As a home improvement contractor in Maryland and Northern Virginia, American Home Contractors understands that building a protracted-lasting relationship with clients is just as essential as offering quality roofing & shingles, window or siding set up providers. However with one exception, Oregon has resisted the temptation to tip the fairness scale in opposition to contractors. This legislation is in place to protect homeowners and their households (and extra particularly, pregnant ladies and kids underneath six) and the contractors from doubtlessly poisonous lead dust. Biloxi has grown dramatically since Biloxi Residence Restore was began business 50 years ago. Although the EPA claims that it will be doing a publicity marketing campaign to inform householders in regards to the Renovation, Repair and Portray Rule (RRP Rule), I've heard very little about it outdoors of building circles.
Ask contractors for the names and cellphone numbers of people they've worked for—and verify them out. Residence Remedy Houston additionally installs prime-quality roofing materials all through the higher Houston space. District of Columbia regulation requires that even a licensed contractor receive proper District of Columbia building permits. All through the past ten years in particular, Biloxi House Improvement supplied a great number of home restore work calls on account of storm damage from wind which have impacted a lot of properties within the higher Biloxi space.
Georgia Code Section 43-41-7 (the Written Guarantee Act) now requires that residential contractors ship a written guarantee earlier than starting work on any job valued at over $2,500 (see footnote 1). The Georgia legislature left it to the State Licensing Board for Residential and Normal Contractors to determine what has to be in that guarantee. Nevertheless, if the design/build course of shouldn't be made clear, there's a larger risk that the home-owner will attempt to take the design/build contractor's design to different contractors.
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Wild at Heart is a Side Quest in Velen, located in the town of Blackbough, where a hunter seeks his missing wife.
Head to the town, which is just Northwest of Crow's Perch, and find the man named Niellen. His wife disappeared one night, most likely in the woods near town. His wife's sister Margrit also has no clue where she could have gone, but points you towards two people she was close to.
Speaking to the butcher's wife, you'll learn that the wolves in the woods have been acting up, which is most likely where she met her end. The children she took care of at the Blacksmiths will also tell you they saw her entering the forest with another woman.
From Blackbough, head North into the woods and follow the long trail up past the Pellar's hut and into the deeper part of the woods. As you enter the quest area, you'll see a large group of Wolves around a dead dog. Defeat them all and take care not to get cornered by their numbers.
At this point, a highly suspicious Margrit will approach you and ask you to stop looking, out of concern for Niellen's sanity. She'll attempt to pay you if you tell Niellen that you found her dead in the woods, to which you'll be awarded 72 XP for the bribe and 25 for telling him, and will get 55 crowns for the bribe, and an extra 10 for telling Niellen.
If you'd rather persist in finding her body, shrug Margrit off and inspect the dead dog. You'll find blood and claw marks of something big, and just behind the tree you'll find the broken body of Niellen's wife - killed by something big. The tracks will lead to a large tree with a stone slab propped up on it, and so you'll need to find a nearby tuft of hair to continue the search by smell alone. Follow the smells along a path to an Isolated Shack. Inside you'll find evidence that Niellen was doing his hunting from here...and much worse. Find his notes, and then search below the house to find a cave. At this point you'll want to meditate until nightfall and prepare yourself with potions.
Inside the cave, a Werewolf will stand before you with a few Wolf guardians (they will be classified as monsters, and so the silver sword will be needed to defeat them.) Take out the wolves and then move against the werewolf. Werewolves are vulnerable to several items, including Moon Dust, Devil's Puffball, Cursed Oil, and use of the Igni Sign. Use what you can to lower its health, and dodge out of the way of its leaping strikes.
When the werewolf is almost dead, it will fall down, at which point Margrit will run in and beg for you to stop, revealing the identity of the werewolf in question. Once the story has been revealed, you can choose to leave Margrit with the werewolf, or finish it off now. If you choose to finish it off, you'll need to whittle down the last bit of its health to kill it. If you leave them be, the Werewolf will do his dirty work, then ask that you kill him - no battle involved.
From the werewolf's corpse you can find a key to the locked chest in the Isolated Shack. This should give you a fair bit of rewards, including the diagram for a Crafting recipe for Shiadhal's Armor.


There is a long story behind the names Jubula and GUIdancer but the short version is that, as of 2015, the name GUIdancer was retired. The tool named Jubula contains everything that the previously-named GUIdancer did.
Back in 2004, BREDEX started developing the test tool GUIdancer. It was released in January 2006, and had reached version 4.3 by the end of 2010. At the beginning of 2011, BREDEX changed their business model from licenses to services, and open sourced much of the GUIdancer code in the Jubula Project at the Eclipse Foundation. GUIdancer remained a commercial tool, based on Jubula and offering additional benefits and features. Having "dipped our toe" into the open source world, we were convinced, and made GUIdancer and Jubula functionally equivalent for the standalone versions in 2013. In 2015, we retired the name GUIdancer so that there is now only one name.
The Jubula code is licensed under the Eclipse Public License (EPL). Many Jubula features can be installed into an existing Eclipse installation, or you can download the Eclipse for Testers package, which already contains the Jubula features. The Jubula features hosted at Eclipse (e.g. in Eclipse for Testers) are restricted to code that can be published under the EPL.
The standalone version of Jubula can contain code that is not EPL-conform. The standalone version contains the full feature set.


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Steam bug found after 10 years, 125 million gamers exposed
It's a sad reality that's been coming to a head for years now. Thousands of websites are hacked each and every day.
What does that mean for your data and personal information? Simply put, it's not safe. It's getting harder and harder to find a safe space online.
Typically when a flaw is discovered on a website, it's fixed immediately and users would only be exposed for a short while. However, a bug was recently discovered on this gaming site that lingered for over a decade.
Gaming site exposes millions of users
Security researcher Tom Court published details of the bug this week. A security flaw affected all versions of the Steam gaming client that have been released over the last 10 years.
According to Court, the bug would have allowed an attacker to execute malicious code on any of Steam's gaming clients. It is a remote code execution (RCE) flaw, meaning the attack could be executed remotely.
Watch the following video for a brief description of how the attack works:
If a hacker sends a malformed UDP packet to a victim's Steam client, it would trigger the bug. That would let the hacker run malicious code and completely take over a victim's PC.
The problem lies within Steam's code that dealt with fragmented UDP datagram reassembly. The good news is that after a decade the flaw has finally been patched.
Hackers have no shame, they will target anyone. Even gamers.
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Freaky Android glitch is revealing your private messages
There are some pretty cool features with Android that iPhone users don't have. One is the fact that you can expand your gadget's memory by adding an SD card. Unfortunately, there are also some problems that come with Android that you won't find in iOS. There was actually a glitch recently discovered that could expose your text messages.
Click here to learn about this glitch and why people are freaking out.
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19. Priest Holmes – Retired at 29 in 2007
In 2001, coming off two mediocre seasons with the Baltimore Ravens, running back Priest Holmes signed a modest free agent contract with the Kansas City Chiefs. Needless to say, the Chiefs got quite a return on their investment. Starting in 2001, Holmes ran for over 1,400 yards for three straight seasons; he had 21 rushing touchdowns in 2002, and set the NFL record for rushing touchdowns in a single season with 27 in 2003. Holmes was actually on pace to break that record in 2004, running for 14 touchdowns in only eight games, before sustaining a season-ending injury that would prove to be the beginning of the end for his career.
In 2005, Holmes missed nine more games after suffering an injury to his spinal column. He then missed all of the 2006 season trying to recover, and managed to play in a few games in 2007 before announcing his retirement. He retired as the Chiefs' all-time leader for career rushing touchdowns (76), total touchdowns (83), and career rushing yards (6,070).
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Hanergy Thin Film forecasts surprise 2016 H1 profit
The Chinese solar firm says that sales of its rooftop PV panels have grown by 200% in the past year, while revenues are 50% higher compared to the same six-month period in 2015.
July 20, 2016 pv magazine
Hanergy Thin Film, the aspirant Chinese solar firm that has endured a tumultuous past 18 months, has surprised the markets this week by issuing a preliminary first half (H1) 2016 financial report that forecasts a return to profit.
Despite having its shares suspended by the Hong Kong stock exchange for more than a year, Hanergy Thin Film says that it is forecasting a 50% increase in revenue for the six months ended June 30 this year when compared to the same period in 2015, when revenue reached HKD 2.1 billion (~$270 million).
According to the Hanergy filing, the it is the firm's downstream success that has delivered in H1 this year, with the sale of household and C&I rooftop systems enjoying a 200% increase year-on-year, while upstream production income increased by 25% over the same period.
It is in this upstream business segment where bones of contention were formed last year, with Hanergy accused of receiving a large amount of orders for its a-Si equipment from its own wholly-owned subsidiaries and other companies that were largely unconnected with the solar industry.
Such deals prompted doubts as to the legitimacy of certain transactions and filings, while earlier in the year an investigation into Hanergy's business practices by the Hong Kong Securities and Future Commission (SFC) saw its share price tumble by 47% in the space of one hour, wiping $18 billion from its market value.
Since the tumult and subsequent trading freeze, the company has undertaken a restructuring plan following reports of a 90% net loss this time last year, while in December the firm was reported to have seen $2 billion in equipment supply contracts lapse. More recently, the company has unveiled four prototype solar-powered electric vehicles as part of its diversification strategy, which has included a ramping up of downstream projects.
