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The findings suggest that social isolation could be used as predictor of dementia risk, the British researchers added.
"There is a difference between social isolation, which is an objective state of low social connections, and loneliness, which is subjectively perceived social isolation," said Edmund Rolls, a neuroscientist in the University of Warwick's department of computer science. "Both have risks to health but ... we have been able to show that it is social isolation, rather than the feeling of loneliness, which is an independent risk factor for later dementia."
For the study, Rolls and colleagues analyzed brain imaging data from more than 30,000 people in the United Kingdom and found that those who were socially isolated had lower volumes of gray matter in brain regions involved in memory and learning.
After adjusting for risk factors such as socioeconomic status, chronic illness, lifestyle, depression and genetics, socially isolated people had a 26% increased likelihood of developing dementia, according to the study published online June 8 in the journal Neurology.
The association between social isolation and dementia was strongest in those over 60 years of age.
Loneliness was also associated with dementia, but that link was not significant after adjusting for depression, which explained 75% of the relationship between loneliness and dementia, the researchers explained.
"With the growing prevalence of social isolation and loneliness over the past decades, this has been a serious yet underappreciated public health problem. Now, in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic there are implications for social relationship interventions and care — particularly in the older population," Rolls said in a university news release.
And, according to study co-author Barbara Sahakian, of the University of Cambridge's department of psychiatry, "Now that we know the risk to brain health and dementia of social isolation, it is important that the government and communities take action to ensure that older individuals have communication and interactions with others on a regular basis."
For more on dementia risk factors, go to Alzheimers.gov.
SOURCE: University of Warwick, news release, June 8, 2022
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Video Of Migrants Sold In Apparent Slave Auction In Libya Provokes Outrage Worldwide
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After a video surfaced showing migrants apparently being sold at auction in Libya, people worldwide have been calling for action.
Last week, CNN published a report on modern slavery in Libya, featuring a video that reportedly was shot in August and appeared to show a man selling African migrants for farm work.
"Big strong boys," the man said in the video, according to a CNN narrator. "400 … 700 … 800," he called out the mounting prices. The men were eventually sold for about $400 each, CNN reported. The Libyan government said it has launched an investigation into slave auctions in the country.
Following the CNN report, demonstrators took to the streets in Paris and other cities last week to express their outrage, and Libyans showed their solidarity on Twitter with the hashtag #LibyansAgainstSlavery.
Several world leaders spoke out as well. The chairman of the African Union, Guinean President Alpha Condé, called it a "despicable trade ... from another era" on Friday. The U.N. Support Mission in Libya said Wednesday that it was "dismayed and sickened," and is "actively pursuing" the matter with Libyan authorities.
"I am horrified at news reports and video footage showing African migrants in Libya reportedly being sold as slaves," U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said to reporters on Monday. "Slavery has no place in our world, and these actions are among the most egregious abuses of human rights and may amount to crimes against humanity."
Migrants from Africa who are trying to reach Europe walk toward a detention center off the coastal town of Guarabouli, Libya, on July 8. (Photo: MAHMUD TURKIA via Getty Images)
Guterres called for the international community to unite in fighting the abuse and smuggling of migrants, notably by increasing avenues for legal migration and enhancing international cooperation in cracking down on smugglers and traffickers.
However, rights advocates caution that real action may be slow in coming. "People are rightfully outraged," Human Rights Watch researcher Hanan Salah told Reuters of CNN's video on Monday. "But don't hold your breath that anything real is going to happen."
There are more than 45 million people worldwide who are victims of modern slavery, including forced labor and human trafficking, according to a September report from the human rights group Walk Free Foundation.
In Libya, migrants have become particularly vulnerable to human trafficking. The country functions as the main gateway for Africans to reach Europe, but it is also one of the world's most unstable, mired in conflict since dictator Muammar Gaddafi was ousted and killed in 2011.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing poverty or conflict travel to Libya each year, hoping to set off from the country's coast to Europe. Once in Libya, they find themselves at the mercy of smugglers operating the dangerous boat passages across the Mediterranean.
Operating without many constraints, smuggling networks have adopted ruthless methods ― often killing, torturing, extorting and detaining migrants at will. The Libyan government does not have the means nor the commitment to crack down. European countries' efforts to keep migrants from their own borders have forced the travelers to take ever greater risks to reach the continent.
"To end the slave trade we need to stop human smuggling," William Lacy Swing, director general of the International Organization for Migration, said Thursday. "You do that by destroying their business model. And you do that by ... decriminalizing migration and encouraging migration that is documented, safe and secure for all."
TOPSHOT - Migrants try to pull a child out of the water as they wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya, on October 4, 2016. At least 1,800 migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast, the Italian coastguard announced, adding that similar operations were underway around 15 other overloaded vessels. / AFP / ARIS MESSINIS (Photo credit should read ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images)
Migrants wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO as they drift in the Mediterranean Sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya, on October 4, 2016. At least 1,800 migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast, the Italian coastguard announced, adding that similar operations were underway around 15 other overloaded vessels. / AFP / ARIS MESSINIS (Photo credit should read ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images)
Migrants hang from a boat as they wait to be rescued as they drift in the Mediterranean Sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya, on October 4, 2016. At least 1,800 migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast, the Italian coastguard announced, adding that similar operations were underway around 15 other overloaded vessels. / AFP / ARIS MESSINIS (Photo credit should read ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images)
SICILIAN STRAIT, MEDITERRANEAN SEA - MAY 25: Migrants in an overcrowded boat, which was about to capsize, are rescued by Bettica and Bergamini ships of Italian Navy at Sicilian Strait, between Libya and Italy, in Mediterranean sea on May 25, 2016. The Italian Navy saved around 500 migrants as they found dead bodies of seven migrants in the sea during the operations. (Photo by Italian Navy / Marina Militare/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
SICILIAN STRAIT, MEDITERRANEAN SEA - MAY 25: Migrants in a capsized boat are rescued by Bettica and Bergamini ships of Italian Navy at Sicilian Strait, between Libya and Italy, in Mediterranean sea on May 25, 2016. The Italian Navy saved around 500 migrants as they found dead bodies of seven migrants in the sea during the operations. (Photo by Italian Navy / Marina Militare/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
SICILIAN STRAIT, MEDITERRANEAN SEA - MAY 25: Italian marines rescue migrants from a capsized boat at Sicilian Strait, between Libya and Italy, in Mediterranean sea on May 25, 2016. The Italian Navy saved around 500 migrants as they found dead bodies of seven migrants in the sea during the operations. (Photo by Italian Navy / Marina Militare/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
