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UN General Assembly condemns North's human rights violations for 17th year
Permanent Representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the United Nations Kim Song (on screens), addresses the general debate of the General Assembly's seventy-fifth session.[UN/LOEY FELIPE]
The UN General Assembly on Thursday passed by consensus a resolution condemning North Korean human rights violations, marking the 17th year in a row that such a resolution was passed by the assembly.
The resolution, put forward by a number of European Union member states including Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic and Latvia, and others such as Canada and Switzerland, "condemns in the strongest terms the long-standing and ongoing systematic, widespread and gross violations of human rights in and by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea."
Similar in content to those adopted yearly since 2005, the resolution addresses "gross" human rights violations in the North including torture and other inhuman punishments of its citizens, the existence of political prison camps, all forms of sexual and gender-based violence, abductions of North Koreans and international citizens, severe restrictions on freedom of thought of North Koreans in online and offline spaces, as well as exploitation of workers sent abroad.
Stating that these violations "may amount to crimes against humanity," the resolution called for swift investigations and a possible referral to the International Criminal Court, which was a first in 17 years.
"[The General Assembly] encourages the Security Council to [...] take appropriate action to ensure accountability, including through consideration of referral of the situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the International Criminal Court and consideration of further sanctions in order to target effectively those who appear to be most responsible for human rights violations that the commission has said may constitute crimes against humanity," the statement said.
Six members of the Security Council, including the United States, Britain and France, issued a statement on Wednesday to discuss North Korean human rights violations in an open meeting.
The resolution also called for further global action on the Covid-19 situation in the North, expressing "very deep concern at the precarious humanitarian situation in the country [...] exacerbated by the negative impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the continued closure by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea of its borders and government policies causing limitations in the availability of and access to adequate food."
It urged the North Korean government to take "preventive and remedial action" and work with international donors and agencies to implement humanitarian programs.
The North closed its borders in January 2020 as the Covid-19 virus began to spread globally.
There have been offers of vaccines through the worldwide Covax initiative, which Pyongyang rejected. In September, the country rejected the offer of nearly 3 million doses of the Chinese-developed Sinovac vaccine from Covax. According to the World Health Organization, no vaccines have been administered in North Korea.
The resolution was drafted and sponsored by some 60 countries, which did not include South Korea. It was the third year in a row that it didn't participate in drafting the resolution, however South Korea did take part in joining the consensus to pass the resolution at the assembly on Thursday.
BY ESTHER CHUNG [chung.juhee@joongang.co.kr]
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Warren Baader not guilty of manslaughter in 2016 death of daughter, Molly, in Port Alberni court
Jul. 3, 2019 4:33 p.m.
The father of a two-month-old girl accused of manslaughter in her death has been acquitted by a B.C. Supreme Court judge.
Warren Baader was found not guilty in a Port Alberni court on Tuesday in the death of his daughter Molly in October 2016.
Justice Robin Baird told the court that although most medical experts said the baby's broken skull and brain hemorrhages could not have happened by dropping her, other experts said there was a slight chance.
The girl's mother testified in April that she found Baader in the living room rocking their daughter's lifeless body and called 911.
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Japanese who joined the workforce after the bubble face bleak prospects, since the corporate ladder is crowded with colleagues 10 years older. (© Illustration by Luis Mendo)
'Lost generation' haunts Japan, Abe and the BOJ
Workers frozen out in the 1990s now lack the spending power the economy needs
AKANE OKUTSU and AKIHIDE ANZAI, Nikkei staff writers October 2, 2018 12:18 JST | Japan
TOKYO -- When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was re-elected head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party last month, he made a familiar pledge. His government, he said, would finally beat the deflation that has plagued the country for decades.
New threats, like the escalating U.S.-China trade war, will make that old battle even more difficult to win. But if Abe fails, it may be because the economy's fate was sealed long before he became prime minister, when Japan "lost" a generation of workers who ought to be driving the economy today.
"In our company, there just aren't any positions for us to get promoted to," said a 40-year-old man working for a major financial institution in Tokyo. He and colleagues around his age frequently complain about their dim prospects for earning promotions and raises, he said.
For them, it is difficult not to be resentful of the generation about 10 years older, who graduated from college in the late 1980s and early 1990s when the economy was flying high. In those heady bubble days, landing a job at a big corporation was a breeze.