These preliminary figures are unaudited, and Hanergy advised that a full disclosure of the company's financials for the first half of the year will be published before the end of August.


WEDNESDAY, Aug. 22, 2018 -- Prophylactic administration of tranexamic acid does not reduce postpartum hemorrhage among women with vaginal delivery receiving prophylactic oxytocin, according to a study published in the Aug. 23 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Loïc Sentilhes, M.D., Ph.D., from Bordeaux University Hospital in France, and colleagues randomized 4,079 women in labor with a planned vaginal delivery at 35 or more weeks of gestation to tranexamic acid or placebo, administered intravenously, in addition to prophylactic oxytocin after delivery. Overall, 3,891 of the women had a vaginal delivery.
The researchers found that the primary outcome of postpartum hemorrhage of at least 500 ml occurred in 8.1 and 9.8 percent of women in the tranexamic acid and placebo groups, respectively (relative risk, 0.83; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.68 to 1.01; P = 0.07). Compared with those in the placebo group, women in the tranexamic acid group had a lower rate of provider-assessed clinically significant postpartum hemorrhage (7.8 versus 10.4 percent; relative risk, 0.74; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.61 to 0.91; P = 0.004) and received additional uterotonic agents less often (7.2 versus 9.7 percent; relative risk, 0.75; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.61 to 0.92; P = 0.006).
"Among women with vaginal delivery who received prophylactic oxytocin, the use of tranexamic acid did not result in a rate of postpartum hemorrhage of at least 500 ml that was significantly lower than the rate with placebo," the authors write.


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Q: Can't add jitter to google cloud pub/sub retries I'm building an image ETL service using GCS + eventarc + CloudRun.
Right now, all the calls and retries are happening at the same time, so even with exponential backoff the errors just accumulate. (a lot of errors in +1 sec, +10 sec, +30 sec, etc.)
Is there a way to add jitter to the exponential backoff in eventarc (pub/sub)?
I've tried googling but I can only find code that adds jitter (random.rand()) on creating pub/sub, but not as a configuration of the pubsub, or retry strategy.

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'Museums crumbling to crisis' - directors
Written on 30 September 2019 .
Our major museums are in a crisis, falling apart because of a lack of government investment, according to the National Museums Directors Council.
In a letter to The Times today the chairman of the council, the Science Museum's Sir Ian Blatchford, with co-signatories Art Fund director Stephen Deuchar and Museums' Association chair Maggie Appleton, says after a decade of "swingeing cuts in local and central government funding" museums and galleries across the country are "at breaking point".
The letter says that national, regional and local museums have "delayed essential maintenance, patched or repaired infrastructure and rattled the tin for donations to fill the gap" andare now facing catastrophe.
"In towns and cities there is a quiet crisis" they write. "Leaking roofs and antiquated air-handling systems threaten the stability and conservation of collections".
The plea comes at a time when visitors numbers are reaching record levels, and tourism research shows foreign enthusiasts are come for our heritage more than any other attractions.
"All political parties recognise the crisis, but it is time to deliver on their promises of help".
Blatchford told The Times that £200m was needed for regional museums alone.
This summer sewage flooded into Bristol City Museum (pictured), causing tens of millions of pounds worth of damage.


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Major Powers Agree To Implement A Cease-Fire In Syria
By Michele Kelemen
The U.S. and Russia have agreed on a plan to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid to Syria. And in one week, they say, the warring parties will enact a, quote, "cessation of hostilities" leading to peace talks. Secretary of State John Kerry calls it an ambitious timeline and acknowledges there's a tough road ahead.
JOHN KERRY: You know, our hard work is obviously far from over. But our work today, while it has produced commitments on paper, I want to restate the real test is clearly whether or not all the parties honor those commitments and implement them in reality.
KELLY: John Kerry - he was speaking there after many hours of negotiations with his Russian counterpart and with other countries that have a stake in what happens in Syria, including Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran. They are all in Munich for an annual security conference this weekend which is being overshadowed by the war in Syria. NPR's Michele Kelemen is there in Munich, and she's on the line now. Hey, Michele.
MICHELE KELEMEN, BYLINE: Hi there.
KELLY: So first, give us a little bit more detail on what the diplomats have actually agreed.
KELEMEN: Well, they agreed to do what they've promised to do before but with a more concrete timeline - that is, to encourage their proxies to cease hostilities in a week with an eye to a more permanent cease-fire down the road. They agreed to work more quickly to get aid to besieged cities by airdrops and by road. And they're hoping that all of this is going to be enough to get the Syrian government and opponents of Bashar al-Assad to finally reach a political agreement.
KELLY: So help us understand couple of things. Russia had been saying that they would agree to a cease-fire, but they were saying they needed more time - that it couldn't be until the end of month. Do we know why they have agreed to a cessation of hostilities within a week?
KELEMEN: Well, Russian warplanes have been bombing the city of Aleppo, and that's one of the reasons why peace talks never got off the ground earlier this month. And Russia's foreign minister points out that the cease-fire doesn't cover airstrikes on terrorist groups, and that's what they say they're doing Aleppo. So he's suggesting that this operation in Aleppo, for instance, is going to continue. He brushes off criticism that the Russians are actually hitting hospitals and cutting off aid routes, and he was stony-faced as he always is when Secretary Kerry talked about what Russia's doing, this indiscriminate bombing campaign, is simply backing up a Syrian government that's forcing towns to surrender through starvation. That said, Mary Louise, this group - it's called the International Syria Support Group, or the ISSG - does recognize the need to work with Russia, Kerry said. Let's take a listen.
KERRY: There's no way to institute a cease-fire effectively, and no way to produce the access we want for humanitarian assistance without all of the ISSG members working with Russia and others in an effort to guarantee that the access is provided and that the cessation of hostilities actually takes hold.
KELLY: Michele, so we've been talking about what the U.S., Russia, other states have agreed to in Munich. To be clear, does this cessation of hostilities that they have agreed, does it include the forces fighting for Bashar al-Assad's regime? Does it include the opposition forces fighting them?
KELEMEN: This is going to be the problem. This deal was worked out among the countries that support various sides in this war. And the goal now is for all of them to encourage their proxies to cease hostilities. But again, as we've been hearing, the Russians and the Americans say that this doesn't cover areas controlled by terrorists. And the Russians say that's what they're doing in Aleppo is going after terrorists. Russia's foreign minister says Russia wants to deal with this professionally, and he said that the U.S. and Russia are going to set up a joint task force to decide which areas are controlled by terrorist groups - which are legitimate targets and which are not. So this is going to be a very complicated process even among those groups, let alone what the fighting forces do on the ground.
KELLY: OK, Michele, thank you.
KELEMEN: Thank you.
KELLY: That's NPR's Michele Kelemen speaking to us from Munich where the U.S. and Russia have just agreed on a plan to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid to Syria. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Michele Kelemen has been with NPR for two decades, starting as NPR's Moscow bureau chief and now covering the State Department and Washington's diplomatic corps. Her reports can be heard on all NPR News programs, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered.


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Addressing the Housing Crisis: Preserving Vital Affordable Housing in the San Francisco Bay Area
Written by on January 13, 2021 . Posted in Affordable Housing, Blog
This blog was published about the Bay's Future Fund in partnership with LISC Bay Area. Find information about this development on the Bay's Future Fund website.
By Andrew King, Senior Origination Loan Officer
Given the dual perks of beautiful, historic homes and close proximity to Silicon Valley, it's not surprising that housing prices have risen quickly, and gentrification has raged through the port town of Redwood City over the past ten years. Though the census bureau estimates that at least 50 percent of the households in the southernmost end of the city earn an income of less than 60 percent of the Area Median Income (AMI), the median rent in Redwood City is now more than twice the national median.
Such rocketing rates make it impossible for low-to-middle-income workers to settle down in their own community, and spells near certain displacement for those already here. Fortunately there are efforts at play to protect affordable housing and stop displacement in Redwood City, and those proving most successful are coordinated efforts like the one that saved 3592 Rolison Road.
In the neighborhood with Facebook and other tech companies, this development preserves some of the diminishing affordable housing options in Redwood City.
This 1960s, single-story, 10-unit building is home to 13 professionals. Each tenant has a studio apartment with a small outdoor patio and a parking spot, and the building is only a short walk to a great market, bakery, coffee house, and brewery.
In 2018, however, the homes of residents at 3592 Rolison Road were suddenly at risk. After years of living under an owner who only slightly increased their rent over time, the building was up for sale and likely to be purchased and turned into market rate housing. They were terrified.
"When things get sold around here, they are instantly torn down," says Tom Hem, a digital pre-press technician at a local printing company, who has lived at 3592 Rolison for almost 12 years. "And, whenever they build something new, it's high end. That's what developers do. They don't put in affordable housing, they put in stuff a choice few people can afford. Unless someone steps in to keep the property affordable."
HIP Housing, a nonprofit affordable housing developer in the Bay Area, learned the building was being sold and stepped in to try and acquire it. Getting access to the funding needed, however, was going to take time, and time was not something that the red-hot San Mateo County housing market could accommodate.
That is when a second partner joined the effort to save this small, but crucial, building. The Sand Hill Foundation, a private foundation based in Palo Alto, offered to purchase and hold the building while HIP Housing built the financing needed to buy it themselves.
