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Crunch Time on Killer Robots
Why New Law Is Needed and How It Can Be Achieved
The Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), scheduled to be held at the United Nations in Geneva from December 13-17, 2021, is a major juncture for international talks on lethal autonomous weapons systems. After…
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Areas of Alignment
Common Visions for a Killer Robots Treaty
The Covid-19 pandemic has presented new challenges to advancing Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) discussions on lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS), also known as fully autonomous weapons or "killer robots." Before the global lockdown, states…
Technical Briefing Note: Cluster Munition Use in the Karabakh Conflict
Human Rights Watch documented the use of two types of ground-launched cluster munitions in multiple locations in Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh during the armed conflict that began on September 27 and concluded on November 10 with a ceasefire. Both…
Submission on the Challenges and Threats Facing Climate Defenders
To the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association
Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input on the challenges and risks facing climate defenders for the upcoming report by the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. While recognizing that…
The Case for Condemnation
Denouncing All Use of Cluster Munitions
The 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, which categorically bans the use of cluster munitions, seeks to eliminate these weapons and the unacceptable harm they cause. By adopting an unequivocal condemnation of cluster munition use at the convention's…
Crisis in the Brazilian Amazon
Briefing Paper for US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry
I. Deforestation Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has increased dramatically since President Bolsonaro took office in 2019. The increase was more than 30 percent during the first year of his administration and an additional 9.5 percent during the…
Analysis of the Draft Elements of a Political Declaration on the Use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas
Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic welcome Ireland's January 2021 draft of a political declaration to strengthen the protection of civilians from the harm caused by the use of explosive weapons in populated areas…
Incendiary Weapons: Call for Action and Human Cost
Assessing the Problem Shortcomings of Protocol III Protocol III to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) seeks to protect civilians from incendiary weapons, which burn people, homes, and infrastructure. While the protocol prohibits and…
Implementing the Convention on Cluster Munitions
Components of Strong Law and Supporting Examples
More than one-quarter of the states parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions have adopted dedicated national implementation legislation, but much work remains to be done in this area. Article 9 obliges states parties to implement the convention…
Interview: Climate Crisis Hurts Harvest for First Nations
Canada Is Failing Indigenous Peoples Facing Threats to Food, Health, and Land
In some of the most remote stretches of Canada – from the provincial norths to the territories – First Nations are facing serious threats to their ways of life because of the effects of climate change. A rapidly changing environment means harvesting food…
Breaking the Poverty Trap
Why Poverty and Inequality are Human Rights Issues
Human Rights Watch has long documented how, when people live in poverty, their ability to exercise all their human rights erodes. Because of this, we have pushed governments to end abuses that contribute to poverty. We have recently decided to…
Can Covid-19 Help Ease the Climate Crisis?
The Global Pandemic Offers Chance to Embrace Clean Energy
It's been three months since governments around the world implemented lockdowns in response to Covid-19. The virus has killed hundreds of thousands and forced millions more into joblessness and destitution. With the global transport of people and goods…
Analysis of the Draft Political Declaration on the Use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas
Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic welcome Ireland's March 2020 draft of a political declaration to strengthen the protection of civilians from the harm caused by the use of explosive weapons in populated areas.…
Interview: Libya's Chaos Explained
Civilians Bear the Brunt of Renewed Fighting
Libya began descending into chaos after Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown in 2011. Could you summarize the complex situation in Libya today? The latest conflict started in April 2019, when an armed group in eastern Libya called…
Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) welcome the draft circulated by Ireland on the elements of a forthcoming political declaration "to ensure the protection of civilians from humanitarian harm arising from…
Landmine Stockpiles and Their Destruction
Summary Most antipersonnel landmines possessed by states that joined the Mine Ban Treaty were swiftly destroyed by the time the treaty entered into force on 1 March 1999. In the 20 years since, there has been steady progress to destroy remaining stocks…
Interview: A Toxic Mix of Abuses on Congo's Oil Palm Plantations
How European Development Banks Fail the Very People They Claim to Assist
Why did you focus your research on these oil palm plantations? These plantations provide jobs for many people. But their workers are being underpaid and exposed to unhealthy working conditions. The European development banks that finance these…
A Commitment to Civilians
Precedent for a Political Declaration on Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas
Summary and Recommendations States are currently engaged in a political process to address the consequences of using explosive weapons in populated areas. That process was launched in October 2019 when more than 130 states…
Standing Firm against Incendiary Weapons
Memorandum to Delegates of the Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Conventional Weapons
Ten years ago, images of white phosphorus munitions raining fire on populated areas of Gaza generated international outrage and sparked discussions of incendiary weapons at the United Nations. The Israel Defense Forces' use of white…
Interview: Playing in Poisoned Dust
Being Outside is a Health Risk for Some of Zambia's Children
How did you first become aware of the problem in Kabwe? We learned about it from an environmental group several years ago but became interested in doing our own research after seeing a young person from Kabwe speak at a United Nations event.…
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This pack of 10 high quality thank you cards has a rather dapper quirky cat illustration. The A6 cards have simple matching border on the back (top and bottom) and a blank space for you to write your thank you message. Printed and packaged in the UK by Olivia Samuel.


The following is a prayer from The United Methodist Book of Worship (#294). It's intended use is New Year's Eve or New Year's. Sometime in the next 24 hours (now is a perfectly fine time to do it!), make space to pray the prayer attentively. Rather than just reading the words or saying them aloud, pause on them – what are your new desires? What are your old fears? Etc. Let them lead you into reflecting on the good and bad of the year behind you and on what you hope to make of the year ahead. Reflect on God who is in the midst of all of it and will continue to be. Let the prayer lead you into prayers of your own.
"Are any among you sick?"
In the epistle lesson for this Sunday (James 5:13-20), James asks a question that is never without an affirmative response. "Are any among you sick?," he asks. Tell me a single day, a single hour when there is no one among us who is sick. This week alone our congregation remembered the lives of three of our church family, all of whom died after a sickness. Family of our church family have died. We have had several people experience hospitalizations for their physical needs. We know of too many people with on-going sicknesses. Those that come to mind are the ones dealing with physical sickness, unless you are caring for or experiencing mental illness, then the ongoing challenges of that kind of sickness aren't lost on you. There are spiritual sicknesses, too. Yes, James, there are people among us who are sick.


These make ahead sweet and sour chicken wings are great to have in your freezer to pull out for game day or for an appetizer evening. They can be cooked in the crock pot, the oven or the Actifry, making them super versatile.
Since these chicken wings are not spicy, they can be enjoyed by young and old. The sauce on these is just full of sticky goodness!
You'll want to have plenty of napkins or wet wipes on hand. These are not the kind of thing you can eat without getting your hands dirty!
Place 3 lbs. of chicken wings in a large resealable bag. Combine flour and water in a bowl. Mix in the remaining ingredients and pour over the chicken wings in the bag. Remove excess air, seal and freeze.
Cooking instructions: Thaw. Cook in slow cooker for 3-4 hours on high or 5-6 hours on low or bake in 350° oven, covered for 45 minutes. Uncover and cook another 10 minutes.
Note: I cooked mine in an Actifry for 22 minutes and they were cooked to perfection.
This sweet and sour chicken wings recipe is included in our Appetizers Freezer Meal Plan along with recipes for Buffalo Chicken Dip, Santa Fe Spirals, Cocktail Meatballs, and Spinach Artichoke Dip. The plan also includes printable shopping lists, prep lists and printable labels so that you can have delicious appetizers ready to serve on a moment's notice.
Crock pot instructions: Thaw. Cook in slow cooker for 3-4 hours on high or 5-6 hours on low.
Oven instructions: Thaw. Bake in 350° oven, covered for 45 minutes. Uncover and cook another 10 minutes.
Actifry instructions: Thaw. Cook for 22 minutes in the Actifry.