SICILIAN STRAIT, MEDITERRANEAN SEA - MAY 25: A helicopter approaches to the capsized boat as Italian marines rescue migrants from an overcrowded boat at Sicilian Strait, between Libya and Italy, in Mediterranean sea on May 25, 2016. The Italian Navy saved around 500 migrants as they found dead bodies of seven migrants in the sea during the operations. (Photo by Italian Navy / Marina Militare/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY ELLA IDE - Coffins are ready for the autopsied body of migrants or refugees who died at sea on April 18, 2015, trying to cross the mediterranean to reach Europe, on November 5, 2015 at Marisicilia military Base in Melilli, Sicily. The military base hosts forensic medics of the Labanof Forensic Pathology laboratory, which specialises in identifying decomposed, burned or mutilated remains, who perform autopsies to make a database where DNA and other distinguishing features can be catalogued, allowing relatives in other EU countries or family members back home to find their dead. Since the first largescale wrecks off Lampedusa in 2013, Italy has been looking at ways to name those who had been fleeing war, poverty or persecution in places as far flung as Sub-Saharan Africa, Pakistan or Syria. AFP PHOTO / MARCELLO PATERNOSTRO (Photo credit should read MARCELLO PATERNOSTRO/AFP/Getty Images)
A forensic medic of the Labanof Forensic Pathology laboratory prepares to perform autopsies on bodies of migrants believed to have drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean. The autopsies will be used to make a database cataloguing DNA and other distinguishing features. Nov. 5, 2015, Marisicilia military base in Melilli, Sicily.
In this photo taken on Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, Cristina Cattaneo puts victims' personal belongings inside labeled plastic bags in a lab in Milan, Italy. Cattaneo, a professor at the University of Milan, is leading a team of forensic pathologists who have volunteered to identify and catalogue roughly 800 migrants who lost their lives in one of the worst tragedies in the Mediterranean migrant crisis. Her work is a unique, historic project expanding the field of humanitarian legal medicine and also a multi-million euro effort on the part of the Italian government to shame Europe into paying attention to migrants lost at sea and help Italy face the inundation. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
Mediterranean Island of Lampedusa between Sicily and Malta , Lampedusa Gate to Europe, monument in memory of migrants drowned in the attempt to reach Europe from North Africa . Every year, thousands of migrants and refugees from Africa pay smugglers to help them cross the Mediterranean sea and reach the island. (Photo by: Andia/UIG via Getty Images)
Lampedusa (italy), midnight between august 27h and 28th. Migrants rescued by the Italian Coast Guard disembark at the Favarolo peer. (Photo by Marco Panzetti/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Dr Pietro Bartolo stands in front of a dilapidated migrant boat one of the many on show on a patch of shrubland in Lampedusa
TARANTO, ITALY - OCTOBER 20: Spanish ship ''Rio Segura'' carrying the 633 refugees rescued by Frontex's Operation Triton which was carried out between Italian island of Lampedusa and Libya, and the dead bodies of 8 refugees, arrive in Taranto port, Italy on October 20, 2015. (Photo by Alvaro Padilla Bengoa/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
LAMPEDUSA, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 12: Inside a former migrant detention center on September 12, 2014 in Lampedusa, Italy. Personal messages and graffiti by detainees marked some of the walls of the structure. This camp was closed in 2007 after a new, more secure site, was built on the island. At the height of the migrant influx on Lampedusa in 2011 some 30,000 plus took refuge on the island before being ferried to the Italian mainland. This figure represents over ten times the Island's usual population of around 3,000.(Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images)
A young migrant makes a walk outside the 'Temporary Permanence Centre' (CPT), a refugee camp on the Lampedusa island on February 19, 2015. Authorities on the Italian island of Lampedusa struggled to cope with a huge influx of newly-arrived migrants as aid organisations warned the Libya crisis means thousands more could be on their way. Officials on the tiny island south of Sicily were trying to process more than 1,200 exhausted, often traumatised and ill Africans in a reception centre designed for less than a third of that number. AFP PHOTO / ALBERTO PIZZOLI (Photo credit should read ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images)
Men and women refugees make a walk in the center of Lampedusa, on February 19, 2015. Authorities on the Italian island of Lampedusa struggled to cope with a huge influx of newly-arrived migrants as aid organisations warned the Libya crisis means thousands more could be on their way. Officials on the tiny island south of Sicily were trying to process more than 1,200 exhausted, often traumatised and ill Africans in a reception centre designed for less than a third of that number. AFP PHOTO / ALBERTO PIZZOLI (Photo credit should read ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images)
LAMPEDUSA, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 8: A migrant ship graveyard on September 8, 2014 in Lampedusa, Italy. In the early days of mass migration from North Africa, Italian authorities would tow the ships full of migrants into the port, where they dumped into this boatyard. Nowadays, Italian authorities are ordered to destroy the migrant boats at sea after having transferred the migrants onto coast guard boats. Many of the boats are bought by human trafficking gangs for the sole purpose of transporting migrants over the Mediterranean Sea. They're often steered by inexperienced and poorly trained crew members.(Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images)
MSIDA, MALTA - APRIL 23: Friends and families attend the funeral service for 24 drowned Mediterranean refugees on April 23, 2015 in Msida, Malta. Up to 920 refugees died while trying to reach the Southern coasts of Italy, when the ship carrying them capsized in waters between the Italian island of Lampedusa and Libya. PHOTOGRAPH BY James Galea / Barcroft Media (Photo credit should read James Galea / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)
Migrants make a walk outside the 'Temporary Permanence Centre' (CPT), a refugee camp on the Lampedusa island on February 19, 2015. Authorities on the Italian island of Lampedusa struggled to cope with a huge influx of newly-arrived migrants as aid organisations warned the Libya crisis means thousands more could be on their way. Officials on the tiny island south of Sicily were trying to process more than 1,200 exhausted, often traumatised and ill Africans in a reception centre designed for less than a third of that number. AFP PHOTO / ALBERTO PIZZOLI (Photo credit should read ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images)
Dr Pietro Bartolo sits in the childrens playroom at the hospital in Lampedusa which has been set up especially for migrant and refugee children
A migrant stands behind a fence of the 'Temporary Permanence Centre' (CPT), a refugee camp on February 17, 2015 in Lampedusa. The Italian coastguard launched a massive operation Sunday to rescue more than 2,000 migrants in difficulty between the Italian island of Lampedusa and the Libyan coast, local media said. The emergency rescue came on the same day Italy said it was evacuating staff from its embassy in Libya and suspending operations there, highlighting the worsening security situation in the violence-plagued country. AFP PHOTO / ALBERTO PIZZOLI (Photo credit should read ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images)
BERLIN, GERMANY - APRIL 08: A refugee from Niger stands by near huts that were being torn down at a temporary, city-tolerated refugee camp at Oranienplatz in Kreuzberg district on April 8, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. Refugees, many of them from Africa who came to Germany via Lampedusa, began dismantling their shelters today after many of them agreed to a deal with city authorities to move to a renovated hostel. Not all of the several hundred refugees, some of whom have been living at the Oranienplatz camp almost a year, have agreed to the deal, and while some said they will go elsewhere, some insist they will stay, despite a city order to vacate. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
The coffins with the bodies of immigrants who died trying to reach the Italian coast arrive from Lampedusa on February 11, 2015 in Porto Empedocle where they will be buried in cemeteries of the area. More than 300 migrants are feared drowned after their overcrowded dinghies sank in the Mediterranean, triggering calls for the world to act after the latest boat disaster in a perilous crossing from Africa to Europe. The victims were mainly from sub-Saharan Africa who had left the coast of conflict-wracked Libya at the weekend in four small inflatable boats, the UN refugee agency said. AFP PHOTO / MARCELLO PATERNOSTRO (Photo credit should read MARCELLO PATERNOSTRO/AFP/Getty Images)
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1-30 what effect do scrooges repeated questions achieve?
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Candeán es una parroquia de Vigo, en la comunidad autónoma de Galicia, España. Su origen toponímico está relacionado con las palabras "candea" o "cando" significando así que era un lugar de recogida de remaje para prender fuego.