Sand Hill provided HIP with site control, but HIP, though grateful for the temporary reprieve, still had to find resources to purchase it outright, and quickly.
Redwood City has a program that balances housing stock by compelling market-rate developers to pay a fee to the city every time they develop a project. These fees are then redistributed to critical affordable housing projects. In an unusual move, Premia Capital, a local commercial real estate agency which admired HIP's work, reached out to Redwood City to ask that their $2.49 million worth of fees go directly to any projects HIP was trying to fund. 3592 Rolison Road fit the bill.
"This was especially innovative," says Kate Comfort, executive director of HIP Housing. "When it comes to protecting and preserving affordable housing, you have to act quickly. Redwood City's great use of their Affordable Housing Ordinance and Impact Fee program and Premia's proactive approach allowed us to get this funding when we actually needed it, and save this property. "
With fees from Premia in hand, the project only needed a loan of $1 million to meet the rest of the purchase price. Comfort approached a local community development financial institution, Capital Impact Partners, to see if they could help. Among other sources of funding that Capital Impact distributes, they originate loans for the Bay's Future Fund (BFF), one of the largest housing funds in the nation. As the investing arm of the Partnership for the Bay's Future, BFF is focused entirely on preserving, protecting, and producing affordable housing in the Bay Area. Andrew King, senior loan officer at Capital Impact, knew 3592 Rolison Road was a perfect project for BFF.
"It was an exciting, worthwhile project that even had everyone's attention at city hall, and we knew that, with the Bay's Future Fund, we could get HIP the rates and loan terms they needed," said King. "We were so impressed by the project that we added an additional $100,000 to the loan– for a total $1.3 million– so HIP could also do some repairs."
In the end, between the amount Redwood City put towards the purchase price and the Bay's Future Fund's long-term, low-interest loan, HIP's mortgage payments on the property would be low enough to guarantee that rent for existing tenants will not change; and rent will be restricted to occupancy by people earning 60% of the Area Media Income (AMI) or below for the next 55 years.
Comfort is most impressed by the way it all came together. "To have private, public, and nonprofit partners all working together is exciting. We even got a local property management company to pitch in and help with some necessary, immediate renovations pro bono. This is atypical in the development world and just goes to show that, when various sectors are working together, you can get so much more done. It's a thrilling feeling."
Cindy Wu, Executive Director of Bay Area LISC, who manages the Bay's Future Fund, agrees, "This is the story of partnership—of a group of diverse organizations coming together to make sure we don't lose existing affordable housing— to maintain the livability of a piece of a neighborhood for the families that live there."
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"Interesting" South Africa Electric Car Sales
I generally wouldn't cover electric car sales in a market where there are so few as in South Africa, but I found the absurdly low numbers somewhat "humorous," the #1 electric car on the market is also quite funny, and I know we have some South African readers, so… here we are.
Basically, the story is that only three electric cars seem to be on the market in South Africa — the BMW i3, BMW i8, and Nissan LEAF. This just backs up the argument that BMW and Nissan are the most serious conventional automakers regarding the electric car market.
Interestingly, in this tiny market, the extremely expensive BMW i8 is actually the best-selling electric car. 😛 Granted, it just has one more sale than the BMW i3, but nonetheless…
Jose Pontes, who collected the numbers, does note that 2015 sales are already more than electric car sales in all of 2014 (160 vs 140), so that's something. As a percentage of the new car market, they are up to 0.04% (yikes) from 0.02% (super yikes).
Here are the charts and table:
In this article:bmw, BMW i3, BMW i8, nissan, nissan leaf, South Africa
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is the director of CleanTechnica, the most popular cleantech-focused website in the world, and Planetsave, a world-leading green and science news site. He has been covering green news of various sorts since 2008, and he has been especially focused on solar energy, electric vehicles, and wind energy since 2009. Aside from his work on CleanTechnica and Planetsave, he's the founder and director of Solar Love, EV Obsession, and Bikocity. Zach has long-term investments in TSLA, SCTY, FSLR, SPWR, SEDG, & ABB. After years of covering solar and EVs, he simply had a lot of faith in these companies and felt like they were good companies to invest in as a portion of his retirement strategy. To connect with Zach on some of your favorite social networks, go to ZacharyShahan.com and click on the relevant buttons.
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The Tannin Level
Alex Gill
www.tanninlevel.co.uk/
So far we've seen an increase in Twitter followers & interaction. We are looking forward to networking with more businesses & seeing new faces pop into our basement bistro in Harrogate. We've also extended an invitation to Mr Theo Paphitis to join us in our restaurant the next time he visits his Rymans store in Harrogate. We hope he likes steak!
We are very pleased to re-introduce 'The Tannin Level'. This was a business we looked at some 10 years ago when we thought the opportunity was there to turn this into a brilliant restaurant. We feel that it is now blossoming into its full potential. Some 30 years ago, this was one of Harrogate's premier restaurants and we hope that we have now gone some way to restoring its former glory. Comments are regularly heard from guests that this is the first time that they have been back in The Tannin Level for many years, in some cases over ten and they are delighted to be back. The extended restaurant area to the rear of the Tannin Level has given it a depth and warmth of character, sadly lacking in more modern eateries. The restaurant is open daily, 7 days a week, for lunch and dinner. Reservations are highly recommended.
The Gill family have been involved in the licensed trade now for some 40 years, since Barbara and Ian Gill were actively involved in this business with her parents, who operated three pubs in County Durham. Although semi-retired they offer guidance and assistance to their son Alex who is involved in the development of the family group of businesses, together with his sister Victoria, who manages the Tiger Inn and is also spending part of her time on the accounts, which are just as important as getting the food and atmosphere right. Alex's daughter Madeleine is now (at 7 year's old) being prepared to carry on the family tradition. Our executive chef, Dean Sowden, began his passion for cooking began in the small kitchen at 'Millers' in Harrogate at the tender age of 16, under the watchful eye of well known Michelin Starred Yorkshire Chef, Simon Gueller. Dean picked up many accolades along the way including 'Young Chef of the Year', 'Risotto chef of the Year' as well as a number of Rosettes. He continued to develop his passion for cooking in many well established restaurants throughout Yorkshire, including Rascasse in Leeds, Harvey Nichols in Leeds, Manrai & Babylon in Leeds, Olivers 24 in Harrogate – to name but a few. In recent times Dean has been kept busy with the newest addition to the family – 'Deanos Graze & Grill' in which he and his wife Sarah Jane have partnered with the Gill Family.
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America's bond with Israel — its history and its current challenges
America Abroad Oct. 6, 2016 · 12:00 AM EDT
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a bilateral meeting with US President Barack Obama on Sept. 21, 2011 at the United Nations in New York City.
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The US and Israel just signed a memorandum of understanding that guarantees $38 billion in aid to Israel over 10 years. The MOU was signed despite tensions between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In this episode of America Abroad, we take a look at America's relationship with Israel. We explore the strategic history of the relationship, the base of support in the American public, and ways in which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is causing an erosion of support among progressives. We also seek to answer what all of this might mean for the future of the relationship.
Elliott Abrams: Senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Jeremy Ben-Ami: President, J-Street
Josh Block: CEO and President, The Israel Project
Steven M. Cohen: Sociologist and research professor, Hebrew Union college
Trent Franks: Congressman of Arizona's 8th congressional district
Ilan Goldenberg: Middle East Security Director, Center for a New American Security
Jill Jacobs: Executive Director, T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
Richard Land: President, Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina
Tzipi Livni: Former Foreign Minister of Israel and Chairman of the Hatnuah party
David Makovsky: Senior fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Michael Makovsky: U.S. National Security Expert, The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
Yousef Munayyer: Executive Director, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
Aaron David Miller: Vice President for New Initiatives, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Robert Nicholson: Executive Director, Philos Project
Michael Oren: Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States, serves as Deputy Minister for Diplomacy
Dennis Ross: Former diplomat, served under Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Clinton
Jonathan Schanzer: Vice President of Research, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Shibley Telhami: Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland
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Many students feel that choosing a major is the most important decision they will make in college, especially because it can affect career choices after graduation.
This kind of pressure can make choosing a major a particularly stressful decision. However, not knowing what to study when first starting college is normal. Your early years are the perfect time to explore your interests and figure out what you love doing. In fact, "between 20% and 50% of college students enter their first year undecided about their major," says David M. Tirpak, assistant director of career and employment counseling at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland.
So don't worry if you're undecided - but do read on, and download our checklist for choosing a major.
1. Test out majors by taking introductory courses in a variety of disciplines.
"Knowing whether a major seems like the right fit is as important as knowing that it is not," says Helena Santos, the dean of advising and first year programs at Lasell College in Newton, Massachusetts. "Try a major on for size," she says, by enrolling in an introductory course. It will likely count toward your general education or elective requirements even if you don't wind up majoring in that subject.
For example, if you're "interested in business," Perago says, "enroll in an introductory management or marketing course." If it grabs your interest, consider taking more business classes or speaking with others in the major.
2. Reflect on your strengths, interests and values.
Thinking about what you like to do and what you care about can definitely help you choose a major. "Learn who you are and what you love," says Karen Evans, the assistant dean of experiential learning and director of career development at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania. To help you identify what you like, Evans advises asking your career center for self-assessment resources. She also recommends reflecting on your past experiences — jobs you've done, subjects you've loved studying already — to determine where your interests lie.