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Abstract Developing cost-effective, active, and durable electrocatalysts is one of the most important issues for the commercialization of fuel cells. Ultrathin Pt-Mo-Ni nanowires (NWs) with a diameter of similar to 2.5 nm and lengths of up to several micro-meters were synthesized via a H-2-assisted solution route (HASR). This catalyst was designed on the basis of the following three points: (i) ultrathin NWs with high numbers of surface atoms can increase the atomic efficiency of Pt and thus decrease the catalyst cost; (ii) the incorporation of Ni can isolate Pt atoms on the surface and produce surface defects, leading to high catalytic activity (the unique structure and superior activity were confirmed by spherical aberration-corrected electron microscopy measurements and ethanol oxidation tests, respectively); and (iii) the incorporation of Mo can stabilize both Ni and Pt atoms, leading to high catalytic stability, which was confirmed by experiments and density functional theory calculations. Furthermore, the developed HASR strategy can be extended to synthesize a series of Pt-Mo-M (M = Fe, Co, Mn, Ru, etc.) NWs. These multimetallic NWs would open up new opportunities for practical fuel cell applications.
GB/T 7714 Mao, JJ,Chen, WX,He, DS,et al. Design of ultrathin Pt-Mo-Ni nanowire catalysts for ethanol electrooxidation[J]. SCIENCE ADVANCES,2017,3(8):-.
APA Mao, JJ.,Chen, WX.,He, DS.,Wan, JW.,Pei, JJ.,...&Li, YD.(2017).Design of ultrathin Pt-Mo-Ni nanowire catalysts for ethanol electrooxidation.SCIENCE ADVANCES,3(8),-.
MLA Mao, JJ,et al."Design of ultrathin Pt-Mo-Ni nanowire catalysts for ethanol electrooxidation".SCIENCE ADVANCES 3.8(2017):-.


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VMI's Board of Visitors Votes to Move Stonewall Jackson Statue on Campus
by Sarah Wood
The Virginia Military Institute's (VMI) Board of Visitors voted Oct. 29 to move the statue of "Stonewall" Jackson on campus to an "appropriate location," the school reported.
During the meeting, the board also announced other initiatives aimed to foster a more inclusive environment. A diversity officer will be appointed alongside a diversity as well as the establishment of a diversity and inclusion committee on the Board of Visitors, according to VMI.
Additionally, VMI will create a "diversity office, establish a building and naming committee, create diversity initiatives with a focus on gender and adopt a diversity hiring plan," the school announced.
These initiative announcements occured after Gen. J.H. Binford Peay III, superintendent of VMI, resigned earlier this week amid continued racist incidents reported on campus.
"I am proud of the commitment by the VMI family to continue fulfilling our mission," said J. William "Bill" Boland, president of the Board of Visitors, in a statement. "VMI, like all aspects of society, must honestly address historical inequities and be intentional about creating a better future. We care deeply about the individual experiences of all of our cadets and alumni. Our mission is just as important today, and tomorrow, as it has been for 181 years."

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Born in Havana, Cuba to a family of non-musicians, Ernesto showed early musical skills and began playing the flute when he was six. Through the years, he has performed with artists such as Nestor Torres, Orlando Maraca Valle, Chick Corea, Mark O' Connor, Arturo Sandoval, Bobby McFerrin, and Gloria Estefan. He has recorded two solo albums, two PBS specials, and he was a part of the movie soundtrack for Despicable Me 2, produced by Pharrell Williams. Ernesto is currently an Adjunct Professor of Music at Miami Dade College. He is also pursuing a degree in Doctor of Musical Arts in Instrumental Performance with an emphasis in Music Business at the Frost School of Music. He has performed in Italy, Mexico, Grand Cayman, Nicaragua, Toronto, Cleveland, New York, Washington D.C., Las Vegas, Chicago, Charlotte, and New Orleans. Ernesto is endorsed by Gemeinhardt Musical Instruments, Co. He is a clinician and performer at state and national flute conventions, and gives flute master classes throughout the United States. He remains a Henry Mancini Fellow and maintains a balanced musical career as a classical/Latin performer, educator, and arranger.


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Caroline Kraddick sings new Kidd's Kids theme song
New student center opens at UNT Dallas
Video Posted May 14 2019 08:35AM CDT
DALLAS - A Dallas college campus has a big new addition to make it look and feel more like the major university it someday might be.
Workers are putting the finishing touches on a new $63 million student center at the University of North Texas Dallas.
UNT Dallas is now the fastest growing four-year university in the state. President Bob Mong said it needed the extra space for its growing student body.
The 136,000-square-foot facility includes a large library and learning center that the student body asked for and helped plan.
"They said, 'We want a lot of space to study collectively and individually.' So it's here. It's four stories of library. We also have a lot of room for advising and for financial aid questions and just advice in general," he said.
The student center also has a Starbucks, lounge areas, fireplace on the second floor and a terrace that overlooks Downtown Dallas.
"We have a great view of Downtown Dallas. It's 12 miles away. It's just a spectacular view. And now for the first time, the campus has a campus hall where we can actually have large gatherings with 4 or 500 people at a time," Mong said.
While larger universities may already have similar student centers or other amenities for students, UNT Dallas' new facility allows it to compete.
"Great thing about North Texas right now is there are plenty of students to go around. Our core competency really is in urban Dallas. We recruit most of our students in urban Dallas, the inner ring suburbs and the Dallas County Community College. And we serve. Our service areas, our institutes serve urban Dallas. So we are really the only university that's really focused on urban Dallas, students in urban Dallas. A lot of other universities have a piece of that but that's why we exist," the president said.
The ribbon cutting ceremony for the student center will be Tuesday at 4 p.m.
LINK: http://www.untdallas.edu
Solar Car Challenge underway at TMS
Updated Jul 15 2019 11:32AM CDT
Engineers and builders of the future are putting their talent to the test with a solar car challenge at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth.
High schools from across the country, including 16 from North Texas, are participating in the annual Solar Car Challenge.
The student teams must design, build and finance their own solar cars. The vehicles are raced around the track and the team with the best time after six hours is the winner.
Former officer facing second trial for shooting unarmed Mesquite man
A second trial began Monday for the former Mesquite police officer accused of shooting an unarmed man.
Officer Derick Wiley was fired from the Mesquite Police Department after being charged with aggravated assault for shooting of Lyndo Jones twice in the back in 2017.
Wiley had answered a call about a man breaking into a truck. It turned out to be Jones getting high in his own truck.
2 injuries reported in pedestrian crash involving bus in Fort Worth
Officers are on scene of a reported auto-pedestrian crash involving a bus in Fort Worth that has injured two people.
Police say the wreck happened at Houston St. and W. 2nd St., just after 7:30 p.m.
There are two reported injuries in the crash, and one is possibly a child.
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One of the more contentious moments in recent State of the Union history occurred during President Obama's 2010 address when Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito mouthed the words "not true" after Obama criticized the High Court's ruling in Citizens v. United.
by Adam Edelman via YouTube
We're now less than one hour away from the 2014 State of the Union. Above, reporters eagerly wait in the House Daily Press Gallery to take their seats for the address.
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Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has been tapped as tonight's State of the Union "designated survivor."
by Senator Harry Reid via twitter 1/29/2014 1:47:33 AM
We're less than 15 minutes away now!
Minutes away from the speech. #insidesotu
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Getting ready for #SOTU - Thanks @washingtonpost
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Of course @RepEliotEngel is in his standard front row aisle seat. Talking now to Sen. Ron Wyden, the about-to-be Finance Chair.
Rep. Charles Rangel, while 534 plus lawmakers around him schmooze, is reading his way through printout of the speech, reading glasses on.
Big applause for President's nod to House Speaker John Boehner's success... "I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams," Obama said. "It's how the daughter of a factory worker is CEO of America's largest automaker; how the son of a barkeeper is Speaker of the House; how the son of a single mom can be President of the greatest nation on Earth."
Boehner liked the shout out. Said today his relationship with Prez is good - they talk often about immigration.
by David Gregory via twitter 1/29/2014 2:28:41 AM
Obama will say "JOBS" 23 times, according to his prepared remarks.