And because so many members of the bubble generation are still climbing the ladder, the man said, his turn is still a long way off.
Japanese workers currently in their mid-30s to mid-40s are known collectively as the "lost generation," or the generation of the "employment ice age." They started job hunting after the economic bubble collapsed. As Japan slipped deeper into a serious financial crisis in the late 1990s, companies tightened up on hiring new employees to keep the ones they already had.
The man at the financial institution said 100 colleagues in their late 40s and early 50s are ahead of him -- more than double the number of employees in his age group. He believes his generation "carries a heavier workload" because of the company's demographic imbalance.
Data suggests the man is not imagining things. Research published by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in February shows that the proportion of managers in their 40s is declining. Only 8.4% of male workers aged 40 to 44 were section heads in 2017, down 3.6 points from 2007.
The same study reveals the impact on middle-aged citizens' incomes. Workers in the 40-44 age bracket earned an average of 327,400 yen ($2,905) per month in 2017, down 6.8% from the figure for the same age group 10 years earlier.
This is not a negligible segment of the population. Roughly 17 million, or just under 15% of Japanese, fall into the lost generation, and they are under pressure to save more and spend less. In turn, this puts a drag on both growth and prices, bedeviling Abe and Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda, who has been trying to nudge inflation toward a 2% target.
"People in their 40s are more likely to spend on houses or children's education, but that is being suppressed," explained Naoko Kuga, senior researcher at the NLI Research Institute. "Avoidable spending, such as family vacations and dining out, is also suppressed."
Normally, when workers see no avenue to promotion, they have the option of seeking a new job with a better salary. But this, too, is a tall order in Japan, due to the country's unique hiring practices and wage systems.
Companies typically prefer to hire new graduates, leaving few openings for older workers. Yet age discrimination is rarely if ever discussed.
And although lifetime employment is less pervasive than it used to be, "years of continuous employment are still important for earning a higher income," noted Yuji Genda, a professor of labor economics at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Social Science.
All of this means that, in general, midcareer hires are at a disadvantage compared with workers who joined a company fresh out of college and stayed for the long haul.
Many workers are stuck not only because they are blocked by predecessors and see no alternatives, but also because they lack the skills they need. Genda said companies did not put sufficient resources into training personnel amid the recession of the 1990s and thereafter. His research shows that, compared with other age groups, members of the lost generation feel they did not learn enough early in their careers to either move up the ladder or switch jobs.
Still, workers locked in dead end but permanent positions could be considered the lucky ones.
Less fortunate members of the lost generation have been getting by with part-time or contract positions. Incomes are low, conditions are precarious and the more time passes, the more difficult it is for these people to break the cycle and improve their lives. Individuals without regular, permanent jobs are far less likely to marry or have children.
Growing awareness of the problem has given rise to a nascent support system. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government, for instance, backs a workshop program for men and women ranging in age from 30 to 44. For two months, participants learn the ropes in a virtual workplace set up for training. They also visit companies to gain a better sense of business and get a feel for work environments. Throughout the program, there is an emphasis on working in teams.
During a session in late September, around 20 attendees took turns giving presentations about companies they had visited over the course of the workshop. Some spoke like nervous students, while their peers listened and offered feedback.
One woman said the workshop was "a good way to fill the blanks" in terms of skills. She had spent most of her career working on contracts, with only two years as a regular employee.
Another attendee, who had never held a permanent job, joined the workshop hoping to find out why she had been unable to pass recruitment interviews. "I learned that I need to act on my own initiative and take responsibility," she said.
Job seekers, ranging in age from 30 to 44, attend a skill-building workshop in Tokyo in late September. (Photo by Akane Okutsu)
"Those who attend this program tend to have lost the confidence most workers have at their age," said Akira Nagasaka from the Tokyo Foundation for Employment Services, the organizer of the program. "We support them to learn communication skills and find a job where they can feel accomplished."
Last year, more than 90% of participants found employment within six months after the program. But they make up only a small portion of the people who need help. Some members of the lost generation have retreated to the very edges of society.
Genda noted that the ice age years were also when many Japanese gave up on studying or finding jobs and became shut-ins. It was after this generation hit the job market that the term NEET, which stands for "Not in Education, Employment or Training," became a buzzword.
Now, more than two decades after the employment deepfreeze set in, there is another concern besides the dampening effect on consumer spending and prices.
