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Indians have a weird way of dealing with Awards.
When I was working in the Indian services oriented industry, a director recommended his whole group for an achievement award which is usually given to a single person. When one of the top executives asked him why he chose the whole team, the director responded he didn't want to upset anyone in the team but yet wanted to give them an award to motivate them. The top executive insisted that only one person be chosen for the award. I agree with that decision but in addition I am also of the opinion that an award should be given for an achievement and not as an incentive to motivate.
Indians dole out awards of all kinds reducing the whole exercise to a charade of 'celebration of mediocrity'.
Take Indian Cinema, for example! The many-a-times-in-a-year ceremonies are held only to confer awards on each other and on all and sundry of the Indian Cinema. They have all kinds of awards – side hero, side heroine, best comedian, best villain, best new entrant, best old timer, best child hero, best child villain, and what not. Many new kinds of awards are invented every year to ensure that every actor is awarded. If a certain actor does not get an award this year, he is bound to get it next year. Everyone agrees, 'Poor guy! He did not get an award though he has been acting for few years now'. The general agreement amongst all Indians- the judges, the actors who receive the award, and the people of India, is that awards are given to make everyone feel special and feel included and it is nothing to do with recognition of excellence.
Consolation Prizes
Consolation prizes are most overly used awards in India. They are given to everyone who participates so that everyone goes home happy. In the end the guy who got the first prize feels he is like everyone else, and nothing special. Consolation prizes are good to give to young kids to make everyone feel somewhat special. For some reason, Indians never seem to outgrow this. They extend this to every sphere of adult life.
Another phenomenon which is quite unique to Indians is 'felicitations'. In every conference or a seminar, there is a beeline of people receiving 'felicitations'. It starts with one guy inviting another onto the stage for felicitation in which a memento is presented and sometimes a shawl is draped over the guy. Everyone claps as if it is an achievement. I don't get it. What is the whole idea of celebrating the fact the other person just showed up for the event? Nobody questions what the reason is for such a felicitation. This whole charade continues till every senior member who has attended that event is called onto the dais one after the other. Nobody knows why such felicitation is happening and what each contributed related to that seminar.
Lobbying Awards
Another phenomenon that happens in Indian Universities is the way the best teacher or best researcher is chosen. It is a set of negotiations involving all kinds of lobbies – If the best teacher award goes to an upper caste person, then the best research award should be given to a backward caste person, and if a certain lobby arm-twisted the judges to secure the award to its candidate the other lobby boycotts it. Receiving the Award is reduced to lobbying politics. And most of the time the candidate who is most pleasing and is sucking up to the most number of people is chosen because he is the least controversial. In a sense, it is the 'celebration of mediocrity'.
I believe awards should be kept to a minimum number and should not be seen as an incentive or motivator. Awards should be given for really special achievements so that the people who receive it actually believe they are someone special. When hundred people get it, the whole exercise becomes a nonsensical charade of celebration of mediocrity. If in a quarter, no one performed well then no award should be given. I want to see a day when an organization confesses it does not have a candidate for its best performer award.
Posted by Sujai at Friday, September 21, 2007
Labels: Study of Indians
Vivek Behal September 21, 2007 10:12 PM
There is a curious "award" given by government departments in the name of bonus. It is given en masse to all employees regardless of department's performance. A few years back, Mumbai Municipal Corporation was in loss, leading to a "scandalous" decision by government to stop bonus. Needless to say that such "high handedness" was considered reprehensible by the unions. All it took to send message across was stoppage of garbage collection for a day and water supply for a few hours. Government came to knees and worker's oppression was removed by doling out 1.5 month's salary as "bonus".
Darpan September 21, 2007 10:19 PM
I don't know if my previous comment was posted or not. Sujai: How is it consistent with your stand on reservation? Is reservation not similar to "consolation prize" and "lobbyist award"?
Sujai K September 21, 2007 10:39 PM
It is very much in consistent with my stand on reservations.
'Access to Opportunity' is not same as 'celebration of excellence'.
I do not think that getting an admission into a government funded university is an award. It is availing opportunity.
However, getting a President's Award for excelling in academics is 'celebration of excellence'.
That's why I find the jokes about forming cricket team based on 'reservations' extremely stupid. They club 'access to opportunity' with 'celebration of excellence'.
You have to understand the difference. I do.
I do not like to discuss my personal stuff on this blog. Hope you understand.
Sujai: awards should be kept to a minimum number and should not be seen as an incentive or motivator.
Awards and recognition used to motivate is a widely used practice (not just in India as you say). Particularly for sales teams it is used to drive towards a desired goal.
Read - (thanks Google) - http://www.wpsmag.com/content/templates/wps_article.asp?articleid=304&zoneid=11
Awards and recognitions drive behavior.
I am not sure what jokes you are talking about (and reservation is no joking matter, it affects real lives, I have seen real careers getting adversely affected). I do not see your views consistent. Giving reservation for entry into an organization depriving someone else to get in just because that other guy was unfortunate to be born in an "upper caste" is similar to giving awards based on lobbyists' insistence on giving equitable awards to all the castes or giving consolation prizes to just make sure everybody is equally "awarded". You support one while despise other, it is kind of contradictory.
Getting into an acclaimed institute is the biggest award that one could get in life. Depriving a part of community from this award just because they were born in a family with a different surname and equally distributing it based on a certain lobby is despicable.
Sujai K September 22, 2007 2:00 AM
Getting into an acclaimed institute is the biggest award that one could get in life.
A nation of people which believes getting a degree from a top institute itself is their biggest achievement has set their standards too low.
No wonder most Indians don't invent, create or build things. No wonder they don't strive for excellence.
Anonymous September 22, 2007 2:08 AM
Sujai, such awards and felicitations are not unique to the Indian society, as you claim in your post. US has such awards too - Emmy, Peabody, Grammy, Oscars. Groups and organizations almost always felicitate people who have contributed in some way, but the general public attending the function is unaware of that. Even a war criminal like Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize. So what makes such awards and felicitations unique to India?
-Chirkut
Darpan September 22, 2007 8:06 AM
A nation where people believe that going to a top institute is just about getting degree and is not learning, doing research, share ideas, work with industries has set it's mindset at a really wrong place.
No wonder that Indians like these are faking to be the experts of things they have no clue about and are just inciting different conflicts online and eventually fighting and killing each other.
A big thing lacking in India right now is the collaboration between good educational institutes and industries. Good ideas either remain in the labs or die with half-backed ideas.
~A September 22, 2007 3:26 PM
"I believe awards should be kept to a minimum number and should not be seen as an incentive or motivator. Awards should be given for really special achievements so that the people who receive it actually believe they are someone special. When hundred people get it, the whole exercise becomes a nonsensical charade of celebration of mediocrity. If in a quarter, no one performed well then no award should be given. I want to see a day when an organization confesses it does not have a candidate for its best performer award."
I can't agree more with this!! I have been telling our bosses (I work for a s/w corp) the same, in vain!
PS: Just visited your blog for the first time...Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Sujai,
I found this article while surfing on the net.I would really appreciate your comment on this speech
Go, Kiss the world
Welcome Address by Subroto Bagchi, Chief Operating Officer, MindTree Consulting to the Class of 2006 at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore on defining success.
"I was the last child of a small-time government servant, in a family of five brothers. My earliest memory of my father is as that of a District Employment Officer in Koraput, Orissa. It was and remains as back of beyond as you can imagine. There was no electricity; no primary school nearby and water did not flow out of a tap. As a result, I did not go to school until the age of eight; I was home-schooled. My father used to get transferred every year. The family belongings fit into the back of a jeep - so the family moved from place to place and, without any trouble, my Mother would set up an establishment and get us going. Raised by a widow who had come as a refugee from the then East Bengal, she was a matriculate when she married my Father. My parents set the foundation of my life and the value system which makes me what I am today and largely defines what success means to me today.
As District Employment Officer, my father was given a jeep by the government. There was no garage in the Office, so the jeep was parked in our house. My father refused to use it to commute to the office. He told us that the jeep is an expensive resource given by the government - he reiterated to us that it was not 'his jeep' but the government's jeep. Insisting that he would use it only to tour the interiors, he would walk to his office on normal days. He also made sure that we never sat in the government jeep - we could sit in it only when it was stationary. That was our early childhood lesson in governance - a lesson that corporate managers learn the hard way, some never does.
The driver of the jeep was treated with respect due to any other member of my Father's office. As small children, we were taught not to call him by his name. We had to use the suffix 'dada' whenever we were to refer to him in public or private. When I grew up to own a car and a driver by the name of Raju was appointed - I repeated the lesson to my two small daughters. They have, as a result, grown up to call Raju, 'Raju Uncle' - very different from many of their friends who refer to their family drivers as 'my driver'. When I hear that term from a school- or college-going person, I cringe. To me, the lesson was significant - you treat small people with more respect than how you treat big people. It is more important to respect your subordinates than your superiors.
