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Experts Discuss Strategies for more Effective National Human Rights Systems
During the course of two days, more than 60 participants – experts from Geneva-based human rights mechanisms and representatives from more than 20 different national human rights systems, ranging from Latin America, Northern Africa, Far East Asia and the Pacific – discussed in an online meeting the implementation of human rights standards through national human rights systems (NHRSs).
'This topic is both timely and important. The international covenants and conventions do have intrinsic value in shaping the discourse around the globe but they can only unleash their full potential if implemented and adhered to domestically' underlines Ambassador Hans-Peter Jugel, Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations in Geneva.
Identifying Best Practices and Discussing Key Questions
NHRSs come in different forms and structures. This seminar presented a unique forum for different national human rights actors – governmental bodies, independent state institutions and civil society organizations – to exchange their latest strategies for human rights implementation and monitoring and helped to enhance interaction between two or more national actors. The seminar notably highlighted a number of tangible common features for a most effective NHRS, providing best practice examples in a peer-to-peer learning process.
The seminar also discussed specific issues including NHRSs' information management capacity; the capacity of different domestic actors to mutually engage with each other and liaise with international human rights bodies in the context of reporting, visits by UN special procedures or other international expert bodies; and NHRSs' capacity to foster participation and provide a platform for consultations among national actors.
'The discussions notably allowed identifying obstacles and good practices that can guide the process towards a consolidated NHRS, including reducing the load on national actors, reducing duplication in reporting to UN human rights bodies and the possibility of a common monitoring methodology' explains Felix Kirchmeier, Manager of Policy Studies at the Geneva Academy and Executive Director of the Geneva Human Rights Platform.
Participants also suggested exploring the possibility of devising a list of general principles related to the functioning of effective NHRSs, which might include specific sections on broad characteristics like institutional design, effective interactions among national human rights actors, meaningful participation of all relevant stakeholders, transparency and accountability in the decision-making process, availability of resources, as well as accessibility and digitalization.
Khairil Yusof
UNMISS
A Larger Research
This meeting forms part of our research project on the role of national human rights systems in implementing international human rights standards and recommendations.
'This seminar will allow us to integrate the different experiences into our wider research, enriching our reflection on how to increase the effectiveness of national human rights monitoring and implementation strategies' stresses Domenico Zipoli, Research Fellow at the Geneva Academy.
'One early finding of our research is the growing relevance of digital tracking tools for human rights monitoring, implementation and follow-up – such as the National Recommendations Tracking Database and the Human Rights Index developed by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR); SIMORE PLUS developed by Paraguay's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with OHCHR; IMPACT OSS, maintained by the Impact Open Source Software Trust and IWAZI, developed by HURIDOCS. This encourages us to strengthen our efforts in the field of human rights information management systems, including research and dedicated seminars, in order to define convergences, complementarities and best practices useful for all relevant stakeholders' he adds.
Defensoria del Pueblo Colombia
The Advocacy Project
MONUSCO
Accept International
Our New Visiting Fellow: Yosuke Nagai
Dr Yosuke Nagai is the founder and CEO of Accept International, which works on de-radicalization and reintegration for defectors and prisoners formerly involved with violent extremist groups. He just started as Visiting Fellow at the Geneva Academy and will stay with us until the end of March.
79 Students Start their Academic Year
The 41 students enrolled in our LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and the 38 enrolled in our MAS in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law (MTJ) arrived in Geneva for their orientation week.
UN Women/Ryan Brown
Child Participation in the Work of UN Human Rights Mechanisms
6 February 2023, 13:15-14:45
This Human Rights Conversation will discuss child participation in the work of UN human rights mechanisms and opportunities to move away from today's reliance on individual organizations or UN representatives' initiatives.
International Refugee Law
This online short course analyses the main international and regional norms governing the international protection of refugees. It notably examines the sources of international refugee law, including the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, and their interaction with human rights law and international humanitarian law.
Protecting Human Rights and the Environment
This training course will explore the major international and regional instruments for the promotion of human rights, as well as with their implementation and enforcement mechanisms; and provide practical insights into the different UN human rights mechanisms pertinent to advancing environmental issues and protecting environmental human rights defenders.
Victoria Pickering
Promoting and Protecting the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association and Civic Space Worldwide
Started in June 2020
This project aims at providing support to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association Clément Voulé by addressing emerging issues affecting civic space and eveloping tools and materials allowing various stakeholders to promote and defend civic space.
Treaty Bodies Individual Communications Procedures
Assessment Tool for Special Procedures' Impact Evaluation – Developing an Initial Framework
published on January 2023
Jonathan Andrew


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Flying without a net
April 11, 2020 · by SFine	· in Bird's Eye View, coronavirus.	·
Journaling the coronavirus Friday April 10th: a tough Good Friday, the drumbeat for a re-opening, mad at the WHO
Today is Good Friday. The rains have cleared and the sky is blue and spring is in full bloom everywhere in this part of northern California – through my open office window I can smell the jasmine climbers on my neighbor's fence. Orange poppies nod at the sides of the roads. Yesterday a squirrel climbed up almost eye level to my third story office, and then napped at the top of the fence on the sun-warmed wood. His tail slowly went flat, even hanging down off the fence. When he woke up, it curled back up like a bushy S.
Every day is a record death day. The death toll in the US soared past 18,000 today; we add about 2,000 more deaths every day. In New York City, the 24 hour death toll is 777, among the highest daily rates in the worst hit places in the world, still. Cardiac arrest deaths at home are up almost 400% – more than 200 people are dying at home each day, thats 10x what is usual. The crematories are backed up for two weeks. In Brooklyn the funeral homes have had to turn to temporary interment in the potter's field on Hart Island, where the normal rate of burial of 25 bodies a week is now 25 interments per day. Historically, inmates from Riker's Island dig the graves, but probably the National Guard is handling it, they are everywhere.
We didn't lose anyone we could have saved, says a visibly weary Governor Cuomo. Everyone is tired – of working, of stress, of uncertainty, of being alone, of not being alone. Frontline healthcare workers' faces are tattooed with deep indentations and bruising from the pressure of masks. Contradictions abound and we're tired of those too. The White House Coronavirus Task Force recommends we follow the president's guidelines but also says we should obey local and state authorities, though in some places these are opposing suggestions.
Under the umbrella of the coronavirus there are definitely two Americas. In one America, people are home and bored, their paycheck assured, an ability to work from home or a job to go back to, well-stocked on toilet paper and having everything they need delivered, easily maintaining physical distance. In the other America, people are going out to jobs where they are surrounded by people who may be infected or are definitely infected, people are witnessing many consecutive deaths and digging many consecutive graves and immolating many consecutive remains and still they keep coming, they're tired and they are getting infected and afraid of getting their families infected, and most don't even have paid sick leave.
The testing situation is still pretty balls up, and the story seems to be that we're just going to open the country up as though the low numbers of infections that represent the lack of testing are actually representative of the actual number of people infected.
In other dystopia news, the demand for food aid has increased by 8x with the national guard deployed to help food banks cope. But, as a hunger crisis looms, thousands of pounds of food is rotting in the fields, rotting in storage, and being tilled underground. Dairy producers are flooding their fields with excess milk or pouring it down drains in production facilities. Doesn't seem like it would take McKinsey to solve this mismatch of need and surplus, though wouldn't it be nice if they took the case on.