Taken together with your interests and strengths, your personal values and beliefs can help you choose a major. If you enjoy helping people, for example, you might consider the pre-med track or social work, although you can channel almost any major in a positive social direction. Business majors can focus on socially responsible business for example, and engineers can put their skills to work in developing life-saving technology.
3. Remember that you, not your family, will need to succeed in your major.
Talk through these concerns with your advisor or career counselor, as they are often willing to help you find the right opportunities for your interests.
5. Ask for help from advisors and those who know you well.
While it is ultimately up to you to choose your academic path, your mentor, friends and professors could also be great allies. "Find teachers that inspire, motivate, and encourage you to work hard and be passionate about your academic experience," says Timothy O'Donnell, the associate provost for academic engagement and student success and professor of communication at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Once you've done some digging yourself, be sure to seek help from academic advisors and career counselors. They can help you create a roadmap for the remainder of your college years. Now that you've determined what your values and academic interests are, try working "with a career counselor to understands how the results of your [self-assessment] fit with various college majors and [career paths]" Tirpak says.
6. Use elective credits to explore other interests.
Despite the pressure you may feel to choose the perfect major, you can always change career trajectories at any point. To expand your horizons, O'Donnell advises using "your elective credits wisely to customize your learning experience beyond the major requirements. Forge interdisciplinary connections across the curriculum because a major is really just a singular, disciplinary way of knowing the world, which, on its own, will inhibit, rather than expand your mind," he says.


This course is an introduction to philosophy that focuses on three of its central problems. First, we'll think about the relationship between the physical and non-physical facts, paying special attention to issues surrounding the thesis that everything is ultimately physical. Second, we'll think about the nature of knowledge and the different means that we have of acquiring it. Third, we'll think about what's required in order for us to be morally responsible for our actions and whether our world really is one where it make sense to hold people morally responsible. In addition to achieving a better understanding of these problems, we'll focus on developing our skills at analyzing and constructing arguments, both in writing and in discussion.
This class introduces students to the methods of contemporary analytic philosophy through the study of selected moral, social, and political topics. Our focus will be on punishment, political authority, civil disobedience, toleration, and freedom of speech. We will consider such questions as: What could justify punishment? Do we have a duty to obey the law? Does that duty extend to unjust laws, or to minorities who are significantly disadvantaged by existing arrangements? To what extent, if any, should the state abstain from regulating or punishing harmful or offensive behavior? Should harmful speech be permitted where harmful actions would not be?
This course aims to accomplish two things. The first is to introduce three broad traditions of normative thinking about social issues from around the globe: a Confucian tradition, one based in Islamic legal traditions, and one derived from European liberalism. The second is to address three current areas of normative debate: about global economic inequality, about gender justice and human rights. We shall explore these first-order questions against the background of the three broad traditions. Our aim will be to understand some of differences of approach that shape the global conversation about these issues that concern people around the world.
The philosophy and science of consciousness. Topics covered will include: The concept of a neural basis of consciousness and how we could discover what it is; whether there are different kinds of consciousness; the relation between consciousness and attention, cognitive accessibility, intentionality and agency; the function of consciousness; the unity of consciousness; whether the representational contents of perception are just colors, shapes and textures or include "rich" properties such as facial expressions and causation. The course will also cover some theories of consciousness such as mind/body dualism, behaviorism, functionalism, physicalism and theories of consciousness as representation. Among the topics discussed will be some famous thought experiments, such as whether there could be an inverted spectrum and whether Wittgenstein's views of the mind make room for an inverted spectrum; zombie thought experiments; Jackson's example of the scientist raised in a black and white environment who sees red for the first time and learns something about color vision that she could not find out from textbooks. Readings from philosophers such as Thomas Nagel and David Chalmers and neuroscientists such as Victor Lamme and Stanislas Dehaene. Please find the course website here.
We will carefully read a selection of classic texts of Modern Philosophy, viz.
What is the relation between our ideas of the world and the world itself?
How do we know the answer to the previous question?
How is consciousness related to the physical world?
What is the nature of the physical world?
Students should expect to spend considerable time and effort reading carefully to understand each author's views on these topics.
Plato's dialogues form the foundation for Western philosophy. We will closely study five dialogues, including Plato's masterpiece, the Republic. We will explore issues in ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, and political philosophy, studying Plato's views on these topics as well as working to critique them and to engage with them philosophically. The course will require weekly writing assignments as well as active participation in discussion.
Prerequisite: one introductory course. Note that this course satisfies the Ancient Philosophy requirement.
An introduction to the philosophical study of morality. Topics to be considered may include: traditional vs. consequentialist moral outlooks; contractualism; the nature of moral motivation; the rationality of morality; the objectivity or subjectivity of ethics; moral relativism; the explanatory role of morality; the compatibility of morality with a purely naturalistic understanding of human beings. Readings will be drawn from a variety of classical and contemporary sources.
Does the existence of widespread moral disagreement mean that there can't be any moral facts and it's all just a matter of opinion?
Can we reconcile the idea of objective moral values with evolutionary and sociological arguments that explain how we developed our moral beliefs?
Is it strange that there can be facts that tell you what to do?
We will begin by examining three famous arguments for an "anti-realist" view of morality: J.L. Mackie's arguments from disagreement and from "queerness", and Sharon Street's "Darwinian dilemma". All three of these arguments are supposed to challenge the idea that our moral beliefs reflect mind-independent moral facts. We will begin to develop philosophical skills through close analysis of these arguments, identifying their logical structure and the places where they could be challenged. We will then apply these skills to a series of classic texts defending alternative views of the nature of moral value and our relationship to it, including quasi-realism, reductive and non-reductive naturalism, constructivism, and robust realism. We will explore these views and consider the main challenges for each of them. Throughout, we will ask whether our moral beliefs are on surer footing than some of our other kinds of beliefs, especially empirical beliefs, beliefs about mathematical and logical truths, and - most importantly - beliefs about what we should believe.
This course provides a guide to some of the main issues in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. The issues fall into three main groups. First, what is art, and why does it matter? Does art offer us knowledge of a distinctive kind? Does it give voice to feelings and aspects of our lives we cannot articulate by other means? Does it reshape the way we see the world? More generally, does it offer a realm of value that is autonomous, or is the beautiful an aspect of the good or the true? Second, how do we engage with art? What is the role in that engagement for emotion, imagination, reason or experience? What role is there for knowledge or expertise, given that it is tempting to think judgements about art should be based on our own experience? Third, what is the nature and significance of certain of art's key features, such as intention and meaning; matter, medium and technique; representation and expression; form and content; beauty and sublimity; style, genre and tradition?
We'll look at a range of literature, much of it contemporary, some classic (e.g. Kant, Collingwood, Langer and Goodman). Some of our discussion will apply to art per se, some will be limited to individual arts. And not everything we discuss will be art – some of the questions, and some of the possible sources of art's value, have close parallels in things that are not art, or, at the limit, not even artificial.
In this class we will ask some of the following questions. What is there? Why is there anything at all, rather than nothing? What kinds of things are there? What kinds of properties do they have? Do merely possible things exist? How about things in the past and future? What is space? What is time? Is time-travel logically possible?
Language is amazing: simply by uttering a sentence a speaker may transmit something she knows to her hearer, or get him to do something she wants him to do, even though the sentence she uttered had never before been uttered. What must be true of language, us, and the world in order for that to be possible? Answering such questions requires answering foundational questions about the relation between language and mind and between language and the world. In investigating these questions we'll explore work by key figures in the philosophy of language, as well as how work in philosophy of language is importantly related to work in such neighboring disciplines as logic, linguistics, and psychology. All readings will be made available on NYU Classes. There will be an 8-12 page paper (due at the end of the semester), a midterm and final; the questions to be answered on the midterm and final will be selected by lottery at the exams from questions distributed a week before the exams.
Prerequisite: History of Ancient Philosophy (PHIL-UA 20) or History of Modern Philosophy (PHIL-UA 21).
This is an introductory course in classical Chinese philosophy. We'll focus on philosophy from the Warring States periods (475-221 BC), which saw the rise of the "Hundred Schools of Thought." In particular, we'll trace the development of early Confucianism, focusing on three philosophers: Kongzi (Confucius), Mengzi (Mencius), and Xunzi. We'll also look at the ways in which these philosophers influenced and were influenced by philosophers from rival schools, like Mohism, Yangism, Daoism, the School of Logic, and Legalism. No familiarity with Chinese language is needed for this course, although having taken at least one philosophy course is a prerequisite.
This course will be organized around two main issues, though we will discuss some other matters as well.
One main issue will concern the value for us of living a long life, the longer the better, providing that the quality of our lives is usually quite high, and we are usually quite happy people. With this issue, we will discuss the question of the quite certain cessation of our lives, during the next century or so, and what is an appropriate attitude for us to take toward our termination.
The other main issue will concern what one must do, morally speaking, toward saving the lives of others, both when such saving will come at relatively little cost to one and also, as will happen only rarely, when it will cost one the loss a limb or, even, the loss of one's life.
Prerequisite: Ethics (PHIL-UA 40), The Nature of Values (PHIL-UA 41), or Political Philosophy (PHIL-UA 45).
Prerequisite: Epistemology (PHIL-UA 76) or Metaphysics (PHIL-UA 78) or Philosophy of Science (PHIL-UA 90).