Unable to hold down steady jobs, untold numbers of 40-somethings are living with their 70-something parents, supported to varying degrees by their pensions and savings. But what will happen after their parents are gone? One media report estimated that caring for the ones left behind could cost up to 30 trillion yen.
That might be the tip of the iceberg. Kuga of NLI Research sounded the alarm over the social security system. "It would be serious if members of the ice age generation remain in nonpermanent positions," she said.
The tragic irony is that the gravity of the problem is crystallizing just as Japan faces its most serious labor crunch in decades.
Junichi Makino, chief economist at SMBC Nikko Securities, said that when it comes to pushing up wages, the tighter labor market mostly benefits younger generations rather than workers already on the payroll. "Employers are prioritizing higher pay [for the newcomers] to secure more employees," he said.
And while Abe's government looks to ease the labor shortage by opening low-skill sectors to more international workers, a significant portion of the lost generation is still out in the cold.
Nikkei staff writer Eri Sugiura contributed to this story.
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For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and of course, its consequences. The quote demonstrates that, for Wiesel, silence over history is acceptance of that history. Having been condemned to silence in the concentration camps, Wiesel has an opportunity to preserve lives in his memory and in his writing. Wiesel suggests in this quote that memory is the only thing that truly makes us immortal: it is who remembers, and how they do so, which will keep society involved in collectively acknowledging the past. Never shall I forget that night, the first night in the camp, which has turned into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. This quote is a direct reference to imagery from the Bible and the Talmud. It is most likely in direct reference to the story of Cain.
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Ann Beattie's Latest, 'A Wonderful Stroke of Luck' Leaves This Reader Feeling Hapless
Disaffected prep school youth, seemingly from another era, stumble through the immediate wake of a post-9/11 America in Ann Beattie's A Wonderful Stroke of Luck.
A Wonderful Stroke of Luck
Consider the plight of an author whose continuing style and time may have long since faded. They still produce work, but it varies in quality. They work within a safe environment where the plaudits received for their early work are not tarnished or diminished by the changing times or different formats in which they choose to work. Within this hermetically sealed bubble in which they write their narratives about the alienated and disaffected, the author whose time has passed pushes even more forcefully to elevate their trademark styles. They keep writing alienated, cold, detached narratives that worked so forcefully to reflect the stranded souls of a post-Vietnam generation 45 years ago, only to see their powerful ability to capture that voice has become tedious today.
Ann Beattie's 21st book, A Wonderful Stroke of Luck, might be too smart for its own good. Her lead character, Ben, is a student at a fictional New England Bailey Academy. The time setting is the early 21st century, that period of numbness in the atmosphere after the 9/11 attacks. The East Coast boarding school is a time-honored (and usually time-worn) cocoon where self-satisfied smug brilliance is fostered in a world like a hermetically-sealed biodome. Much like Susan Choi's similarly mixed novel, Trust Exercise (Henry Holt and Co., 2019), Beattie imposes the presence of a charismatic teacher on Ben and the other people in this narrative. However, unlike Choi's story, which attempted a lot but didn't follow through, Beattie's purpose seems to be more general. Ben has lost his father and he is trying to find both focus and purpose in a life that does not make much sense to him. A stepmother proves resistant, a neighbor is there but not there, and another woman's presence seems to be more destructive than helpful.
We see early on that the charismatic teacher, Peter LaVerdere, is only going to be a problem, but he's matched by his students. Laverdere's favorite text is Crime and Punishment, and star pupil Aqua cites Michael Herr's Dispatches as her go-to text. Beattie seems to be having fun in these early stages, citing Aqua as "…human Velcro, her words the tiny loops she hoped would attach her to whomever she cornered." Another character, LouLou, had "…written three novels -- she maintained that anything over a hundred pages was a novel." This particular passage seems telling regarding both the collection of characters here and Beattie's apparent inability to sustain realistic interest through the course of A Wonderful Stroke of Luck. She knows we can meander through some of her short stories and trust that she'll bring us to a crescendo, but novels are a wholly different landscape, and she doesn't earn our trust as early on in the story as she should.
Pierre Laverdere is a teacher of film, a teacher of drama, somebody who leads the honor society at Bailey Academy by bestowing upon his students offerings they should know:
Five Easy Pieces, Sophie's Choice, Waiting for Godot. Beattie knowingly sprinkles these references into the curriculum of her fictional New Hampshire boarding school and notes that:
"Being sick of Laverdere was like being sick of the hands of a clock. Of course they studied him to see what his mood was, while trying to appear disinterested…they were simply too young to be disinterested; they couldn't possibly think of personal advantage when they'd really accomplished nothing."