In San Francisco our total positive cases have reached 724, with ten deaths. We've been sheltering in place one week longer than the rest of the country, and are starting to feel the pressure. Mayor London Breed addressed the citizens of San Francisco today, urging us not to get any ideas with the gorgeous weather and decide to flock together for the Easter weekend unless we maintain physical distance for necessary outings. Your parks are still open, she reminds us. Don't make me shut them down, is the message. As I write this the window is open, the temperature a mild 65 degrees Fahrenheit, the breeze is breezy and the neighbors's wind chimes are chiming musically. If this weather holds I predict a big crowd at the beaches, and a lot of indignant posting on Next Door.
Photo by David Grunfeld, NOLA.com, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
Seventy-year-old New Orleans Archbishop and recovered COVID-19 patient Gregory Aymond climbed into the open-air cockpit of a World War II-era biplane and blessed the population of New Orleans, sprinkling holy water from the Jordan River from a distance of a thousand feet up. Apprehensive about flying in a plane older thane he is, with just one pilot and one engine, the archbishop says he asked a lot of questions and "Eventually my questions became trust." Reminding us, if your questions remain unanswered, and become a lack of trust you don't have to get in the plane. And that questions, ultimately are not just good but necessary – the act of asking them is not 'fake news' or an 'attack' or 'unfair'.
At the pressers of yesterday and today's abbreviated update, the theme "we're nearly over it!" is now a steady drumbeat. "Three weeks ago it was catastrophic, I think we've hit the bottom," the president declares. The last two pressers have made it abundantly clear, he intends on America being opened May 1st. Maybe not everywhere, but somewhere.
I wonder why anyone thinks small businesses will be ready to throw their doors open…most of the $350 billion in stimulus money that's gone to the banks will not have trickled to businesses or families by May 1st. Small business owners on news programs make it clear, they went underwater the first of April or expect to the first of May, while their banks are still 'readying themselves' to distribute funds. "We're only servicing people with existing loans or existing accounts" but even those are told they are on enormous wait lists with no ETA. "The biggest challenge is trying to get through to click submit," says a business owner representative of most. "First come first serve," warn the banks. Not telling us how many have come or how many they've served.
"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does."
~Allen Ginsberg
The famous City Lights bookstore in North Beach is teetering on the brink, resorting to a Go Fund Me to keep the doors open. It's inconceivable to me that this place that is an American institution, publisher of Allen Ginsburg's Howl and Other Poems, could perish so swiftly, vanishing beneath the surface of the pandemic as easily as as any other business.
Also I'm wondering, will people be able to afford to go anywhere, once the shelter in place orders are lifted? Almost half of Americans work for a small business, and the great majority of them have lost their job and their health insurance and might not be ready to start consuming again for awhile.
The International Monetary Fund is beating a different set of drums entirely, saying it expects the pandemic to bring the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression. Health experts say ending the shutdown prematurely would be disastrous because the restrictions have barely had time to work, and because U.S. leaders have not built up the capacity for alternatives to stay-at-home orders – such as the mass testing, large-scale contact tracing and targeted quarantines that have been used in other countries to successfully suppress the virus.
Even one of the most optimistic models used by the White House predicts a death toll of 60,400 by the end of August — but that, only if current drastic restrictions are kept in place until the end of May.
New York Mayor de Blasio says he won't relax any restrictions until there is sustained evidence of improvement, which he defined as three key metrics trending down in unison: hospital admissions for suspected COVID-19, ICU admissions for suspected COVID-19 and the percentage of people testing positive. Most public health experts are projecting this won't/can't happen until late May or June. San Francisco Mayor London Breed has already ordered us to shelter in place through May 3rd.
The president tells us antibody tests being developed at "breakneck speed" and is confident that they will scale up to tens of millions of tests, and we're leading the world in testing, and other countries are coming to us asking if they can buy the tests and we're going to make that possible. We're never told what countries are making these requests. I'm betting its not South Korea, Taiwan and Germany which have kept the COVID-19 death toll far far lower than the US, both in total and as a proportion of the population.
Every American should be proud of what our country has achieved, the president reads from his binder, repeating the number of hospitals and beds that have been built in 12 states and bragging that he has used the DPA "like a hammer" ("the media said we weren't using it and we we're using it like a hammer, all we had to do was say the words and people really did a very good job…with a few exceptions"). The highlights:
"We're making thousands of ventilators which we won't need and we'll build up the national stockpiles and the state stockpiles which they should have had (this is a dig at Cuomo by the way), and we'll sell to countries who are in no position to build ventilators, so we're going to be helping quite a few of the countries."
Air Bridge numbers are once again painstakingly repeated, first by the president then by the Vice President. We've heard about these flights at least ten times now, to the point if you mistakenly thought every time they were mentioned it was a new flight being accounted for, the skies would seem to be fairly swarming, not unlike fighter planes in World War II except delivering a payload of PPE at the enemy instead of bullets or bombs
Mask sterilization machines have been shipped – apparently, with all those brilliant people around, no one thought to sterilize the masks, but luckily the president just asked the question and miracle of miracles, they said, "We can!" Thank god, you guys, what would we do without this very stable genius in the White House?
"We passed the largest emergency relief package in American history," we were reminded. It's as if the person writing these notes is worried that the briefing will be full of people new to the topic, and unaware of all that has transpired. If he started the meeting reading from his binder "I am Donald Trump, president of the United States", it would be par for the course.
The president explained that we're experiencing "the biggest stock market increase in FIFTY years" (even during a short week!) and tells us that this means that there is pent-up demand that "they" want to get back to work. "Something very good is going to happen," he excitedly tells us. "We've done well, the market thinks we've done well, we've had four days of increases, the best in more than fifty years, the greatest mobilization of our society since World War II, deploying every resource to defeat the virus."
"This monster came and worked its horrible spell over the world!"
~President Donald Trump
The president has floated the idea the virus is a "monster" that we are at war with several times now…each time, I end up deleting it from my notes because it sounds so histrionic, but then realized that he's saying things that are true, a monster came and worked its horrible spell all over the world and we will defeat this monster, we the American people working together can do it. Yes we can. And unlike the president I am confident in giving a date, we can do it in seven months.
Dr. Birx is wearing her scarf tied to the side today. She thanks the president "for outlining how well we are doing". She gives long recitations of cities with comments about stabilizing log rhythmic curves, mixing in thanks to the mayors and their communities for changing the curves. We're united in social distancing and that's been very encouraging to all of us, she tells us. Also we are told our COVID-19 mortality is much less than other nations, even correcting for population, but reader, Taiwan, a nation of 23 million, has had no deaths, and South Korea has also suffered very few, not to mention Germany, so Dr. Birx is not *exactly* correct here.
The polysyllabic spree
Increasingly it seems the Vice President and the President have their remarks written by a speech writer, and not someone with an operational or managerial focus. It sets a weird tone, to hear them drone out these formal-sounding sentences to the same crowd day after day. It makes me wish I could get my hands on that binder and make it easier on all of us: "We're incredibly proud of (our public health leaders at the city level, at the state level, the national level, working with their citizens in their communities.) Americans."
You wish someone would just say: "We heard this already, say something new."