We need a nat'l manufacturing strategy. Happy to hear the Pres talk about creating jobs, growing economy. #SOTU
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What's really behind Trump's surprising tweet on Iran's 'failed satellite launch'
At face value the president's tweet could be showing an unusual but genuine courtesy towards Tehran - but equally he could be acknowledging US involvement
Friday 30 August 2019 22:24
Donald Trump and Hassan Rouhani suggest they could meet to resolve US-Iran crisis
Donald Trump has claimed that the US had nothing to do with reports of a failed Iranian satellite launch – and sent his "best wishes and good luck" to the Iranians in determining what happened at the site in the city of Semnan.
Trump tweeted: "The United States of America was not involved in the catastrophic accident during final launch preparations for the Safir SLV Launch at Semnan Launch Site One in Iran. I wish Iran best wishes and good luck in determining what happened at Site One."
The language of the president's tweet is a bit surprising, considering his usual tough rhetoric against Iran and the many hostile tweets he has put out in the past. Today's tweet was exceptionally polite and respectful, and it could be read in two different ways.
Assuming that a failed launch did in fact happen in Semnan, it is possible that the United States had no involvement in the incident as Trump says, and he is truly sorry and expressing his emotion in a courteous language. That would be more in line with Trump trying to be respectful towards Iranian leaders and setting the stage for a potential meeting with the Iranian president Hassan Rouhani in upcoming weeks at the United Nations in New York. Iran's satellite launch attempts have malfunctioned in the past and this would not be an unusual event. Just a few months ago in January 2019, the launch of Iran's Payam satellite was unsuccessful, as part of a series of other unsuccessful launches in the past.
However, it is also possible that an incident happened with involvement from the United States and now Trump is trying to get ahead of the blame game through this seemingly innocent tweet. Iranian officials have accused Americans of such intervention in the past. And the US government has a secret programme that tries to sabotage Iran's satellites and missiles programmes, according to current and former American officials, and the New York Times reported earlier this year that the Trump White House accelerated that secret programme.
Tensions high as Trump approves new Iran sanctions: In pictures
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Iran claims that in this picture released by Iran state TV, their surface-to-air missile is seen as it shoots down a US surveillance drone
This photo shows US RQ-4A Global Hawk unmanned surveillance drone. A drone of this model was shot down by Iran on Thursday 21 June
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An oil tanker is on fire after it was subject to a suspected attacked at the Gulf of Oman on June 13. The US has blamed Iran for the attack
Iran claims that in this picture released by Iran state TV, debris from the downed US drone is seen after it was recovered from Iranian waters
Smoke billows from an oil tanker after it was subject to a suspected attacked at the Gulf of Oman on June 13
US President Trump holds up a signed executive order to increase sanctions on Iran on 24 June
Iranian President Rouhani stated in a televised address that the White House is "afflicted by mental retardation" following the increase in sanctions on 25 June
An Iranian navy boat tackles the fire on the Norwegian owned Front Altair oil tanker after it was hit in a suspected attack
A screenshot from a video released by the US Department of Defense that the US claims to show Iranian removing an unexploded limpet mine form the hull of the Japan-owned ship that was attacked in the Gulf of Oman on June 13
An item reportedly found on the Japan-owned oil tanker that was attacked on June 13 in the Gulf of Oman
A handout photograph from the US Department of Defense shows a composite material that the US claim was left behind on the hull of the Japan-owned oil tanker following the removal of an unexploded limpet mine
A view from the cabin of an Iranian navy boat as it tackles the fire on the Norwegian owned Front Altair oil tanker after it was hit in a suspected attack
Release by US government
A picture released by U.S. Central Command shows damage to the hull of the oil tanker Kokuka Courageous. The picture suggests that the ship is 'likely' to have been hit by a mine as the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo moves to blame Iran for the suspected attack
A picture released by U.S. Central Command shows damage to the hull of the oil tanker Kokuka Courageous. The pictures suggests that the ship is 'likely' to have been hit by a mine as the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo moves to blame Iran for the suspected attack
Trump has put out statements on sensitive issues in the past, that later turned out to be false, so this would not be his first time. And US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has slammed Iran's satellite launches, claiming that they violated a United Nations Security Council resolution.
Thomas Juneau, professor at University of Ottawa and former defence analyst who specialises on Iran, told The Independent it was plausible the US was responsible, partly or fully, for the failed launch.
"But Trump's tweet was inappropriate in too many ways to count. Morally, I don't think it's appropriate for the president of the United States to taunt an adversary like Iran. The US should behave as a responsible great power; when Trump behaves like a petulant child instead, he hurts the US. It is also not clear where precisely that image came from, but we can see what appears to be a shadow on it, suggesting that someone took a picture of the satellite imagery before Trump tweeted it," he said.
"It is likely that if anybody else than the president had done this, it would have been a security violation. This, again, sets a bad precedent and example."
Trump says US had nothing to do with Iran satellite launch failure
Meanwhile, Iranian officials have claimed that there was no incident. The minister of information and communications technology, Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi, wrote on Twitter: "Many are asking about how our satellite is doing. Apparently there have been reports that the third attempt to launch a satellite has been unsuccessful. Frankly, Nahid 1 is doing well, is in the laboratory, and reporters can come visit."
He also attached a promotional video of the Nahid 1 satellite from an Iranian channel.
But Iran's denial of an incident is also not enough evidence. Iranian officials have been promoting their satellite program as a token of patriotism and national pride, and it is not easy to acknowledge failures of their program, especially if such failures happen due to interventions from the United States.
Friday is the weekend in Iran. As the Iranian week starts on Saturday, we should have more information from Iranian officials and Iranian media, to better understand what really happened in Semnan and judge Donal Trump's tweet with more clarity.
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What goes with a little black dress? Well, everything -- but nothing complements an LBD like a perfect mani! The season's trendiest shades consist of jewel tones, deep reds and opulent metallics, all of which will take your client's party look to a whole new level.
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Duri Cosmetics celebrates the Russian heritage of its founders with the From Russia with Love collection, filled with lavish and opulent lacquers with adorably apropos names like Tolstoy Turquoise and Caviar 'n Blini. Reds, metallics and sparkles characterize the luxe set -- all fit for a royal!
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If you have a wedding to attend today or tomorrow, you really some makeup tips. You really need to have some make up tips. To win hearts and to win even your own heart, your makeup should be done to perfection. You could either get it done from a reliable salon or you could do it on your own.
These days , heavy makeup are not really in the vogue, you could for light or average makeup.
With season, changes your makeup style. If it's a winter season, you could go for a little heavy makeup but if its a summer season you should keep the makeup light.
Go for a reliable salon . You cannot just experiment at high times. You should get a good and reliable salon. You should go to a salon where you have always been because you know how it is and what they provide. No matter if another salon is very amazing, you should go for your salon only.
Go for the reliable products. You should for products that are branded not cheap. You can compromise with anything but not with your skin. Your skin is the most delicate part . You could not just apply cheap material on it. Applying cheap material could earn you acne and other skin infections.
Go for waterproof makeup products. Waterproof products are more lasting and better. You could go for them because it would blend easily with your sweat.
Go for less oil containing products. Oil could cause you acne and specially in summers. You should not go for products which have moisturisers in them.
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Committee to Discuss Governor's Economic Development Bill
Dissolving non-competes and lifting the liquor license cap are two of the main pieces of the legislation.
By Steve Annear·	 5/29/2014, 12:37 p.m.
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The Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies is slated to hear testimony on an economic development bill filed by Governor Deval Patrick last month, that if passed could drastically change the landscape for how business is conducted in Massachusetts.
In April, Patrick introduced a proposal called "An Act to Promote Growth and Opportunity," and attached to that comprehensive bundle of ways he hopes to invest in education, innovation, infrastructure, and business growth, were plans to both dissolve non-competes in the Commonwealth, and lift the cap on the number of liquor licenses an individual city or town can issue to food-based entrepreneurs. "The bill I am filing will provide new tools and training so our workforce is prepared to meet the needs of employers, invests in our Gateway Cities to promote development across the entire state, and provides incentives to create jobs and stimulate the economy," Patrick said in a letter sent to elected leaders that will mull the legislation on Thursday.