Datos básicos
Actualmente el número de habitantes censados en esta parroquia es de 4.602 habitantes.

Historia
Perteneció al antiguo ayuntamiento de Lavadores y se encuentra situada entre los montes de A Madroa y O Vixiador. Recoge unas amplias vistas de la Ría de Vigo.

En esta parroquia se encuentran asentamientos prehistóricos tales como petroglifos y dólmenes. En ella también se encuentran restos de una construcción medieval denominada por los vecinos locales como a [Da Torre].

Su origen se remonta a los comienzos del Siglo XIX, cuando se construye la actual iglesia de San Cristovo. En el interior del cementerio se encuentra uno de los cruceros de esta parroquia, fechado en 1887.

En las faldas de A Madroa se encuentra un dolmen, también conocido como Casa dos Mouros y el zoológico de Vigo, conocido como Vigozoo.
Las instalaciones deportivas del conocido equipo de fútbol del municipio, Real Club Celta de Vigo se encuentra en esta parroquia. Además cuenta con una importante asociación cultural llamada Unión Veciñal Cultural e Deportiva de Candeán.

Fiestas
El segundo domingo de septiembre se celebra la conocida [Festa dos Pexegos]. Una fiesta de carácter religiosa en el que el producto principal será el melocotón.

Patrón
El patrón de este pueblo es San Cristovo.

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Even if it had not been waived - Trump's orders to DM to fire Mueller and then lie about it can't possibly be covered by EP.
He likes Man U better but thinks City will win.
It would have been different likely yes. I don't think it's something that anyone in DOJ necessarily thought they could just change. But I agree that it should be reconsidered.
it was a joke lighten up.
Not through normal channels that I can think of. It would all be internal DOJ memos and discussions.
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A Mother's Intuition and Respecting the Next Generation
My mom, Anne Meshanko, has always been a bit ahead of the pack. Sometimes, so far ahead of the pack, that others around her thought that her ideas were a bit far out…even weird. Count me in that crowd when she first suggested, probably 15 years ago, that children carry the emotional scarring of their parents. And she didn't mean metaphorically. She specifically said that they carried the trauma of their parents genetically. Had my mom been a neuroscientist or geneticist, I might have given the notion a second thought. But she's not. While very educated, my mom has her Master's Degree in Theology. So what could she possibly know about genetics or hereditary trauma? Evidently, more than I thought.
I'm not a researcher. Never have been nor want to be. I simply don't have the disposition for the kind of careful, methodical (tedious) work that must be done to either validate or disprove carefully thought out hypotheses. But what I do exceptionally well is synthesis and tease out the "so what" from other people's research, especially in the areas of neuroscience, anthropology, psychology and organizational development. So when I started spotting references to my mom's "crazy" notion about inherited trauma, I paid attention. Could there really be something to it? It turns out that there is.
The most recent evidence that we do, in fact, pass our traumatic experiences on to future generations comes from research at the Brain Research Institute at the University of Zurich. There's even a very academic sounding term for the process: non-genetic inheritance of behavioral symptoms induced by traumatic experiences in early life. Without boring you with the technical descriptions of the encoding of "microRNAs", here was the conclusion reached by the researchers in studying the phenomenon in mice:
After traumatic experiences, the mice behaved markedly differently: they partly lost their natural aversion to open spaces and bright light and had depressive-like behaviors. These behavioral symptoms were also transferred to the next generation via sperm, even though the offspring were not exposed to any traumatic stress themselves. The effects on metabolism and behavior even persisted in the third generation.
There it is. Mom was right. How she figured it out, I have no idea. Maybe my own ability to synthesis published research is just a crude adaptation of something that she is able to do through observation, intuition and pure genius.
Here's where I can (hopefully) add a few of my own original thoughts about why this finding is so important. It's important because how we treat each other not only affects our own immediate well-being, it has the capacity to affect the physical and emotional wellness of our future generations. When we intentionally engage in behaviors around each other the convey respect, dignity, belonging and value, we create an emotional foundation that unlocks our greatest potential around each other. But when we treat others in ways that demean, devalue, exclude, or dehumanize, we create wounds that damage our health and productivity which may persist for generations to come.
When I wrote The Respect Effect last year, I knew that the work was important for helping pave the way for healthier, more productive workforces in my generation. It now appears that rationale and tools for building truly respectful cultures at work and in our communities will be important for every generation.


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If you're new to cocktails and are having friends over, this is incredibly easy to make. You fill a cup with ice (be sure to get the round ice from the convenient store) and pour the ingredients one by one straight into the glass. No shaking or fancy work involved. Put a sprig of thyme in the glass and an apple slice if you so desire and voila, a fancy looking cocktail.
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3. Pour in 2 oz. of ginger ale.
4. Pour in 2 oz. of apple juice.
5. Add a sprig of thyme and a slice of apple.
An easy and flavorful fall cocktail recipe with apple juice, ginger ale and vodka.


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RWMF at WOMEX in Spain
Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF) participated in the 24th edition of Womex – The World Music Expo at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain from Oct 24–28.
With such a positive enquiries from international bands and artistes, it comes as no surprise that Sarawak can become a key market to music lovers all over the world", said STB Events and Corporate Relations director Angelina Bateman.
Attending the event with the RWMF organising staff were award-winning Sarawak band and two-time RWMF star group, Nading Rhapsody, who are known for their blend of traditional and contemporary Sarawak music.
Represented by Royston Kulleh and Azhfar Raimi, Nading Rhapsody hoped to gain as much international experience as possible from this renowned world music expo.
"Attending Womex is a big step for us and an opportunity to promote the unique music from Sarawak," said Royston Kulleh. He and Azhfar Raimi represented Nading Rhapsody at the expo.
RWMF has garnered international recognition in the 21 years it has been held, with over 20,000 festival goers attending in 2018
The Sarawak Tourism Board believes in giving Sarawakian music artistes opportunities to perform at an international level as RWMF continues to bring in global music audience, as well as facilitating their presence in the international world music scene.
"STB provides an avenue for representatives to attend this international event with us and promote themselves on the international music scene, in the hope that they would be able to perform on their own at international events outside Malaysia and prove that Sarawak has something unique to offer in terms of music and culture," said Angelina Bateman, STB Director of Events and Corporate Services, as well as organising director of the RWMF.
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NAACP President Resigns
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NEW YORK — Bruce S. Gordon's recent decision to quit as NAACP president after clashing with the board over the group's mission highlights a stubborn problem for activists: how to do civil rights work in an era decades after the movement's peak.
Should the NAACP have allowed Gordon, as Chairman Julian Bond put it, to "pull (them) into the post-civil rights period?"
Bond firmly rejected the idea.
"We're not post-civil rights," he said. "The struggle continues."
Bond and other members of the 64-person board he leads believe that, though dramatic gains have been made in race relations since the 1950s, the movement has not yet completed its task — and won't until persistent racial gaps in achievement and opportunity disappear.
Few American Blacks would quibble that equality remains an unfulfilled dream.
Gordon recognizes that, too. He often sparked applause among NAACP rank-and-file when he paraphrased Charles Dickens, telling them that, "for African-Americans, this is the best of times and the worst of times."
But how to address the "worst" part?
The Baltimore-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, since its founding in 1909, has focused on advocacy — raising public awareness of inequality — not service. For instance, to combat Black unemployment, the group would hold protest marches, gather signatures and lobby elected officials for better public policy. It would not offer skills training or make job referrals.
But from the start of his presidency 19 months ago, Gordon made clear he wanted to do more of the latter — and he repeatedly resisted being reined in by the NAACP's traditional mission or its enforcement body, the board of directors.
He rankled many board members when he traveled the country with a power-point slide show detailing his plans for providing social services.
"We are going to be very outcome-oriented, very results-oriented," he said last July, "as opposed to activity and effort-oriented."
Gordon's goals of closing racial disparities in wealth, education and on prison rolls were, he admitted then, "high bars."
"But if we don't engage in addressing the fundamental issues that, to me, represent the civil rights struggles of the 21st century, then we shouldn't exist."
Gordon is leaving, Bond said, because the organization is "resisting philosophical change. We're staying the course."
It's not that NAACP hasn't considered changing. Starting in 2000, board members re-evaluated the group's mission and strategic plan with experts at Harvard University's School of Business, said Rupert Richardson, a board member from Baton Rouge, La.
"We spent four years studying how we could effectively bring about change in this country," Richardson said. "We came to the conclusion that advocacy was the way we should focus. Other organizations do service. We felt we were created to advocate for justice."
But Gordon, a retired Verizon Corp. executive, questions the wisdom in that — and so do others.
"The NAACP struggled for almost 100 years to get basic citizenship rights (for Blacks)," said Robert C. Smith, a political scientist at California State University at San Francisco. "They won that. ... We are now in the post-civil rights era."
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 secured Blacks' basic citizenship rights and opened countless opportunities to new generations. Today, the Black middle class is bigger than ever. Blacks graduate high school at nearly the same rate as Whites. In many arenas, from politics to entertainment, African Americans are holding their own and excelling.
It's a new day. Many had hoped Gordon would help lead the organization into another era.
Instead, the group is appointing a search committee to find a new president for the second time in less than three years.
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Which Employability Skills Are Favoured The Most?
Whatever your age or experience level, you should make it a regular task to try and learn new skills and capabilities that can help you.
Careers are changing more and more every day, and you need to demonstrate a willingness to adapt any new task's that might be given to you.
You need employability skills to ensure success in the workplace, and can be learned, developed and kept with you over your career.
In today's post, we're going to discuss 10 of the most important and sought after employability skills you'll need if you want to succeed in your job search.
Communication / Interpersonal – You need to be able to explain what you mean in a precise and clear way, written and spoken. You also need to be able to listen and relate.
Problem Solving – You must be able to demonstrate a logical and analytical approach to solving issues.
Self-Motivation / Own Initiative – For this, you must be able to identify opportunities, act on initiative, come up with new ideas which can become a reality.
Working Under Pressure / Meeting Deadlines – If working to tight deadlines and under pressure, you must be able to take control of the stress that comes with these tasks.
Organisational – Employers will want you to be able to plan and organise your work, ensuring that it meets targets.
Team Working – You'll need to show that you're a team player, but can also manage, delegate, and take on responsibilities. You need to show that you can build positive, professional relationships.
Negotiation – You need to be able to put forward your ideas, but also be able to understand what the other person is saying, should there be any disagreements or suggestions.
Flexibility – For this, you should be able to demonstrate a willingness to adapt successfully in a changing environment, and to changing situations / tasks.
Computer / Technical Literacy – Most employers now require some sort of basic knowledge of computer software and hardware. Use of word processing software, spreadsheets, email and social media are the main things they will look for.
Commercial Awareness – This one is about knowing your industry and business inside out. You should be able to know how they both work and what commercial realities can affect them.
There are loads more employability skills that we could cover, but these are just the main ones we decided to feature.
We'll have more on this subject for you soon!
Author Chris Ripley-DugganPosted on 23rd June 2016 22nd June 2016 Categories Job Search, Success, Uncategorised, WorkplaceTags employability skills, workplace skills1 Comment on Which Employability Skills Are Favoured The Most?