There has been so much rah rah about how great we are doing with the thirty days to slow the spread that I am surprised when Dr. Birx says, buried in a bunch of compound sentences so that I almost miss it: "We have not reached the peak." Dr. Fauci tells us in no uncertain terms, "This is not the time to feel that since we've made such important advance in success of mitigation that we need to be pulling back at all." For the second time in as many days he reminds us to check out clinicaltrials.gov (Guys! PowerPoint slides with QR codes WORK!) where we can read the progress on randomized trials of hydroxychloroquine, reminding us strongly "the randomized is the gold standard to find out if something is safe and effective," and "in the summer we'll start to see which are working and which are not" which means, Reader, that he does not recommend you take hydroxychloroquine, he does not share the president's What can it hurt attitude, he wants you to wait 'til summer and see what the science says.
We're told the White House Coronavirus Task Force is bringing innovation to the crisis, revising FDA guidelines to allow the laundering of surgical gowns. We are assured the providers of these gowns and presumably launderers of same will follow FDA guidance and will be compliant with Medicare and Medicaid requirements and it sounds to me like someone's getting a great big contract.
Thank you to America for helping to flatten the curve and save lives, says Surgeon General Adams when it is his turn to take the podium. He says, "I'll finish by reiterating what you've heard," and before anyone can stop him he does that, and it takes awhile and it is just as boring and fruitless and end times as it sounds. He finishes up with some orders: stay at home, follow the guidelines, keep six feet away from people, wear a mask, wash your hands and then in a surprise ad lib, also adjures us to "Avoid alcohol, tobacco and drugs. Call your mom." There is a brief furor when a reporter wants to know, are you telling just people of color to not drink, and he says no, he means everyone, he means you and me.
The president says that he hopes nobody steals our Surgeon General, that he doesn't get lured away to "one of these big companies for a fortune". Don't leave us, everyone says you're doing a great job, says the president, and in a way it sounds as disturbing as hearing him tell someone they are a nasty horrid person and fake news, just for different reasons.
Then the Vice President retakes the lectern and rethanks the president, and then he says, somewhat unnecessarily, "Today the Coronavirus White House Task Force met and updated the president" which we already know because the president has just updated us on the update.
The Vice President is undeterred by this fact and goes through the hits: gratitude, working round the clock, let me add my thanks and my admiration to the entire team. He reminds us Good Friday is always followed by Easter Sunday and "there is hope in this moment, thanks to the fact Americans are listening to state and local leaders we are getting there we are making progress but it is imperative we continue to follow the guidelines to slow the spread." He is never breathless uttering these long sentences. He squints a lot, I wonder if he needs glasses or is this just the way he communicates earnestness? He mentions the CDC will be communicating new guidance but doesn't say about what, and I briefly long for powerpoint slides that let me tune out the droning of his voice.
We hear again the figure of 2.1 million tests have been performed, and that "we continue to work to expand the ability to test". There is some talk about an outbreak at a meat packing facility and I'm glad I'm a vegan though I worry about contamination on everything, really, including the dented rinds of avocados that look like the perfect welcoming surface for a virus. The Vice President spends a few minutes thanking and naming all the workers up and down the food supply chain from the grocery store clerks to the farmers.
The Vice President repeats all of the information about PPE supply shipments the president has already read through (do they get the same binders?). He goes through the figures on number of national guard troops activated, active duty medical military personnel deployed, number of states they are deployed in, number of Air Bridge flights completed, still planned, and scheduled, and how many surgical gloves and masks etc. they are carrying and we can only thank God he doesn't have his hands on the manifest for each plane and the menu they serve the crew on each flight because reader, I fear he would read those too, squinting sincerely the whole while.
He winds it all up with a five minute plea to Americans to tithe to their church, and without telling people not to go to Church and keep socially distanced, he urges us obliquely to not go to church and stay socially distanced by saying he and Karen will be at home, reminding us "My Christian brothers and sisters across the country, Jesus said wherever two or more are gathered, there he is already." He leaves the podium, and the president says Great job, before turning to the reporters and says in a way that might be joking or not, who knows, "It's Good Friday, let's be nice, let's be real NICE." I found the Pope's words on where we're at in the world more inspiring than anything said today, so I'm including them; he's a wise man, something we need a lot more of these days.
"We are in the same boat, all of us fragile and disoriented, all of us called to row together."
~Pope Francis
Reporter Q&A highlights, in the president's own words
On oil: OPEC & others agreed to cut back, we don't even have room to store it they are using ships to store it in fact, there has never been anything like this.
On Mexico: they didn't agree, he had some political difficulty and I understand that, so I agreed to pick up some of the slack. and they'll make it up to us at a later date, it could be in a different form. (if you close your eyes and listen between the lines, you'll hear the echo of a 2016 Trump telling a screaming crowd, we're going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay for it)
On Dr. Fauci's popularity: I told Tony, why don't you move to New York and run against AOC, you'll win easily!
On Morgan Chase projecting a 40% downturn in 2Q: My economic advisers are interested in the 3rd quarter and 4th quarter. We've never been hit like this, probably not even in 1917 when Europe took the brunt, we didn't, with the world trade center, that was three thousand people, we've doubled that in the same area, MORE than doubled it, so with all this news what would make you believe we'd have the best stock market? It's pent-up demand I tell you.
On restaurants: Deductibles will be great for restaurants.
On airlines: we have a great plan for the airlines, it's never been a great business but it's a vital business. We can't let anything happen to Boeing.
On Governor Cuomo being wrong: in New York they need far fewer hospital rooms, beds than we thought, Dr. Birx told me that four, six weeks ago, she said "Those numbers are too high we won't need that" and we built Javitz and we brought the ship in we made it COVID.
On business interruption insurance: I would like to see insurance companies pay, they know what is fair, I know what is fair, they've been paying for years. We can't let that happen, the insurance companies saying they're not going to pay it.
On testing: we're taking testing from a broken system that I inherited to having the best tests anywhere in the world!
Reporters ask, will the president really re-open the country without a national testing system and we're told there's not a lot of issues with testing, and the states of Iowa, Nebraska, Idaho are mentioned as very very capable states with big distances, a lot of land, you don't need testing there.
If there's a little hot corner someplace we'l be testing, the president says. But vast areas of the country just don't need it. We've done more testing than any country in the world (but not per capita, reader).
Will there be contact tracing before the country is re-opened, a reporter asks, and the president says we'll take a strong look at it. With every question about re-opening you can feel the president's confidence ratchet up. "Our country will be stronger than ever. what's going to happen is we're going to have a big bounce rather than a small bounce. You can never replace the people who were lost but we will have succeeded in many ways."
Boo, WHO
The president is still mad at the WHO and assures us there will be an announcement next week, and there is more listing of how much we gave the WHO and how much China gave this year, last year, and the two years before that and how very unfair it is and how we're gonna be talking about that in great detail because we want to make sure money is properly spent. The president is not going to put up with the US being taken advantage of! He rants and fumes for awhile about how China has siphoned the strength of the US through a non-biodegradable WHO straw, and how stupid that the people who stood here allowed it to happen, meaning of course Obama who apparently still lives rent free in the president's head.
If you reopen in May and there is a new spike of infections are you open to shutting down again? asks a reporter, and the president says Yes. Then he says, Depending. It turns out it will depend on the Opening Our Country Council, a great group of people who will meet by teleconference and we are not told who, only that it is a lot of great names, different businesses, different people from different parts of the country. Attorney General William Barr said the stay-at-home orders and other restrictions are "draconian" and says they need to be reevaluated next month, so that's what this council will be doing.