Our day used to start with the family huddling around my Mother's chulha - an earthen fire place she would build at each place of posting where she would cook for the family. There was no gas, nor electrical stoves. The morning routine started with tea. As the brew was served, Father would ask us to read aloud the editorial page of The Statesman's 'muffosil' edition - delivered one day late. We did not understand much of what we were reading. But the ritual was meant for us to know that the world was larger than Koraput district and the English I speak today, despite having studied in an Oriya medium school, has to do with that routine. After reading the newspaper aloud, we were told to fold it neatly. Father taught us a simple lesson. He used to say, "You should leave your newspaper and your toilet, the way you expect to find it". That lesson was about showing consideration to others. Business begins and ends with that simple precept.
Being small children, we were always enamored with advertisements in the newspaper for transistor radios - we did not have one. We saw other people having radios in their homes and each time there was an advertisement of Philips, Murphy or Bush radios, we would ask Father when we could get one. Each time, my Father would reply that we did not need one because he already had five radios - alluding to his five sons. We also did not have a house of our own and would occasionally ask Father as to when, like others, we would live in our own house. He would give a similar reply, "We do not need a house of our own. I already own five houses". His replies did not gladden our hearts in that instant. Nonetheless, we learnt that it is important not to measure personal success and sense of well being through material possessions.
Government houses seldom came with fences. Mother and I collected twigs and built a small fence. After lunch, my Mother would never sleep. She would take her kitchen utensils and with those she and I would dig the rocky, white ant infested surrounding. We planted flowering bushes. The white ants destroyed them. My mother brought ash from her chulha and mixed it in the earth and we planted the seedlings all over again. This time, they bloomed. At that time, my father's transfer order came. A few neighbors told my mother why she was taking so much pain to beautify a government house, why she was planting seeds that would only benefit the next occupant. My mother replied that it did not matter to her that she would not see the flowers in full bloom. She said, "I have to create a bloom in a desert and whenever I am given a new place, I must leave it more beautiful than what I had inherited". That was my first lesson in success. It is not about what you create for yourself, it is what you leave behind that defines success.
My mother began developing a cataract in her eyes when I was very small. At that time, the eldest among my brothers got a teaching job at the University in Bhubaneswar and had to prepare for the civil services examination. So, it was decided that my Mother would move to cook for him and, as her appendage, I had to move too. For the first time in my life, I saw electricity in homes and water coming out of a tap. It was around 1965 and the country was going to war with Pakistan. My mother was having problems reading and in any case, being Bengali, she did not know the Oriya script. So, in addition to my daily chores, my job was to read her the local newspaper - end to end. That created in me a sense of connectedness with a larger world. I began taking interest in many different things. While reading out news about the war, I felt that I was fighting the war myself. She and I discussed the daily news and built a bond with the larger universe. In it, we became part of a larger reality. Till date, I measure my success in terms of that sense of larger connectedness.
Meanwhile, the war raged and India was fighting on both fronts. Lal Bahadur Shastri, the then Prime Minster, coined the term "Jai Jawan, Jai Kishan" and galvanized the nation in to patriotic fervor. Other than reading out the newspaper to my mother, I had no clue about how I could be part of the action. So, after reading her the newspaper, every day I would land up near the University's water tank, which served the community. I would spend hours under it, imagining that there could be spies who would come to poison the water and I had to watch for them. I would daydream about catching one and how the next day, I would be featured in the newspaper. Unfortunately for me, the spies at war ignored the sleepy town of Bhubaneswar and I never got a chance to catch one in action. Yet, that act unlocked my imagination. Imagination is everything. If we can imagine a future, we can create it, if we can create that future, others will live in it. That is the essence of success.
Over the next few years, my mother's eyesight dimmed but in me she created a larger vision, a vision with which I continue to see the world and, I sense, through my eyes, she was seeing too. As the next few years unfolded, her vision deteriorated and she was operated for cataract. I remember, when she returned after her operation and she saw my face clearly for the first time, she was astonished. She said, "Oh my God, I did not know you were so fair". I remain mighty pleased with that adulation even till date. Within weeks of getting her sight back, she developed a corneal ulcer and, overnight, became blind in both eyes. That was 1969. She died in 2002. In all those 32 years of living with blindness, she never complained about her fate even once. Curious to know what she saw with blind eyes, I asked her once if she sees darkness. She replied, "No, I do not see darkness. I only see light even with my eyes closed". Until she was eighty years of age, she did her morning yoga everyday, swept her own room and washed her own clothes. To me, success is about the sense of independence; it is about not seeing the world but seeing the light.
Over the many intervening years, I grew up, studied, joined the industry and began to carve my life's own journey. I began my life as a clerk in a government office, went on to become a Management Trainee with the DCM group and eventually found my life's calling with the IT industry when fourth generation computers came to India in 1981. Life took me places - I worked with outstanding people, challenging assignments and traveled all over the world. In 1992, while I was posted in the US, I learnt that my father, living a retired life with my eldest brother, had suffered a third degree burn injury and was admitted in the Safderjung Hospital in Delhi. I flew back to attend to him - he remained for a few days in critical stage, bandaged from neck to toe. The Safderjung Hospital is a cockroach infested, dirty, inhuman place. The overworked, under-resourced sisters in the burn ward are both victims and perpetrators of dehumanized life at its worst. One morning, while attending to my Father, I realized that the blood bottle was empty and fearing that air would go into his vein, I asked the attending nurse to change it. She bluntly told me to do it myself. In that horrible theater of death, I was in pain and frustration and anger. Finally when she relented and came, my Father opened his eyes and murmured to her, "Why have you not gone home yet?" Here was a man on his deathbed but more concerned about the overworked nurse than his own state. I was stunned at his stoic self. There I learnt that there is no limit to how concerned you can be for another human being and what is the limit of inclusion you can create. My father died the next day.
He was a man whose success was defined by his principles, his frugality, his universalism and his sense of inclusion. Above all, he taught me that success is your ability to rise above your discomfort, whatever may be your current state. You can, if you want, raise your consciousness above your immediate surroundings. Success is not about building material comforts - the transistor that he never could buy or the house that he never owned. His success was about the legacy he left, the memetic continuity of his ideals that grew beyond the smallness of a ill-paid, unrecognized government servant's world.
My father was a fervent believer in the British Raj. He sincerely doubted the capability of the post-independence Indian political parties to govern the country. To him, the lowering of the Union Jack was a sad event. My Mother was the exact opposite. When Subhash Bose quit the Indian National Congress and came to Dacca, my mother, then a schoolgirl, garlanded him. She learnt to spin khadi and joined an underground movement that trained her in using daggers and swords. Consequently, our household saw diversity in the political outlook of the two. On major issues concerning the world, the Old Man and the Old Lady had differing opinions. In them, we learnt the power of disagreements, of dialogue and the essence of living with diversity in thinking. Success is not about the ability to create a definitive dogmatic end state; it is about the unfolding of thought processes, of dialogue and continuum.
Two years back, at the age of eighty-two, Mother had a paralytic stroke and was lying in a government hospital in Bhubaneswar. I flew down from the US where I was serving my second stint, to see her. I spent two weeks with her in the hospital as she remained in a paralytic state. She was neither getting better nor moving on. Eventually I had to return to work. While leaving her behind, I kissed her face. In that paralytic state and a garbled voice, she said, "Why are you kissing me, go kiss the world." Her river was nearing its journey, at the confluence of life and death, this woman who came to India as a refugee, raised by a widowed Mother, no more educated than high school, married to an anonymous government servant whose last salary was Rupees Three Hundred( seventy five dollars), robbed of her eyesight by fate and crowned by adversity - was telling me to go and kiss the world!
Success to me is about Vision. It is the ability to rise above the immediacy of pain. It is about imagination. It is about sensitivity to small people. It is about building inclusion. It is about connectedness to a larger world existence. It is about personal tenacity. It is about giving back more to life than you take out of it. It is about creating extra-ordinary success with ordinary lives. Thank you very much; I wish you good luck and Godspeed. Go, kiss the world. "
prasanna October 04, 2007 10:20 AM
Captain (retired) H Balakrishnan of the Indian Navy to know a mariner's view of the Sethu samudram
project.It seems to be a good analysis on the sethu samudram project whether it is really worth it
http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/oct/01inter.htm
workhard October 06, 2009 8:38 PM
I really like ur perspective.
i have seen one award ceremony where practically everyone went home happy... so the much deserved person was not really much deserved
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Islands With Beaches, Large Acreage, Ocean Island
Medio Island is one of the three islands owned by the heirs of the late Martin Palacio of Northern Samar, Philippines. The two other islands owned by the heirs are Rasa and San Andres Islands. All three islands are in that cluster of islands known since galleon times as Islas Naranjos (Naranjos being the Spanish word for "oranges.)
Naranjo Islands (also known as San Vicente Islands) lie 12 13' North, 124 02' East in ...
Naranjo Islands (also known as San Vicente Islands) lie 12 13' North, 124 02' East in the east central periphery of the Philippine archipelago. This group of islands is bounded by Sorsogon in the North, Ticao Island in the West, Masbate in the Southwest and Northern Samar in the Far East. It is approximately 10 nautical miles from the Pacific Ocean and sits near the entrance along the Paso de Acapulco, otherwise known as San Bernardino Strait.
Naranjo Islands consist of six islands formed in a circle cluster with Medio Island at the center. The other islands are San Andres, Rasa, Darsena, Aguada and Escarpada. This group of islands lie within a volcanic belt that has been active for the last 5 1/2 million years and stretches from Southeastern Luzon to Southeastern Mindanao. This volcanic belt includes the active Mayon volcano in Albay.
The circular pattern of the islands and the volcanic composition suggests the group represents the remnants of a submerged volcanic cone which may have formed during the last ice ages when sea level was lower. On the other hand, it could have formed underneath the ocean itself. Medio Island, the center of the group of islands, could be the dome of this extinct volcano.