The committee that's reviewing the bill will sift through these details—not to mention a slew of other proposals—during the meeting at the State House, and listen in as proponents and opponents specifically interested in the plans to lift the liquor license cap and eliminate non-competes statewide offer varying opinions on the subjects.
Lifting the Liquor License Cap
Cities and towns—including Boston—have been scrambling to regain control of the power to hand out liquor licenses to restaurants and bars in their respective communities.
Recognizing the growing requests by elected leaders around Massachusetts, who recently met with the governor to support efforts for the cap to be abolished, Patrick's economic development bill would essentially remove the limitations on the number of alcoholic licenses municipalities can issue, in order to open the playing field for those who want to bring new restaurants and bars to a community.
In Boston alone, City Councilor Ayanna Pressley has been fighting tooth-and-nail for years for permission to allow the city to expand its licensing provisions, so that neighborhoods like Roxbury and Dorchester aren't disproportionately impacted by the fact that some spots have more restaurant and bar options than others. Earlier this year, she filed a home rule petition that went before a legislative committee for consideration. If passed, Pressley's proposal would allow for additional beer and wine licenses to be available, and keep them in certain districts so that they couldn't be sold across town. Patrick's bill could help Pressley achieve that goal more quickly.
While there has been an obvious interest in dissolving the cap so that local legislative bodies wield the power of deciding how many establishments will be allowed to obtain licenses, adding to the competition, some have been weary about expanding on what's currently available.
Bob Luz, president of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, said he's excited by the prospect of bolstering the food and beverage industry's economic development, creating jobs and new places for cities and towns to gather, but that protecting those who already hold licenses should be an important factor when considering Patrick's proposal. "There has to be thoughtful deliberation and consideration given to protect those existing owners who have paid a significant premium for a license and sometimes have even used that as a pledge-able asset with their lender to help build the business," Luz said.
Getting Rid of Non-Competes
As it's written in Patrick's plan, any contract—whether on paper or verbally agreed upon—arising out of an employment deal that prohibits and restricts a person's ability to seek any type of similar opportunity, once they leave a job, will be void and unenforceable.
The measure has garnered massive support from Boston's tech and investment sector as entrepreneurs have stepped forward to demand that creative thinkers with bold ideas have the ability to branch out and create new businesses without being tied down by a former employer.
"We have a group of about nine or 10 people that will be testifying in support of this," said C.A. Webb, executive director of the New England Venture Capital Association. "We have been playing politics and we are not a very political group. It's been educational for us in mobilizing and working with legislators to educate them about where economic growth is coming from, and how much more we could be doing if we move a few roadblocks like non-competes."
Webb said she has spent more time in the State House hallways than she had initially expected, but the topic at hand is an important one for investors like her, and legislators are hearing the message loud and clear from the business community. "Non-competes slow everything down. It's slowing down entrepreneurship in Massachusetts," she said. "Folks in my community, the name of the game's talent recruitment. You want to find experienced people," and you can't do that if people are bound by contracts that keep them from moving around for six months to a year—or more.
Webb said in some examples, people will choose to invest in California companies, over ones in Massachusetts, because it's less of hassle dealing with employees who don't have wait before moving on to a new opportunity. "It's a basic rights issue for working people. Non-competes assume that all employees are bad actors, and we are interested in protecting companies and workers," she said. "It's one thing for someone with wealth to sit out a year or two and wait before they can work again—it's a waste of time and loss to the economy—but where this becomes pernicious is when someone young like an MBA grad, someone who is 30, tries to leave their job and realizes they're being litigated against by their former employer, and ends up spending months of their life fighting this. It's financially crippling."
While a good deal of business leaders within the sector have had unbridled support for Patrick's pitch, some—like legal advisors—are being cautious about what's written in the governor's language. "I do not have a position on whether the legislature should dissolve non-competes. I understand both sides of the issue and do not view my role in advising the legislators and the Patrick Administration to include taking a position on policy; that's for them to decide," said Russell Beck, a lawyer versed in fair competition and intellectual property, from the firm Beck, Reed, and Riden in Boston. "My only concern is that if they enact this bill, they do it the right way. I have provided them with language to fix some of the problem language and will be speaking to that later today."
The governor's bill isn't the only piece of legislation that's been circulating around the State House, either. Aside from this package of proposals, the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development favorably voted out a separate bill in April that would also do away with non-competes. Officials from the House of Representatives are also expected to formulate their own version of an economic development bill to be considered by the legislature.
Members of Lighthouse Capital Partners, Spark Capital, PayPal, Acquia, NEVCA and Bessemer Venture Partners are expected to attend Thursday's hearing alongside Webb as well.
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Bechukotai: In search of the "Why"
The infinite spaces are not silent. Beneath and beyond them is the still, small voice of God, and it is this that gives meaning to history and to our individual lives.
Former Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks
Published: May 11, 2018, 9:14 AM (GMT+3)
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The most often quoted of all Nietzsche's remarks – indeed one of the most quoted sentences of all in recent times – is his statement that "One who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."[1] If life has a meaning, if our own life has a purpose, if there is a task we have yet to fulfil, then something within us gives us the strength to survive suffering and sorrow. The call of the future helps us get through the pain of the present and the trauma of the past.
Ironically it was Nietzsche himself who saw more clear-sightedly than anyone else that loss of faith in God would result in the death of meaning. This is what he has his madman say as he is announcing the "death of God":
What did we do when we unchained the earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving now? Away from all suns? Are we not perpetually falling? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there any up or down left? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is it not more and more night coming on all the time?[2]
Infinite nothing. Empty space. A world without God is, in an ultimate sense, a universe without a why. It may have beauty, grandeur, scale and scope – but not meaning.
Almost precisely the opposite insight occurred, more than two hundred years earlier, to one of the most brilliant mathematicians of the 17th century, Blaise Pascal, who wrote, as if in anticipation of Nietzsche, "The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me." During the night of 23 November 1654, Pascal, then aged 31, had a life-changing religious experience which he described in the following note: "Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…" He ended by quoting Psalm 119:16: "I will not forget thy word. Amen." He sewed this note into his coat, kept it with him always, and dedicated the rest of his life to exploring religious faith.
." For the Jews, said Plumb, "the past became more than a collection of tales." It became "an intimate part of destiny, and an interpretation of the future, more certain, more absolute, more comprehensive, than any divination, either by the stars or oracles could ever be."
The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the God who speaks, who calls, who listens. The infinite spaces are not silent. Beneath and beyond them is the still, small voice of God, and it is this that gives meaning to history and to our individual lives. As the historian J.H. Plumb wrote: "The concept that within the history of mankind itself a process was at work which would mould his future… seems to have found its first expression amongst the Jews." For the Jews, said Plumb, "the past became more than a collection of tales." It became "an intimate part of destiny, and an interpretation of the future, more certain, more absolute, more comprehensive, than any divination, either by the stars or oracles could ever be."[3] Jews were the first to find meaning in history. They discovered the why. That is why they were able to bear almost any how. Judaism is the oldest, deepest expression of humanity as the meaning-seeking and -finding animal.
These are, relatively speaking, modern thoughts. Yet they lie at the heart of parshat Bechukotai – if we follow the interpretation of Maimonides. Bechukotai begins with the blessings that will ensue if the Israelites are faithful to their mission and covenant with God. Then come the curses that will follow disobedience. They are long, terrifying and relentless – even if they end, as they do, with a note of consolation; "Yet, despite all this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, or abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break My covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God" (Lev. 26:44). How, though, are we to interpret the blessing and the curse?
The keyword of the curses is keri. The word appears here seven times – and nowhere else in the entire Tanach. The basic principle is clear. "If you act towards Me with keri, – says God – I will act towards you with keri." But what the word means is not clear. The various translations include rebelliousness, obstinacy, indifference, hard-heartedness and reluctance.