Claims like these, which express moral demands, strike many of us as obviously true. Yet how do we know them? What kinds of evidence could we provide to justify our beliefs in these claims? Unlike "descriptive" claims about how the world is, moral claims instruct us about what to do. If there are facts about what morality demands of us, these facts would have to be importantly different from the many other sorts of descriptive facts with which we are familiar, such as facts about astronomy, geology, medicine, psychology, economics, and history.
Some philosophers, precisely because they find it so difficult to explain how it is that we could acquire any evidence that bears directly upon the answers to moral questions, have argued that this point undermines the "realist" idea that there are objective facts about what we are all morally obligated to do. Unlike the answers to scientific questions, the answers to moral questions cannot be observed via the senses, encountered in nature, or tested in a laboratory experiment. According to some "antirealist" views, the moral facts are not objective and mind-independent (as are facts about protons and galaxies), but are instead dependent upon us; moral claims are made true by things like our desires, values, or cultural norms. Other antirealists defend the view that there aren't actually any facts about morality at all.
In this course, we will learn about how epistemological considerations regarding the ways in which we acquire and justify our moral beliefs might (or might not) help us to resolve this debate regarding the nature of the moral facts. Our readings will consist mostly of recent journal articles and book excerpts by philosophers.
Prerequisite: Logic (PHIL-UA 70) and either Philosophy of Mind (PHIL-UA 80) or Philosophy of Language (PHIL-UA 85).
This course will concentrate on a small number of central questions in recent philosophy of language and some connected issues in philosophy of mind. Topics to be covered include skepticism about meaning, with special reference to writings of Quine and Kripke; what it is to understand a language, with special reference to the work of Davidson, Dummett and Wittgenstein; the paradoxes of vagueness; the competing accounts of singular thought deriving from Frege and from Kripke; Kripke's famous argument against the identification of mental states with physical ones; and some puzzles about the first person, 'I'.
This seminar will cover a selection of topics currently under active discussion in philosophy. It is designed to expose future honors students to possible topics for an honors thesis, but it is not limited to those planning to enter the honors program.
The seminar is open to all philosophy majors with a grade-point average of 3.65 or higher in philosophy and overall. It has a prerequisite of two prior courses numbered higher than PHIL-UA 7.
For students applying to the honors program, both advanced seminars are required, and at least one of these two seminars must be taken before the end of the junior year. PHIL-UA 200 is offered every spring; PHIL-UA 201 is offered every fall.
Introduces students to a variety of topics that are appropriate for honors theses. For students not completing honors, these seminars will count as electives toward the philosophy major. See the description of the honors program.


Miley Cyrus posted an adorable photo of her and her Shetland sheepdog Emu last week, and while most people were distracted by how oddly normal the singer looked laying in the grass with her pup, we were actually thrilled to finally get a clear look at the red "OKIE" tattoo on her arm. Miley's tattoo is inked on the outside of her right arm, just above the tat of two black crossed arrows, which the pop star had done in 2013. Miley's "OKIE" tattoo was apparently inked sometime in September 2015, around the same time she got her "KATZ" friendship tattoo for gal pal Katy Weaver, and we actually spotted the ink way back then, but couldn't make out what the tattoo said in the grainy photos. Now that we know Miley's arm tattoo says "OKIE," you're probably wondering what the heck it means.
Okay, so Miley and Wayne are the best of friends, and what that typically means to Miley Cyrus is that they get tattoos together and in honor of one another. To date, Miley has at least four matching tattoos with Wayne, including a tiny image of a tooth, a "Leetle" tattoo, and a miniature version of the giant pink robot featured in the album artwork for The Flaming Lips' 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, all inked on her arm, plus a portrait tattoo of Floyd on her ribcage. Miley also has a "Love Yer Brain" tattoo inspired by the title track off The Flaming Lips' 1987 album Oh My Gawd, and a bizarre "sad kitty" tattoo to the inside of her lower lip, which was inked inside an Oklahoma recording studio with Wayne in 2014. Add this new "OKIE" tat to the list, and Miley and Wayne are the most inked-up besties we know.
A special thanks to PST fan Jack Simcox for help in discovering this tat!


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OPINION | REX NELSON: All about Arkansas
by Rex Nelson | November 27, 2022 at 1:45 a.m.
I'm an avid reader, and many of my friends are readers. I believe books make the best Christmas gifts.
I'm also an Arkansas history nerd. My preferences lean toward nonfiction works about Arkansas. In the cover story for today's Perspective section, I trace the history of the University of Arkansas Press. What follows is a list of several books the press has released during the past couple of years. I've read and can recommend all the books on this list, which is geared toward lovers of Arkansas history:
• "Das Arkansas Echo: A Year in the Life of Germans in the Nineteenth-Century South" by Kathleen Condray: A thriving population of German-speaking immigrants in the late 19th century supported three German-language newspapers in Arkansas. A complete collection of Das Arkansas Echo still exists. Condray mined that collection to show us what life was like during that period for these newcomers.
Condray, an associate professor of German at UA, has published numerous articles on migration and national identity. She's a recipient of two Fulbright awards, a National Endowment for the Humanities grant and national teaching awards. She says, "Much has been written regarding German-speaking immigrants in the Northeast and Midwest, yet those in the South have left less of an impression on the collective history of the United States."
• "Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912-1956" by John Kirk: There have been books written about Rockefeller's Arkansas years. Kirk now digs into the former governor's family background, New York childhood, education, rise in the oil industry, military service in World War II, post-war work in the area of race relations, marriage to and divorce from Barbara "Bobo" Sears, and the birth of their only child (future Arkansas Lt. Gov. Win Paul Rockefeller).
Kirk is the George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and author or editor of 10 books. His detailed account of Rockefeller's first 44 years gives insight into a man who would become one of the most important figures in 20th-century Arkansas.
• "Better Living By Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1975" by Cherisse Jones-Branch: This book represents the first major study of Black women's activism in rural Arkansas. Jones-Branch highlights everyone from teachers to home demonstration agents employed by the Cooperative Extension Service.
Jones-Branch is the James and Wanda Lee Vaughn Endowed Professor of History at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. She says her book provides the women profiled "with the visibility in the historical record that they so rightly deserve. ... African American women's rural uplift activism throughout Arkansas resulted from the groundswell of grassroots networks they cultivated and utilized within and beyond their communities."
• "The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas: How Protestant White Nationalism Came to Rule a State" by Kenneth Barnes: In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan had more than 150 Arkansas chapters and tens of thousands of members. Barnes says the Klan established Little Rock as a seat of power second only to Atlanta. Klansmen led businesses and held elected offices throughout the state.
Barnes is now retired following a distinguished career as a history professor at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. He says: "The information for this study has come largely from newspapers of the 1920s. The modern reader would be surprised at how public the Klan made its activities. The KKK frequently sent letters to local newspapers, describing the organization's goals and activities."
• "Jerome and Rohwer: Memories of Japanese American Internment in World War II Arkansas": This is a collection of brief memoirs written by former internees of the two Arkansas camps and their close family members. It was edited by Walter Imahara and David Meltzer. The relocation centers in southeast Arkansas were the two camps farthest from the West Coast.
The accounts describe life in the barracks, fields, mess hall and gathering places. The collection is the only work composed solely of autobiographical remembrances of life in Jerome and Rohwer. It's likely the last book of its kind as remaining internees die.
• "Queen of the Hillbillies: Writings of May Kennedy McCord": The woman once known as First Lady of the Ozarks and Queen of the Hillbillies spent half a century sharing the history, songs and stories of the Ozarks through radio programs and newspaper columns. This collection of her work was edited by granddaughter Patti McCord and Missouri State University professor Kristene Sutliff.
"The distinctive culture of the Ozarks has been preserved through those who lived it and shared by those who love it," says Kaitlyn McConnell, founder of the cultural preservation project Ozarks Alive. "May Kennedy McCord did both of these things. Her words, based on pure devotion to the region and its people, not only benefited her contemporaries but will also inspire new readers who can now see the Ozarks through her eyes."
• "Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Massacre of 1919" by Grif Stockley, Brian Mitchell and Guy Lancaster: This is an update of a book first published in 2001. In his review of the first edition of the book, Arkansas journalist Bob Lancaster described it as "the last word on the great horror that occurred over in the Arkansas Delta."
In their introduction to the revised edition, the authors wrote: "Though he meant the review as a compliment, no work on the events in Phillips County in 1919 could be considered the last word. The fact that this revised edition exists demonstrates that much remained to be uncovered when the original book was published. . . . We still lack a great deal of knowledge about the affair, most notably specific details as to the number and names of all the victims and the location of their graves."
• "Double Toil and Trouble: A New Novel and Short Stories by Donald Harington:" This is the first new volume of fiction in more than a decade by Harington, who died in 2009. It features a long-lost suspense novel and four previously unpublished or uncollected stories. It adds to the story of Stay More, the fictional Ozarks village that serves as the setting for more than a dozen Harington novels.
Harington taught art history in New York City, New England and South Dakota before coming home to Arkansas to teach at UA for 22 years. He was the author of 15 novels and received the Oxford American Lifetime Award for Contributions to Southern Literature, the Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction and the Porter Prize for Literary Excellence.
The collection was edited by Brian Walter, an English professor and longtime Harington scholar. The appendix features Harington's correspondence with the editor who first inspired the title novel. That gives readers an insider's look at the literary scene.