We learn that Laverdere's "Holy Trinity" is Dostoyevsky, Richard Feynman, and Robert Altman, another hint at where we might be going. 9/11 happens, but Laverdere is nowhere to be found. Beattie writes: "Now everything in the world was going to be rethought…" The students graduate the following year, and Barbara Ehrenreich is their commencement speaker. Years pass and Ben finds himself in New York City with his sister. "Whatever old people said was news brought from a vanished land," Beattie writes. She lands us in the middle of the ennui that so smothered our world in the first half-decade after 9/11. While it's forcefully and effectively evoked, the reader gets the sense Beattie would have been more effective had she written a memoir, or a series of essays. Consider this passage, which comes off more like the opening of a long-form essay about writing than novel writing itself:
"Metaphor. It was insidious. You had to ignore that way of thinking… your dreams contained straw men rather than real omens… your neurotic fears lacked legitimacy… you realized symbolic stories were inert… you had no special abilities… no second senses…"
The difficult part of a story like this is that even a great short story writer like Ann Beattie cannot effectively balance maintaining and sustaining our interest in what's happening with a character who isn't going anywhere. Beattie writes: "Time passed. He had his shoes resoled… Images of people jumping from the Twin Towers sometimes flashed through his mind." In the wake of that disaster, people of Ben's generation flock to Portland, Maine and New York's Hudson Valley. What was once seen as uncool becomes gentrified. It's difficult to embrace a character like Ben when "[T]he effort he was putting into talking exhausted him." Long conversations and references to Tom McGuane, Proust, and WNYC public radio talk shows remind us that these people were insulated before 9/11 and only held tighter to this desperate intellectualism in the years that followed.
There are moments in A Wonderful Stroke of Luck that resonate, though the reader needs to wade through many pages of ponderous navel-gazing and blank-eyed disaffected emptiness to get to them. Of LouLou, Beattie writes:
"She resembled the young Susan Sontag, as photographed by Thomas Victor. Sontag had been one of the first people to write an eminently sensible thing after 9/11, asking people to think seriously whether or not there might be reasons for our enemies to hate us."
It's the lost potential in passages such as this where the patient reader might feel frustrated. There's a reason Beattie set this story in the 9/11 era, but she fails the reader (and her narrative) by not following through on such observations. 9/11 did create numbness, and it ushered in a cold era of detachment in the arts, where irony was lost, and political commentary swept away in favor of commentary. Beattie assuredly and intelligently drops an endless supply of cultural references throughout this novel, but she doesn't back them up with anything within the story itself.
The reader familiar with novels about privileged teens at exclusive private prep schools -- like the aforementioned Trust Exercise, or teacher films like Robert Mulligan's Up the Down Staircase (1967) and Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society (1989) -- will see very early where Beattie will be taking LaVerdere's character. By its conventional nature, the ending disappoints. Who was LaVerdere? What was his function in this story? Beattie tells us that LaVerdere had a sort of "Machiavellian maneuvering" in the lives of these young people, "[B]ut he wasn't the devil, just a sad approximation." Beattie introduces her two major themes -- life for a generation of young people in the numb cultural wasteland wake of 9/11 United States and the disastrous emotional effects of a charismatic teacher on the lives of said young people -- but she doesn't bother to effectively (or convincingly) build upon either of them.
In the end, the reader works through nearly 300 pages of a character study painfully bereft of dramatic tension. The cultural references are effective and knowing, but these seem to be young people from the '70s imposed onto the early 21 st century. Fore example, the only cultural reference Beattie makes to the music of the time is the Madison Square Garden Michael Jackson concert of September 2001. Otherwise, these young people are untouched by pop culture. Where are their cell phones? Why are they not Instant Messaging each other?
The blank stares of disaffected sadness worked well in such films as Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces (1970), or anything from Antonioni and Bergman, but they're almost impossible to effectively pull off without distracting readers who deserve more. Not only do we not know anything more about Ben at the end of A Wonderful Stroke of Luck than we knew at the beginning, we don't really care. This is an intellectually rich book, but Beattie's clinical distance seems as much a reflection of her inability to fully capture this generation as it is a literary style. It reads like the result of scholarly research rather than primary experience. Emotional connections within or between characters are nowhere to be seen. Alas, if the writer seems uninterested in attempting a connection with the reader, then the effort expended to build an absorbing fictional world proves fruitless.