Maimonides, however, relates it to the word mikreh, meaning "by chance." He interprets the overall message as: if you behave as if history were mere chance, and not Divine providence, then, says God, I will leave you to chance. The result will be that Israel – a small nation set in a highly hostile neighbourhood, then and now – will eventually be defeated, devastated, and come close to destruction.
This is a remarkable reading and points toward a distinction that we sometimes forget: between Divine punishment on the one hand, and the withdrawal of Divine providence on the other – what the Torah calls "the hiding of the face" of God.[4] When God punishes, He punishes the guilty. But when God "hides His face," even the innocent may suffer.
God hides His face from man when man hides his face from God. That is how Maimonides understands the parsha, and it is strikingly similar to Nietzsche's claim that "God is dead." When God is eclipsed, all that remains is "infinite nothing" and "empty space." What dies is not God but man, the meaning-seeking animal. In his place, as Nietzsche knew, comes man the power-seeking animal. From there it is a short step to nihilism and barbarism.
To be a Jew is to have faith that our individual lives and our collective history have meaning. God is there even if we cannot feel him. He hears us even when we do not hear Him. That is the blessing. It gave our people the courage to survive some of the worst blows ever to befall a people. It is what gives us, as individuals, the strength to come through "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." Lose that faith and we lose that strength. We are "left to chance." That is the curse. Chance is not kind but blind. The curse is not a punishment, but a consequence.
Hence the life-changing idea: search for meaning and you will discover strength. Life is not mikreh, mere chance. It is a story of which you are a part, a question to which you are the answer, a call directed to the smartphone of your soul. That is our people's collective destiny, within which each of us has a specific and individual purpose. Find it and your why will carry you through almost any how. Or as Jordan Peterson puts it: "Meaning is the Way, the path of life more abundant, the place you live when you are guided by Love and speaking Truth and when nothing you want or could possibly want takes any precedence over precisely that."[5] Hence his Rule 7: Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient.
For everything there is a meaning. It does not always say: this is why such-and-such happened. Sometimes it says: given that such-and-such happened, this is what you must do. Once we find the why, even a curse can be turned into a blessing. Without the why, even a blessing can become a curse. So search for the why and the rest will follow: strength, fulfilment, peace.
Shabbat Shalom.
[1] The actual quote, from the 'Maxims and Arrows' section of Twilight of the Idols is: "If we possess our why of life we can put up with almost any how." Nietzsche, Twilight of the idols and The Antichrist, translated by RJ Hollingdale, Penguin, 2003, 33. The irony is that the person who did most to popularise this quote was Viktor Frankl, a survivor of Auschwitz. On Nietzsche's antisemitism, see Robert C. Holub, Nietzsche's Jewish Problem, Princeton University Press, 2016.


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The Dean Wormer State
America Is on Double Secret Probation.
Not everyone reads Orwell or Kafka. So, in this week of revelations about former frat guy turned Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh (with whom I have mutual friends and colleagues, I should disclose), how about using the film Animal House as a metaphor?
For surely, we now inhabit a Dean Wormer State. Wormer's the villain who, in that film, put the Delta House fraternity on "double secret probation," quietly watching them for just one more screw-up, without them even knowing.
Don't get me wrong—there are probably members of the fictional Delta House and the real Yale frat DKE who belong in jail. I can't know with certainty that Kavanaugh is not among those people. I know full well that even the supposed conservatives at Yale can be decadent and dangerous. Just a few years ago, a threesome gone wrong among Yale conservatives resulted in an underreported murder attempt/suicide-by-window-leap, for instance.
But what nonetheless leaves so many Americans inclined to sympathize with the accused (barring shocking or clear-cut evidence) in cases like Kavanaugh's… or Delta House's… or Homer's when he's summoned for interrogation by Mr. Burns… or even FBI-harried Trump's… is the unsettling and frankly annoying sense that if they want to get you for something, they'll find something.
These days in America, "they" need not be purely left-wing or right-wing, and are not necessarily all-governmental or all-corporate. "They" seem to be everywhere, waiting for you to screw up so that they can destroy your life, whether it's via regulation, Twitter mob, firing, lowered Google ranking, or raid by corrupt cop.
And the mounting sense that we don't quite know what it'll be next is creepy. It undermines one's confidence and sense of ease, diminishing the playfulness and joie de vivre that make this world worth enduring. America should be fun. America should be anarchist in my opinion, but if not anarchist in the strict philosophical sense, at least anarchic in spirit. That seems to be fading. And while it fades, the NSA is logging all your keystrokes.
I'm as anti-theft and anti-assault as anyone on this planet, I'll bet, but it's weird to see some grim news reports now describing panty raids from 1980s campus life (another DKE staple, apparently) as if they're as baffling, alien, and barbarous as the Ottoman siege of Vienna. We may have to ban the entire Generation Jones cohort (as people now in their 50s or so are sometimes called) from public life. How can a nation that has a soft spot for Old West outlaws and gangsta rappers have become this uptight so quickly?
And even as I ask, please recognize that I'm not condoning underwear theft. I'm asking, though, whether we really want to become Dean Wormer.
Some of our institutions really do want that. To take more examples from the Ivy League, Cornell will now officially inform arriving students (based on numerous demographic categories) which of them are "privileged" and which "oppressed," so the leftists will know who to hate. And they basically did the same thing at Brown 30 years ago with subtler labels, but I think our culture's inching its way toward just ditching subtlety in favor of the labels "evil" and "good."
The right certainly imposes its checklist of things that can get you in trouble, from being on the wrong side of a border to having the wrong chemical in your system, but don't forget that meanwhile it's usually the left these days that springs to the defense of a federal register of regulations now some 70,000 pages long, every bit of it backed by potential fines and then jail time if you refuse to pay those fines.
Many of society's stupid rules don't serve any obvious ideological agenda, of course. New York City notoriously had a "cabaret law" preventing some public dancing until its repeal last year (with my friends Andrew Muchmore and Rev. Jen Miller adding some pressure in favor of the repeal). Ilya Somin notes that a North Carolina resident was arrested in the wake of Hurricane Florence for rescuing displaced pets without a license.
Shouldn't there instead be punishment of public officials when something that absurd and cruel happens? Are we turning into modern British bureaucrats? Are we going to end up, like pacified Brits in one case, letting people drown because we aren't sure what the relevant rescue and lifeguarding regulations are and don't want to risk making any wrong moves?
And don't think you breathe easy by escaping into cyberspace.
Frank Oz has been harried for the past week or so by people outraged that he won't declare his Muppet creation Bert gay (and I'm sure the nitwits shrieking at him would love to add more pages to that federal register of regulations I mentioned earlier, whenever they get the chance).
Fran Blanche aka Fran Lab has posted a video about the frustrating mystery of suddenly having one's YouTube videos delisted and not knowing why. She normally talks about machines and engineering problems, not killing immigrants or anything offensive like that, but something plainly pissed off Google, perhaps just the fact that her stuff, though popular, wasn't part of a corporate-sponsored series. Google can ultimately do what it likes, but it's the not-knowing-why, in more and more areas of our lives, that unnerves. We can't endure as a culture letting mysterious authoritarians call all the shots from behind a fog bank.
And don't assume the authoritarians will be plainly visible attacking "from above." They may be in cahoots with seeming-underdogs sneaking up from below.
No more than a year and a half after Microsoft joined the coordinating foundation of free software system Linux—lo and behold—that amorphous, admirably anarchic community has been pressured by leftist activists to adopt anti-bias rules that have no direct connection to computer programming but do look uncannily like the kinds of rules big, bland corporations like Microsoft promulgate through their H.R. departments.
And what do you know, next out goes the offensive Linux cofounder Linus Torvalds after over 20 years, suddenly declared a rape apologist. But no matter what else he may be, he's no longer a threat to any future, perhaps blandly corporate, plans the formerly freewheeling Linux people might now have (unless the whole system gets dismantled by pro-Torvalds counter-protestors, which is yet possible).