There is a question of the administration blocking shipments of PPE? But the president says no, that must be about blocking shipments of drugs which are coming into the US by sea now, because the very powerful wall loaded up with senosors and cameras and drones has stopped drugs from coming to the US by land. So now (we are told) a lot of people are trying to come into the waterways. we're being tough on human trafficking, it's mostly females, he tells us, and it's HORrible, you may think of human trafficking as an ancient thing but it is not, it's bigger than it's ever been because of the internet, he says. (I think, Hey also because of guys like your friend Jeff Epstein and Prince Andrew but understandably those names don't come up). The president shakes his head in disbelief at the problem of human trafficking but then reassures us we have a big naval force that's stopping it, also, those ships are finding a LOT of drugs.
The Churchillian prose writer is at it again, and the presser closes on a bunch of Trope-on-a-Rope verbiage that is going for rousing but ends up somewhere else entirely, like Akron or Hackensack.
"We will unleash the full might of the united states of America to vanquish the virus. It's a beautiful Friday, our country is a great place, this is artificial, close it down they say, close it down, and we're healing and we're going to get it back. We're at the top of the hill and now we're going downward. We are supremely confident in the magnificent future that awaits the American people."
Dr. Birx tells us 1.5 million tests have been reported in (you can still can only get a test if you have certain CDC-defined symptoms though) but by now I'm so unclear on differences in meaning indicated by reported, distributed, and processed I can't really say what's going on with tests, except there aren't enough of them. Ten percent of infections are among people under the age of 25; twice as many 65-85 year olds are infected. Men are about 50% more likely to be infected than women.
Good news: citing the "progress of human civilization", the Chinese government announced a new policy that would forbid the eating of dogs. In Lake Michigan, the water is so clear you can see hundreds of previously unidentified shipwrecks at bottom. InfoWars founder Alex Jones has been ordered by the FDA to stop telling people they can stave off coronavirus with products sold on his website.
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President Bush's Africa Trip
Report by J. Stephen Morrison
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President Bush's five-country Africa tour reminds us that presidential travel to Africa has become a new norm, following President Clinton's visits (in 1998 and 2000) and President Bush's 2003 trip. It brings to our attention just how much U.S. engagement in Africa has expanded over the past seven-plus years and asks us to ponder what has been gained, what leverage does the United States truly possess, and what more can and should be done to strengthen the U.S. approach to Africa.
When President Bush entered office in 2001, there were low expectations that Africa would merit much if any attention. This month's tour, near the end of President Bush's tenure in the White House, highlights four signature policy initiatives that have had significant impact in Africa, changed the pattern of U.S. foreign assistance delivered to the continent, and generally enjoyed broad bipartisan support among Americans. The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) will have expended over $18.8 billion by the end of September, at the close of its first five year phase, will have put close to 2 million persons on life-sustaining therapies. Some 65 to 70 percent of resources and persons reached are in Africa. The President's Malaria Initiative (PMI), a three-year $1.2 billion program centered in Africa, has brought dramatic gains in several focal countries; in 1997, U.S. malaria programs in Africa were $1 million per year. This year it will be $338 million. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), an experiment in forging five year compacts with reasonably well-governed states, the majority in Africa, has substantial programs in 11 Africa countries, accounting for 65 percent of the over $5.5 billion committed worldwide. Liberia, the fourth priority focus of the president's trip, involved U.S. military support to a regional intervention in 2003, followed by support to a UN peace operation, an electoral transition, and ongoing efforts at postwar reconstruction, including U.S.-led reform of the security sector.
Africa , North Africa , and Sub-Saharan Africa
J. Stephen Morrison
Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center


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Halcyon is the ultimate non-hotel situated in the heart of Denver's Cherry Creek North neighborhood. Our 154 rooms blur the lines between hotel and gracious home with considered comfort, attention to detail, and an impressive collection of art.
The Kitchen 245 Foodrunner is an essential member of the Food & Beverage team dedicated to providing exceptional quality and service to our guests. This position provides an enjoyable, expertly served beverage or dining experience conforming to the Halcyon standards of excellence for quality, professionalism and friendliness. Foodrunners anticipate and service guests needs before being asked and are knowledgeable about all available menu options, beverage lists and daily specials. This position reports to the Restaurant General Manager.
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London continues to provide the house scene with an influx of fresh talent, And Get Twisted's latest edition is sure to be one of these future stars. "Deceptive" knows only too well about the culture that gripped the nation in the early 90's. Becoming a regular clubber, He took to the studio in the mid to late 00's to express his passion for house music. It wasn't long until he started to see success mounting up with a few releases under his belt with a previous alias. He now plays on the heartstrings of any old school raver with his straight up intentions of creating dance floor friendly vibes, the prefect fit for Get Twisted Records.
In lead track 'Down With Me' Deceptive shows glimpses of his past influences. Hard hitting garage drums, swing percussion & a sweet vocal set the tone of the record from the outset. A chugging bass line drives the record, while the lead line shows Deceptive's emergence from the rave scene. 'Down With Me' is strong from start to finish, perfect for injecting energy into any dance floor.
Don't Make is a more housey affair. From the get go its balanced padwork and strings build emphatically to a beast of a bassline. But where this track really comes into its own is during the breakdown. While pads and strings give a sense of euphoria, the thunderous kick and lead change up take this track to a deeper level.
A debut E.P from Deceptive sets the standard for what is set to be a promising future!


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Do We Belong?: An Indian immigrant in Kansas is shot and killed in a senseless hate crime, leaving his wife to grapple with the question of whether America is truly her home.
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The screening will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by immigration attorney Tahmina Watson.


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London Croydon Airport was Britain's first major international airport. It played a major role in the development of global air travel after World War One and has a significant place in early 20th century British history. It was the predecessor to London Heathrow Airport and Britain's busiest airport during the inter war period.
Some of the significant historic events and achievements at London Croydon Airport include:-
Britain's first purpose-built Terminal and Control Tower
world's largest airport terminal in 1928
departure point for many world record breaking flights such as Amy Johnson, Bert Hinkler, Alan Cobham, Jim Mollison, Mary Bailey, Arthur Clouston with Betty Kirby-Green
birthplace of Air Traffic Control
innovation of "Mayday" international distress call
world's first integrated airport terminal
world's first Air Traffic Control Tower
establishment of Britain's first national airline, Imperial Airways
Britain's first intercontinental air routes across Europe, Asia and Australia
Significantly, the new airport introduced the world to two new types of specialised airport technical building:-
Airport Terminal
Air Traffic Control Tower
These two types of new building were the first built in the world and are instantly recognisable features of all modern airports. The buildings were significant as they encompass the key functions and processes needed in effectively managing air passenger operations.
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Low-Code Webinar Recap: How Accenture Made Low-Code the Backbone of Digital Transformation and Innovation
Karina Corona October 7, 2022
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ICYMI: Low-code webinar series recaps and digital transformation insights
Accenture is known for innovating creative solutions. In this webinar, digital transformation experts from Accenture discussed what happened when they turned those same creative methods inward, and how low-code technology provided them the agility and flexibility to standardize processes and achieve their own digital transformation.