Dr. Paula Vincent helps to educate 140,300 Iowa students each year. As the chief administrative officer of the Heartland Area Education Agency, headquartered in Des Moines, Vincent works with 53 school districts in the center of the state. The Heartland AEA is Iowa's largest education agency.
Vincent earned both her MA in special education in 1983 and her PhD in educational leadership in 1994 at the University of Iowa.
Before she took her position at the Heartland AEA in 2010, Vincent was superintendent of the Clear Creek Amana Community School District. She has also worked in the Cedar Rapids Community School District, at the Grant Wood Area Education Agency located in Cedar Rapids, and as a classroom teacher.
While serving as director of special education at the Grant Wood AEA, Vincent helped create the Vital Program. The program, in partnership with Kirkwood Community College, provided students with disabilities the opportunity to continue their educations in a college setting.
Dr. Brad Buck, director of the Iowa Department of Education has worked with Vincent throughout his career.


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As part of International Day of Peace 2020, this webinar will highlight and unpack the specific impact discrimination, including race and religious discrimination can have on mental health. The panel will combine experts in the fields of Psychology, Anti-Discrimination Law, Academia and Islamophobia to share information, resources and coping mechanisms to deal with the toll of discrimination.
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Unpacking the impact of discrimination on mental health, understanding the law, and the available services and resources when you experience racism.
There will be opportunity for questions. Join MWA on this important online event on the 24th of September 2020.
Elizabeth Wing – Executive Manager, Anti-Discrimination NSW
Hajeh Maha Krayem Abdo OAM – CEO, MWA
Dr Derya Iner – Senior Lecturer and Research Coordinator, Centre for Islamic Studies, Charles Sturt University
Nasreen Hanifi – President & Psychologist, Mission of Hope
Who: Women
What: Online webinar
When: Thursday 24th September 2020 12pm – 1.30pm
About Hajeh Maha Krayem Abdo
Maha Abdo OAM is a passionate advocate for social justice and uses the common language of faith to clarify in the community how Islam regards justice and equality. She serves as the CEO of Muslim Women Australia (MWA), a community-based organisation that caters to the educational, religious, social, recreational and welfare needs of Muslim women from all backgrounds.
Maha knows the migrant experience firsthand having moved from Lebanon to Australia with her family in the 1960s. She has completed a Bachelor of Social Work, a Masters in Social Science, and Graduate Diploma in Family Dispute Resolution.
Today Maha represents and gives voice to Muslim women abroad as well as in Australia. She advises government on policy, services and strategies to create a harmonious community for Muslim and non-Muslim women. In 2016 Maha was the NSW Seniors Week Ambassador as well as the BreastScreen NSW Ambassador. In 2015 Maha was a finalist for the Australian Human Rights Commission's Human Rights Medal, and in 2014 she was the NSW Human Rights Ambassador for 2014-15.
About Elizabeth Wing
Elizabeth Wing is an experienced lawyer, conciliator, manager and public servant. She is currently Executive Manager of Anti-Discrimination NSW. She is responsible for the general management of ADNSW within the Department of Communities and Justice. Elizabeth commenced working with the Anti-Discrimination NSW in 2002 and was Acting President from January 2016 to August 2017.
After graduating from Sydney University, Elizabeth was admitted as a Solicitor and commenced 8 years of practice in the private sector. She subsequently went to work for state and federal government agencies and the community legal sector, including senior roles at the Australian Human Rights Commission, the Health Care Complaints Commission and as the Principal Solicitor of Women's Legal Resources Centre. Elizabeth has worked extensively in regulatory bodies for over 20 years.
She has a lived experience of discrimination and is deeply committed to confronting discrimination and injustice in all areas of life.
About Dr Derya Iner
Derya Iner is Senior Lecturer and Research Coordinator at the Centre for Islamic Studies, Charles Sturt University, teaching and researching subjects on contemporary issues related to Islam, Islamic cultures and Muslims.
She completed her PhD in Cultural Studies and Gender Studies in Wisconsin-Madison (USA). Her research focuses on Islamophobia, especially women and children's experience with Islamophobia, Western Muslim Youth and Religious identity, and early twentieth-century Ottoman intellectual history.
She is the chief investigator and editor of the Islamophobia in Australia Reports, which grabbed worldwide attention by reaching out to potential 730 million international audiences by media coverage (reported by CSU media metrics). Derya is also executive board member of the Islamophobia Register Australia.
About Nasreen Hanifi
Nasreen Hanifi is a qualified and trained Psychologist who currently runs her own private practice. In the last five years, she has been actively involved in the Islamic community working as the President of Mission of Hope and the Director of Clinical Operations for Hayat House which is a drug and alcohol service.
She has worked in various fields over the years, from the Government sector to Not-For-Profit to the corporate sector. She has worked as an Organisational Psychologist for an organisation in Melbourne before moving back to Sydney and working in the disability sector as a Consultant Psychologist. She has also worked as the Senior Clinician and Manager of the Community Counselling team in the Drug Health Services team in South Western Sydney Local Health District before moving into private practice where she runs her services. She is extremely passionate about the drug and alcohol sector and has completed her Masters with her thesis focus on the drug and alcohol area of practice. She is currently working with South Western Sydney Health District as a Consultant on their new drug and alcohol initiative and is an Approved Counsellor with Victim Services NSW.
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Ubisoft might have accidentally leaked the next game in the Assassin's Creed series. Earlier today, the company posted a Flash file containing the game's logo and the name Altaïr, in Arabic script, to the official Assassin's Creed Facebook page. The Facebook post is gone for now, but the evidence remains in the form of a Flash File.
Ubisoft promised to unveil the third part of the acclaimed Assassin's Creed series in May. Expect more news in this year's E3!