This group of islands have been the last stop for victuals by the Spanish galleons before their long journey to Acapulco, Mexico.
The islands are presently utilized as coconut plantations.
In May 2007, REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9458 [H. No. 786] - An Act declaring the island towns of Biri, Capul, San Antonio and San Vicente (also known as Naranjo Islands), all in the province of Northern Samar, as eco-tourism zones, was passed.
Medio Island has many natural assets that would make it an ideal first class island beach resort. It is a 40.1123 hectare island of gently rolling hills, mostly of coconut vegetation and shrubbery. The highest point of the island is on its northern portion with a maximum elevation of 65 meters above sea level.
Medio Island is approximately 1,300 meters long (SW to NE), 550 meters wide at its widest point and some 330 meters at its narrowest portion. It is blessed with 3 beaches that could serve a variety of purposes. Its main or South beach of fine white sand and corals is about 300 meters long and 60 meters wide. The North beach on the opposite side of the island is approximately three quarters long compared to the main beach and is more secluded. The West beach on the far end has a small extended portion on the West side and is about as long as the main beach. It is separated from the main beach by a lava rock formation. This beach has the best coral bed among the three beaches.
The Southern portion of the island has the least vegetation while the Northern part has the most number of coconut trees. Small trees, shrubs and cogon grass also on the North and West side of the island. Volcanic and lava rocks are visible around the islands.
The island is capped by a gently rolling hill ideal for resort cottages and appurtenances. Mainland Luzon, Samar and Masbate with their airports are only 30 minutes by speedboat and 1 1/2 hour distant by motorboat.
With their coral reefs, Medio and sister islands Rasa and San Andres are ideal for scuba, snorkeling, sailing, yachting, jet skiing, parasailing and marine life observation. Medio, Rasa and San Andres islands are the only remaining islands of economic size with complete privacy in this area of the Philippines. As a base for island hopping, sheltered from the NE tradewinds and SW monsoon; and calm during most of the year, the islands are unsurpassed.
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Dermatology Associates of the Lowcountry: At the Front Line of Skin Care
Author: Kitty Bartell | Photographer: M.Kat Photography
The fact of the matter is, damage to the epidermis and the skin below is nearly inescapable for most people, and like interest earned at the bank, albeit without the cash benefits, compounds over time. Dr. Oswald Mikell, MD, and his team at Dermatology Associates of the Lowcountry treat a broad spectrum of medical issues related to skin, hair, and nails, including sun damage and skin cancer treatment, other conditions of the skin such as, psoriasis, eczema, vitiligo and rosacea, alopecia, tattoo removal, and cosmetic surgical procedures. However, it is the damage precipitated by sun exposure that they address most often.
"Forty to 60 percent of a typical dermatology practice is going to be somehow sun-related," Mikell said. "As you move into cosmetic procedures, it's still sun-related. It's aging, which is sun-related." Having completed a fellowship and taking his boards in cosmetic surgery, something most dermatologists don't do, Dr. Mikell, who is board certified in dermatology and cosmetic surgery, said, "I probably do more cosmetic surgical procedures than most dermatologists, but I'm doing less and less of that, because I'm busy enough with skin cancer and skin cancer surgery." Practicing in both dermatology and cosmetic surgery, Dermatology Associations of the Lowcountry offers patients access to remedies that begin with vanguard procedures, including Mohs Micrographic Surgery, all the way to the finishing touches of any course of treatment.
Staying current with all the advances in medicine requires a great deal of due diligence and attentiveness to nearly everything that is written or said on the subject, because today changes come fast and frequently. "There was a time when big pharma, big drug companies, weren't making any new drugs. They were remaking old drugs and raising the price just to keep them patented. Things have changed, and that's the really big deal in medicine these days. Since they've mapped the human genome, there has been a cascade of events," Mikell said.
In 1990, Congress established funding for the Human Genome Project, a 13-year international endeavor that successfully sequenced the human genome, opening the floodgates for, among many things, the research and development of new drug therapies. "Psoriasis, in particular, was positively impacted when biologics came out," Mikell said. "I can't even count how many new drug names are out there on a weekly or monthly basis any more—new FDA approvals." Graduating in 1977 from the Medical College of Georgia, Mikell sees the exciting possibilities for improving treatments and procedures resulting from the Human Genome Project, injecting a whole new level of ebullience and optimism into the practice of dermatology.
Preventive measures geared toward minimizing the necessity for dermatological intervention due to sun damage are a bit less cutting-edge, however, changes and improvements are always in the works. Sun exposure may be nearly inescapable, however, there are ways to protect the skin from further sun damage. "I don't want to get overbearing with a person who enjoys life and recreation," Mikell said. "It's silly to say, don't go out in the sun. I just simply say, avoid unnecessary sun exposure. Any way that you can be in the sun and avoid that unnecessary exposure is helpful. Certainly, a physical barrier is useful—a hat and sun-protective labeled clothing. You can actually be cooler in clothing that covers your arms and legs, head, neck, face, everything. It may not be as stylish, but it's a physical barrier.
Beyond that, if you want your skin to be out there in the open and exposed to the sun, you can put on a sunscreen. There are even physical barriers that don't have any chemicals in them. Titanium dioxide and zinc oxide can both be processed to not be visible. The chemicals work, and for most people they're fine."
Heather Allen, Rebecca Darroudi and Dr. Oswald Mikellat their Okatie Center location
Dr. Mikell's commitment to treating patients and answering their questions begins with making dermatological and cosmetic care accessible, and education available to a wide population here in the Lowcountry. With a team that includes two certified physician assistants, Heather Allen, MMS, PA-C and Rebecca Darroudi, PA-C, the practice is able to not only see patients in their offices located on Hilton Head Island, in Okatie and Beaufort, but to go out into the community to speak to groups and offer personal question and answer forums where dermatological and cosmetic procedure queries are addressed. He also said he has had excellent feedback, and several referrals based on his local newspaper column.
"From this 'Ask Dr. Mikell' thing that goes in the Bluffton Sun, I've had a lot of patients voluntarily tell me, I read your column. I hear that all the time. They tell me they really get something out of it, and that's nice to hear." The practice also provides a brochure filled with healthcare information in each exam room.
The fact of the matter is, Dr. Mikell and his team at Dermatology Associates of the Lowcountry are an important part of the personal care, treatment, and healing of their patients, building relationships wherein interest compounds positively over a lifetime.
Dermatology Associates of the Lowcountry has offices at 3901 Main Street, Hilton Head Island (843) 242-7223 for appointments or (843) 689-5259 for general inquiries; 40 Okatie Center Boulevard, Okatie (843) 350-4553 for appointments or (843) 705-0840 for general inquiries; and 242 Lady's Island Drive, Beaufort (843) 352-6363 for appointments or (843) 525-9277 for general inquiries. For more information, please visit dalcdermatology.com.
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IWRA 2019-2021 Board Elections: Call for Nominations Opens
IWRA announces that the nomination period is open starting today, May 4th for candidates for the elections of IWRA's next 2019-2021 Executive Board.
Any current IWRA member, can either nominate another members in good standing or self-nominate now and until June 18th, 2018. To submit nominations please send an email to elections@iwra.org including the following information:
Full name of the candidate
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According to IWRA Bylaws, the President and Vice-Presidents shall be from different geographical regions. Regarding the remaining members of the Executive Board, no more than three members from any one country can be elected at the same time. IWRA is actively working to improve its diversity not just geographically but also in terms of gender and age, and so welcomes nominations of women and young professionals.
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As we begin 2019, and with US stocks outperforming non-US stocks in recent years, some investors have again turned their attention towards the role that global diversification plays in their portfolios.
For the five-year period ending October 31, 2018, the S&P 500 Index had an annualized return of 11.34% while the MSCI World ex USA Index returned 1.86%, and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index returned 0.78%. As US stocks have outperformed international and emerging markets stocks over the last several years, some investors might be reconsidering the benefits of investing outside the US.
The global equity market is large and represents a world of investment opportunities. As shown in Exhibit 1, nearly half of the investment opportunities in global equity markets lie outside the US. Non-US stocks, including developed and emerging markets, account for 48% of world market capitalization¹ and represent thousands of companies in countries all over the world. A portfolio investing solely within the US would not be exposed to the performance of those markets.
pursuing the equity premium should consider a global allocation. By holding a globally diversified portfolio, investors are positioned to capture returns wherever they occur.
S&P data © 2019 S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, a division of S&P Global. All rights reserved. MSCI data © MSCI 2019, all rights reserved. Indices are not available for direct investment. Index performance does not reflect expenses associated with the management of an actual portfolio. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
and manage catastrophic losses that can be associated with investing in just a small number of stocks or a single country.
their portfolios to both US and non-US equities. While both asset classes offer the potential to earn positive expected returns in the long run, they may perform quite differently over short periods. While the performance of different countries and asset classes will vary over time, there is no reliable evidence that this performance can be predicted in advance. An approach to equity investing that uses the global opportunity set available to investors can provide diversification benefits as well as potentially higher expected returns.
Source: MSCI country indices (net dividends) for each country listed. Does not include Israel, which MSCI classified as an emerging market prior to May 2010. MSCI data © MSCI 2019, all rights reserved. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Indices are not available for direct investment; therefore, their performance does not reflect the expenses associated with the management of an actual portfolio.
Indices are not available for direct investment. Their performance does not reflect the expenses associated with the management of an actual portfolio. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Diversifica- tion does not eliminate the risk of market loss.