Hosted by Kristen Davis, Product Evangelist at Pipefy, the interview-style panel discussion featured key insights from:
Fabiano Guastella, Digital Innovation Associate Director at Accenture
Clarison Benteo, Digital Transformation Manager at Accenture
Felipe Carvalho, Sales and CS Leader at Pipefy
Below is a recap of the discussion, including how digital transformation is shaping the future of work, emerging trends for digital-first teams, and how Pipefy's low-code automation software helped Accenture gain the flexibility and agility to scale end-to-end process solutions for its clients.
1. Low-code technology is cost-effective
For workers, the pandemic sped up digital transformation efforts to communicate and stay connected digitally. For businesses, the pandemic pushed them another step forward in their digital transformation in a cost-effective and empowered way.
"Before the pandemic, digital transformation was already a large priority for our clients, but it was a lower priority and more conservative," said Guastella. But as the world grew to be more digitized, digital transformation became essential – and so did the adoption of low-code technology.
Low-code automation allows teams to do more with less and can be very cost-effective, a major draw for business teams. "Low-code is helping with digital transformation because it saves development costs and shortens development time," Guastella says.
Business units need agility. IT needs control. See how low-code delivers both. Read: Low-code Automation: Good for Business, Great for ITDownload the report
2. Low-code builds alignment between IT teams and business units
Historically, resistance to change was a bottleneck for digital transformation, manifesting itself as a lack of adaptability and a deficit of tech skills. A top-down approach to tech implementation can eventually lead to adoption issues and possible security risks related to shadow IT or lack of standardization.
But as the need for digital transformation increases, the real question now is: How can businesses empower non-technical employees to develop and deploy solutions at their own pace?
"When a model where tech adoption is top-down is flipped, the volume of tech being adopted explodes," Carvalho says. "Low-code and no-code addresses those challenges. Digital transformation is moving away from being IT-dependence and adjusting to the needs of businesses and speed."
We plug additional blocks with Pipefy through API through RPAs to give clients a complete end-to-end solution that is 100% customizable with efficient technology within small timelines.
Adopting low-code/no-code to balance IT priorities and empower business areas
One driver behind the adoption of low-code/no-code tools is the scarcity in tech talent and how its impact on deploying technology is highly dependent on IT. "We're seeing other factors like business areas wanting to move faster and faster," Carvalho says. "We're also seeing an overall trend where people want to solve things on their own. They don't want to depend on others,"
Today, companies see low-code automation as a solution for IT teams that may not have the capacity to prioritize subprocess optimizations or building solutions for long-tail processes that don't align with their own team's priorities.
This adoption also leads to additional benefits like cost reduction, projects moving faster, and empowering business areas to solve things on their own while some of those IT resources can then be reallocated to more complex projects where IT is needed.
Process 101: Long-tail processes
Long-tail processes are unique subprocesses and workflows that teams need but aren't being addressed by existing apps and software. These "incidental" processes are commonly not anticipated, and, when they go unresolved, they can lead to larger problems — both for the business and IT.
Concerns over governance and security
As more business teams are empowered to undertake some process optimizations themselves, the question for many companies is: how do we allow people to move fast while enforcing security requirements and maintaining visibility?
"There's concern over the frameworks used internally to define when IT should be involved, when IT should allow business areas to move on their own, and what is the decision process when we're looking at complexity and risk? Also, how to control what is being done and ensure that organizations and important data are secure," Carvalho says.
The importance of organizational buy-in
"It's important to mention that digital transformation is a journey that also includes changing the culture of a company, pushing employees to leave their comfort zones, implementing changes, and even changing customer relationships and the types of service or products being offered," Guastella says.
"But digital transformation isn't just about technology. It's about the appetite for investment and the pursuit of this shift to digital, so sponsorship for this change and the investment is very important."
Accelerated time-to-market
With Pipefy as the low-code platform, Accenture's digital transformation team is able to accelerate time-to-market. "What we provide to our customers is a modularized solution, like building blocks, with Pipefy's low-code platform," said Benteo. "We have Pipefy working as a workflow orchestrator. We plug additional blocks with Pipefy through API through RPAs to give clients a complete end-to-end solution that is 100% customizable with efficient technology within small timelines. This is what we do when we are doing digital transformations for our customers."
Improved customer experience and services
Benteo explains that digital solutions are like building blocks, which they collect and use to connect end-to-end processes. Pipefy works as a workflow and orchestrator tool that can be connected to legacy systems and additional technologies.
With Pipefy's low-code software as the bridge or backbone connecting legacy systems, automation, and manual operations, Accenture is able to provide customers with the solutions they need. "If a customer needs an additional solution, we would integrate that with other blocks to Pipefy to give the customer the solution they requested," Benteo says.
Animation of how low-code software works as the backbone of digital transformation
Optimized end-to-end processes by centralizing, orchestrating, and routing data through legacy systems
As an intelligent orchestration tool, Pipefy concentrates all the data and provides the customer with a visualization of valuable process information. Here's an example of what intelligent orchestration looks like when fully integrated with legacy systems via APIs gateways, the heart of digital transformation:
Animation of how low-code software works to centralize, orchestrate, and route data through legacy systems
Low-code automation and integrations eliminated manual work and improved collaboration
Below are two demos showcasing how Pipefy's automation capabilities and customizable smart form streamlines previously manual work.
Demo 1: Documents and images can be attached directly to the intake form. To reduce delays, conditions can be added to ensure that required information is submitted each time. For external stakeholders, the request tracking feature is great for status updates.
Pipefy's easily customizable forms streamline the data intake process, and automatically kickoff processes with all the information required, accurately and without delays.
Demo 2: The information and attachments submitted automatically populate within the connect process as a card. With Kanban view, teams can get a high-level overview of requests/tasks submitted and the phase they are in within the process.
Once the card is received, Benteo opens and reviews the card. "The operator is going to see if all the documents are OK. If they are, they would select "OK" and you can see in the activity section that some automations are automatically running and moving the task to the next step."
With automation, teams can easily route tasks to the appropriate process phase or process owner, eliminate previously manual work and rework, and improves cross-collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
"All these steps were previously manual, and now they're automated," Guastella says. By customizing this process further and integrating existing systems into Pipefy, data becomes more centralized, visibility is improved, and the burden of manual work is resolved.
"For integrations, we mainly use APIs. API gateways are very important and are the heart of digital transformation because APIs take less to sustain unlike RPAs," Guastella adds. "With RPAs, you need a lot of people to monitor how the RPAs are running." Pipefy's easily customizable low-code platform eliminated that problem.
For companies with low maturity (and even for some with high maturity), it may seem like an uphill battle to take on such a large organizational change – but it's not impossible. To get started, Guastella suggest taking these three steps:
Find out what's working (and what isn't). In order to get started, it's important to "understand the as-is process, as-is department, or as-is project you want to transform," said Guastella.
Identify a champion. Once teams have a full understanding of how things are working, then can they bring in key leaders and decision-makers — like C-suite and HR leaders — as champions for the transformation. This type of buy-in is essential to creating a sense of co-innovation, making what once felt like an impossible transformation into a possible initiative.