Denial of Treatment to Handicapped Newborns: In Whose Interest?
Patrick Wiseman, Denial of Treatment to Handicapped Newborns: In Whose Interest?, 3 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 231 (1987).
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What kinds of results are given?
The test is scored according to the ICAO Language Proficiency Rating Scale. You will be given a score from 1 to 6 for your performance in Pronunciation, Structure, Vocabulary, Fluency, Comprehension and Interactions. The overall mark will be the lowest of these scores. All of this information is recorded on your certificate.


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Q: How can I put CSS style in my I18n locale? I have a following translation:
welcome: Hello there, %{general_kenobi}
Now I know, that I can put HTML tags in the translation, like <em> or so. But what if I want this general_kenobi to have my custom style? How do I implement it? I've tried to google it, but didn't find anythin useful (or maybe I'm just bad at googling). Thank in advance!

A: If you want to add something fancy like this to your locale you must add the _html extension to the key.
From the docs

Keys with a '_html' suffix and keys named 'html' are marked as HTML
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all-day Mainline Music Festival – Wolseley @ Town Hall/Opera House
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What was once a small railroad and farming community has flourished into one of Canada's best-kept secrets – a small town in Saskatchewan brimming with life and vitality.
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'I was told my symptoms were due to stress'
By Jo Abi| 3 years ago
For years, doctors told Mandy Hunwick her symptoms were due to stress. In their defence, the Queensland woman was stressed.
"I first had symptoms in 2010, but I had been suffering from autoimmune arthritis since 2007," she tells 9Honey.
"I have flare-ups due to that and was on medication, which can mask the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis (MS)."
At the time, Mandy, 42, was in a high-pressure job and had been for 10 years.
"Stress at work was exacerbating it further," she continued.
"Every time I presented to my GP with new symptoms, he said it was stress or stress-related or a repetitive strain injury, or I was just overworked."
It took years for Mandy to be properly diagnosed. (Supplied)
Despite the reassurances, Mandy knew something was "seriously wrong". At this point it was 2014, and her symptoms were getting worse.
"My cognitive function was impaired, I was having trouble concentrating, my vision was being affected and I was suffering from migraines," she says.
"One of the strangest symptoms was difficult with my bladder. I'd go to the bathroom and would feel like I hadn't emptied it properly. I'd also gained quite a bit of weight by then."
By then, it was 2014 and Mandy was getting so sick she'd have to take weeks off work.
Two years later, Mandy started to have para-seizures. She was admitted to Emergency Department at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, when MS was finally diagnosed.
"When they first mentioned MS to me I was scared by also relieved," she says.
She now lives with her parents and is no longer working. (Supplied)
"It was something I didn't know a great deal about, so I started researching it myself.
"But by then my cognitive function was so bad I was having trouble taking any information in."
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a condition of the central nervous system, interfering with nerve impulses within the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves.
Mandy's long-term relationship broke up, partly she believes due to the demands of her condition. She is now living with her parents who are both aged in their seventies.
Mandy says life with multiple sclerosis can be a struggle.
"When I'm really really bad, it's difficult for me to actually convey what I'm needing or wanting or how I'm feeling.
"Just general, basic communication can be an absolute battle."
She also finds it difficult to balance herself, is affected by darkness so avoids restaurants and cinemas and has become socially isolated.
A battle with anxiety and depression came soon after.
A battle with anxiety and depression soon followed. (Supplied)
"There was a point in time during a flare-up from MS and stress and so many things going on, I was pretty low and just didn't want to continue living," she confesses.
What stopped her at the time was her love of her dog Sunny Boy, who has since passed away, and her determination to one day get to a better place.
Mandy is sharing her story for World MS Day out of frustration.
"For me, everybody looks at me and their first reaction is, 'You don't look sick', and it's frustrating," she says.
"I would love for people to ask what MS is like and how it affects me and others."
Monday 30 May is International World MS Day. Find out more at worldmsday.org.


» Get rid of Brunswick St mall in Brisbane?
Get rid of Brunswick St mall in Brisbane?
Recreating Brunswick Street Mall as a two-lane road is one of the proposals being considered by lord mayor Graham Quirk as part of his plan to "fix" Fortitude Valley.
Looks like they've decided the mall there is no good, and they're looking at other options.
Do you think Brunswick Street Mall should be opened to traffic?
I can tell you my opinion; it isn't the mall itself that is a problem, it's some of the regulars that spend a lot of time there.
I don't understand the problem, and i'd say 70% of the votes do not. I neither work there, or need to drive through there. So my only concern is the very few times i'm there for dinner, if i want cars passing by.
yeah i don't see how cars driving through it would have any possitive impact.. on anything?
where's the 'build a tunnel under the mall' option?
Build a network of tunnels with subway trams running through.
is a waste of time, else keep it closed.
But where would they have the markets?
We have enough problems with drunks getting hit by cars in the valley and they want to create another road for drunks to stumble out on to... brilliant.
I don't want to have to go to the city to watch a good fight at 3am on a Saturday.
Though in all my years I think I've only seen one fight in the mall and it was pathetic.
Part of the Valley's appeal is the melting pot that is the mall. See you Saturday night (well the Cabaret club anyway).
A bit off topic... but what happened to that gaming place that opened in the mall (I think it was the mall) - is it still there?
greedy property owners don't get enough loot from "beer barns" so they want to move the suits in. suits have the phat loots.
offices & businesses instead of concerts & gigs... just what brisbane needs.
wait wouldn't this cost money? i thought we don't have any money.. at least that's what they keep saying slashing programs that dont really cost that much..
Why the hell would they get rid of it?That would be like doing the same thing to Queen St Mall.


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Government Inspector
The news that a government inspector is due to arrive in a small Russian town sends its bureaucrats into a panicked frenzy. A simple case of mistaken identity exposes the hypocrisy and corruption at the heart of the town in this biting moral satire.
David Harrower's version of Nikolai Gogol's Government Inspector premiered at the Warwick Arts Centre in May 2011 and transferred to Young Vic, London in June.
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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-52), the greatest Russian novelist and playwright of the early 19th century, wrote the first realist Russian plays. He is celebrated for his novel Dead Souls (1842) and his short stories 'The Overcoat' and 'Diary of a Madman'. His satirical masterpiece Government Inspector (1836; first seen in London in 1920) was so severely attacked that he went…
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Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017, the seminal Tom Stoppard play is repackaged as a stylish Faber Modern Classic.
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Juhel de Totnes (died 1123/30) (alias Juhel fitz Alfred, Juhel de Mayenne, Judel, Judhel, Judael, Judhael, Joel, Judhel de Totenais), Latinised to Judhellus filius Aluredi, "Juhel son of Alured") was a soldier and supporter of William the Conqueror (1066–1087). He was the first feudal baron of Totnes and feudal baron of Barnstaple, both in Devon.

Origins
He originated either in Brittany or in Mayenne, in the Pays de la Loire/Maine, as his surname of de Mayenne given in an early charter suggests. He was the son of a certain Alfred, Latinised to Aluredus, expressed in Anglo-Norman French as fitz Alfred (i.e. Latin filius, modern French fils de, "son of"). He had a brother named Robert (Latin: Rotbertus) named in the foundation charter of Totnes Priory, c. 1087.