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Imperial Glory est un jeu de stratégie au tour par tour créé par Pyro Studios, édité par Eidos Interactive et sorti le  en Europe. Imperial Glory sur PC est un wargame stratégique dont le concept est de changer le cours de l'Histoire en contrôlant le développement politique, économique, technologique et militaire de l'un des cinq grands empires entre 1789 et 1830. Le jeu se déroule sur 55 provinces et 59 régions maritimes à travers l'Europe et l'Afrique du Nord.

Caractéristiques

Imperial Glory comprend :

 Deux modes de jeu ; gestion de l'empire tour à tour et batailles navales et terrestres en 3D temps réel. Les batailles peuvent être traitées automatiquement par l'ordinateur, ce qui permet au joueur de se concentrer sur la gestion de son empire (politique, économie, technologie, infrastructures) et de confier les questions tactiques à ses généraux.
 Des batailles terrestres impressionnantes ; des environnements 3D forment l'arrière-plan des scènes de carnage. Les cartes de bataille, entièrement interactives, permettent au joueur de profiter des avantages tactiques du terrain (forêts, villages, rochers, barrières défensives, etc.).
 Des unités et des armes fidèles à l'Histoire ; les unités des différents empires, distinctes et reconnaissables par leurs uniformes, sont représentées en 3D, comme les soldats du début du .
 Des batailles navales saisissantes ; les différentes classes de navires sont manœuvrées par des équipages ayant leurs propres compétences. Le joueur peut soit couler le vaisseau (par des tirs de boulets), soit l'immobiliser pour le capturer (par l'utilisation de boulets chaînés pour abattre les gréements ou de la mitraille pour éliminer l'équipage du navire ennemi).
 Différents empires ; le joueur peut choisir un des grands empires de l'époque, à savoir la Grande-Bretagne, la France, la Russie, la Prusse et l'Autriche. Chaque empire possède ses forces et ses faiblesses, qui peuvent évoluer au cours du jeu.
 Un modèle de gestion complet ; le modèle de gestion permet de proposer un jeu qui comprend aussi bien guerres que diplomatie, politique, commerce et recherche technologique.
 Un arbre technologique riche ; le jeu comporte 70 avancées technologiques pour chaque empire, regroupées en diverses branches : militaire, politique-diplomatie, exploitation des ressources et commerce, sans oublier les « quêtes » historiques.
 Un mode multijoueur ; le jeu comprend aussi un mode multijoueur, dans lequel le joueur peut défier des adversaires humains sur Internet ou réseau local (LAN).

Les empires

Dans Imperial Glory, le joueur incarne le souverain d'un des cinq grands empires, de 1789 à 1830 :

La France : Capitale : Paris | Grands stratèges : Napoléon, Davout, Ney

La Révolution a bouleversé le pays, mais il reste néanmoins un peuple victorieux, impatient de combattre et de retrouver sa gloire passée.

Dans le jeu, la France, en 1789, contrôle la Champagne, l'Île-de-France, la Bretagne, l'Aquitaine, la Provence et la Corse.

La Grande-Bretagne : Capitale : Londres | Grands stratèges : Wellington, Moore, Picton

L'Empire britannique, moderne par son industrie, habile en diplomatie, reste omniprésent en Europe par sa flotte invincible.

Dans le jeu, la Grande-Bretagne, en 1789, contrôle l'Angleterre, le Wales, l'Écosse et l'Irlande.

La Russie : Capitale : Saint-Pétersbourg | Grands stratèges : Koutouzov, , Barclay de Tolly

Le secret de la puissance russe sur le continent et de son influence en Europe réside dans l'immensité de son territoire. Mais ce dernier est aussi son talon d'Achille, car il complique son développement industriel et économique. Les tsars usent donc d'une influence religieuse, militaire et diplomatique pour arriver à leurs fins.

Dans le jeu, la Russie, en 1789, contrôle Izhora, Minsk, Koursk, Kiev et Moscou.

La Prusse : Capitale : Berlin | Grands stratèges : Blücher, Brunswick,

La Prusse contrôle habilement l'économie et la diplomatie en Europe. Sa population habituée aux travaux collectifs et sa tradition militaire que laisse les souverains des deux siècles précédent font de la Prusse une puissance majeure en Europe.

Dans le jeu, la Prusse, en 1789, contrôle le Brandebourg, la Silésie et la Prusse-Orientale.

L'Autriche : Capitale : Vienne | Grands stratèges : Charles Schwarzenberg,

Le cœur aristocratique de l'Autriche évoque un passé glorieux, dans lequel ce pays a réussi à se tailler une place dans l'Europe de l'époque. Composée de plusieurs nations, toutes fidèles à l'Empereur, digne représentante du Saint-Empire romain germanique, l'Autriche ne renonce pas aux valeurs de la noblesse et de la royauté.

Dans le jeu, l'Autriche, en 1789, contrôle l'Autriche, la Bohême, la Hongrie et la Galicie.

Les autres pays

Outre les cinq grands empires, les provinces de l'Europe et de l'Afrique du Nord sont partagées en états indépendants, avec lesquels le joueur peut commercer, s'allier ou bien les annexer à son territoire, mais ces pays possèdent leurs armées et leurs navires.
Les pays sont :

Système de jeu

La partie commence lorsque le joueur choisit son empire. Alors, il se trouve face à la carte de l'Europe centrée sur sa nation, en juillet 1789. Il peut ainsi faire plusieurs actions dès son tour de jeu arrivé, comme créer une route commerciale, conclure une alliance, construire un bâtiment, lever une armée ou construire un navire, déplacer une armée ou un navire, rechercher une nouvelle technologie, etc. Toutes ces actions s'organisent dans des écrans de contrôle, un pour la diplomatie, un pour les recherches technologiques et un pour chaque province, que le joueur peut sélectionner, sans oublier le menu principal. En outre, sur l'écran principal s'affiche le nombre de ressources que le joueur possède (dont pièces d'or, matières premières, population et vivres). Enfin, on peut y trouver aussi un écran pour les « quêtes historiques » et trois cartes différentes (carte militaire, carte commerciale et carte des statistiques).

Ressources et bâtiments

Tout au long du jeu, le joueur doit prélever des ressources, source de tout, avec lesquelles il pourra commercer (sauf avec les ressources « hommes »), construire des bâtiments, payer des tributs, lever navires et troupes. Quatre ressources sont présentes dans Imperial Glory :

 Les pièces d'or, base de l'économie et ressource principale.
 Les matières premières, idéales pour la construction de navires et de bâtiments.
 Les hommes, utilisés pour lever armées, navires et pour la construction de bâtiment à l'étranger.
 Les vivres, obligatoires pour lever armées et navires, mais aussi pour les ravitailler.

Quant aux bâtiments, ils sont identiques pour tous les pays, mais chacun peut les construire dès qu'il le souhaite. Au début de la partie, le joueur devra choisir une recherche technologique, dont le résultat est souvent l'accès à un nouveau bâtiment, comme une écurie, un arsenal, un entrepôt, un hôpital, etc. Les bâtiments se construisent dans les provinces, faisant alors bénéficier ces dernières de nouvelles compétences ; si un joueur construit un arsenal dans une province, celle-ci pourra produire des canons, en revanche, s'il construit un arsenal supérieur dans la même province, elle pourra produire des canons et des canons d'une classe supérieure, plus puissants mais plus chers. Ce système s'applique aussi aux bâtiments économiques, comme la scierie, qui fera augmenter le rendement en matières premières de la province.

Pour construire un bâtiment, il faut le nombre de ressources indiqué. Mais on ne peut construire tous les bâtiments dans une même province, surtout les provinces qui ne sont pas des capitales, ou les provinces placées en bord de mer, pouvant accueillir des ports et des chantiers navals.

Le joueur peut donc privilégier et améliorer son économie, son armée, ou les deux en même temps, par l'intermédiaire des bâtiments. Il faut donc construire intelligemment, c'est-à-dire ne pas développer qu'une seule sorte de bâtiment, car le développement du pays risque de ne pas suivre les attentes du joueur. Si un joueur favorise l'économie (en oubliant le militaire, il ne pourra développer son armée), il sera pris au piège lorsqu'une nation lui déclarera la guerre. Au contraire, si le joueur ne favorise que le militaire, il ne pourra plus suffisamment ravitailler son armée, payer un tribut ou créer des unités ayant un coût élevé, et son armée du moment risquera donc de dépérir.

Enfin, il ne faut pas oublier qu'à chaque nouvelle ère, de nouveaux bâtiments, plus sophistiqués, font leur apparition.

Recherches technologiques et ères

Dans une période s'étendant de 1789 à 1830, le développement d'un empire se divise en trois ères, celles-ci rythmées par une vingtaine de technologies, toutes apportant progrès et puissance au pays.

Ces recherches technologiques, divisées en quatre genres, ressources, militaire, politique et commerce, n'ont pas de coût, mais ont un temps d'attente avant leur mise en marche. Au début de la première, le joueur possède quatre technologies, qui permettront, par le biais d'un système « d'arbre généalogique », d'améliorer le pays dans les quatre genres, avant d'arriver à la technologie « Ère suivante », la dernière de « l'arbre ». Cette technologie n'apporte rien, matériellement, mais permet d'accéder à l'ère suivante, qui donnera un nouvel arbre technologique. Lors du passage de la première ère à la seconde, le joueur devra choisir entre le régime démocratique et le régime autocratique. Lors du passage de la seconde ère à la troisième, si le joueur a choisi la démocratie, il devra choisir entre établir une république ou une monarchie constitutionnelle. S'il a préféré l'autocratie, il devra faire son choix entre instaurer une dictature ou établir une monarchie absolue. Chaque régime possède des avancées technologiques qui lui sont propres, ainsi qu'une quête pour chacun d'eux.

Les armées

L'armée est indispensable pour la sauvegarde d'un empire. Sans armée, le joueur ne pourra conquérir, et encore moins se défendre.

