una bomba fabbricata da Gaviali, operazione in cui, presumibilmente, perderà la vita, poiché il suo diario si interrompe bruscamente.

Postfazione e considerazioni dell'autore
Nella postfazione al romanzo, Umberto Eco precisa che tutti i personaggi, ad eccezione del protagonista Simone Simonini e di alcune figure minori (come ad esempio il notaio Rebaudengo), "sono realmente esistiti e hanno fatto e detto le cose che fanno e dicono in questo romanzo".

In un'intervista concessa a Claudio Magris, Eco ha inoltre affermato: "Quello che il mio romanzo cerca di mostrare è che [i romanzi di avventura] sono stati usati proprio per la stessa costruzione dei testi antisemiti, perché la gente (compresi i capi dei servizi segreti) crede solo a quello che ha già sentito affabulare da qualche parte. Per questo, ancora oggi, i dossier segreti sono composti unicamente da ritagli stampa, e quasi sempre di stampa scandalistica, il feuilleton dei giorni nostri".

La genesi dei Protocolli dei Savi di Sion, il falso documento sulla presunta congiura ebraica per la conquista del mondo (citato dallo stesso Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf, che ne riporta con scetticismo la denuncia di falsità del quotidiano tedesco Frankfurter Allgemeine), è anche l'argomento del graphic novel Il complotto del disegnatore statunitense Will Eisner.

Critica
Il romanzo ha suscitato alcune critiche per il fatto che, secondo alcuni, esso trasmetterebbe l'idea che i cattolici abbiano un atteggiamento critico verso le idee del progresso e gli strumenti della ragione umana, e apparirebbero chiusi in un orizzonte auto-referenziale, ossessionati dal sesso e dall'antisemitismo. A tali critiche, anche da parte di politologi esperti di antisemitismo quale Pierre-André Taguieff, Eco ha replicato che le recensioni giornalistiche hanno dimostrato di capire correttamente il senso del contenuto del romanzo.

Molte riserve ha suscitato anche l'estremo antisemitismo che pervade l'intera trama del racconto. L'Osservatore Romano, in coincidenza con la pubblicazione del romanzo, ha espresso una dura critica a Eco attraverso due articoli a firma delle storiche Lucetta Scaraffia e Anna Foa, dove la prima ha denunciato in particolare il fatto che "a forza di leggere cose disgustose sugli ebrei, il lettore rimane come sporcato da questo vaneggiare antisemita, ed è perfino possibile che qualcuno pensi che forse c'è qualcosa di vero se tutti, proprio tutti, i personaggi paiono certi di queste nefandezze". Lo scrittore ha replicato sostenendo che il suo libro non presenta intenti denigratori o razzistici contro il popolo ebraico. In una intervista televisiva a Fabio Fazio del 2010, lo scrittore ha inoltre affermato di avere voluto smascherare la costruzione del falso cliché dell'antisemitismo.

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Watch Now: STRONGROOM
Even though he was well known for directing B-movies, director Vernon Sewell was widely appreciated for elevating them beyond their budget confines. His work was well deserving of better opportunities with bigger budgets, something that, unfortunately, never came to pass. And if there was ever a movie that proved that point, it would be Strongroom. With two parallel storylines, Sewell takes us on a thrilling crime adventure. The fact that the film takes place in just a few rooms enables us to truly feel the slow tempo of living in a small English town, which is, in turn, juxtaposed with something exciting and unexpected, like a bank robbery.
In the movie, criminals Griff (Derren Nesbitt), Len Warren (Keith Faulkner) and Alec Warren (W. Morgan Sheppard) decide to rob a bank during a holiday, when there are no customers, only one cashier (Ann Lynn) and the bank manager (Colin Gordon). After locking them in the strongroom, the robbers are surprised by the cleaning crew so they leave the bank with the money, without letting the cashier and the bank manager out. Upon returning to their hideout, the criminals are afraid that the two locked in the strongroom will suffocate because nobody will set them free until Tuesday. They do not want to be murderers, so they devise a plan to get the strongroom keys to the police. Naturally, things do not end the way the robbers wanted them to. A shocking ending and a charismatic performance from Nesbitt make this movie a gem worth seeing, proof that a big budget is not everything when it comes to creating a memorable cinematic experience.
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It's a Goaaaaaaaal for the City!