• "Shared Secrets: The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger" by Elizabeth Findley Shores: Finger was a prolific writer who settled in Fayetteville after a life of travel and adventure. One of his adventure books won the Newbery Prize for children's literature. His father was a German tailor and his mother was Irish. Finger was born in England in 1867.
Shores, an independent scholar who lives in Little Rock, offers a look at the community of gay writers and artists who helped shape 20th-century American culture, often through what are described as coded signals and winking asides. From 1920-35, Finger published a magazine known as All's Well. It was a mixture of essays about the Ozarks and literary columns.
Finger wrote 36 books after settling in Fayetteville. He died in January 1941 at Gayeta, the name of the homestead he purchased after moving to Fayetteville in 1920.
Rex Nelson is a senior editor at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
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The Jeff Cumberbatch Column – Criminalizing attire and the rule of law [I]
Posted on November 18, 2018 by David
"The…appellants here, by choosing to dress in clothing and accessories traditionally associated with women, are in effect expressing their identification with the female gender. And the expression of a person's gender identity forms a fundamental part of their right to dignity. Recognition of this gender identity must be given constitutional protection. –per Saunders P. in McEwan, Clarke and ors. v. AG of Guyana
"If you wear that, town block…per Glenfield Eastmond (The Devil) in "We goin' do dixie."
Transgender dressing, or cross-dressing as it is more popularly referred to, especially by males, is not unknown to most Barbadians of my generation. Time was, in the 1970s and 1980s, when there seemed to be a nightly fashion parade of cross dressers in Baxter's Road and its environs. In that era too, there was, on more occasions than one, a production called "Queen of the B's" in which males made appearances, as in any traditional beauty show, in the makeup, formal wear and swimsuits ordinarily worn by females in such contests.
Then, this transgender culture was generally regarded more as a source of fascination and amusement than anything else. However, it appears to have fallen into desuetude (some would uncharitably say "died out") and the newly popular local attitude to gender transformation may have been witnessed in the apparently favourable reaction to a composition in the last Pic' o' de Crop calypso competition entitled Sex Change in which the artiste, Billboard, asserted "there is no such thing as being transgender as you cannot change your sex".
As a Barbados Advocate editorial pointed out – Permanently fixed at birth?, this assertion, while it may be supported in current local law, fails to take account of the modern reality as manifested in legislation such as the Gender Recognition Act 2004 of the UK, a statute that enables transsexuals to apply for a certificate showing that the person has satisfied the criteria for legal recognition in the acquired gender.
This issue of transgender dressing, that appears to be prevalent in most regional jurisdictions, recently engaged the attention of the Caribbean Court of Justice in arguably unusual circumstances. What was once regarded with curious amusement in Barbados, and I assume in the other jurisdictions, has been criminalized in Guyana by virtue of section 153 (1) (xlvii) of the Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Act of that jurisdiction. This provides-
Every person who does any of the following acts shall, in each case, be liable to a fine of not less than seven thousand nor (sic) more than…dollars—
(xlvii) being a man, in any public way or public place, for any improper purpose, appears in female attire; or being a woman, in any public way or public place, for any improper purpose, appears in male attire…
In the instant case, the appellants had been arrested and charged with this offence. They pleaded guilty before the Magistrate and were fined accordingly. However, in a manner that is not unknown locally, the Magistrate thought it appropriate to deliver an admonition after conviction. According to the judgment-
"The Magistrate told the…appellants that they must go to church and give their lives to Jesus Christ. The Magistrate advised them that they were confused about their sexuality; that they were men, not women."
They next launched an action in the High Court against the state for a violation of their constitutional rights, most relevant here claiming that the law was bad because it was vague, uncertain, irrational and discriminatory. The vagueness and uncertainty, they said, related to the words "improper purpose", "female attire" and "male attire" and that it infringed their rights to equality under the law and not to be discriminated against and their right to freedom of expression. They also argued that the remarks of the magistrate reinforced the statal discrimination. This action was unsuccessful, as was the appeal to the Guyana Court of Appeal.
So far as section 153 was concerned, the judge at first instance was of the view that it was immunized from constitutional challenge on the basis of human rights, since it was saved by the savings law clause in the Guyana Constitution. The judge also decided that it was the improper purpose that was the true basis of the criminalization of cross-dressing in public and not the dress itself. Accordingly, "it is not criminally offensive for a person to wear the attire of the opposite sex as a matter of preference or to give expression or to reflect his or her sexual orientation".
The court held also that the section was not discriminatory because the section is "directed against the conduct of both male and female persons". Moreover, in an unusually restricted meaning of the word, it was decided that the section addresses "attire" only. In the judge's interpretation of the law, it was not an offence for a male person to wear a female head wig or earrings or female shoes in a public place, even for an improper purpose. And as for the admonitory remarks by the magistrate, the judge was of the view that while these amounted to "proselytising", they did not constitute a hindrance to freedom of thought and of religion.
As already noted, the appellants did not fare any better in the Court of Appeal. In this regard, paragraphs 24 and 25 of the judgment of President Saunders are instructive.
The Court of Appeal expressed its "complete agreement" with the trial judge's view that section 153 carried no taint of gender discrimination. On the vagueness point, while acknowledging that the expression "improper purpose" is broad in meaning, the court pointed out that the use of broad terms in statutory provisions is pervasive. In this case, according to the Court of Appeal, the meaning of "improper purpose", as used in section 153, is "to be gleaned from the context or more directly, the factual circumstance, including the place and time at which the 'improper purpose' as used in section 153 is alleged." In support of this conclusion, the court referred to statements in R v Crown Court at Wood Green ex parte DPP. It was stated there that the legal meaning of statutes, which are vaguely drawn, is to be determined by courts on a case-by-case basis. The court noted that given the changing times, it is impossible for the draftsman to have captured the degree of certainty which a criminalizing enactment ought to bear. The use of the phrase "improper purpose" was intended to capture a range of different situations.
The Court of Appeal answered the appellants' concern that the vagueness of cross- dressing in public for an "improper purpose" makes it impossible for a citizen to know how to regulate his/her conduct. The court's view was that it requires "a measure of internal rationalization so that the citizen is able to determine for himself the consequences which a given action may entail". The Court of Appeal proceeded to suggest examples of conduct that would fail to meet a "proper purpose" standard. One such example given was where a man puts on a dress, a wig and high-heeled shoes, pretending to be a woman in distress, and then enters a taxi in order to rob the driver.
The Court also unanimously dismissed the complaint against the magistrate on the ground that she had made her comments after imposing sentence and therefore what was said could not have influenced the proceedings. [Original emphasis]
Next week –The decision of the CCJ
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Tony Trotman on November 18, 2018 at 7:02 AM said:
In the UK, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 was amended to cover discrimination against a person who is proposing to undergo; is undergoing; or has undergone gender reassignment. The amendment was a response to the judgment of the European Court of Justice in the case of P v S and Cornwall County Council (C-13/94). The judgement was delivered on 30 April 1996.
The case is available at: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/showPdf.jsf?text=&docid=99622&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=4095570
The Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999 are available at: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1102/made
The Regulations are currently reflected in the Equality Act 2010 (e.g. see section 7).
David on November 18, 2018 at 7:54 AM said:
In Europe and elsewhere they have moved the bar to including neuter gender on official forms. This is the way of the world.
45govt on November 18, 2018 at 8:04 AM said:
The UK has gone quite mad. Anyone can now identify as anything – you can be a man on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays, a woman on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and a hermaphrodite on weekends.
A true asylum of cultural destruction, delivered to us by the globalist left.
The only freedom disallowed is the right to mock or criticise this new cesspool, especially the muslim part.
Lexicon on November 18, 2018 at 8:16 AM said:
45govt
What you have characterized above is called self-determination in America … which is in essence the right to live your life you see fit … as long as you aren't harming anthing or anyone…
Ah Lexicon, but these perverted views ARE harming everyone else. You only have to look at the once respected BBC and it's anti-white male agenda. The UK IS plagued by PC incompetents in post not for their abilities, but their box-ticking rating.
Cressida Dick is one prime example, a four foot lesbian promoted after her murder of a Brazilian electrician, with her useless and corrupt Met ignoring violent crime in favour of chasing anyone who may have caused offence, Fran Cotton head of a useless fire service who won't put out fires or rescue those being incinerated but have a large team of counsellors available for hurt feelings.
Then there is Treason May. Jesus wept.
You may say that I've probable been in America for far too long, but I have worked with gay, straight, lesbian and bisexual and the like, and haven't had a problem with the way in which these people lead their life … but that does not meaning that I am going to associate with them after work … but I still however respect their right to be who they wish be, so long as it doesn't harming me our others. And by the way discrimination of any sort is illegal in America…
TheOGazert on November 18, 2018 at 8:52 AM said:
Was coming to wish everyone a blessed Sunday, but then I saw Lexicon and 45gov was already here.
WTH, still hoping everyone have a great Sunday. It can only get better.
Composing my comments.
peterlawrencethompson on November 18, 2018 at 9:12 AM said:
What, pray tell, was the "improper purpose" that the judge at the first instance took to be the basis for conviction or these cross dressers?
Bush Tea on November 18, 2018 at 9:17 AM said:
@ Lexicon
But I still however respect their right to be who they wish be, so long as it doesn't harming me our others
Respectfully ….
What makes you think that you are intelligent enough to know what is harming you or others … or even what 'harm' is..?
What EXACTLY do you think accounts for your particular level of idiocy? …genetics alone cannot explain it.