Build in waves. While technology is a major part of digital transformation, it's much more than that. "It's an environment. It's a journey. And depending on the level of maturity, digital transformation can start in waves," said Guastella. For example, the first wave can be integrating workflow solutions with legacy systems, the second wave can be implementing score and rules engines, and then the third wave can be artificial intelligence and an analytics hub. "For our clients, we can either implement everything in one wave, or we can continuously improve with a lot of waves."
While a high degree of business maturity is beneficial, leading initiatives really comes down to having an appetite for investment, starting "small," and building toward a full digital transformation.
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Die Volksbank Peine eG war eine Genossenschaftsbank mit Sitz in Peine. Das Geschäftsgebiet der Bank umfasste die Stadt Peine und die Gemeinden Edemissen, Ilsede und Lengede im Landkreis Peine in Niedersachsen.

Struktur
Die Volksbank Peine wurde im Genossenschaftsregister des Amtsgerichts Hildesheim in der Rechtsform einer eingetragenen Genossenschaft geführt. Rechtsgrundlagen waren das Genossenschaftsgesetz (GenG) und die durch die Mitglieder beschlossene Satzung.

Organe der Volksbank waren der Vorstand, der Aufsichtsrat und die Vertreterversammlung. Die Volksbank wurde nach außen durch den Vorstand vertreten. Er leitete die Bank eigenverantwortlich und führte die Geschäfte. Der Aufsichtsrat bestand aus neun Mitgliedern (Stand: 2015). Zentrales Willensbildungsorgan der Bank war die Vertreterversammlung der Mitglieder.

Die Bank war der genossenschaftliche FinanzGruppe angeschlossen.

Geschichte

Die Geschichte der heutigen Volksbank Peine begann im Jahr 1925 als "Genossenschaftsbank Peine". Ein erster Zusammenschluss erfolgte im Jahr 1969 mit Übernahme der Spar- und Darlehenskassen Essinghausen und Meerdorf. Im Jahr 1971 änderte die Genossenschaftsbank Peine ihren Namen in Volksbank Peine. 1976 fusionierte die Bank mit der Spar- und Darlehnskasse Schwicheldt, 1986 mit der Volksbank Edemissen und 1994 mit der Volksbank Lahstedt. Zum 1. Januar 2016 wurde die Volksbank Peine auf die Volksbank Braunschweig Wolfsburg (Volksbank BraWo) verschmolzen.

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Peine
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Organisation (Peine)
Gegründet 1925
Ehemaliges Kreditinstitut (Niedersachsen)
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Overland literary journal > Latest > Reviews > The counterfeit game
29 January 2015 4 February 2015
Reviews / Culture
The counterfeit game
Guy Rundle
War movies always play fast and loose with the truth. So do science movies. The Imitation Game is a movie about science in war, so it was perhaps inevitable that it would be something of a travesty of both. Ostensibly, it's the story of Alan Turing, the mathematical genius whose work on the 'solvability' of maths problems led him to propose the basic design of a machine that could work out whether a problem was solvable or not before it started working on it.
That's the basis of modern computing – and also of modern cryptography and decryption. Turing was recruited as a consultant by British Naval intelligence in the late 1930s, and when the Second World War began, transferred to Bletchley Park, the decryption centre established to tackle the 'unbreakable' code of the Nazi 'Enigma' machine – a task that he and other codebreakers achieved over a three-year period.
In the process they designed the 'Colossus', the first machine that had 'stored programmes' – that is, wasn't hard-wired. A monster apparatus of 16,000 valves, it had, essentially, the power of a single microchip. The Colossus design was at the root of the mainframes the US and UK developed after the war.
Turing didn't live to see the development of a computerised world. In the early 1950s, he was arrested for homosexual activities, and had to choose between jail and what was then known as 'chemical castration', a barking-mad process by which he was injected with oestrogen to still his 'unnatural' desires. Two years later, he was dead – suicide, as legend has it, by eating an apple he had laced with cyanide powder he had made with household products.
The Imitation Game is happy to take the suicide, the most lurid part of the whole story, since the film's 'sense of mission' is to vindicate Turing as a war hero, persecuted for his sexuality. For that the film has gained some praise, with many willing to overlook the inaccuracies.
But it is most strange, for in trying to restore Turing's full humanity, including his sexuality, the filmmakers have put his sexuality at the centre of his being, in the most clichéd way possible. Seeking to contest the homophobia of the mid twentieth century, they have adopted and deployed every one of its clichés. It's a travesty – and that matters – but it's also instructive about the way that ideology is constructed, how it conforms a resistant past to present needs.
Alan Turing was a middle-class public (that is, private) schoolboy and Cambridge man whose genius at maths was rapidly recognised. By the age of twenty-four, he had written the ground-breaking paper 'On Computable Numbers', an extended thought-experiment which applied Gödel's Uncertainty Theorem (that is, that maths can produce unsolvable problems, in the same way that language can produce undecidable propositions such as 'this sentence is false').
From that, he laid down the principles on which a machine capable of problem solving must work. It was the basis for the differentiation of what we know of as the computer from any sort of simple adding machine.
Turing was, like many maths genius, unorthodox, absent-minded, capable of drifting away in thought. By his twenties, he had also decided that he was mostly homosexual. All that adds up to outsider status. Yet Turing was also part of middle-class life: a college man, a competitive team athlete, close with family and friends. He was also politically aware enough to realise, by 1937, that there was going to be a war, and to offer his expert services to the intelligence service, who took him up immediately.
By the time the war started, he had been working with senior naval officers for a couple of years. Once he joined Bletchley Park and became a director of its decryption operations he was running a staff of dozens, and then hundreds, of decrypters, analysts and clerks. Teamwork was essential to decrypting 'Enigma', a code system that used a machine to create an ever shifting code within a single message, generating trillions of possible combinations. Turing's leadership and brilliance consisted in large part in how to assign and then reassemble separate parts of the decoding into a new whole.
Through 1940 to 1943, he consulted with Churchill and other top ministers, and crossed the Atlantic half a dozen times to consult with John von Neumann, the Manhattan project scientist developing the theory of cybernetics. His superiors understood the value of his work, and gave it all the resources and leeway acquired.
None of this has survived into The Imitation Game. Benedict Cumberbatch's Turing is arrogant, aloof and quick with a putdown. He delights in making his colleagues feel stupid, and in making his superiors guess his actions. He's bitchy and cute. He sees the war as a bore, a problem to be solved, not a moral-political-national struggle.
None of this accords with anyone's memory of Turing, but it matches a set of cliches, that of the mid-century capital-H homosexual. 'Turing' is, put simply, queenish. The film has simply decided that a certain cultural style of being homosexual can be used to construct Turing's whole character. There is a strong suggestion that he is a champion decrypter because straight society is a code that the homosexual must crack – and pass as straight within it.
In that way, the film loses all the particularity of the Second World War – the degree to which the national emergency created solidarity, mutual trust and regard. Instead, Bletchley park is rendered as bitchy, backbiting and as individualist as Vogue magazine in The Devil Wears Prada.
But it gets worse. Much worse. In their effort to make Turing into a trickster character, the filmakers have added a lurid and wholly fictional plot in which Turing uncovers a Soviet spy at Bletchley and keeps his secret because he knows of the man's homosexuality. Later, he conspires with the MI6 agent attached to Bletchley to conceal some results from the higher authorities so that the decrypts wouldn't be overused.