On November 16th, we had several special visitors stop by! Four players from D.C. United visited our NW Center food pantry to support our Holiday Helpings program. Steve Birnbaum, Kofi Opare, Nick DeLeon, and Chris Durkin packed and distributed dozens of holiday meal kits, all of which include a turkey with all the trimmings, to our clients. The guys worked hard to keep up with the infamously long line in our food pantry during this time of year, but also enjoyed one on one time with clients and staff.
Chris McCullough of the Washington Wizards visited Bread for the City's SE Center last week, where he volunteered at its Food Pantry. After handing out food bags, he had quality time with clients and staff, taking pictures and chatting, proving that he really is such a good sport! We interviewed Chris to hear his thoughts on giving back, volunteering, and what he enjoys most about the holiday season.


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Latino Fashion Week 2013's "Journey" Starts on a Bumpy Road
Delia de Avila was seen harassing a journalist and tossing her phone to the ground before the first runway show for Latino Fashion Week. Photo Credit: Carlos Mora
By Sandy Chang | Investigative Reporter
On October 1st, 2013, Latino Fashion Week opened its doors to a diverse set of interested fashionistas, politicos, and members of the community. It also opened its doors to bloggers and members of the press. While most of the evening was composed of free-flowing cocktails and pictures with the who's who of Chicago's developing Latino fashion scene, an incident did occur that, according to witnesses, made for an uncomfortable evening.
Delia de Avila, coordinator for Latino Fashion Week, is said to have harassed a young journalist to the point of physical confrontation before the start of "The Journey", the fashion show anticipated by both guests and media. The young woman, who represents a notable fashion blog based in Los Angeles, stated that Delia "grabbed her arm, tossed (her) phone to the ground as (she) was filming the confrontation, and yelled obscenities". A witness, who preferred not to be identified, told PdM that Delia appeared to be under stress and "seemed shaken up" before confronting the 22 year old journalist and kicking her out of the show.
"It's really a shame to have experienced that," stated Arturo, a student at the Illinois Institute of Art. "I was standing right behind Delia as she screamed at the poor girl: who does that?" It appears that while "The Journey" for those watching the fashion showcase was an enjoyable endeavor, the ride for the young fashion blogger was not so smooth.
Ms. Avila has failed to comment on the matter.
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'Celebrating the Human Spirit' through art: Work of Spider Martin, Peter Magubane and Willie Cole addresses human struggle in UAB exhibits
Updated: Jan. 13, 2019, 5:59 p.m. | Published: Jun. 26, 2015, 6:15 p.m.
Celebrating the Human Spirit: 50 Years after the 1965 Voting Rights Act
Gallery: Celebrating the Human Spirit: 50 Years after the 1965 Voting Rights Act
By Carla Jean Whitley | cwhitley@al.com
Art can speak to challenging issues in a subtle way, sometimes engaging the viewer before he or she realizes what a piece is addressing. Other times, an image immediately evokes an emotional response.
A series at UAB's Abroms-Engel Institute of Visual Arts aims to draw in viewers with work loud and quiet. The three exhibits in the series address politically charged topics, especially civil and human rights, through a variety of artistic media.
The exhibits tie together a local art collection (that of Jim Sokol and Lydia Cheney), work by legendary civil rights photographers in Alabama (Spider Martin) and South Africa (Peter Magubane) and contemporary statements by an internationally known artist (Willie Cole) represented by galleries in New York City and Birmingham (beta pictoris).
AEIVA staff began planning "Focus I: IDENTIFIED" and "Willie Cole: Transformation" after the city came to it with "The Freedom Exhibition: Two Countries One Struggle," which compares the work of Martin and Magubane.
The three exhibits could stand alone, but they intersect with each other thematically and visually. AEIVA's three galleries, which can be closed off, remain connected so that a visitor can see Willie Cole's "Sole Flower" while standing among the works in "Focus I: IDENTIFIED." Two Willie Cole creations, "Birmingham Rattle Snake" and "Civil Constrictor," were inspired by Birmingham and find a home in the center of "The Freedom Exhibition." The two works are fire hoses on which Cole used acrylics to paint words from a psalm and the Declaration of Independence. Art from Sokol and Cheney's collection also shows up in "Willie Cole: Transformation."