Career
In 1069 Juhel was one of the leaders of the Breton forces on the Norman side, fighting against the remaining forces that had been loyal to King Harold. He had been granted by William the Conqueror the  feudal barony of Totnes, Devon, and held many manors in south-west England, at the time of the Domesday Book of 1086, including Clawton, Broadwood Kelly, Bridford and Cornworthy. However, Barry Cunliffe names him as one of two Breton noblemen who held land in England prior to Norman Conquest.

In about 1087, he founded Totnes Priory. He was expelled from the barony of Totnes shortly after the death of King William I in 1087.  According to the historian Frank Barlow (1983), King William II "replaced the Breton Judhel, whom he expelled from Totnes at the beginning of his reign for an unknown reason, with his favourite, Roger I of Nonant". However at some time before 1100 Juhel  was granted the large feudal barony of Barnstaple, Devon.

Progeny
Juhel had two daughters; also a son named Alfred who died without progeny before 1139.
Alfred's two sisters, one of whom was called Aenor while the name of the other is unknown, were his co-heiresses, each inheriting a moiety of the barony of Barnstaple. The unnamed sister married Henry de Tracy whilst Aenor married Philip de Braose (d. 1134/55), feudal baron of Bramber, Sussex and a Marcher Lord. son of William I de Braose (d. 1093/6). In 1206 Juhel's great-grandson William III de Braose (1140/50–1211) regained control of half the barony of Totnes.

Death
Juhel was still living in 1123 but had died before 1130.

References

Further reading
John Bryan Williams, "Judhael of Totnes: The Life and Times of a Post-Conquest Baron", Anglo-Norman Studies; 16 (1993) pp. 271–289

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Kate Gavino's Sanpakue, a New Graphic Novel from Boom! in August
Posted on February 14, 2018 | by Rich Johnston | 0 Comment(s)
Kate Gavino of Last Night's Reading has created an original graphic novel, Sanpaku, to be published by Boom! Studios in August. The comic "tells the story of Marcine, a woman fascinated with the Japanese idea of Sanpaku—that seeing the white around the iris of your eyes is a bad omen. But it's everywhere Marcine looks—her grandmother has it, some classmates at Catholic school have it, JFK had it…even Marcine might suffer from this odd condition. Eating a strict macrobiotic diet and meditating is supposed to help, but no matter how much Marcine wants it to, it can't save her grandmother's life or make her days at school any easier."
Packaged in a deluxe hardcover format, Sanpaku aims to explore this Japanese theory through Gavino's own Catholic, Filipino background to weave a coming-of-age story about challenging the world around you, no matter your age, to find your true self.
"Sanpaku was inspired by my childhood in the suburbs of Houston, Texas, where I was surrounded by my classmates at a small Catholic school and my religious immigrant family," said Gavino. "Marcine is at the point in her adolescence where she is constantly questioning what she is taught, and in effort to find something of her own to believe in, she ends up clinging to the idea of sanpaku and finding its cure. I wanted to write a book about the people I know the best: the quiet girl in class whose imagination is running at hyper-speed, the old Filipino lola who is a master shoplifter, the upright Catholic who is constantly letting herself down, and the bitchy best friend who will never forgive you for seeing her crap in the sandbox in kindergarten. Sanpakuis a look into their world, told through the eyes of Marcine, a perpetually confused twelve year-old who at the end of the day, just misses her grandma."
"Cartoonist Kate Gavino is primed to be one of her generation's most refreshing and honest voices in comics. Her worlds are tremendously fun and unabashedly insightful," said Sierra Hahn, Senior Editor, BOOM! Studios. "We're so honored to have this titles as part of the Archaia line, readers will be mesmerized by this seminal work."
Sanpaku is published in August 2018.
About Rich Johnston
Chief writer and founder of Bleeding Cool. Father of two. Comic book clairvoyant. Political cartoonist.
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Supermarket chain Tesco publicized successful completion of the first batch of students participating in the 10-month programme on agriculture sales and marketing conducted by its Africa Community Fund. The project, funded by a partnership of Tesco (through its Africa Community Fund) and the Department for International Development had two of their top fruit suppliers Fruitways and Trucape joined as workplace partners.
All 20 graduates who received their diploma are currently going through interviews to secure employment. tudents were recruited from the Grabouw area, the centre of the apple and pear industry in South Africa. It's a community in extreme poverty with 40% of adults unemployed and 11% of people have no form of income. Education levels are low and it has one of the highest levels of tuberculosis (TB) in any town in the world. The PYDA targeted 18-25-year-old's who wanted to commit to change.
Tesco found an NGO with a programme of personal development and farming vocational skills. The Pinotage Youth Development Academy (PYDA) ran specific wine production training with practical experience. Its aim was to make unemployed youngsters more employable. The PYDA has a good record of success in the wine sector. Tesco wanted to replicate that programme in fruit production. They developed a 10-month programme with a qualification in agriculture sales and marketing.
Tesco supports unemployed youth in South Africa to strengthen the fruit production industry. Agriculture is becoming devoid of young enthusiastic professionals in South Africa. Farming is no longer considered an attractive employment option. Suppliers are concerned for the future security of the industry. Tesco wanted to change these perceptions and support our farming communities. Tesco colleagues also shared their fruit growing expertise through workshops and industry events.


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In music, Op. 42 stands for Opus number 42. Compositions that are assigned this number include:

 Arnold – Homage to the Queen
 Britten – Saint Nicolas
 Bruch – Romance in A minor
 Busoni – Berceuse élégiaque
 Chopin – Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 42
 Elgar – Diarmuid and Grania
 Glière – Symphony No. 3
 Haydn – String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 42
 Holst – At the Boar's Head
 Ippolitov-Ivanov – Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 2
 Mendelssohn – Psalm 42
 Nielsen – Fynsk Foraar
 Rachmaninoff – Variations on a Theme of Corelli
 Rautavaara – Études
 Schumann – Frauenliebe und -leben
 Shostakovich – Five Fragments
 Tchaikovsky – Souvenir d'un lieu cher
 Widor – Symphony for Organ No. 5
 Widor – Symphony for Organ No. 6


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In defiance of the government shutdown that continues to impact federal workers and public lands, a broad-based package of public lands bills, including a measure that would revive the Land and Water Conservation Fund, has been introduced in the Senate.
The introduction of S. 47 culminates weeks-long negotiations among Senate leaders that began during the 115th Congress and takes advantage of a mechanism, Rule 14, that fast-tracks it to the Senate floor. Although the package faces opposition by some senators who are refusing to consider legislation that fails to resolve the federal shutdown, its introduction under Rule 14 enables its speedy advancement to a vote.
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers commended the introduction of S. 47 by Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski and urged the Senate to unite in support of it.
Permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund with 3 percent dedicated to securing access to public lands for hunting and fishing.