This was standard practice in any case. The MI6 agent in question turns out to be John Cairncross, head of the Cambridge spy ring, whom Turing never met.
The implication of this are obvious and fantastic. Turing is a natural spy, because, of course, he is a homosexual. It's deeply ironic, because it is this pre-Stonewall idea of the homosexual – as a natural trickster – that motivated the very persecution of people like Turing in the 1950s as 'untrustworthy elements'. Indeed, the film implies that Turing has no loyalty to his country or society at all, inventing yet another ludicrous plot in which Turing names the computer he builds 'Chris'. Who is Chris? Ah, flashbacks reveal it. He is Turing's only friend at boarding school, a crush, possibly a lover, who died aged 16, from TB. In a frankly Pythonesque scene, young Turing is shown being told the news offhandedly, and retreating into himself, seething with hatred at this cold establishment.
The reality? Turing didn't have a great time at boarding school, he did lose a friend aged 16, but his schoolmasters recognised their connection, and were solicitous of him. Two days after Chris's death, Turing wrote a condolence letter to his friend's mother – because, quite simply, he was an Edwardian, sticking to the external social rules and obligations that formed him. The Imitation Game's construction of this is self-parodic – essentially, that Turing built a new best friend and it helped him win the Second World War for us.
In reality, the Colossus computer came along when the Engima code had been largely decrypted. Though it was built to Turing's design, its true architect was Tommy Flowers, the head radio engineer at the GPO research unit, the person charged with building the thing. A working-class boy apprenticed to the GPO at 13, Flowers had the key insight, that 'Colossus' should have stored programmes – that is, that the various things a computer did shouldn't have to be reloaded afresh each time. That is the computer: the thing I'm writing this on, the thing you're reading it on.
Flowers and his team worked hundred hour weeks for eleven months to build Colossus. He and they appear nowhere in the film.
Instead, we get Turing alone in a shed at Bletchley, putting Colossus together by hand. When the code is cracked, it's all at once – and they suddenly know the position of every U-boat in the Atlantic. The analogy is obvious, especially if you've seen The Social Network: it's Alan Turing as a proto-Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs, and Bletchley Park as the first start-up, the ancestor of Apple and Facebook. The effect is to attribute all heroic power to the genius with the one big idea, rather than the masses.
'The war was won by six people in a shed,' one of Turing's assistants (actually his colleague) says in the film. But hundreds of people did the work that cracked Nazism's codes – and millions actually fought the war.
This version of Turing is a geek and a cliched homosexual. But, in in a more conscious transformation, Turing is also politically intersectional, a 'natural' champion of women. Thus we see Turing being the only man to take Joan Clarke seriously, the one woman who passed the test set to find highly-talented decrypters.
Later, he offers to contract a sham marriage with her so that her parents will not call her back home. Nothing indicates more effectively that the filmmakers don't have a clue what about the period they're dealing with, than that they think parents could call home a woman from essential and top secret war work on a whim, as if 1940 were 1840. They're also projecting an attitude onto Turing that the didn't have: his view of gender relations was conventional. Joan Clarke was limited by sexist attitudes and never rose beyond the mid-level ranks to being a full decrypter, which she should have. But Turing never did anything about that. He was engaged to her, for several months, out of mutual love and affection. He broke it off only partly out of a decision that he was more homosexual than heterosexual: it was also because, as he explained to friends, if he married he wanted a traditional wife and homemaker, and Clarke was far too intelligent for that (Clarke is played by the conventionally ravishing Keira Knightly; she was conventionally plain in real life. She went onto a distinguished career in GCHQ, British intelligence, whose details remain secret).
Which gets us to the weirdest thing about the portrayal of Turing in the film. It can't cope with the full complexity of his sexuality, which shifted over his life, and which we would now call 'queer'. Mostly sexually inactive through shyness in the 30s, he made clear his 'tendencies' to Clarke when they became engaged; she said it didn't matter much to her. He expressed a desire for family and children. Through the prism of post-Stonewall essentialist ideas of sexuality you could call that sexual false consciousness. But you could also suggest that the film's transformation of a real engagement into a sham one is an attempt to impose a highly specific idea of sexuality onto the past, one in which one has to be true to a deep and singular sexuality.
This is another self-flattering portrait of Silicon Valley culture, as an inevitable ally of the marginalised – and of the marginalised as the real geniuses, annihilated by the culture they serve. It is Alan Turing through the prism of Chelsea Manning, with 'Born This Way' as the soundtrack.
The final scene brings all these absurdities together. It takes place in Manchester at Turing's house after he has been sentenced to chemical treatment. Joan Clarke visits him. She talks about how she is now married. A latest version of 'Chris' the computer burbles away in the living room. She and Turing try to do a crossword together as they used to, but it's useless. The drugs have killed his mental acuity.
But … but … but … one wants to shout.
Firstly, the absurd chemical regime lasted a year, after which Turing was free of it – and, increasingly sexually self-confident, became keen on 'men's holidays' in liberal Norway.
Secondly, Turing had long since moved on from computers, to tackle the mathematics of molecular biology.
Thirdly, the injections did nothing to his mental powers. They were nothing more than oestrogen, thus making the suggestion a bit of unconscious sexism on the filmmakers' part.
Purportedly seeking to liberate him, they have turned this brilliant, multiply-talented and complex man into the clichéd Sad Homosexual, sitting at home alone with the lost love he made out of vacuum tubes. From some quarters the film has gained support for championing Turing. But it's a tiresome and self-satisfied view of one of the most amazing events in the twentieth century, libelling and diminishing the man it sought to celebrate, and many others as well.
Guy Rundle is currently a correspondent-at-large for Crikey online daily, and a former editor of Arena Magazine. His ebook, And the Dream Lives On? Barack Obama, the 2012 Election and the Great Republican Whiteout, is forthcoming.
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Rats will be found wherever nonsense presented as sense becomes the authority. Such is the cornerstone of anything organised along lines of capital: bureaucracies, workplace hierarchies, real estate, aspiration culture, institutions, ruling class artifice, governments, etcetera. Wherever there is capital there are rats—hoarding creatures, capital's henchmen.
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The moral risk of taking things too seriously: on Gareth Morgan's When A Punk Becomes A Spunk
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In his review of Lucy Van's The Open, Gareth Morgan writes that Van writes 'against the impulse to ponder dutifully about the sins of the past and present.' This fucked me up for some time. What is it to ponder dutifully? But perhaps more importantly, how do we ponder in a way that's more … metal?
Fotis Kapetopoulos says:
29 January 2015 at 4.52 pm
This is an excellent piece. Having had the pleasure of being in a play about Turin in the 1980s called Enigma, I can say with some certainty the man was a classic middle class Brit, a 'patriot' and importantly, 'straight' in terms of his view of the world and his homosexuality.
Antonia Hildebrand says:
Why don't all you purists stop whining and just enjoy a bloody brilliant movie with a bloody brilliant performance by Benedict Cumberbatch? Your whining makes me think you want jam with your jam and gold dust on your cappuccino. Next thing you'll be saying his vest was all wrong.
Owen Richardson says:
5 February 2015 at 1.44 pm
Uh, Guy, the Soviet spy who blackmails Turing in the movie is John Cairncross, who worked in a completely different part of Bletchley Park to Turing. The MI6 agent played by Mark Strong, Stewart Menzies, is the one who helps Clarke and Turing with the plan to control the use of the decrypts.