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Đàn đáy
NY (disambiguation)
The Đàn đáy is a Vietnamese plucked lute with three strings, a trapezoidal wooden body, and a very long wooden neck with ten raised frets. Players formerly used silk strings, but since the late 20th century have generally used nylon.
It is used primarily in Northern Vietnam, and is one of the accompanying instruments used in ca trù.
In the late 20th century, a modernized version of the electric bass guitar in the shape of the đàn đáy was developed for use in the neo-traditional music composed and performed at the Hanoi Conservatory. Unlike the đàn đáy, this instrument has a solid wooden body and metal strings, and without raised frets.
In the Vietnamese language, đàn is a classifier used primarily to refer to string instruments, and đáy means "bottom." Thus, the instrument's name translates literally as "bottom string instrument." However, the instrument's body has no back. According to this website, the instrument was originally called vô để cầm, literally "bottomless stringed instrument."
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NY stands for New York, an American state
NY, Ny or ny may also refer to:
NY, short for New York City (see also NYC)
NY, North Yorkshire, an English county
Ny, Belgium, a village
NY, the IATA code for Air Iceland
ny, the ISO 639-1 code for Chichewa language
ny (digraph), an alphabetic letter
Ny, transcription of the 13th Greek letter, Nu
Eric Ny (1909–1945), Swedish runner
New York (disambiguation)
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The ney (Persian: نی / نای), is an end-blown flute that figures prominently in Middle Eastern music. In some of these musical traditions, it is the only wind instrument used. The ney has been played continuously for 4,500–5,000 years, making it one of the oldest musical instruments still in use.
"The Persian ney consists of a hollow cylinder with finger-holes. Sometimes a brass or plastic mouthpiece is placed at the top to protect the wood from damage, but this plays no role in the sound production." The ney consists of a piece of hollow cane or reed with five or six finger holes and one thumb hole. Modern neys may be made instead of metal or plastic tubing. The pitch of the ney varies depending on the region and the finger arrangement. A highly skilled ney player, called neyzen, can reach more than three octaves, though it is more common to have several "helper" neys to cover different pitch ranges or to facilitate playing technically difficult passages in other dastgahs or maqams.
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SCOTUS Squashes Virginia Racial Gerrymandering Appeal
By George Khoury, Esq. on June 17, 2019 2:55 PM
In an interesting twist, Justices Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan agreed with Justices Thomas and Gorsuch that the Virginia House of Representatives didn't have standing to challenge the appellate court's ruling that the election maps had been unconstitutionally, and racially, gerrymandered.
In short, the High Court majority explained that the state's House needed (but failed) to demonstrate that it had suffered a redressable injury in order to have grounds to appeal. If this is still confusing, read on for a brief, plain- English explanation of what this decision means.
No Racial Gerrymandering
The underlying case involved claims of racial gerrymandering in several voting districts in Virginia. This means that the voting districts were redrawn for the purpose of disenfranchising voters based on race. And while gerrymandering for other reasons may be perfectly legal, when race is a factor, it violates the law.
After the federal district court ruled that the redrawn voting districts were invalid, and the federal appellate court agreed, the state's attorney general publicly stated (and made a filing to the court explaining) that the state AG would not be appealing any further. At that point, the state's House of Representatives sought to keep the appeal alive and filed a petition for review to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the majority opinion, Justice Ginsburg explains that the state's House cannot represent the interests of the state by itself. Perhaps in conjunction with the state's Senate, there may have been more of an argument, but that wasn't the case. And under Virginia law, the state AG represents the state's interests. Additionally, the majority opinion asserted that the individual members of the House were not injured (in the legal sense), such that they would be entitled to relief from a court, which is a critical element to have legal standing.
Justice Alito penned a dissenting opinion asserting that the majority was plainly wrong in its assessment of the case. He explained that the House clearly will be injured because the members have the right to redistrict, and thus, by the courts taking that away, they have lost their right. Notably though, the majority opinion leaves it open for the state legislature to try again, just in a way that would not be racially motivated.
Want to know more? Read the full opinion below.
Virginia House of Delegates... by on Scribd