AEIVA director Lisa Tamiris Becker, who curated the Cole exhibit, says she wanted "The Freedom Exhibition" to be experienced in a different way than it would be if it was at a cultural center. "(Documentary photography) exists in those multiple spheres of photography, media and art," she says.
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AEIVA curator John Fields and Becker had already discussed curating exhibits from the collections of gallery members.
"We thought it would be a really cool idea," Fields says, "because there's so much awesome art work (in local collections)." Each has a different focus, he adds, and that inspired the series' name.
Sokol and Cheney's collection includes a number of pieces that address social and political issues, which made it a natural fit for the first "Focus" exhibit, once AEIVA staff decided it would coincide with "The Freedom Exhibition." It occupies the first of the three galleries, where work such as "Absolut No Return" by Hank Willis Thomas and "Birmingham Klan Rally" by Julie Moos can evoke visceral reactions as they address inequality and injustice. Many pieces, such as these two, deal specifically with issues related to the rights of black people, whether abroad or in America.
"The Freedom Exhibition," located in the center gallery, hews to a tighter focus on civil rights, with 50 photographs each from Martin and Magubane's portfolios. The images are grouped together, sometimes with a photo from Martin's work in Selma paired with a single picture from South Africa, and other times in larger arrangements. Martin spent five weeks in Selma in 1965 documenting the civil rights movement, especially Bloody Sunday and the Selma to Montgomery March. Magubane followed apartheid and Nelson Mandela for several decades.
The late Martin's daughter, Tracy, conceived of the exhibit before approaching the city of Birmingham and Ron Froehlich, a South African native, Birmingham resident and honorary lifetime president of the International World Games Association.
Birmingham director of special projects Renee Kemp-Rotan says the challenge of the city-funded exhibit was narrowing the number of images. Both photographers' collections are abundant, and the finished exhibit displays both iconic and unfamiliar Martin images.
The exhibit is divided into four categories: existing conditions of blacks in the 1950s, the planning of the movement, confrontation and free at last: truth and reconciliation. As a result, it's a study in contrasts between the photographers, the countries and the leaders at the heart of each movement.
At times, it's difficult to discern which photograph depicts which country without a glance at the nearby labels. Although police dogs are associated with Alabama civil rights events, they appear in several of the South Africa photos.
"We left it a little bit ambiguous on purpose so you could make these comparisons, and so people couldn't make the distinctions," Martin says.
The narrative concludes with Mandela's presidency and a video by Birmingham's Omari Simmons, depicting images of Selma and President Barack Obama's visit for the anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
"In many ways, this is almost a continuation of the civil rights trail," says Kemp-Rotan, whose first curatorial project was the Civil Rights Heritage Trail that brings history and images to the streets of downtown Birmingham. Her background in architecture informs her interest in where cultural anthropology meets the streets, and it's a mission that will likely continue beyond Birmingham. The "Freedom Exhibition" team intends the exhibit to appear in four American cities and four South African cities, although additional venues have not yet been confirmed.
The series of exhibits concludes with "Willie Cole: Transformation." The artist, whose work is included in the Birmingham Museum of Art's collection, uses everyday objects to comment on social issues. Cole created the 15 pieces between 1996 and 2015, bringing a contemporary perspective to the series.
Becker curated the exhibit from Birmingham collections and the two galleries that represent Cole. Although his work is popular among local collectors, she opted to include one of his more recent pieces, constructed of water bottles, in part because that style had not yet exhibited in the South.
"It's an important direction for him, and obviously the connection is there in that he's using discards, transforming everyday objects as simple as water bottles, shoes, irons, bicycle parts, to create these multi-valence works with multiple meanings," Becker says.
The work draws African and African-American history, as well as mythology. "Pink Leather Venus" and "Black Leather Venus" allude to the female body and its place in art history. "Malcolm's Chicken I" and "Malcolm's Chickens III" reference Malcolm X's comments after President John F. Kennedy's assassination about the chickens coming home to roost. Composed of matches, the chickens are playful items that grab attention even if the viewer isn't aware of their cultural meaning. "Sole Flower" debuts in this exhibit, and layers women's high heels with the soles facing out, creating a design reminiscent of a mandala, used for meditation in some spiritual practices. In this and other pieces, Cole uses the title as an indication of the piece's significance.
Taken as a whole, the three exhibits offer insight into multiple human rights and political issues.