Créer des troupes, chefs et armées

Il est donc impératif de lever une armée assez rapidement. Les technologies aideront le joueur à sophistiquer son armée et les matières premières ainsi que les vivres à la créer ainsi qu'à la ravitailler. Pour lever une armée, il faut des troupes. Les troupes se recrutent dans les casernes, pour l'infanterie, dans les écuries, pour la cavalerie, et dans les arsenaux, pour l'artillerie. Plus la troupe a un faible coût, plus son temps de création, ses besoins en ravitaillement et sa puissances sont faibles. Au contraire, plus elle a un coût élevé, plus son temps de création, ses besoins en ravitaillement et sa puissances sont élevés. Les troupes « faibles » se recrutent dans les bâtiments militaire basiques, tandis que les unités puissantes se recrutent dans les bâtiments militaires supérieurs. Ainsi, plus la province possède de bâtiments militaires, plus elle peut entraîner de troupes.

Une fois créées, les troupes ne peuvent combattre directement. Elles doivent rejoindre une armée commandée par un officier. Les officiers s'enrôlent comme les troupes d'infanterie, dans une caserne. Et comme les troupes, l'officier peut, grâce aux technologies et aux bâtiments, gagner en expérience et peut monter en grade. Plus le grade d'un officier est élevé, plus il peut avoir de troupes sous son commandement et plus ses chances de victoires augmentent.

Ainsi, le joueur peut créer des armées prêtes à marcher sur l'Europe.

Déclaration de guerre

Avant d'envahir un pays, le joueur peut lui déclarer la guerre, par l'intermédiaire de l'interface diplomatique. Ou bien, il suffit de faire entrer une armée, sans prévenir l'adversaire : c'est une attaque surprise. Si le joueur a des alliés, il peut leur demander une intervention armée. Par contre, si le pays envahi possède des alliés, ces derniers vont directement déclarer la guerre à l'envahisseur. C'est le système des alliances.

Une fois la guerre proclamée, l'envahisseur peut envoyer ses armées sur les provinces composant le pays ennemi. Alors, deux options apparaissent :

 La province est libre de toutes armées défensives, elle passe donc sous contrôle de l'envahisseur.
 La province est défendue par une armée ennemie, alors, une bataille fait rage.

Il faut préciser que seules trois armées pourront combattre. Si d'autres armées sont présentes, elle serviront de renfort.

Avant le commencement de la bataille, un écran s'affiche, indiquant le lieu de la bataille, le niveau de la bataille, les effectifs des deux armées (attaquant et défenseur), les troupes composant les armées et un message demandant si le joueur souhaite « diriger personnellement la bataille » ou battre en retraite.

Si le joueur ne souhaite pas diriger personnellement la bataille, l'ordinateur le fera, mais les chances de victoire sont faibles.
S'il décide de battre en retraite, il perdra beaucoup de troupes.
Enfin, il peut diriger la bataille et tenter de remporter la victoire.

La bataille

Avant la bataille

Dans la bataille, il y a un défenseur, le joueur ayant une armée placée sur la province, ainsi qu'un attaquant, le joueur attaquant le défenseur par le biais de son armée, qu'il a déplacée vers l'armée ennemie, sur la carte du jeu.

Le défenseur se trouvera proche d'infrastructures défensives comme des maisons, des fermes, des bois, des rochers ou encore des barrières...

Le joueur arrivera donc sur le terrain de bataille, avec une présentation rapide du terrain.

Il peut aussi choisir de placer ses troupes dans le lieu délimité par le carré rouge. Il placera ses troupes de manière stratégique, en leur faisant adopter des formations particulières, etc. Une fois ses troupes mises en place, la bataille peut commencer.

Le joueur devra veiller à bien positionner ses troupes au début de la partie car il plus difficile de bien les organiser lors de la bataille.

Lors de la bataille

Pour gagner, il y a deux options :

 Victoire par le temps ; le joueur doit rester en possession de deux « positions stratégiques », pendant un temps délimité, sans s'en faire déloger par l'ennemi.
 Victoire totale ; le joueur doit annihiler toutes les troupes ennemies.

Généralement, il est plus simple d'annihiler l'armée ennemie.

Il ne faut pas oublier que le joueur peut changer les formations, la vitesse, le mode d'attaque et autres compétences de ses troupes de même que les participants de la bataille peuvent demander des renforts (seulement si quatre armées sont placées sur la province de bataille).

Après la bataille

Une fois la bataille terminée, le joueur :

 a gagné ; la province est sous son contrôle et l'armée ennemie défaite doit reculer jusqu'aux provinces environnantes.
 a perdu ; son armée défaite doit reculer jusqu'à la province limitrophe et la province qu'il convoitait reste sous contrôle ennemi.

Voilà comment se déroulent les opérations sur terre.

Les navires

Chaque empire peut posséder des navires s'il a au moins un accès à la mer, c'est-à-dire un port (marine). En 1789, c'est-à-dire au début d'une partie:

 la France possède deux ports (Bretagne et Provence)
 la Grande-Bretagne, trois ports (Angleterre, Écosse et Irlande)
 la Russie, deux ports (Izhora et Koursk)
 la Prusse, un port (Prusse-Orientale)

Seule l'Autriche ne possède pas d'accès à la mer du fait de sa position centrale en Europe.

Créer les navires

Comme les troupes, les navires se créent dans des bâtiments, que les recherches technologiques mettent en place, comme le chantier naval ou le port de commerce. Le principe de bâtiments « basiques » et « supérieurs » s'applique aussi dans la marine.

Déclaration de guerre

Contrairement aux armées, deux navires de factions différentes ne peuvent engendrer une guerre. Il faut donc la déclarer par le biais diplomatique.

Une fois la guerre déclarée, lorsque le joueur placera un navire dans les eaux ayant un navire ennemi, une bataille aura lieu.

Avant le commencement de la bataille, un écran s'affiche, indiquant le lieu de la bataille, le niveau de la bataille, les effectifs de l'attaquant et du défenseur, les navires présents lors de la bataille et un message demandant si le joueur souhaite « diriger personnellement la bataille » ou battre en retraite.

Si le joueur ne souhaite pas diriger personnellement la bataille, l'ordinateur le fera, mais les chances de victoire sont faibles.
S'il décide de battre en retraite, il perdra beaucoup de navires.
Enfin, il peut diriger la bataille et tenter de remporter la victoire.

La bataille

Les unités

Les unités du jeu ont la même morphologie mais n'ont pas les mêmes compétences, suivant les factions.

Les troupes

Les troupes de chaque pays, empires comme pays mineurs, sont classées de la plus faible à la plus puissante, et mises en place de la manière suivante : infanterie, cavalerie puis artillerie, éventuellement suivie d'unités spéciales.

 La France

 Conscrits
 Fusiliers
 Grenadiers
 Gardes Impériaux
 Voltigeurs
 Tirailleurs

 Hussards
 Lanciers
 Grenadiers à cheval
 Cuirassiers

 Canon de
 Howitzer
 Canon de
 Artillerie montée
 Howitzer monté

 La Grande-Bretagne

 Fantassins de ligne
 Grenadier Guards
 Black Watch
 Fantassins légers
 Fusiliers

 Hussards
 Household Cavalry
 Life Guards

 Canon de
 Howitzer
 Canon de
 Artillerie montée
 Howitzer monté

 Fusées de Congrève

 La Russie

 Conscrits
 Mousquetaires
 Grenadiers
 Fantassins Ismaïlovski
 Fantassins légers
 Chasseurs

 Hussards
 Cosaques
 Dragons
 Garde du Tsar

 Canon de
 Howitzer
 Canon de
 Artillerie montée
 Howitzer monté

 La Prusse

 Landwehr
 Mousquetaires
 Grenadiers
 Gardes Royaux
 Fantassins légers
 Jäger

 Hussards
 Uhlans
 Dragons
 Cuirassiers

 Canon de
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 Canon de
 Artillerie montée
 Howitzer monté

 L'Autriche

 Landwehr
 Mousquetaires
 Grenadiers
 Gardes Royaux

 Jäger

 Hussards hongrois
 Uhlans
 Dragons autrichiens
 Cuirassiers

 Canon de
 Howitzer
 Canon de
 Artillerie montée
 Howitzer monté

 Autres nations

 Infanterie 1
 Infanterie 2
 Infanterie 2
 Infanterie 4
 Infanterie 5
 (Infanterie 6)

 Cavalerie 1
 Cavalerie 2
 Cavalerie 3
 Cavalerie 4

 Canon de
 Howitzer
 Canon de
 Artillerie montée
 Howitzer monté

 (Spéciale 1)

Les navires

Les navires sont les mêmes pour toutes les nations :

 Sloop
 Frégate
 Navire de ligne

Notes et références

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Jeu vidéo développé en Espagne
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Jeu vidéo se déroulant au XVIIIe siècle
Jeu vidéo se déroulant au XIXe siècle
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Angered by what the senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki said was his reason for visiting ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo, the social media aide to president Muhammadu Buhari, Mrs. Lauretta Onochie on Tuesday frowned at Saraki's statement and dramatically explained their conversation in what can be termed a 'fictitious conversation'.
Recall that when Saraki was accosted by Journalists after his closed-door meeting with Obasanjo, he said 'you know I missed the official opening of the library and that is why I have decided to come and see the place and honestly it is beautiful we are very proud of what he has done here'.
Library that was opened since last year? 17 months ago!
This guy keeps treating Nigerians as babies.
So this must be the conversation that took place between Saraki and OBJ. Enjoy!
OBJ: Nothing to be sorry about, the library is still open. Let's look in.
Saraki: Yes Baba. This is impressive. It smells of the people's money.
OBJ: I will pretend I didnt hear that. This section is for young men with no common sense.
On your right we have books for greedy young men in government.
Next to it is the section for young men who take what does not belong to them.
On your left are books for the shameless young men who return to their vomit.
Next to it are books for young men who stage police drama in front of their homes or at the National Assembly. Plus those who jump out of moving vehicles and doing the Tarzan tree to tree jump while escaping from imaginary kidnappers.
Upstairs is the section for young men who have no honour and cannot spell the word, "Loyalty". Next to it is the section with books for self-centred young men….
Saraki: Ha baba, You keep saying young men….
OBJ: If you don't like books for young men, you can visit Mr. Ibrahim Magu at the new EFCC building. They have modern rooms with books for young and old people.
Yeah right! It was not political.
ME: Fat chance! Of course, It was totally political. To be specific, it was about President Buhari, Gov. Adams Oshiomhole and APC. We were not born yesterday.