Boss, you have been so HARMED that you are WAY beyond redemption – unless of course you should be subjected to a thorough bush bath …and subsequent adoption like Bushie experienced….
@ Lexicon….nor do I have a problem with how they lead their lives, and have quite a few in the family – what I hate is having their sexuality worn like some badge, and the State giving them preferential treatment, which inevitably means others being discriminated against.
Just STFU about your private life and accept the same rules as everyone else – you are NOT special.
@ TheO it already got better with your departure.
What affronted me most about the judge's ruling is the fact that he tried to imposed his morals upon appellants by telling them to go to Church and give their live to God … such a thing could not have happened in America because the very statement by judge in of itself violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment … which says and I am praphasing now … everyone has the right to and from religion…
Jeff continues to do an excellent job of analysing the variety of shiite rules that are composed from time to time by the brass bowls who constitute the various 'law-making' bodies of our world.
….people of the ilk of Froon, Stinkliar, Kellman, Mia, Hats and Prescod….and their overseas equivalents.
One day coming soon (bushie hopes) he will graduate to assessing the LAWS that guide our ACTUAL EXISTENCE, and which direct the affairs of our world on a day to day basis….and has don so for millennia…
Hopefully it will dawn on Jeff …and soon… that while the RESULTS of these various shiite rules continue to defy ANY kind of reasonable correlation with intent, there are CLEARLY a set of overriding SPIRITUAL laws that do…. with consistent and unwavering accuracy…..
THESE are the laws that we need to have analysed by persons of Jeff's ilk….
Donna on November 18, 2018 at 9:27 AM said:
This is very interesting. I will wait for the article next week to get the full picture.
One person's rights end where another person's rights begin. It is difficult to tell where the line is and so there should always be an examination of the way things are and a determination of where they should be. Life is messy. We just need to accept it, deal with it and sort out issues as they arise.
In the UK, the High Court held that the UK's refusal to issue a gender-neutral passport was lawful. An appeal may be made against the High Court's ruling. See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44575229
I am not aware of any cases in the UK where a person, e.g. claimed to be a male yesterday; a female today; and then a male tomorrow. Such a situation did not apply to the Karen White case. See https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/11/karen-white-how-manipulative-and-controlling-offender-attacked-again-transgender-prison
Check this link-
https://tgeu.org/third-gender-marker-options-in-europe-and-beyond/
There is physical, psychologically, and emotional harm … and out of these three only physical harm can really be viewed as illegal … and that is the point I was trying to stressed when I made mentioned to harm caused by the lifestyle of the people above…
Sargeant on November 18, 2018 at 9:43 AM said:
When will someone challenge the legality of the Barbados Gov't ban on the wearing of camouflage clothing by civilians?
Mariposa on November 18, 2018 at 9:43 AM said:
Really!with all the pain and suffering happening in barbados
People here worrying about gender neutral dress code
Wuh men have been dressing in female attire from biblical times head wrap and all
Sergeant why don't you? Are you not a citizen of Barbados?
Really with so many things happening in Barbados people worrying about netural gender dress code
Men have been wearing female attire going as far back as biblical times head wraps and all
de pedantic Dribbler on November 18, 2018 at 10:11 AM said:
Dean Jeff, two things…first the mundane….You can be amazingly propa for your Sunday PG column and yet as in this case be also uproariously darkly ribald : *"…it appears to have fallen into desuetude (some would uncharitably say "died out") *". Smooth. 🤣 Actually, 'died out' could also be charitably said, not so! Oh lordie.
And the serious, like @PLT I am amused by the phrasing in the statue re "improper purpose". I suspect your essay next week re the CCJ judgement will explode that a bit…but the Guyana appellate judge surely seems to show how ridiculously broad and badly written was this attempt to criminalize basically standard everyday behaviour.
As a layman it confounds the nonsense 'sensible' men and women write into law when they are intent on proselytizing their own moral code. The defense lawyer was accurate this was vague and very uncertain!
I believe the question of a 'handyman' walking down the street at 9 PM with his screwdriver, hammer and a few other assorted tools was discussed in these pages before….that fella can be rightly arrested as a possible burgalry suspect although on his way to work to his job site at 9 AM he can be very rightly considered as properly outgitted and ATTIRED …
So is that the context of the remark that the "…judge also decided that it was the improper purpose that was the true basis of the criminalization of cross-dressing in public and not the dress itself" ?
And if the Appeal Court then opined that "…that the vagueness of cross- dressing in public for an "improper purpose" makes it impossible for a citizen to know how to regulate his/her conduct" how then was the case still held for the state?
Will Guyana do like Bdos and sulkingly opt to leave the CCJ jurisdiction 😂….the JCPC would just as quickly overturn this folly surely!
As usual thanks for Sunday learning session.
Donna on November 18, 2018 at 10:15 AM said:
The purpose of affirmative action is to circumvent the whole system that most people acknowledge has been historically stacked in every facet of life against minorities. There should come a time when affirmative action is no longer necessary. The longer white people fight to keep the system tilted in their favour, the longer will there be a need for affirmative action.
It is amazing that when we black people and women speak about our experience we are told to stop playing the victim but now we have people who are still in charge (check Trump's cabinet, the GOP Congress, the judiciary picks) playing the victim most pathetically.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/11/12/18088874/jemel-roberson-police-shooting-security-guard-illinois
This is the system stacked AGAINST THE WHITE MAN,
Forgive me, David, for straying from the topic. Some things are just too egregious to let pass.
David on November 18, 2018 at 10:29 AM said:
First and last warning.
@45, come on dude…are you seriously going to engage a chat about 'Pocahontas lies' here and now!
The mere use of the stupidly, pejoratively intended alias speaks to the absurdity of the challenge…. the woman has Native American ancestry …of that there is no doubt…how much and how distinctive is frankly irrelevant…just as it was that any smidgen of Black ancestry made the most pale of pale faces ostracized as non pure white.
Anyhow, I suspect yoy anc your crew are intent to make even this another RACE and colour debate…good heavens PLEASE DON'T!
@Sargeant, and what fashion trend was doomed with the ban on camouflage clothing…it solved an apparent problem at the time and for all practical purposes continues to do so.
No special freedoms or rights are being crushed based on this statue as compared to the problems it supposedly resolves …the risk-rewards come down on the side of maintaining the tule.
…you and your crew. That should read.
Lexicon,
We were speaking about discrimination in general not specifics about Elizabeth Warren, Obama and Clarence Thomas.
The point about affirmative action has been adequately made. No need to stray any further.
Jeff Cumberbatch on November 18, 2018 at 11:00 AM said:
Peter, it is not stated expressly stated but, given the comments made by him on conviction, he probably assumed the same as Barbadians might have assumed with ours…wink wink..!
THESE are the laws that we need to have analysed by persons of Jeff's ilk…
Unfortunately, Bushie, while I recognize the existence of these laws, I am not as adept at analyzing them as I am at the legislated ones!.
@!DPD, de nada,
45 has his agenda. It will not change no matter what you say. I answer his posts only to stop weak-minded unsuspecting readers (not the bloggers) from being misled.
Hants on November 18, 2018 at 11:27 AM said:
"discrimination and undesirability surrounding the region's treatment of persons with same sex preferences, has to come to an end and my policy is that Barbados must lead by example in order to ensure that the change is tangible and that the process of change is expedited."
https://barbadostoday.bb/2018/11/17/barbados-symmonds-recognized-at-world-travel-market-in-london/
Lexicon on November 18, 2018 at 11:27 AM said:
"These are the laws we need to have analyzed by persons of Jeff's ink"
No need to because the Holy Spirit guides, leads, protects and bring these laws to our remembrance … the Bible also tells us that how can a carnal mind understand spiritual things; these things are foolishness to him…now not saying that anyone is either carnal or spiritual…
45govt on November 18, 2018 at 11:49 AM said:
Censorship is the last resort of the timid.
David on November 18, 2018 at 12:09 PM said:
And what is being disrespectful to fellow commenters? We have several blogs about the US and Race. Go to the archives or under the Submission page and duke it out.
45govt on November 18, 2018 at 12:14 PM said:
Disrespectful? Is that what you call pointing out Lexicon's factual inaccuracies?
WARU on November 18, 2018 at 12:23 PM said:
"You only have to look at the once respected BBC and it's anti-white male agenda."
I would probably become anti-white male too if I keep seeing a bunch of psycho, ugly white boys like Michael Gove and Rees-Moggs..(rass-mugg) parading around with nothing useful to offer the UK population.
Am one of those people who believe ALL people should be able to live their lives without the hypocrites and their judgement calls…who turn out to be closet this and closet that ..when ya really delve into their closeted filth…while they are pointing fingers..
… it all stems from the long dead criminals from the year DOT trying to control the lives of others, while living the dirtiest lives known to animals in the animal kingdom.
lawson on November 18, 2018 at 1:20 PM said:
BT it sounds like you love barbados because you can eat,drink, and be mary
Bush Tea on November 18, 2018 at 1:31 PM said:
@ Jeff
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Sir, if we use our best teachers to teach jobby…
and then depend on GP and Lexicon to teach us about the diamonds of life
We end up poor, disenfranchised, and desperate…
while all our inherited assets transfer to strangers.
If we use our best builders to build dog houses
while Maripoka and Kellman build the technological infrastructure
THEN..
We end up with sewerage on the streets (or swamp), pot holes all over and un-usable public buildings.