"We as human beings still have a lot to learn," says Kemp-Rotan, "but we must understand the history."
"The Freedom Exhibition: Two Countries One Struggle"
Comparative civil rights photography of Spider Martin and Peter Magubane
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CNN Dances Around Palestinian Violence, Refuses to Identify Culprits
By: Tamar Sternthal October 14, 2015
"When, and how, will the violence stop?" begins CNN a lengthy article yesterday about "more bloodshed" which dismally fails to identify the Palestinian perpetrators of said violence and bloodshed ("New security measures considered amid continuing violence in Israel").
After addressing possible Israeli plans to bolster security, Greg Botelho and Ed Payne refer in the fifth paragraph to "the nature of what has happened in recent weeks" without actually conveying what has been the nature of what has happened in recent weeks. Indeed, they write:
Of course, violence is hardly unprecedented in this part of the world. But the nature of what has happened in recent weeks — with a spate of stabbings and other attacks, from a shooting to driving into crowds — is unique, compared to rocket attacks or more obviously orchestrated armed campaigns of the past.
Who is carrying out the stabbings, shooting and ramming attacks? Who has carried out the rocket attacks and the more obviously orchestrated armed campaigns? Who has been targeted, wounded and killed in the spate of attacks? CNN doesn't say, and readers have therefore no way of grasping "the nature of what has happened in recent weeks": that Palestinians, primarily youth, have been attempting to murder Israelis, young and old.
Botelho and Payne continue to dance around the question of who is carrying out the attacks by stating three paragraphs later: "Some have suggested the violence represents the start of the third intifada, or uprising, by Palestinians." From there, the CNN journalists redirect to Palestinian clashes with Israeli security forces, leaving aside the unaddressed issue of culpability in the stabbing, ramming and shooting attacks on Israeli civilians and officers.
"We've tried negotiations and it didn't work," a Palestinian youth in the West Bank city of Hebron told CNN as thick smoke rose from flaming tires. "So now we will fight."
This youth was apparently referring to persistent protests and clashes with Israeli security forces.
On what basis exactly they conclude that the youth's declaration of the Palestinian readiness to fight refers to clashes with security forces, as opposed to stabbings, shootings and ramming attacks, is not explained. But, in light of the reporters' refusal to link Palestinians with these attacks, their tenuous conclusion is not surprising.
Israeli Attacker is 'Israeli Jew,' Arab Attacker Is 'Man,' 'Person'
The article's most glaring indication that the authors utterly refuse to identify Palestinian perpetrators appear in paragraphs 19 through 22, which finally address specific instances of Palestinian terrorism (after first noting the relatively isolated cases of Jewish attacks carried out against Arabs, and against a Jew mistaken for an Arab.) The striking double standard, in which the Jewish assailant is identified clearly as "an Israeli Jew," while the Arab perpetrators are referred to only as "men," man," or "person," cannot be missed:
Israeli authorities documented several bloody attacks, including one in which an Israeli Jew stabbed a man he mistakenly thought was Arab outside an IKEA near Haifa; and an Israeli Arab hit on the head with a stick on a Netanya beach, according to police spokeswoman Luba Samri.
Other incidents proved even more bloody and were carried out by men that Israeli authorities claim have ties to terrorist groups.
In Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Malkei Israel area, one person died and eight were injured when a man drove into a bus stop, ran over three people, then got out of his car and began stabbing people, according to Samri.
And in the Armon Anatziv [sic] area of Jerusalem, one person with a gun and another with a knife boarded a bus and launched an attack. . . .
Police managed to kill one and wound the other, who was taken to a hospital — but not before two passengers had died. (Emphases added.)
Arab Victims Are 'Arab,' Jewish Victims Are 'People,' 'Passengers'
In a second equally egregious double standard, the intrepid pair supplies the identity of the Arab wounded while at the same time consistently concealing the identity of the Jewish wounded. Thus, a "man [mistaken for] Arab," was stabbed and an "Israeli Arab [was] hit on the head," but "one person died and eight were injured," "three people" were run over and "people" were stabbed in the Malkei Israel attack. In the Armon Hanatziv attack, "two passengers had died." Botelho and Payne don't bother to note the wounded in the Armon Hanatziv attack, but there were some 15 of them.