Meanwhile, the current poster boy for resistance to censorship, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, posted a video addressed directly to Google employees in which, characteristically, he gives the most dire possible assessment of what's really going on with the recent imposition of overlapping new rules of law, online conduct, speech, and more. He thinks these forces are trying to download new, more obedient instincts overwriting our ancient, natural ones. He may indeed be close to the truth when he says his site Infowars is a threat not so much because it spews nonsense but because it denies humanity is obsolete.
Maybe the new crop of censors and controllers don't care per se about the dangers of nationalism or sexism or what have you. They just want to teach you in as many ways as possible that if you want to read or write or use technology or access your bank account, you will conform to the system, no matter what they currently say it is. Become part of the machine.
But on the tech front in particular, this may be a means of checking the Wormers: bias, broadly defined, is legal (as some of the people tech would like to ban know very well), but fraud is not. And it's the latter that may end up being the target of class action suits or government investigations in the years ahead. That is, the tech platforms can be explicitly Marxist if they so choose—but they can't tell their customers they're doing one thing while they're actually doing another. Like the frightened children of unpredictable drunk parents, or dogs with erratic owners, people deserve to know what's going to get them whacked. They're liable to become very angry and frustrated when they can't make any sense of the rules.
The tech firms deserve to lose most of their customers if the companies are behaving deceptively, whether they lose those customers as a result of lawsuits or just the cruel, if sometimes slow, judgment of the marketplace. But as a wise A.I. once told us, "Judgment Day is inevitable."
No one really escapes judgment, but it's nice to know what the criteria will be, on a computer, on a campus, or in a courtroom. I wouldn't want a Supreme Court justice wielding power unpredictably and arbitrarily (whether over defendants or female partygoers), nor journalists and Democrat lawyers using arbitrary standards for deciding which decades-old hazy drunken memories are suddenly morally paramount—nor for that matter Alex Jones' site's contributors making good on their new wish to use "martial law" in order to arrest Trump's foes in government.
The crazier the world gets—and it's getting nuttier rapidly, we can all agree—the more I want the basic ground rules to be simple, clear, and explicit. Whether or not one should go through life fat, drunk, and stupid is one's own business, but one should definitely not have to go through life on double secret probation.
—Todd Seavey is the author of Libertarianism for Beginners and is on Twitter at @ToddSeavey.
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A panel of legal and business experts on Wednesday (Feb. 6) provided an in-depth overview of the new federal Opportunity Zone rules that local and state economic officials hope will boost poor and distressed communities across the state.
The discussion on the new federal program, which was inserted in the omnibus $1.8 trillion Tax Cut and Jobs Act passed by Congress in December 2017, was part of the agenda at the three-day annual meeting of the Delta Regional Authority held at the downtown Marriott Hotel in Little Rock and occurred just as the Arkansas Senate passed a bill in support of the program.
Under the 2017 tax cut plan approved by Congress, President Donald Trump's administration strongly backed a new Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service program establishing qualified Opportunity Zones to spur investment in distressed communities across the country through a new federal capital gains tax incentive.
After beginning the panel session with a video message from U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, the chief sponsor of the new federal program, local attorney Scott Lar with Quattlebaum, Grooms and Tull said states are still awaiting some guidelines and modifications related to enabling legislation from the Treasury Department.
"Like most of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, this piece of legislation is still subject to technical corrections, which we may or may not ever get," said the Little Rock attorney. "We are awaiting clarification on a few issues and some additional guidance. We do have one round of initial guidance and we will talk through that …"
According to U.S. Treasury officials, the new federal incentive program will allow private investors to defer payment of taxes on capital gains on profits they earn on investments in the certified zones. They must invest the money through a corporation or partnership that was organized for that specific purpose.
Under the rules, the investor's fund must hold at least 90% of its assets in qualifying property. Nearly a year ago, governors from all 50 states could nominate up to 25% of eligible areas by March 21, 2018 as designated zones in their respective locales, based on census tract data. In May, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson received word that the U.S. Treasury had approved his nominations for 85 such zones in Arkansas.
Bryan Scroggins, director of business finance at the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, told the DRA panel that Arkansas selected 85 zones out of 337 qualified tracts. He told a roomful of DRA attendees that the state's nominations were based on the potential to attract investment and the likelihood of economic success.
After Hutchinson announced the qualified opportunity zones in Arkansas in May, AEDC Director Mike Preston said he would work closely with communities to find the right investment opportunities. Another panelist at the DRA conference, Arkansas Capital Executive Vice President Leslie Lane said each state and each community will have to figure what projects will work best to bring new investment and economic developed projects in distressed rural and urban communities across Arkansas.
"There is not a cookie-cutter way that every state is trying to address this (program)," said Lane.
As of today, the U.S. Treasury has already designed Opportunity Zones in 18 states. Those chosen as "qualified opportunity zones" will retain that designation for a decade. Investors can defer tax on any prior gains until no later than Dec. 31, 2026, so long as the gain is reinvested in a so-called Qualified Opportunity Fund investment vehicle that targets the designation distressed areas.
In addition, if investors hold the investment in the fund for at least ten years, they would be eligible for an increase in its basis equal to the fair market value of the investment on the date that it is sold. Unbeknownst to the DRA panelists, which also included Quattlebaum attorney Kenneth Hall and Arkansas Venture Center Chairman James Hendren, the Arkansas Senate passed a bill about an hour before the discussion began that opens the door for Arkansas to be certified under the federal program.
Senate Bill 196 by Sen. Keith Ingram, D-West Memphis, was unanimously approved by a 35-0 vote after several senators praised the federal program as a way to bring investment to Arkansas, noting that the bicameral Tax Reform and Relief Task Force endorsed the program. On the Senate floor, Ingram called the Opportunity Zones the best thing to come out of the $1.8 trillion 2017 Tax Cut Act that lowered the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%.
"It makes it very attractive for businesses to come in a (distressed) census area," Ingram said. SB196 is now referred to the House Revenue & Taxation Committee, where is also expected to get a friendly reception. Gov. Hutchinson and AEDC have also expressed their support for the legislation.
A list of nominated zones and a map of nominated zones can be found at the AEDC website, here and here.
The DRA is a federal-state partnership created by Congress in 2000 to help create jobs, build communities, and improve lives through strategic investments in economic development and infrastructure projects in 252 counties and parishes across eight Delta states, including Arkansas. The authority's three-day annual meeting in Little Rock, which included a reception at the Arkansas Governor's Mansion, ends on Thursday.
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GIZ PK in its quest to capture the best practices in TVET sector of Pakistan has made a documentary to compliment IRM's best practices in field of technical and vocational training . Documentary tells the success story of Mr. Shakeel who received vocational training from IRM and made a difference in his life. It also tells about the whole process of technical and vocational training carried out by IRM in imparting market driven technical skills to the underprivileged rural community to empower them economically.
Documentary is produced to create profound interest about technical and vocational training besides improving the reputation of the sector in Pakistan.


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Okay, so maybe we are not full-blown nomads, but there's a reason why we travel so much — we haven't found the home of our dreams!
In 2016 Alex and I set off on a 4.5 month cross-country road trip in search of a US city that we'd fall in love with, and eventually move to. We did our research, seeking out up and coming cities, cities that are diverse, cities that have a nightlife scene but nature nearby, etc. We even listed our most important criteria and gave points to our top 12 cities to help narrow it down.
We New Yorkers have expensive taste, apparently. And not enough funds to back it up. While small towns are cute and all, they don't cut it for the long term (unless all of our best friends move to the same small town and we created the most poppin-est town ever).
On the other hand, cities that have a good nightlife, gastronomic, or brewery scene are usually more expensive, hence the issue. We essentially haven't found a city that is expensive "but totally worth it". Or small town "with huge potential".
Y'all. This is big. And it's pretty much mostly my fault.