But yeah, shit movie. The other stereotype it leans on is the Genius as Aspie thing, which is almost as anachronistic: back then, in the pre-medicalisation-of-everything days, there was a social/cultural role called Absent-Minded Professor (or Eccentric Don) that was available to all kinds of people, not just to maths/science types: classical scholars and historians etc, and philosophers of course, men of letters even, were also allowed to play. But no: if you're good at maths you have to be rude, literal minded, blah blah. You have to be Sheldon from Big Bang Theory, in short.


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Jobielee: I have been cosplaying since June of 2014! I had admired cosplayers for some time and a close friend of mine who had just started cosplaying herself heavily encouraged me to join her. So a week before my first convention ever I managed to pull together my first cosplay!
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Rise of the Tomb Raider comes to PC this month
By Tony Polanco 01.05.2016 :: 5:01PM EDT 01.05.2016
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Rise of the Tomb Raider was one of last year's best and most acclaimed games. However, the title was exclusive to the Xbox One and Xbox 360, and many gamers missed out on it. That's going to change at the end of the month, as the title will be available for PC via the Windows Store, Steam, and other outlets on January 28.
Seeing as this is the PC release, it will have a number of features which are exclusive to the platform. The most noteworthy feature will be that the game will fully support eye-bleeding 4K resolution. This will also be the first game to include "cutting edge" VXAO technology, which was developed in conjunction with NVIDIA. You can see how nice this game will look on PCs below.
The standard version of the game will retail for $60. A Digital Deluxe Edition, which comes with the Baba Yaga DLC, will sell for $90. There will also be a pretty awesome collector's edition of the game that comes with all the content from the Digital Deluxe Edition, a 12-inch Lara Croft statue, replicas of Lara's journal and jade necklace, and a steel case. This one will set you back $150.
Below are the PC minimum requirements:
Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 or AMD equivalent
GPU: NVIDIA GTX 650 2 GB or AMD HD7770 2 GB
HD Space: 25 GB
DirectX: DirectX 11
Input: Mouse + Keyboard
Though Rise of the Tomb Raider had a rocky start, it seems that its fortunes are turning around. According to TechTimes, the game only sold 330,000 copies during its first week of release. However, Microsoft yesterday announced that Rise of the Tomb Raider, along with every other title in Xbox's "Greatest Games Lineup," sold over a million copies during the holidays.
Rise of the Tomb Raider will be released for the PlayStation 4 during the 2016 holiday season.


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A smoke alarm, also known as a smoke detector, is a device that detects smoke and issues an audible sound and/or a visual signal to alert residents to a potential fire.
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission:
Although most newer homes have smoke alarms, about one-third of all deaths in house fires in 2011 occurred in homes that lacked working smoke alarms.
Older homes are more likely to lack an adequate number of smoke alarms because they were built before requirements increased.
In 23% of home fire deaths, smoke alarms were present but did not sound. Sixty percent of these failures were caused by the power supplies having been deliberately removed due to false alarms.
Every year in the United States, about 3,000 people lose their lives in residential fires. Most of these deaths are caused by smoke inhalation, rather than as a result of burns.
Smoke Alarm Types
Ionization and photo-electric are the two main designs of smoke detectors. Both types must pass the same tests to be certified to the voluntary standard for smoke alarms, but they perform differently in different types of fires. Detectors may be equipped with one or both types of sensors — known as dual-sensor smoke alarms — and possibly a heat detector, as well.
These sensors are described as follows:
Ionization smoke sensors are the most common and economical design and are available at most hardware stores. They house a chamber sided by small metal plates that irradiate the air so that it conducts electricity. When smoke enters the chamber, the current flow becomes interrupted, which triggers an alarm to sound. These sensors will quickly detect flaming-type fires but may be slower to react to smoldering fires.
Photo-electric smoke sensors use a light-sensitive photocell to detect smoke inside the detector. They shine a beam of light that will be reflected by smoke toward the photocell, triggering the alarm. These sensor types work best on smoldering fires but react more slowly to flaming fires. They often must be hard-wired into the house's electrical system, so some models can be installed only in particular locations.
While heat detectors are not technically classified as smoke detectors, they are useful in certain situations where smoke alarms are likely to sound false alarms. Dirty, dusty industrial environments, as well as the area surrounding cooking appliances, are a few places where false alarms are more likely and where heat detectors may be more useful.
Individual authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs) may have their own requirements for smoke-alarm placement, so homeowners can check with their local building codes if they need specific instructions. The following guidelines, however, can be helpful.
Smoke alarms should be installed in the following locations:
on the ceiling or wall outside of each bedroom;
in the basement, preferably on the ceiling near the basement stairs;
in the garage, due to all the combustible materials commonly stored there;
on the ceiling or on the wall, with the top of the detector between 6 to 12 inches from the ceiling; and/or
in each story within a building, including basements and cellars, but not crawlspaces or uninhabited attics.
Smoke alarms should not be installed in the following locations:
near heating or air-conditioning supply and return vents;
near a kitchen appliance;
near windows, ceiling fans or bathrooms equipped with a shower or tub;
where ambient conditions, including humidity and temperature, are outside the limits specified by the manufacturer's instructions;
within an unfinished attic or garage, or in other spaces where temperatures can rise or fall beyond the limits set by the manufacturer;
where the mounting surface could become considerably warmer or cooler than the rest of the room, such as an inadequately insulated ceiling below an unfinished attic; or
in dead-air spots, such as the top of a peaked roof or a ceiling-to-wall corner.
Power and Interconnection
Power for the smoke alarms may be hard-wired directly into the building's electrical system, or it may come from just a battery. Hard-wired smoke detectors are more reliable because the power source cannot be removed or drained, although they will not function in a power outage unless they also have batteries for backup. Battery-operated units often fail because the battery can be easily removed, dislodged or drained, although these units can be installed almost anywhere. Older buildings might be restricted to battery-powered designs, while newer homes generally offer more options for power sources. If possible, homeowners should install smoke alarms that are hard-wired with a battery backup, especially during a renovation or remodeling project.
Smoke alarms may also be interconnected so that if one becomes triggered, they all sound in unison. Interconnected smoke alarms are typically connected with a wire, but new technology allows them to be interconnected wirelessly. The National Fire Protection Agency requires that smoke alarms be protected by arc-fault circuit interrupters (AFCIs).
More Tips:
Parents should stage periodic night-time fire drills to assess whether their children will awaken from the alarm and respond appropriately.
Never disable a smoke alarm. Use the alarm's silencing feature to stop nuisance or false alarms triggered by cooking smoke or fireplaces.
Test smoke alarms monthly, and replace their batteries at least twice per year. Change the batteries when you change your clocks for Daylight Saving Time. Most models emit a chirping noise when the batteries are low to alert the homeowner that they need replacement.
Smoke alarms should be replaced when they fail to respond to testing, or every 10 years, whichever is sooner. The radioactive element in ionization smoke alarms will decay beyond usability within 10 years.
Smoke detectors should be replaced if they become damaged or wet, are accidentally painted over, are exposed to fire or grease, or are triggered without apparent cause.
Note the sound of the alarm. It should be distinct from other sounds in the house, such as the telephone, doorbell and pool alarm.
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