Only Israeli Police Kill
Also striking is the fact that all of the Jewish Israeli fatalities, whose identities are reduced to "person," and "passengers," died. CNN does not say that they were "killed." Nor does CNN say that any of the Palestinian attackers "killed." In fact, in the long CNN article on the bloodshed, only Israeli police "kill."
Palestinian Wounded Not Overlooked
While Botelho and Payne ignore the estimated 15 Israelis wounded in a terror attack as they rode the bus in Armon Hanatziv, the duo are very attentive to Palestinians wounded while confronting Israeli forces during violent clashes. Thus, before they note specific instances of Palestinian terrorism (even as they conceal the assailants' identities), the CNN reporters give detailed figures for Palestinian wounded. They write:
fficial Palestinian news agency, WAFA, reported that "live ammunition" wounded at least five Palestinians at the Beit Hanoun crossing point Tuesday. This is after the 18 reportedly shot and injured the previous night at the Hewwara military checkpoint.
The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that at least 155 people needed medical care — most for tear gas inhalation, though 26 were wounded by rubber bullets, six by live bullets and five reportedly beaten — in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Thirty-seven more were injured in Gaza.
Finally, while the article identified the Israeli Jews wounded on Malkei Israel street in the ramming and stabbing attack only as "people," the Palestinian casualties from clashes are clearly identified as "Palestinian" in the first reference.
Unanswered Questions About the Violence
In short, the CNN article which ostensibly sets out to answer "when, and how, will the violence stop," fails miserably to begin to address the more basic question: who is carrying out the violence against whom?
The Presbyterian Church's Enduring False Witness
CAMERA Letter-to-the-Editor: 'Israel defending itself'
CAMERA Author
Tamar Sternthal Tamar Sternthal is director of CAMERA's Israel Office. She monitors both U.S. publications and English-language Israeli publications, and heads up CAMERA's "Haaretz, Lost in Translation" project. Her columns have appeared in numerous American and Israeli publications, including the Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, Ynet, Algemeiner, Philadelphia Daily News, St. Petersburg Times, and the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Sternthal is interviewed on radio about the media's coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict and regularly participates in panels about the media, hosted by universities and think tanks in Israel.
Twitter handle: http://twitter.com/TamarSternthal
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I recently posted about the Egret convention at Devereux Slough at Coal Oil Point Reserve near Isla Vista. This week I discovered a similar convention at Lake Los Carneros!
But there is another gathering near the eastern end of the lake, close to the paved walkway and dam. Here they are not in a cluster. Rather a glorious, graceful arc. Arrayed around the edge of the shoreline!
This one was hanging out among the ducks right at the shore and easy to see up close!
I like how they pose with their reflection in the water!
In addition to the egrets were the closely related great blue herons. This one rested close to the fence with its mouth open. Not sure what that was about.
This one was coming in for a landing, looking a bit like a pterodactyl!
Plenty of other birds out there as well. These birds were also doing the open mouth thing.
I visited Lake Los Carneros Park three times this week and there was something new to see each time!
Depending on where you're from, a group of egrets is referred to as a congregation of egrets. In addition to the raft of ducks or sort of mallards, the cover of coots and flight of cormorants. Or, the unseen volt of vultures and cloud of blackbirds, and, of course, what looks like a team of teenagers.
What do eagles call Coots? Lunch. Thanks for the photos Mr. Bernstein, and thank you TAGDES for information. I wish more people would submit photos of their back yard birds, at feeders or bird baths, and describe them and their behaviors. What behaviors have you observed among species of birds?
Thank you all for the kind words and thank you TAGDES for the very helpful information! Check out Lake Los Carneros, especially if you have never been there before. It is a gem every day. Right now that gem happens to be shining especially bright with these wonderful visitors!
Thanks TAGDES--Whenever there's a gathering of living things, I wonder why.
Beautiful birds, thanks. Wonderful information from TAGDES, thank you.
Yes and there are also a couple of shots with Snowy Egrets showing the size comparison to the Great Egret and a few, if viewing the whole group of shots, of American Coots. The other and prettier blackbird found usually by the marsh bridge is the Red-winged Blackbird which also has a kind of distinct liquid gurgling song. The cormorant is drying his wings after fishing due to less preen oil in it's feathers than a duck but is not a liability as it allows faster hunting under water.