I hate the winter. All my life I've disliked the cold. I was born and raised on the four-season east coast and even made the regretful decision of going to university in Boston. Now paired with the rheumatoid arthritic side effects of having lupus, cold and rainy weather is far from comfortable. On top of that, I hate wearing long sleeves shirts and heavy coats. I hate wearing shoes, let alone snow boots. I do like cozy fireplaces and the way snow *falling* looks, though. I hate winter dry skin and hair. And most of all, I hate having to run errands during such weather.
You get the picture: I dislike temperatures lower than 32 degrees Fahrenheit -- though I will still travel to such places short-term if the reward is exciting enough. On the other hand, Alex loves to snowboard (hence the dilemma). Searching for a place that is still close enough to the slopes without forcing me to endure winter for four months seriously narrows down the options.
Minus the fact that I don't really want to commit to one location long-term anyway (that can be remedied with frequent trips) if I want to continue working in travel, I need to live in an ideal location. One that offers a hub airport under 100 miles away or dirt cheap flight connections to one. Being in a hub city means three things for me, as a travel media professional: better flight deals, more flight options, and an increased likelihood of secured press trips and sponsored partnerships.
Notice this list isn't very long (or entirely low-cost). Also note, there are more hubs that are great for domestic travel that aren't on this list but international travel is my focus.
Okay, the elephant in the room: family and friends. As much as I wish to live my life without consideration of what other people do, I'll admit Alex's (and my *slowly growing*) desire for proximity to family and friends has also affected the moving decision a little.
Though both our young adult years were nurtured by boarding high school and college environments, we approach relationships very differently. It could be because he is the youngest of two and I am the second oldest of four. It could be because he's more extroverted and I'm an ambivert. Who knows... Either way, he wants to be near people he knows and I can go either way.
That should be an easy decision, right? The problem is, these loved ones are everywhere. So where do we choose? And to be frank: the older we get the more we realize that our loved ones aren't getting younger. Some are dying (while others are giving birth to new life). There is a bit of guilt because we want to try to be part of those people's lives without sacrificing the goals we have set for ourselves.
At the end of the day, someone will always have a suggestion for what they think we should do. Someone will always have a critique about the decisions we make for our own life. And someone will always have a complaint. But our loved ones are generally all supportive and we appreciate that.
I hate talking about this because it makes me upset -- but it is true. I'm a woman. I'm brown. I use birth control. I'm unmarried. I'm Latina. I'm from a low-income background. I've received government aid. I have a pre-existing condition.
While there are some wonderful places in the United States (in fact some of the most beautiful in the world), when considering permanent relocation I sometimes wake up thinking, "Wow. I am literally everything half this damn country hates."
On top of that, the biggest frustration with this search is dealing with something not everyone has to worry about: being in an interracial relationship (which some people have more of a problem with than my skin color itself). Alex and I have been in situations where people stared at us negatively, rejected us at a cash register upon realizing we were together, or generally spew micro aggressions disguised as compliments. And sometimes Alex doesn't even realize it is happening because well... he's white and doesn't have to deal with it directly. I don't want to move somewhere where everyday is a lesson in Micro Aggressions 101. I'm exhausted just typing this paragraph about it.
Anyway, yes -- this still happens in the United States. This even happens in "liberal cities".
Remember, it's only been 50 years since the Loving vs. Virginia case. Only 50 years since it was declared unlawful to prohibit interracial marriage.
I don't feel safe settling down in a new place that I am not sure will love us. That, if we chose to have children, might not love our interracial child. I selfishly am not ready to deal with that more than I already do. And I am certainly not ready to bring a family into a country that would still elect someone like our 45th President (he-who-must-not-be-named).
So no, we haven't chosen a place that would be fair, safe, liberal, great weather, social, and affordable to live in. And now that I list it that way, it feels quite sad. I must be missing something!
Tell Us: Where should we live?
We haven't completely given up. Instead, we've taken the opportunity to use housesitting and petsitting as a way to continue testing out new locations, neighborhoods, and people. It is also a (free) way to decide whether things like weather, family, and airports are really the biggest deal breakers. Or if we've judged a destination too prematurely. Diversity and basic rights definitely are deal breakers, though, so don't go suggesting some ridiculous location that doesn't value women, help the low-income, or hate immigrants.
Alternatively, if you have encouraging words of advice, please feel free to share!


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U.S. military restricts access to The Guardian website
The Monterey County Herald reports: The Army admitted Thursday to not only restricting access to The Guardian news website at the Presidio of Monterey, as reported in Thursday's Herald, but Armywide.
Presidio employees said the site had been blocked since The Guardian broke stories on data collection by the National Security Agency.
Gordon Van Vleet, an Arizona-based spokesman for the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, or NETCOM, said in an email the Army is filtering "some access to press coverage and online content about the NSA leaks."
He wrote it is routine for the Department of Defense to take preventative "network hygiene" measures to mitigate unauthorized disclosures of classified information.
"We make every effort to balance the need to preserve information access with operational security," he wrote, "however, there are strict policies and directives in place regarding protecting and handling classified information."
In a later phone call, Van Vleet said the filter of classified information on public websites was "Armywide" and did not originate at the Presidio.
Presidio employees described how they could access the U.S. site, www.guardiannews.com, but were blocked from articles, such as those about the NSA, that redirected to the British site. [Continue reading…]
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I had never heard of a baby moon before. When Debra told me it was a trip you take before you have your baby, I was all in. We decided we wanted to go to Hawaii. We had never been to Kauai before, so we decided on that island. It was beyond beautiful. There wasn't a lot as far as restaurants or shops and stuff, it more for the nature lovers. Debra was 7 months pregnant at the time, so this was our last chance to get away and we really enjoyed it.


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Juliet Stevenson: why I bought a double decker bus on eBay
Ryan Gilbey
The actor talks about helping refugee children, losing her 'big brother' Alan Rickman – and why she turned down Steven Spielberg
Mon 9 May 2016 02.00 EDT Last modified on Sat 25 Nov 2017 00.16 EST
'Writers won't give women their own narrative.' Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian at Dean St Townhouse, London
First excursions on to eBay often tend toward the modest. A pair of shoes, a coffee table. A bicycle, at a push. Not so for Juliet Stevenson. "It's surprisingly easy to buy a double-decker bus, you know, once you start looking," says the 59-year-old actor, picking over a chicken salad in a London restaurant. "I immediately discovered that a red one costs twice as much. And older ones are better, if they're working well, because the parts aren't as complicated. There's less to go wrong." All this is said in a helpful manner, as though she has heard I might be in the market for a bus myself and is determined I make an informed purchase.
Celebrities are permitted their indulgences. Johnny Depp has an island. Rupert Grint owns an ice-cream van. Juliet Stevenson's bus, however, cannot be written off as an eccentricity. After visiting the Calais refugee camp in February, she asked one of the volunteers what was needed. The surprising answer was that a double-decker would go down a treat. "There are hundreds of kids in the camp," she explains. "You can take the seats out of the upper deck, turn it into a dormitory, and it can also be a day centre. It's warm, dry, safe. No one can knock it down and, if necessary, it can be driven away." Within a few weeks of returning, she and a friend had snapped up a blue bus for £5,500 and driven it to the camp.
'As you get older, the roles narrow. It's like being on the up escalator waving to my actress self going down: Bye!'
She is keenly aware that the tabloid press never knowingly gives a break to posh liberal celebrities. Has she come in for any luvvie-bashing? "'Luvvie'," she shudders. "Now there's a word I'd like to ban. Generally the press hates people like Emma [Thompson] and Jude [Law] and myself for doing these things. It's the very same media desperately craving stories about well-known people who are then the ones to slag us off for wanting to help." As if on cue, the director Stephen Daldry pops over to our table to give Stevenson the latest update on his own efforts to get a theatre going at the camps. Were a tabloid photographer in the vicinity, this snapshot of two luvvies saving the world over lunch might be worth a pretty penny. Still, Stevenson is fairly sure that "even the Mail would have a hard time saying there's anything wrong with rescuing children living in mud and shit".