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Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his home-world and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of a powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.
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The character of Shefali Shah, the lead artist of the Emmy Award-winning web series 'Delhi Crime', has been very neatly coined in the second season of this series.
The web series 'Delhi Crime 2', is going to be released in the first month of the new year.
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The web series 'Delhi Crime' is based on the Nirbhaya incident of 2012 in Delhi, the country's capital.
In this series, the character of Shefali Shah examines this misdemeanor incident which shakes the whole country.
Delhi Crime 2: Shefali Shah talks about her career so far
Shefali feels good that the series gave her a new identity as an actress and took her out of the chakravyuh which Hindi cinema had typed into her as a mother and stood around her.
Shefali says, 'Don't know how people have understood that I am for doing the same type of role. Played the role of mother in the early stages of her career.
At that time I was only 20 years old and the artist whose mother made me was 15 years old. At the age of 20, I played a woman of 45 years.
Bringing out his mind clearly, Shefali says, 'I played the mother of actor Akshay Kumar when I was 28-30 years old. I was very typecast in films very quickly, even though I was not so old.
According to that, today I am almost a hundred years old. She has played Amitabh Bachchan's wife and Akshay Kumar's mother in the 2005 film Waqt – The Race Against Time.
Shefali Shah says that earlier she used to do the films she got, but web series like 'Delhi Crime' gave her a chance to play a central role.
Shefali says that in films there is a hero and there is a heroine. Whereas, there is nothing like this in the content made on OTT. Everyone gets a chance to compete. Everyone is a hero in his character. This was a big benefit to him from 'Delhi Crime'.
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Walking the edge of Toronto in five days and 175,000 steps
By Tess KalinowskiReal Estate Reporter
Fri., Dec. 5, 2014timer8 min. read
On a wickedly frigid November morning, Toronto lawyer Albert Koehl laced up his new hiking shoes, zipped his yellow jacket over a carefully layered wardrobe and set out in search of adventure.
Although he had travelled extensively — crossing the Atlantic by freighter, journeying by bus to Guatemala, and crossing Africa by barge, bush taxi and bus — this time he wanted to explore new ground closer to home, and he wanted to do it on foot.
"With driving you don't get the smells, the sounds. You remember things when you walk. It's a pace at which you can absorb things," he explains.
His self-imposed mission was to visit all four corners of Toronto to test his downtowner's perspectives against the city's true size and varied landscapes.
He expected it would take three to four days to trace a path around Toronto's borders, about 120 km. In the end it took five, walking seven to eight hours a day — 175,000 steps, according to the pedometer he carried.
The journey that began about 8 a.m. under a bitter Wednesday sun ended on an unseasonably balmy Sunday about 6:30 p.m.
Click here for a map of Albert's journey
Koehl, 54, hadn't anticipated the vast stretches of rural terrain in northeast Toronto. It was snowy there, and he veered into Pickering near the outer edges of Rouge Park. He could occasionally hear geese honking, but it was an otherwise nearly silent stretch. Where sidewalks existed, they frequently weren't cleared.
The odyssey, he says, gave him a visceral sense of the city's size and the problems of traversing its distances; its inequities of space and opportunities for simple human contact.
"In a sense, almost everything I saw was new to me — or at least seen from a new perspective," he said.
"We always hear that Toronto has more construction cranes in the sky (than any other North American city). That's not the reality for 90 per cent of people."
Track Albert Koehl's journey
Once you get out of downtown, you can walk many kilometres without seeing a single crane.
Walking east along the lakefront, Koehl, was astonished by the pace of new construction rising on the waterfront — the bustle of the trendy Distillery District and the development of Corktown and Cherry St.
Less than 48 hours later, tracking west along the top of Toronto on Steeles Ave., he found himself yearning for the sight of even a garbage bin to relieve the monotony of the suburbs.
By the end of Day 2, when he arrived at Markham Rd. and Steeles Ave., Koehl says it was like "happening on an oasis in the desert," he was so starved for signs of human occupation.
It's not that he didn't know what to expect. Koehl's knowledge of the urban realities that divide and unite Toronto should have prepared him for the contrasting views of city life. A cycling and pedestrian activist, he was among the experts who assisted with the Ontario Chief Coroner's Pedestrian Death Review in 2012.
He decided to walk Toronto fresh off the loss of his first municipal election campaign, where he was among the 21 candidates who lost to Joe Cressy in the Trinity-Spadina council race. Central to Koehl's platform was the idea of turning King St. into a transit mall to get the perennially delayed and overcrowded 504 streetcar moving.
While the city's news agenda focuses mostly on the downtown — its design, its condos, its transit and its congestion — Koehl says the walk brought home the truth that, for most residents, those issues are only peripheral to where they live.
Here are some observations from Koehl's journey around Toronto's borders.
On pedestrians
One of the images that stayed with Koehl was that of a wary pedestrian anxiously peering over his shoulder as he crossed a right-turning channel leading to Highway 400 off Finch. It was an expression he saw over and over again, akin to a person being chased by zombies in a horror movie.
What he describes is a kind of civic betrayal. A person can be walking along, and all of a sudden the nearby cars begin speeding up. But there's nothing to indicate to drivers that they might see a pedestrian — no crosswalk, no sign to slow down.
"The message (to pedestrians) is, this road isn't built for you," says Koehl.
At Steeles and the Pickering-Scarborough town line, Koehl wondered if he was the first person to ever use the pedestrian crossing signal.
At Finch Ave. and Driftwood Rd., where a woman was killed in the intersection only hours before Koehl arrived there, he watched a dump truck run a red light "at a fair clip."
When a pedestrian is killed by a car, the reports frequently focus on that person crossing in the middle of a block or against the light, he said.
"I was amazed at how many unsafe conditions I found in my walk."
Near Bridlewood Mall, near Warden and Finch Ave., Koehl stopped to help a man push his scooter up a path that hadn't been cleared of snow two days after it fell.
"The roads were cleared and salted, but there was no effort to clear the sidewalks," he said.
Along Finch, clear sidewalks were the exception rather than the rule.
The prospect of adding about 2 million more residents to the Toronto region in the next 20 years preoccupies the city's agenda. Where will they live? Where will they drive? How will they cram on to the subway?
This is nonsense, says Koehl. There's plenty of space outside the downtown, particularly if we rethink the use of public realms such as roads — many of them dead space for most of the day.
Over time, the market will take care of reorganizing private space, including the vast front lawns of the suburbs that serve no purpose other than to set off homes that virtually no one sees.
Roads and parking lots
There are lots of reasons to move away from our car-based model of transportation — climate, health, safety and cost. Roads represent an inordinate amount of the public realm, says Koehl.
"We don't think of roads as public space, we think of it as car space and that's where there's so much opportunity – for green space, for shops – that's a really exciting opportunity that's presented as more people move in," he said.
"You don't feel crowded because there are more people, you feel crowded because there are more cars."
Parking lots only serve motorists, he said.
"For everyone else it becomes a burden.... All that parking space becomes a place you have to cross to use the bus, walk or get anywhere," said Koehl.
The TTC divides and unites the city
Koehl says he couldn't help being impressed by the reach of the TTC.
"There were buses on the loneliest stretches of road in the city and those buses usually had a fair number of people," he said.
"For most of five days I wasn't close to a subway station or streetcar track and yet subways and LRT dominate our municipal transport conversations," said Koehl.
He doesn't know why suburban dwellers are so fixated on subways.
"Leaving aside the financial issue, why would you put (transit) underground when you've got so much space?" said Koehl. "It would just enliven those areas. It only makes sense to put things underground if you've run out of space above ground."
In some areas, he said, "The bus stop is the loneliest place on Earth." On stretches of road where there was nothing but the occasional car and no homes visible from the main road, there might be a single person propped against a lonely bus stop.
Suburban myths
They aren't all quiet, tree-lined streets and not everyone who lives in the 'burbs owns a car or drives.
Koehl saw lots of people from high rise rental towers huddled at bus stops or dashing across wide avenues to their jobs or shopping at the local mall, which is the hub of suburban life.
Even though a lot of those people clearly didn't have cars or didn't want to drive to their destinations, they lived in buildings that were clearly built for motorists with big parking lots separating the typical cluster of three buildings.
"They have got those big lawns that really don't serve anyone. It just makes the distances between you and where you want to go, farther apart," said Koehl.