Nice shots. It's called gular fluttering and they open their bills and vibrate their upper throat muscles and bones to to increase heat loss on hot days. Both the heron and these cormorants along with other members of the Ardeidae family do this because of their permanent down coat and lack of sweat glands in order to lose excess heat.
Nice pix, and commentary too. Can I count birds on edhat in my sightings list?


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Azharuddin: Believe FTP for next two years should be reworked
The IPL, which was scheduled to be held from March 29-May 24, is set to be postponed indefinitely as the country stares at a lockdown till the end of April.
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Mohammed Azharuddin feels that tweaking of the Futures Tours and Programmes (FTP) is also necessary to accommodate the Indian Premier League (IPL). - FILE PHOTO/ V.V. SUBRAHMANYAM
Former India captain-turned-administrator Mohammed Azharuddin feels that all cricket boards should come together to redraw the international calendar as the COVID-19 pandemic has ensured that the current schedule is irredeemable.
Azharuddin, who is the president of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA), feels that tweaking of the Futures Tours and Programmes (FTP) is also necessary to accommodate the Indian Premier League (IPL), which is important for both domestic and foreign players.
"I am sure they can have a restructured FTP for two years because of so much of uncertainty in prevailing circumstances. I mean you can always prepare for good times but you can't prepare for bad times," the 57-year-old said.
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"Once things settle down, we can have a dialogue with other member nations," he added.
The IPL, which was scheduled to be held from March 29-May 24, is set to be postponed indefinitely as the country stares at a lockdown till the end of this month to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
"I think if they have to slot IPL, the whole itinerary needs to be changed. That's one option or else stick to the current itinerary with whatever gone being gone.
"But that means huge losses for all the stakeholders and is not practical," said Azharuddin.
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"Therefore, I am expecting a complete overhaul of the FTP, if we have to fit in the IPL. I feel all the boards will agree as everybody is getting affected. But obviously the BCCI gets affected more," he added.
IPL has so much prominence because foreign players like Jos Buttler and Pat Cummins have expressed their willingness to participate in the tournament at some point of the year.
"No one will say no to IPL. Not even the foreign players. So many people thrive on IPL," he set the record straight.
"For a lot of our domestic guys, who are not India regulars, let's accept they look forward to the IPL."
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However, the man who led India in three editions of the 50-over World Cup, doesnt think that the World T20 in Australia in October-November will be done away with.
"I don't think World T20's slot will be gone. It's third week of October and if things are okay by then, I would believe World T20 will happen.
"This is purely my personal opinion as you can't tinker with a World Cup. But obviously IPL will get accommodated in somewhere."
He agreed that the current situation is frustrating for the players.
"Since they are not able to do any nets, that's a problem. Once they come back, they would feel that lack of practice time.
"Pretty sure most players have their own fitness programmes. Once normalcy returns, it will probably take a week to get back the touch," the veteran of 99 Tests and 334 ODIs, concluded.
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U.S. Supreme Court Unanimously Holds That Veterans Are Entitled to Full Set of Competitive Bidding Opportunities Congress Enacted in 2006 Veterans Act
The unanimous Supreme Court ruling rejects the VA's interpretation and restores to veterans broader competitive bidding opportunities.
In a ruling affecting billions of dollars of government contracts, and impacting tens of thousands of veteran-owned small businesses across the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld expanded competitive bidding opportunities for veteran-owned small businesses in Kingdomware Technologies v. United States, 14-916. [Note: Duane Morris LLP represented the National Veteran Small Business Coalition and several other national veterans organizations and individual veteran-owned businesses as amici curiae in support of Kingdomware. Duane Morris has a longstanding tradition and commitment to pro bono work on behalf of veterans.]
The unanimous ruling means that veterans now will have (as Congress intended) expanded opportunities to compete for business with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) under the Veterans Benefits, Health Care, and Information Technology Act of 2006 ("the Act"). The VA had argued for different limitations—not set forth in the statute itself—on the type and scope of contracts available for competitive bidding by and amongst veterans, and the Federal Circuit had allowed the VA to ignore the Act's mandate for competitive bidding by veteran-owned small businesses. In practical terms, the VA's interpretation resulted in roughly $10 billion of the VA's $18 billion in annual purchases being exempt from the competitive bidding process by the veteran-owned small businesses that Congress had enacted. The unanimous Supreme Court ruling rejects that interpretation and restores to veterans the full competitive bidding opportunities that Congress intended.