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Regulatory Investigations and Financial Crime Insights
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OFSI issues Maritime Financial Sanctions Guidance
Over the summer, the UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation ("OFSI"), issued new sanctions compliance guidance for entities and individuals operating within the maritime shipping sector.
Split into two parts, the OFSI Maritime Guidance comprises:
1. Advice about certain practices indicating that sanctions restrictions are being evaded; and
2. Guidance about the due diligence those in the shipping industry should consider to mitigate the risk of any sanctions breach.
This is the first time that OFSI has tried to give participants in this sector a list of red flags to watch out for, and to suggest what they might do to help minimise their level of risk exposure.
Potential Red Flags
Broadly consistent with guidance issued by the UN and (to a lesser extent) by OFAC (OFSI's US counterpart), the OFSI Maritime Guidance includes a list of illicit or suspicious shipping practices. These red flags include:
ship-to-ship transfers, concealing the origin and nature of cargo;
intentional disabling of Automatic Identification Systems ("AIS"), obscuring a vessel's whereabouts when conducting illicit trade;
cyber-attacks, used to force illegally the transfer of funds in circumvention of financial sanctions;
payment via crypto-assets, avoiding detection in the context of sanctions evasion;
use of front or shell companies, disguising the ultimate destination of goods, funds or services or facilitating illicit shipping practices;
falsified documents, e.g. bills of lading, invoices and insurance paperwork, obscuring the origin of a vessel, its goods, its destination or even the legitimacy of the vessel itself; and
physical concealment of illicit cargo on board a vessel.
Though not necessarily breaches of financial sanctions regulations themselves, the Guidance suggests that underlying transactions relating to these practices, or behaviours underpinning these practices, could be.
Secondly, the OFSI Maritime Guidance goes on to offer some general guidance about the level of due diligence that "organisations operating in the maritime sector may wish to consider".
Specific due diligence requirements are not expressly mandated, with the onus very much remaining on organisations to ensure that they put in place sufficient measures to ensure that they do not breach financial sanctions.
The following five key aspects of due diligence are noted:
1. Adopting a risk-based approach: "companies conducting activity in, or around high-risk jurisdictions should seek to have a robust understanding of the sanctions regulations in place, including the relevant obligations. Companies should always seek independent legal advice where necessary and operate a risk-based approach".
The Guidance further adds that "specific regions may present a high risk with respect to financial sanctions compliance. When dealing with such regions, or when passing through or near waters where non-compliant actors are known to operate, enhanced due diligence should be considered".
2. AIS screening: whether AIS screening will be appropriate will depend on the specific nature of a company's activities. The Guidance states that "due diligence could be enhanced through contacting vessels that have 'gone dark' by switching off their AIS. This is to better understand the cause of disconnection, noting such instances, and reviewing for trends. This could be considered by ship owners, charterers, insurers, flag registries and port state control entities".
3. Researching counterparties: "Companies may have access to subscription-based resources which allow for checks on ownership structures, vessel flag information, details of home ports and recently visited ports. This information is also readily available online".
4. Checking document validity: suspected fraudulent letters of credit, bills of lading, loans and other types of financial instruments should always be checked with the relevant institution for validity.
5. Contractual clauses: clauses within letters of credit, loans and other types of financial instruments should be assessed prior to agreement, as should the validity of insurance documents, bills of lading and cargo lists. Although the Guidance does not expressly recommend including sanctions compliance clauses, it does suggest that parties consider including 'AIS switch off' clauses in their contracts.
OFSI has expressly stated that this new Guidance is not binding. However, this does not mean that it can simply be ignored. In the unfortunate event of a party, within OFSI's jurisdiction, becoming embroiled in a breach of UK sanctions, it is likely that OFSI will take into account whether this Guidance was followed in determining whether to impose a penalty, or to refer the case to the criminal authorities for prosecution.
Unlike US sanctions, the UK does not impose comprehensive embargoes on any jurisdiction and so the risks in relation to maritime-related evasion may generally be less extensive than those faced in the context of US sanctions. Entities subject to UK sanctions (e.g. those operating within UK waters, or flying the UK flag), will nevertheless need to consider carefully whether they should update their policies, procedures and contracts in light of this new Guidance.
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It stands for Leadership, Innovation, Vision and Entrepreneurship. They are the mindset and skills today's aspiring leaders need to succeed in business. The LIVE series invites speakers offering real-world insights on key challenges and opportunities.
LIVE is a student-led initiative of the Global MBA at National Taiwan University, produced for Taipei's business community.
LIVE, an acronym for Leadership, Innovation, Vision and Entrepreneurship, was back and kicking at the GMBA last week. It is an English-language speaker series through NTU's GMBA program, supported by the office and produced by the program's Student Council. The latest event, entitled Green Economy Opportunities - Scope for Taiwan, was held on December 16th. The three invited speakers who spoke on Leadership (Dr. Niven Huang), Innovation (Dr. Su-Ling Fan), and Vision and Entrepreneurship (Mr. Corey Lien).
Dr. Niven Huang, a General Manager of KPMG Sustainability Consulting Co. Ltd, is a pioneer in Taiwan, promoting CSR, sustainability reporting, SRI, corporate sustainability strategy, and carbon management. He sits on various government and corporate committees for sustainable development or green economy and regularly presents on corporate sustainability both in Taiwan and internationally. Dr. Huang also teaches at the NCCU business school and every year visits the most sustainable companies in Europe with a group of young professionals, thereby creating an army of young sustainability advocates.
Dr. Huang's presentation, "Locating Taiwan in the Emerging Green Economy Opportunities", opened by emphasizing the importance of Taiwan in the future of the Green Economy. Though Taiwan occupies only 0.024% of the global land area, the island has more than 200,000 species - around 1.5 % of global species. Taiwan also has a strong petrochemical industry, despite not producing a drop of oil. The resilience of both the nation's economy and people, particularly given Taiwan's highly vulnerable climate, is going to be the reason why Taiwan will matter in a world moving toward a greener future. Dr. Huang sees E-Health, E-learning, E-Works, Smart Energy, Smart Home, Smart Agriculture, Smart Logistics, and Smart Manufacturing as huge opportunities for a smarter 2030. He believes education will be the key that connects venture, innovation, technology, and people.
Dr. Su-Ling Fan, the second speaker of the night, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and also a Director at Tamkang University's Research Development Centre of Construction Law. She is an alum of NTU and boasts vast experience in both the policy and academic sides of the industry. She served as the Director General for the Technology and Research Committee of Construction Management Association, Republic of China and as the Secretary General for the Taiwan Construction Law Association before taking up the position in Tamkang University.
Dr. Fan presented on BIM (Building Information Model) and Sustainability. In describing green buildings, Dr. Fan conjured the image of a flower that lives in harmony with nature while simultaneously capturing energy from the sun above and water from the ground below. She proceeded to describe the potential layout of a green building and explained how it integrates within the concept of a smart city, moving eventually from that to BIM (Building Information Model) and how it helps manage the entire workflow from conceptual design to detailed design, analysis, documentation, fabrication and eventually construction of the project. Dr. Fan explained the different dimensions of BIM, elaborating on how sustainability integrates with the 6D approach for a total of 7 D's. Finally, she walked the audience through the different modelling approaches available, such as Solar Radiation, Ventilation, Temperature and Costing.
The last speaker, Mr. Corey Lien, is a Co-Founder and Chief Gardener (CEO) with DOMI Earth. He is also a Co-Founder and Vice Chairperson in both Asia-Pacific B Corporation Association (APBCA) and B Lab Taiwan.
Together with his wife Tammy, Mr. Lien launched DOMI Earth in 2014 as a way to drive collective action on climate change. The company was certified as a B Corp, becoming Taiwan's first company to be recognized by the global community of entrepreneurs working to bring focus to the social and environmental impact of business. Lien subsequently founded the Asia-Pacific B Corporation Association (APBCA) and chartered Asia's first B Lab for Taiwan. These organizations have worked to transform ecosystems for impact business models across the region. Lien talked at length about his individual journey as an entrepreneur, recalling how he decided to a more socially responsible entrepreneur due to a mix of personal experience, market incentives, and regulations that have driven him and other entrepreneurs to pursue opportunities in the Green Economy space.
The event was graced by the presence of Prof. Chialin Chen, Director of GMBA Program, and Associate Director, Ms. Celia Yang. Dr. Miriam Garvi, the GMBA professor who teaches courses in CSR was also present. A vote of thanks was proposed by President of the GMBA Student Council, Mr. Philip Chang. The co-creators of this edition of LIVE Event were Annie, Winnie, Rufo, Sopheara, Belle, Christopher, Jenny and Sergei. The event was hosted by Shyam, the Executive President of GMBA Student Council.


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Q: Create button from other class that contains methods for it I would like to create a button from an other class that contains a list of methods, but an error occurs when I click on the button.