"Many of those people would struggle with the estimated $10,000 annual cost of a car and would benefit most from improved transit, cycling and walking facilities, as well as more attractive streetscapes," he said.
"The irony is that a pre-condition for the quiet, leafy, clean suburban neighbourhoods is the very congested, noisy and unhealthy arterial roads and highways they want to escape," said Koehl.
"We sometimes push ourselves to find reasons to say the suburbs are different," he said. "My observation was that I don't see that the suburban areas are different from downtown in terms of the desire to have more activity, more transit, to be nearer to things that are interesting to go to."
Human encounters
Koehl isn't the kind of person to strike up a conversation with a stranger in a cafe. He nevertheless missed the nods and eye contact that are part of everyday downtown life.
It's not that there were no people, it's just that most of them were in cars.
"We're social beings. There's something more pleasant and exciting to see when there are people around," he said.
The receptionist at the Maple Leaf Motel on Kingston Rd. where Koehl spent his first night massaging stiff feet, made an impression, even if the establishment itself didn't. It is rated one star out of five on the TripAdvisor website.
When he remarked on how many motels were in the area, his host assured him none was cleaner than the Maple Leaf.
Later the same morning a man busking outside a Tim Hortons offered to pray for him.
When Koehl finally arrived at Finch Ave. and Yonge St. early Friday afternoon – roughly the halfway point of his walk -- he appeared as a man stumbling out of the wilderness, gazing up at the towers and the faces that rushed by on the corner.
Koehl wasn't looking for a nature experience but the city's parks made a deep impression. Some of them came as a surprise. Wandering a bit among the maze of highways in the northwest of the city Koehl was amazed to discover the Claireville Conservation Area, hundreds of acres of forest on the border of Toronto and Brampton.
In Marie Curtis Park, he exchanged a few words with a man who helped direct Koehl to Toronto's southwestern border at the mouth of the Etobicoke Creek and Lake Ontario.
"You actually saw people in parks, whereas on the sidewalks there were long stretches where you didn't see anybody. When people are walking in parks they tend to be more friendly and approachable."
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Jelly Lin Discusses Her Breakout Success In "The Mermaid" At NYAFF
Published on : July 7, 2016 Published by : Adrienne Stanley
Chinese ingenue Jelly Lin is the breakout star of the blockbuster environmental flick, The Mermaid. After beating out more than 100,000 hopefuls for the opportunity to star in the Stephen Chow blockbuster film, the former model is poised to become a household name. We chatted with Jelly Lin during her recent appearance at the New York Asian Film Festival, where she was honored as one of the brightest new actresses in China.
The Mermaid is your first film role and one of the most successful movies in China, to date. How did you cast for The Mermaid and what is your thoughts on the character Shan?
I really loved The Mermaid as a fairy tale. As for the casting process, I participated in a national audition and competition that was for Stephen Chow's projects. There were about 120,000 participants, in the initial round. There was voting process on the internet, where I as voted in the top 40. After the top 40, there was a jury that selected 13 girls. At this point, I did acting auditions. I acted out the lines in multiple war walking around, in the style of the mermaid and swimming.
Did you always aspire to become an actress or did you have dreams of another profession, when you were growing up?
I wanted to be a scientist, a philosopher, a lot of different things when I was 7-years-old. People ask you, "What do you want to be when you grow up?," when you are seven. What I want to do, right now, is to travel the world. I always wanted to do that. Acting is something that grew out of me. I started trying out [for roles] and just started acting.
What are two things you would like English-speaking audiences to know about you?
One of the things is that I don't think I have emotional intelligence. Also, I can do everything about my look, myself. Today, I did all of my makeup, myself. The only thing I cannot do is to take pictures of myself.
Stephen Chow is internationally renown for his work on movies like Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle. What was it like to work with him?
Because Stephen Chow is a very popular director, he has a very particular style. He also has a really wild imagination. He has a very special type of humor. The crew will feel like something is not particularly laughable, but Stephen Chow will find it really, really funny. And it is hard to figure out what he finds funny or not, but sometimes, he would ask me to do a lot of things, without providing a reason. It's not always easy to figure out what he will do, the next second. So, he is always trying a lot of new things and he can be very unpredictable.
Did you perform your own stunts in The Mermaid, specifically in the skateboarding scenes?
I did the jumping and I did the entrance, but the middle part was a stunt double.
Your next film, L.O.R.D: Legend involves computer generated effects. What were some of the challenges of filming in this style?
It's like two very different films. Stephen Chow has his own style and his own sense of humor. So, he would change a lot of the script, on the spot. He would change a lot of things so that you were not expecting to act according to the script. In my next film, the director, Guo Jingming, wrote the book and the film was adapted from the book to the script.
Everything was prepared, already. I filmed with a script and everything was scripted accordingly, word by word. Filming a CG film was very challenging, as well. Whatever was happening in the story, I was lying there or standing there, in the same spot. There is no narrator, there is no production, per se. You're in the studio, you are acting, but everything else is done in post [production].
Along the same lines, did film the scenes alongside the other actors like Fan Bingbing or Kris Wu? Or is it the case where you are edited in to create an ensemble cast?
Sometimes we shot together and sometimes it was separate. It depended on our schedules.
Were you surprised about the warm reception of the film, which deals with environmental issues?
The success of the film has to do with Stephen Chow. Stephen Chow is a huge director. But the environmental issues are also a big part of it, but I think that it's the director, more so than the focus of the environment, which is the concept of the film. It's not a factor in whether or not it is commercially successful.
What is your favorite food in the U.S. or one that you would most like to try?
I just arrived in the U.S. last night. Just now, I tried gelato and I loved it. I had pizza and spaghetti, in the hotel, and I also loved [those foods].
Is this your first trip to New York City? What are some of the sights you would like to see or already had the opportunity to take in?
I am really into hip-hop culture, so I really want to browse all that I can of this. I also want to go see the Statue of Liberty, but it is too far and I don't have the time.
The Mermaid was one of the featured films at the 2016 New York Asian Film Festival.
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Danielle Wynne writes about the distance she has carefully kept from her own body – and how now, finally, the gap between is beginning to close.
There has always been a disconnect between me and my body. Between expectations from myself, family, strangers, fellow school children – it was easier to ignore it, disconnect and disassociate from my own skin and shape. I would rather not feel my body than feel the pain of it not being accepted. So, I never took care of it. It didn't deserve light, nutritious food. There was no point in exercising it, because it was so useless. Smothering a useless body in lotions and fake tan and exfoliant was pointless and none-deserving. Giving a useless body pleasure in any form, when it does not deserve it, when it deserves ridicule and hate, isn't logical. It was far easier to create a chasm, a gaping hole between myself and what I believe – and what I thought others believed – of my body. In my naivety I thought I would be better off knowing every bad thing someone could think and hold it like a shield around me, before anyone could wield it as a weapon.
In trying to turn my softness to hardness, I blackened my insides – hurt myself more than anyone else's words ever could. Hiding my body from myself was an act of self-hate and trying to take up as little space as possible was a disservice to it. I looked at other people wearing shorts, skirts, but recoiled at the thought of myself doing the same. Those people were part of another world, further across the chasm than my body was from me.
This chasm between myself and my body – my outsides and my insides – is still here. After years of not looking at my body, only shedding my clothes immediately before bathing and panicking back into them at the first opportunity, it was so easy not to think about it. My body was not something to be broken out and enjoyed. It was to be kept inside. To house the thoughts that were tearing me apart, inside out. My body was something to try and keep as small, as slouched, hunched as possible. I folded in on myself.
I have gained and lost weight more times than I can count. I've tried reclaiming my body, hiding it, exposing it, dressing it up and down, restricting it, punishing it and overindulging it again. It has taken a long time for me to attempt to come home to myself and to my body – I'm probably still next door; on bad days a few doors down the street – and to truly see it, hold it, accept it for what it is. The hole still appears. Sometimes the shield needs to come up. But the gap between myself and my body is closing, slowly. I am now, finally, more kind to it than I have ever been.