Skippa..
Were you to turn your brilliant mind to the critical task
You will be shocked and the rate of change of 'adeptness' that can be achieved…
@ Lawson
Bushie loves Barbados because it is home.
One wonders at your motivation for disliking it…
WARU on November 18, 2018 at 1:45 PM said:
Lawson is cursed…he must turn up in Bim every year, even if he has to walk through bajan poop to get there.
45govt on November 18, 2018 at 2:49 PM said:
WARU, your posts are pathetic, as clearly are you. What I would call a waste of your benighted parents' foop.
lol…but they wind you up so they must be worth something that ya ALWAYS have to respond.
Gabriel on November 18, 2018 at 7:01 PM said:
A brighter day dawns…..Barbados has an Anglican Bishop.S & P have upgraded its outlook on the financial state of the economy.Let the dogs bark.
charles skeete on November 19, 2018 at 7:22 AM said:
because they choose to glorify deviant behaviour does not mean all must accept it. What makes the judicial position of Guyana and the European Court of Human Rights wrong wrong and the position taken by the Uk right.
A couple of months ago i saw a man dressed up like a woman miniskirt high heels and all with his whiskers showing; looked so odd that i thought he should have been arrested for causing a disturbance.
A few men dressed up in women's clothes ….hmmmm……I guess that will surely start WW 3 – the end of the world.
SOS!!!!!!
lawson on November 19, 2018 at 7:57 AM said:
charles get rid of the mirror
BT you know I dont hate barbados….just the stupidity
Waru cursed ??? how is that sewage mess going, nobody talking much , going down in feb please eat as much as you can before I get there.
@ Donna
A few 'men' dressed up as women will not start world war II… just as a few rotten apples will not destroy the farm.
However, a society that ADOPTS shiite as NORMAL …. and that LEGISLATES that shiite be treated just like food …will quickly self-destruct…..
just like a farm will go bankrupt – where the farmer decides to be an 'equal opportunity' manager – and store the few rotten apples along with the good stuff.
In the case of P v S and Cornwall County Council (C-13/94), the UK Government unsuccessfully argued that the European Sex Discrimination Directive did not cover discrimination on the grounds of gender reassignment (e.g. see paragraph 14 of the case transcript). Hence, the UK Government amended its domestic legislation (i.e. the Sex Discrimination Act 1975) in order to comply with the judgment of the European Court of Justice.
I did not say that the ruling of a particular Court on this subject is right or wrong.
charles skeete on November 20, 2018 at 11:27 AM said:
i never said that was your view. i posed a rhetorical question but i hold the view that persons that are legally considered as adults can do what they like with their bodies provided it does not infringe on the rights of others but i oppose deviant behaviours such as bulling, wicking, paedophilia, bestiality,stealing, killing
Truth will set you Free on November 20, 2018 at 6:45 PM said:
Immigration Officers at a bar in Bridgetown and she was found in that bar scantily clad and working as an exotic dancer in contravention of Section 17(1) of the Immigration Act. She was subsequently deported on October 9, 2017, in accordance with Section 13 (6) of the Immigration Act
I don't believe the misinformation put out by Edmund Hinkson as to why this Caricom National wasn't taken before the local law courts as he has alleged fraud.
This Statement yesterday seem to be a cover-up.
Since others have alleged both Immigration officers and Police officers tip off the strippers on raids in the clubs along with the Owners there is obviously a major ongoing criminal conspiracy.
Maybe Jeff Cumberbatch can shed why ALL Strip Clubs and sex bars whose workers are 99 percent visitors to the island and contravene Immigration Act Section (17) 1 why are they allow along with the owners of these establishments to break local laws so easily.
The exotic dancers/strippers are not issued work permits thereby engagingly in criminal activities and should ALL be deported like the Guyanese female in the Press Release by Edmund Hinkson.
There is obviously complicit criminal collusion between the Minister, Police and Immigration if this Policy is not across the Board for all exotic strippers/dancers in the Strip Clubs and sex bars who are mere visitors to the island of Barbados.
Donna on November 21, 2018 at 10:18 PM said:
Bushie,
A few rotten apples? I accept people for who they are. I cannot tell them who they are supposed to be. I do not know their biological make up. God does and will deal with the matter accordingly. So….they don't trouble me; I don't trouble them.
Simple Simon on November 21, 2018 at 10:53 PM said:
@Professor Cumberbatch "Pic' o' de Crop calypso competition entitled Sex Change in which the artiste, Billboard, asserted "there is no such thing as being transgender as you cannot change your sex". As a Barbados Advocate editorial pointed out – Permanently fixed at birth?, this assertion, while it may be supported in current local law."
I am recalling from memory so please don't beat me up.
More than 30 years ago I recalled reading in a Toronto newspaper advice column–it may have been the Toronto Star–where a Barbadian who had been born male, and who had had gender reassignment surgery had applied for a passport in the new female gender. The Barbados government of the day had refused, but had been persuaded by the newspaper? to grant its citizen the Barbados passport in the new female gender.
I don't know if the government of the day committed an illegal act, or conveniently for peace and the protection of the incoming Canadian tourist dollars conveniently agreed to grant the passport.
So transgender in not new.
And being granted a Barbados passport in the new gender is not new either.
@45govt November 18, 2018 8:33 AM "Cressida Dick is one prime example, a four foot lesbian promoted after her murder of a Brazilian electrician"
Why don't you stop telling lies on Police Commissioner Dick?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cressida_Dick
Cressida Dick is the third and youngest child of Marcus William Dick, Senior Tutor at Balliol College, Oxford,and Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, and Cecilia (née Buxton), a University of Oxford historian. She was born and brought up in Oxford, England, and educated at the Dragon School, Oxford High School, Balliol College, Oxford, and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
@peterlawrencethompson November 18, 2018 9:12 AM "What, pray tell, was the "improper purpose" that the judge at the first instance took to be the basis for conviction or these cross dressers?"
You asked. So the story below might be informative. The law and the judge was probably trying to prevent such incidents. Most of us regardless of how liberal we are, are heavily invested in knowing the gender of the person with whom we propose to have sexual relations. Just sayin'
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/oct/05/predator-posed-as-woman-to-trick-other-men-into-sex
A man faces jail after being convicted of luring other men into having sex with him by posing as a woman named Ana.
Duarte Xavier used online dating sites to contact four heterosexual men and deployed various ruses, including telling them he was married and that he wanted to engage in role play, to convince them to wear blindfolds, before engaging in sexual acts.
Police said Xavier's victims, all of whom initially believed he was female, were left "traumatised" by his crimes, which they described as being "unique in their depravity".
DC Lucy Marsh, of the Metropolitan police, said: "Xavier has demonstrated extreme manipulation and cunning to satisfy his own sexual gratification, setting bizarre conditions that the victims adhered to in the belief that they were part of the experience."
She described Xavier as a sexual predator who had "demonstrated extreme manipulation and cunning" in tricking the men. "I hope the victims … will now feel that they have achieved some justice. I thank them for their bravery not only in telling us of their ordeals, but in facing difficult and challenging questions throughout the judicial process."
Xavier, who is from south-west London, was convicted at Kingston crown court on Friday of six counts of causing a male aged 13 or over to engage in penetrative sexual activity.
The court heard he was a liar and fantasist whose crimes spanned several years. Posing as Ana, he would send provocative pictures to men and draw them into meeting for sex.
His trial was told that he would set a series of conditions, including that the victim must wear a blindfold, and that they were not allowed to touch him. None of the victims had any reason to believe he was not who he said he was, with one telling police Xavier's voice sounded like that of a foreign woman.
One of his victims had told no one about the encounter with Xavier because he felt embarrassed and ashamed. He was identified by police officers who examined phone records from seized mobile phones after Xavier's arrest.
The first incident took place in February 2016 and, in that case, the victim demanded Xavier delete all records of their conversation and did not report anything to the police.
The second victim, who encountered Xavier in October 2017, called officers afterwards and Xavier was arrested the next day, before being released under investigation. But he was free to strike again in April this year, when he attacked his third victim. That man also called police and Xavier was arrested for the final time.
The previously unreported incident involving the fourth victim occurred in December 2016.
Marsh said she was "entirely aware that there may be other potential victims of Xavier who, so far, have also felt too ashamed to speak to police". She added: "I would ask those people to come forward, to tell us, and we will treat you with the utmost sensitivity and in the strictest of confidence."
Xavier was remanded in custody to be sentenced at Kingston crown court on Friday 9 November.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/man-sex-catfish-tinder-pretend-online-dating-london-wandsworth-duarte-xavier-a8627116.html
A man who posed as a woman online to trick would-be suitors into blindfolded sexual encounters at his flat has been jailed. Handing down a 15-year sentence on Friday, vice-judge advocate general Michael Hunter told Xavier: "You have been found guilty of what can only be described as a campaign of deception and obtaining sex by pretending that you were a woman.
I do not know their biological make up. God does and will deal with the matter accordingly. So….they don't trouble me; I don't trouble them.
So since you do not know (somewhat like GP …except that he THINKS that he knows)
..and you know that God does…
What does GOD have to say about the matter…?
…or are you more concerned with what Peter Wicki and his ilk says…?
Apples are made for eating ..and for apple juice.
…and rotten apples cannot be blamed for their biological makeup either
But will you eat them?
..or make juice with them…?
Not stinking Bushie…