Stevenson in her new film, Departure.
Word is that the bus has been a big success. "I've got a young film-maker out there filming what's going on for fundraising purposes. He sent back footage at the weekend of children on the top deck watching Mary Poppins." She sounds genuinely moved – not easy given she has to practically holler to be heard over the boisterous lunchtime trade.
But then Stevenson has always been able to embody apparently contradictory qualities. She is tall and, at times, indomitable-looking. ("I do think tall women have to work harder to get sympathy. I often joke about this with some of my smaller friends.") And yet her best work has involved devastating displays of vulnerability. Her screen breakthrough was the bittersweet 1990 romcom Truly, Madly, Deeply, in which she alternated authentically messy tears and radiant laughter as a grieving woman whose partner returns as a ghost. She was offered a part in Schindler's List on the strength of it. "I was in the bath and my mum called through the door: 'Darling, there's a Steven Spielberg on the phone.' 'God that's hilarious mum!' 'No I really think that's his name.'" Only she'd already committed to do a play in Los Angeles. "The tragedy of life is mistiming. I've turned down wonderful stuff. But is there even a right or wrong? It's more like, 'That's what I did. I can't do anything about it.'"
'Tall women have to work harder to get sympathy' Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian
The LA trip had been at the insistence of her agent. "I went a bit reluctantly. I'm not very good at self-promotion. So I did a play out there because I wanted to be working rather than hanging out by swimming pools trying to look nice." Then she received an offer to come home for what transpired to be her second great signature role: Paulina, the torture victim who turns the tables on her former tormentor, in Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden at the Royal Court. Bang went any more LA meetings ("Much to my agent's dismay"). But she did get the 1992 Olivier award for best actress. "I loved doing it. A philosophical proposition that was also a thriller." It was Stevenson's idea to have Paulina shove her knickers in her torturer's mouth. "It came up in rehearsal. I think it's made its way into the stage directions now."
Did she feel her Hollywood moment was over? "No. I've done American films: Being Julia, Mona Lisa Smile. It's ticked over. And that's fine. Being flavour of the moment is not a good place to be. If you're flavour of the moment, by definition you'll be the bad taste of the moment in five years' time."
Her career – a model of longevity – bears this out. In 2014 she brought formidable pluck and cheer to the partially entombed Winnie in Beckett's Happy Days. The Guardian's Michael Billington called her interpretation "brilliantly intelligent".
Up to her hips … as Winnie in Happy Days by Samuel Beckett in 2014. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
Her range is exploited well in the new British drama Departure, in which she plays a newly single woman clearing out her French holiday home, with her teenage son. With her husband gone and her son on the cusp of leaving home, she has to face her own incompleteness. "Everything has been motivated by and structured around their child. He reaches adolescence, and then … well, they leave you. They don't leave you for good. I've got children myself [Rosalind, 22, and Gabriel, 15, with her husband, the anthropologist Hugh Brody] so I've been through this. There's a necessary and painful letting go."
The film is striking for giving a middle-aged woman unpredictable notes to play. "Female roles are often not complex because they're adjuncts," Stevenson sighs. "Very often the interesting things happen to the man. The woman is there as wife, mother, daughter, PA. A lot of writers won't give you your own narrative because it isn't deemed necessary. So much in our culture about women's identities relates to their sexual value. When that is no longer of interest they, as individuals, are past the point of being of any interest either. It's a source of frustration. As you get older, you get more experience, you have more to say, more layers. And at exactly the same time that's happening in your life, the roles are narrowing down. It's like you're on the up escalator but the parts are on the down escalator. You're waving to your actress self: 'Byeee!'"
'Female roles are often not complex because they're adjuncts' … with Michael Byrne in Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
As a young performer, the pickings weren't as slim. "I got offered a wide range in my 20s and 30s. My only hand on the rudder through all that was to to try not to get pinned down as one thing. After Truly, Madly, Deeply, I got many wacky, daffy, quirky single women, trying to cope in their daft, loveable way. But I'd done that. I need the insecurity of not knowing where I'm going."
Born in Essex, Stevenson had an itinerant childhood. Her father's job in the army uprooted the family every few years; there were spells in Germany, and at boarding school in Berkshire. She studied at Rada and got roped into the RSC in 1978, when she was 22. "I was an unhatched egg that had just rolled out of drama school. But someone fell sick in The Tempest and they needed a replacement quickly. They grabbed my coat and suitcase off me when I arrived in Stratford, rushed me into the wings and said, 'Do whatever she does!'" 'She' turned out to be Ruby Wax. "If she barked, I barked."
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The production had its shortcomings. "It had all been designed around laser beams. Only they never worked." But it was invaluable for another reason: it introduced her to Alan Rickman, with whom she later starred in Truly, Madly, Deeply and on stage in the legendary 1986 RSC production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
'Many hundreds of people in this profession owe their careers to Alan Rickman'
"I'd seen Alan playing King Rat in Dick Whittington at Bristol rep and I thought, 'That is one sexy, charismatic actor'. He befriended Ruby and me, little sprogs that we were. Ruby was so funny, and he told her: 'Write it down.' They stayed best friends. She wouldn't brush her teeth without ringing Alan first."
To Stevenson, he was like a big brother. "That's why I wasn't happy in Truly:'I can't snog my brother!' I'd sometimes drive him mad, occasionally vice versa. But it was an unconditionally loving friendship. He came to see everything I ever did, right up to Happy Days. If you wanted notes, there'd be a whole list after and they'd be brilliant. I can hear his voice in my head: 'Get off the front foot, on to the back foot. Jules, less is more'."
With Alan Rickman in Truly, Madly, Deeply. Photograph: Allstar/BBC
She doesn't need to say she misses Rickman. The loss resonates every time she mentions him. "Nobody scared me more in the audience because I minded so much what he thought. I'm a mother of grown-up children but it was like I was 20 years old needing his approval." About his legacy, she is clear. "He collected talent around him, nurturing it, giving people opportunities. You would come into your own working with him. 'What you need is this script editor' or 'What you need is this director'. He'd hook you up. Many hundreds of people probably owe their careers to Alan. There was no one else like him."
Departure is released 20 May.


Luck can turn the table for anybody at any time. This is just what happened to a person who bought a thing and got a lot much bigger amount from inside. A man buys an old safe for SR 1,900, only in an auction and to his luck found SR 28 million inside the safe after it was opened.
A treasure box was purchased by a man in an auction held and he paid $500 which is almost SR 1900 for the box but he was stunned to discover $7.5 million (SR 28 million approx.) concealed inside the box.
Dan Dotson, who is a storage wars star, has been revealed as one of the luckiest auction buyers and he used Twitter to tell that how a woman approached him and told him that she knew a man who has bought a unit for him.
He said that there was an old Asian woman who was sitting at the next table to him and she was continuously looking at him like she wanted to tell him something.
Dotson told Mirror.uk that the women walked up to him and told him that her husband works with a guy who has bought a unit from him and found a safe inside. Two people were called to open the safe. Dotson describing the moments when the safe was opened he said that they had to call two persons to open it.
The first person either couldn't or did not but they had to call the second person for the purpose. When the second person opened it, the boxes which are normally empty were not empty at all rather what they found inside the safe was a huge surprise. It had $7.5 million cash inside.
Why did the actual owner leave the money inside? Speculations were also made about the reasons as to why the owner had left the money inside the locker. According to Dotson, it is impossible that after putting money in the box the owner would have forgotten about it the only possibility can be that somebody else was in charge of it.
His wife Laura added that may be the credit card went bad or it was finished due to which they moved away or maybe the person went to jail. But his wife also believed that the original story can only be speculated.
But the important point to note is that whatever the reason may be behind the fact that the owner of the money left such a massive amount in there, but it was proved that one man's loss is another's gain, literally.
Since luck is the success or failure brought by chance and it's not dependent on owns actions so it is always interesting to know how sometimes luck bring fortunes in life and a person gets something from somewhere which he has never imagined of.