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Hospitality is full of acronyms. ADR, PMS, GOPPAR, MICE… the list seems endless. But at the moment, there are few more important than GDPR.
It's now under 50 days until GDPR, or the General Data Protection Regulation, comes into force. And though it's a European Union law, its likely that hotels around the world will be touched by it.
As a company driven by data, we have frequently been asked about our own approach to GDPR. So, as we count down the days to the May 25th deadline, we decided to share some of the preparations we are making and some of the tips we've picked up along the way, as well as some expert insight into readying your hotel for the biggest change to data protection in the EU for over two decades.
First off, let's revisit what GDPR is and why it matters for hotels. In a nutshell, it's new legislation designed to align data protection rules across Europe and fit with today's digital world. It will mean businesses have to be much clearer about what data they collect and why.
Hotels are likely to be considered a 'data controller' under GDPR, which means you determine the purposes and means of processing personal data. That comes with obligations as to contracts with 'data processors', which are responsible for processing personal data on behalf of a controller.
Though an EU law, GDPR may apply to businesses outside the EU if they offer goods or services to individuals in the region. Failure to comply risks a penalty of up to 4% of worldwide turnover.
For further details, both eHotelier and Hotel Speak have published useful GDPR primers, and we've found useful resources on the UK's Information Commissioner's Office GDPR guide.
We won't lie, it's a time-consuming and complicated process that requires involvement from teams across your organization. But it's through this that you can understand exactly how GDPR will touch your business and adapt accordingly. Company-wide buy-in to your GDPR preparations is crucial.
"In order to operationalize the GDPR we need to incorporate it into how the organization does business in general," says Samantha Simms, information law attorney and founder of The Information Collective. "GDPR compliance must not be standalone; it's a living piece of law that must form part of the DNA of the company."
Hospitality is exceptionally interlinked as an industry. Hotels work with numerous third parties, such as OTAs, booking engines and companies like Triptease, many of whom could come into contact with its data.
Following the data mapping exercise you should have a list of these third parties and what data they might encounter. Find out how they plan to address GDPR so you have the complete picture of your obligations. It is your responsibility to ensure that the third parties you work with are GDPR-compliant.
You also need to ensure that customers are aware when you're collecting their data via a third-party site.
"It must describe where you are using data under consent, or using it for legitimate business purposes, or to perform a contract with a data subject (i.e. customer), or in other ways such as to carry out legal and regulatory obligations," Samantha says.
Once complete, ensure the updated version is published on your website.
One of the core principles of GDPR is that consumers will be much more aware of how their information is being used. It's essential therefore that you communicate any changes you expect to make under GDPR to your client base. Perhaps you'll email your guests or use your loyalty scheme to post a notice.
Much like the data mapping exercise, consider all the ways in which you speak with your customers and what might be the most appropriate method of explaining your GDPR plans, for example in an email asking existing contacts to confirm their subscription, or posting a notice to loyalty scheme members.
Setting this out in a comprehensive communications strategy is strongly advised to ensure you're covering all your bases.
Under GDPR, we must all be prepared to deal with any potential personal data breaches. The rules state that if you use a 'data processor', for example an OTA or channel manager, and it suffers a breach, you're required to take steps to address it.
Samantha's advice is to have an incident response plan in place. In some cases, there is a 72-hour time limit to notify authorities of a breach and provide information, so the plan must be tested to ensure it can meet that deadline.
Check out the ICO's checklist for an idea of what a plan might entail.
Given the sweeping nature of the changes coming under GDPR, it's no surprise that there is a feeling of mild panic in some circles about the ability to be compliant by May.
But listening to experts, it seems there is a recognition among authorities that readying a business for GDPR is a sizeable task and there will be leeway if you can demonstrate to both authorities and customers that you are doing your utmost to comply. What won't be tolerated however is flagrant and wilful breaches of the law.
Of course, GDPR is not the only data protection regime around. Countries around the world have their own rules and in an ideal world hotels would have a privacy framework that takes into account all the relevant regulations.
GDPR is a lot to take in. We hope that sharing some of our learnings will be helpful for any hoteliers currently wading through the documentation and data involved. If you want to know more about how Triptease is handling GDPR, get in touch.