ClassA.h
@interface ClassA : NSObject

+ (UIButton *)addUIButton:(UIView *)view text:(NSString *)string action:(ClassB *)action;
+ (UITextField *)addUITextFieldInto:(UIView *)view text:(NSString *)string;

ClassA.m
+ (UIButton *)addUIButton:(UIView *)view text:(NSString *)string action:(ClassB *)action {
    UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect];
    button.frame = CGRectMake(45, 60, 200, 50);
    [button setTitle:string forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [button addTarget:action.callerMethod
               action:action.selector
     forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
    [view addSubview:button];
    return button;
}

ClassB.h
@interface ClassB : NSObject

@property (nonatomic) SEL selector;
@property (nonatomic, retain) id delegate;
@property (nonatomic, retain) ClassC *callerMethod;

- (id)initWithDelegate:(id)delegate;
- (void)setAction;

ClassB.m
- (id)initWithDelegate:(id)delegate { //Method Edited
    self = [super init];
    if (self != nil)
    {
        // your code here
        self.delegate = delegate;
        self.callerMethod = [[LKMethod alloc] initWithDelegate:self.delegate];
    }
    return self;
}

- (void)setAction {
    self.selector = self.callerMethod.alertview;
}

ClassC.h
@interface ClassC : NSObject
{
    id delegate;
}

@property (nonatomic) SEL alertview;

- (id)initWithDelegate:(id)_delegate;
- (void)alertView;

ClassC.m
- (id)initWithDelegate:(id)_delegate { //Method Edited
    self = [super init];
    if (self != nil)
    {
        // your code here
        delegate = _delegate;
        self.alertview = @selector(alertView);
    }
    return self;
}

- (void)alertView {
    NSLog(@"alertView");
    UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc]
                          initWithTitle:@"title"
                          message:@"message"
                          delegate:delegate
                          cancelButtonTitle:@"ok"
                          otherButtonTitles:nil];
    [alert show];
}

And my main method
- (void)meth {
 ClassB *action = [[ClassB alloc] initWithDelegate:self];
 [action setAction];
 [ClassA addUIButton:self.view text:@"bigup" action:action];
}

I don't know what I can do.
The error message is not very accurate..

A: For the ClassB and ClassC initialization, you cannot return self without calling super or assign it a value. Such as self = [super init].

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Savage/Pipkin, Means and the Truth?
by Stephen E. W. Savage (aka Steve Pipkin)
Steve Pipkin-Savage/Russell Means Timeline
I am arrested protesting Diablo Nuclear Power Plant at Avila Beach, CA. John Trudell is there also. I overhear him talking with others. Mary and my two children witness and support this first action.
I attend the Tribunal at DQ University. Banks is in exile there, protected by Jerry Brown. Russell Means is one of the speakers. He speaks from a prepared speech written by a friend in Florida: Its essence is economics. Russell does not participate in the "impeach Reagan" theme of the tribunal but chooses to talk about "economic revolution." (Later he tells me: "Ronald Reagan is the best thing that ever happened for revolution.")
At the end of the conference, he announces that a white man has shot himself up at Yellow Thunder Camp in the Black Hills, that the State is going to shut Yellow Thunder Camp down over it, and that he is leading a march for religious freedom in Rapid City. Banks says he is going to go and this sets off a reaction similar to what Russ describes in his book.
My family and I drive an activist from the Russian River (we are living in Sonoma County, CA) to the march. I write a statement "Leave Yellow Thunder Camp Alone" and distribute it during the march and after. My wife and children march with me. During the speeches I approach Russell and tell him that the family wants to support Yellow Thunder Camp with love gifts. We have seen hunger and poverty and extreme need there and are moved to help. Mary and I meet him in his office later and Mary hands him our first gift in the form of a check. Thus begins our regular love giving to Yellow Thunder Camp/Russell Means/American Indian Movement, which - in our naivete - are all the same thing. The giving will amount to between $125,000-$175,000 before we terminate it in 1995, a few months before publication of his autobiography. During this entire period, I have stopped paying taxes and sold off or given away or turned over to my family all ownership and monies.
I commit to AIM in person at 444 Crazy Horse Drive, Porcupine, SD. Ted Means receives me and advises me not to drink on the res, after I told him that I drank: "they might take advantage of you."
The four of us "Pipkins" are invited to various events, including Sun Dances, at Yellow Thunder. We have been making pilgrimages to the Black Hills and to Wounded Knee before and during this time. We ask permission from Indians - Jack Black Elk, Matthew King, Frank Fools' Crow, Russell Means, Kenny Cane, and others - to be wherever we go in Indian country. At one point, Matthew King asks to see me. Kenny Cane witnesses the conversation.
King wants me to know that Russell has been charged by other Indians with mishandling Yellow Thunder monies and that the monies my family give should be given through the tribal council. I listen respectfully, then say: "I'm going to continue doing what I 've been doing." King says, "You're a good man. And if Russell has done anything wrong, the People will take care of it." We then discuss the return of the Paha Sapa to the Lakota People. When I ask, as always, how my generations will stand with his People, he says "You are welcome with our People always" or words to that effect. When I told Russell Means later about this conversation and asked that we share some the money with Matthew King and Kenny Cane, he blew up and said King belonged "in a dungeon." He wrote to me and said "beware Iktomi," labeling both King and Kenny as the Trickster. He also said they didn't need any support.
We attend a Sun Dance at which we are asked, by Russell, to represent "white people" in a prayer of the Four Sacred Colors(of humans) at the Sacred Tree. Louis Farrakhan represents the "black people." Russell's son-in-law, a dancer, represents the "red people" and an Asian represents the "yellow people." It is a thrilling experience for us, despite the fact that Farrakhan has just returned from shaking down a multi-million dollar "loan" from a notorious African leader. We find him to be a very warm man; he blesses my children and says to me: "You give us hope."
I spend two days with Fools' Crow, not by my request, and he teaches me many things and shows me his power with the "sky quarrelers" and takes me in through his eyes. He instructs me, in this way - through his eyes - to this day.
I consider Russell to be my "main man" with AIM and am quite taken away with how inclusive the Indians are of this white man with his Christian and military background. That we have given up a lucrative career and dropped out of the "Empire" but are heavy donors and advocates of the People and that the money may be the main thing with the Indians - or Russ, at least - occurs to me once in a while. But we have been ostracized by our own People, I was assaulted and nearly killed by a close family member, we are "on the run" (1984-1986.5) and in shock and my brains are scrambled and I have increased my drinking whenever I am not on an action. And so we keep sharing our income(based on royalties from a business we sold out to some employees - as this small business goes, so go we and so goes our giving) in a manner that keeps us broke from funding cycle to funding cycle.
We tolerate the Flynt thing, but don't like it and are glad when it is over.
In late 1983 I do the "Joey Green" action in WVA, which is effective. Russ gives me permission to smoke the Pipe during an action. I use a faux pipe I find at a tourist store.
In January, 1984 I am assaulted in my parents home and my brains are scrambled severely and I am in a constant state of paranoia and despair for years after. I become suicidal and drink heavily, but find that I have a high tolerance for alcohol.
A month after the assault we are in Florida and I decide to make a "mercy run" to Pine Ridge because of the sever winter. Mary and I leave the children with a relative and do a fund raiser in West Virginia which nets about $1600 in cash and checks and fills the motorhome, our home now, with used clothes for the Indians, who reportedly are burning clothes and furniture to keep warm.
We meet up with Russ in Rapid City. He receives the money, views the damage to my head, we joke about some things, and then he takes us to a friends place to dump off the clothes. ("She'll be angry," he said and appears ungrateful for the used clothes. She wasn't there, so we offloaded the boxes).
Sitting in the motorhome, he shares some thoughts with us and suggests we give him our motorhome. I explain that my family of four lives in it now. Russell appears to be under the illusion that we are wealthy.
We take Doc Columbus, whom we have met along the way, with us to the first Sun Dance. En route, I brief Doc on Russell Means: "He may have killed people," I say. "But he's my brother." Doc: "You're scaring me again." I explain that, whatever he's done, he is the person the Great Spirit attached us to and that we are going to be faithful so long as he is serving the People. Doc is a "real doctor" from Canada and goes to Yellow Thunder and even sweats with us, at Russell's invitation, but leaves early and is disillusioned, he and I "have words," and we never hear from him again.
Russ Forrest is our teacher at Yellow Thunder on one occasion. We see him off to Minneapolis before the Sun Dance.
Kenny Cane makes this statement to me: "There is no hardcore AIM anymore; there's just you, me and Russell Means."
Russell Means goes to Nicaragua, raising money from us, his "last" supporters on the "left" (we aren't leftists), he says. Everyone else has forsaken him, he says. "For political reasons," he says. We trust, support and defend him all through this. I question who we are supporting and suspect that Brooklyn Rivera is an agent of NSA, but Russell says this will help Indian People(the Miskito) and so we hang in there, despite the right wing feel of it all. Being raised a right-winger and earning medals as a patriotic speaker, I know how hypocritical the right wing is and "left it" because of that. At this point I began to suspect that the old AIM was dead and that we were stuck with Russell Means if we wanted to help Indians. We participated in several actions after this that involved Russell Means only. In every case we attempted to get as much publicity for him as possible.
At some point I realized that he had left Yellow Thunder and tried to get the family to support Yellow Thunder by sending money to Bruce Ellison for YTC. When I told Russell about it, he blew up. I think the check was not cashed. He claimed that Ellison had turned on him.
We were "on the run" (from family and the system) in Canada when I heard/read about the drug busts that went down on Minneapolis AIM. I knew that Russell had been pulling away from original AIM for years, but this publicity was the last straw for me.
I also read the LA Times article by Bella Stumbo that showed the rift in the Means family and, apparently between Means and Banks, over Nicaragua. I was sickened by these events and planned on talking to Russ about them at the upcoming Sun Dance. When I got to the Sun Dance grounds at Yellow Thunder a day before it started, Russell and Dennis were there together, waiting to talk with us. Dennis invited me to his Sun Dance and left. The next day, warriors showed up to rescind that offer. I was confused.
By early 1988, I was convinced that we (Russell and I) were no longer attached to either Yellow Thunder or original AIM, that original AIM is in public disgrace and that Russell needs to retire and write his autobiography and move on into "capitalizing" on his image, something he shows a lot of interest in. So, in Bakersfield, CA, we call a press conference and officially and finally retire him from AIM and announce the autobiography project. We are going to transcribe, edit and publish his autobiography at first, but after one session, I realize that neither he nor we are up to it at this time. He is involved with Libertarians and various other scams anyway. I am really getting sick, my father disowns me and my nuclear family(in writing), we change our name and I enter the worst years of my life.
- During this time, the business royalties increase, as does our giving to Russell Means. He becomes more demanding and, while we have tried and failed to do business together, he begins to treat our love gifts as "payments" and speak of our relationship as a business relationship. He does not respect the fact that I am a spirit-man nor does he apparently understand that it is my family, not me who has nothing, that is supporting him - and me - financially.
We also stand beside him during this time on several actions which don't make it into his book. The evidence, from Gloria (whom we know and love) and others and our own observation, is that he entered an all out scam phase. He, indeed, documents some of them in his book.
We do many actions that do not involve Russell Means, including allying ourselves whenever possible with the "Free Peltier" movement. Russell never attends a rally for Peltier that we attended. When I ask him about it he is vague and usually starts by saying, "Look, I know these guys..." and sort of [defuses] our interest in any activity that did not further his agenda.
To my astonishment (we were now living in Washington State), Russell restarts an AIM office in Colorado. He does this with two men I have never met, only heard about: Ward Churchill (who wrote the details of the Nicaragua story that appears in the first person in Russell's autobio) and Glenn Morris. (Both of these men have been discredited/censured by Minneapolis-AIM.) Russ sends me material on this new venture. Since he retired from AIM in 1988, I view this as another scam and later discover documents that support that theory of the essence of "Confederated Autonomous AIM" chapters which started then.
During this period, I suggest - at a family business meeting - that we terminate our giving to Russell Means. After some discussion, the others decide to continue so I withdraw my objections to supporting him. In retrospect, I believe they were afraid to stop because of what might happen to me. They always respected my love for and personal commitment to Russell Means as my elder-brother and ally. But I don't think they understood that I have always had a higher commitment to The People and to Honor. - Russell went to treatment center. He told me that he did so because his Indian medicine didn't work. He tried to get both Mary(for co-dependency) and me(for anger), who were having extreme difficulty in our relationship, to go to his choice of treatment centers. Mary tried to make arrangements; I resisted, saying that I was a medicine man and that I wanted to trust the Great Mystery, my "Christ," and the "spirit-helpers" to help me and heal me; that if they couldn't do it, I didn't want to give the wasicu credit the way he was doing. Jokingly, I asked him how much money he made off these referrals and he just smiled.
In 1989, we conducted a Russell Means rally and sold tickets. At this rally he smoked a peace pipe with a local celeb who represented the "cowboys" and "frontiersmen." This rally was harshly criticized by our local allies, was poorly attended and served to further the image of Russ as a con artist. We paid his fee out of our pockets. This was in addition to our regular giving which he was now representing to others as his take from a real estate magazine business we were partners in. (That business never published or had any income and went defunct as soon as the $10,000 seed money, which Russell raised, was spent. I took full responsibility for this failure, even though it was my family's backers who let us down at press time on the first mailer. The reason they bailed? Russell Means. They didn't trust him).
In the early 90s, w e do an action at Point Roberts with Russell that puts us, in a picture, on the front page of the Seattle Times. We do another, local (Port Townsend) action that makes local papers. Russell then proceeds to influence the temporary breakup of my relationship to Mary.
Mary and I work things out, the IRS hits my family hard, we stop giving to Russell, I quit drinking "cold turkey," and Russell offers me a "partnership" in T.R.E.A.T.Y. Productions in Santa Monica, CA. I accept. In 3 months, I discover that he is a fraud, that he is just ripping people off, that he just wanted to be famous again (his own statement), that "Dennis Banks is not my ally" , that "I have no elders," that "AIM is in disarray," that he is the "true AIM," that "I don't take care of anybody," that he would kill an unborn child he fathered to save face (only he wanted me to arrange it), that his just-released autobiography misrepresents our relationship, contains numerous omissions (like the 1988 retirement that was published around the world) and is an unchecked fiction, and that - to Russell Means - "love is just fucking." And I leave him, honorably and confronting him, listening to him say, "I love you." And I love him, too - unconditionally. Yet, the People need to know these things, I believe, from someone who has been there. My commitment to the People takes priority over my commitment to Russell Means. I will stand with him if and when he faces the People on these matters and many others known to others.
I devote myself to rebuilding my own extended family nation, with great success; to develop avenues of publishing on the internet and dovetailing with old technologies/ strategies "on the ground," with great success and wait for "original AIM" to surface.
Original AIM resurfaces on the Net. I make contact. Serle Chapman comes in to interview me for a book on AIM to be published in 2003, he says. I send a statement about Russell Means/AIM to him, TREATY, and AIM GGC. AIM GGC sends me invitation to come to the 32nd Anniversary Conference in Hayward, WI. Mary and I attend. They were drafting a Manifesto when we left. We talked with Clyde Bellecourt and Dennis Banks, two of the original founders of AIM. We also said a few words to the assembly. As far as I am concerned, this is the AIM I joined or thought I was joining, as an ally, at 444 Crazy Horse Drive, Porcupine, SD in the early 80s, the sponsor of Yellow Thunder Camp(Bill Means founded it, I understand; Russell just ripped it off). And, by the way, I understand that Russell moved in to exploit two more murders in SD/NEB in the Camp Justice action, stealing thunder and heart from Tom Poor Bear and destroying the public perception of what is going on there via another Russell Means publicity stunt.
He also advocates opening up a liquor store to fund his AA-based "treatment center" for "alcoholics"! The official AIM position on AA "treatment centers," I note in my recent visit to Hayward, WI, is that one expressed by Paul Richey: he pointed out that the 12-step program begins with a statement of failure and that there was no devil or failure here in Indian country until the invader brought the devil and failure here. Thus, a true AIM treatment center would be administered by old-ways medicine people and based on success and goodness. Russell's huckstering of wasicu treatment centers is tantamount to creating "co-dependency" (on a wasicu program), not curing it. In addition, I have yet to meet face to face with anyone who claims membership in the "Confederation of Autonomous AIM Chapters." I believe that the correct title for these "chapters" should be "Malcontents for Russell Means". And, as I wrote to him recently, I hope he had nothing to do with the death of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash; but, just today, my darkest suspicions have been aroused again by reading this from David Seals . This, coupled with my experiences with Russell Means - only a few that are outlined here - lend new light to the statements he made to me in 1995, speaking to me of his about-to-be-released autobiography: "I wrote it for white people" and "I think I covered myself pretty well."
An innocent, open, truehearted man has no need to "cover himself." May the People handle this. This is my prayer and request and ultimate belief. Everything is good. To all my relatives!
Stephen E. W. Savage
a.k.a. Steve Pipkin
Savage Extended Family Nation
Nipomo, CA 93444
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Is Getting Race Right All About the Benjamins?
Debra J. Dickerson
Ireland is welcoming immigrants of all hues and thriving. From Slate:
After centuries of emigration—particularly to Great Britain and the United States—Ireland has attracted thousands of newcomers. While the economy has cooled, foreigners have not, for the most part, headed for the exits: Approximately 10 percent of the country's 4.1 million residents are now foreign-born. The diversity of this group becomes apparent as you stroll around Dublin: Filipino restaurants stand next to Polish grocery stores and African hair-braiding salons. …
…the government has encouraged businesses to fill low-skill jobs with citizens from the new EU member states. According to 2006 statistics (the most recent available), about 70,000 Poles have successfully landed work in Ireland. The third-largest group of foreigners—after British and Polish—are Africans. There are about 50,000 Africans in Ireland, and many of them arrived as asylum seekers.
One Nigerian immigrant is mayor of an Irish town, and he isn't even a citizen. Imagine that happening here. Unfortunately, immigration isn't going so well in Spain. Also from Slate:
It wasn't so long ago that Spain was considered one of the most immigrant-friendly countries in the world. In 2005, the nation's European neighbors looked askance when the Spanish government instituted an amnesty program that granted residency papers to more than 500,000 foreigners. It was a potential first step to acquiring Spanish citizenship and, by extension, an EU passport. That wasn't the only chance non-EU citizens had to settle in the country through legal channels: The government has also allowed businesses to recruit for so-called hard-to-fill positions—ranging from medical technician to domestic worker—by hiring abroad. Last year, more than 200,000 foreigners arrived in Spain this way. Upon arrival, newcomers both legal and illegal could access Spain's health care system at no cost by registering at the local town hall.
Immigrants can still access the state safety net, but now that the economy has cooled, opportunities to settle in the country legally are becoming scarce. …
Perhaps it was inevitable that the Spanish government would become more apprehensive about its newfound multiculturalism. The country has undergone a bewildering transformation: In the past decade, the immigrant population spiked to nearly 4 million, or 10 percent of the country's total population of 40 million. That is almost as high as the proportion of foreign-born residents in the United States, where immigrants comprise 12.5 percent of the population. Unlike the United States or European countries like Austria and Germany, Spain has little experience of absorbing outsiders. Traditionally, people left the country rather than settled there.
As usual, it's all about the benjamins; when the economy is strong and unpleasant work needs to be done, immigrants are wooed. When the economy tanks…..