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Rahim Noor should crawl back into the woodwork
by P. Ramakrishnan
A man who infamously trampled upon the rights of others has no right to speak on human rights. He is the least qualified to speak on this subject.
Yet, the former Inspector–General of Police, Abdul Rahim Mohd Noor, emerging as it were from the dead, expressed some startling views on human rights.
He is quoted as having said that the coming of a "human rights wave" would threaten the principles on which this country was founded.
In what way would the "human rights wave" threaten the principles on which this country was founded?
The principles on which this country was founded is embodied in the Federal Constitution, which was agreed upon mutually by all the communities that aspired for a free and independent Malaya.
The Federal Constitution specifically guarantees the human rights of all the citizens. Indeed, it protects the rights of all Malaysians. If these rights were not guaranteed and protected, there would be no Federal Constitution to begin with and we wouldn't have attained our independence on 31 August 1957.
The human rights wave, reflected in the Bersih 2.0 'Walk for Democracy' that demanded clean and fair elections, cannot by any stretch of the imagination be termed as a "communist wave". It is a democratic wave giving expression to the innate desire of the human spirit to be free and treated fairly and with justice.
The present wave – demanding accountability, transparency, good governance, rule oflaw, the right to information, the right to assemble peacefully, the right to publish and disseminate views – represents the universal rights that are upheld by the United Nations, As Malaysia is a member of the UN Human Rights Council, we are duty-bound to respect and protect these universal values.
Calling upon the Malays to unite against this "human rights wave" is acting foolishly and ignoring today's political reality. The vast majority of thinking Malaysians are not narrow-minded bigots and will not fall for this call to respond along ethnic lines.
This was clearly established when the "Himpunan Sejuta" was organised to inflame the sentiments of the Malays against the Christians. The fact that only about 5000 turned up – which prompted Ibrahim Ali to confess that he was embarrassed by the turnout – is proof enough that racial politics will be spurned by citizens of goodwill who only wish to live together in peace and harmony for the betterment of the nation.
Though it was touted as having the backing of 3000 Malay NGOs, the fact was they failed even to send two representatives each, which would have boosted the attendance to 6000. The number that turned up was a far cry from the one million that was expected. The ultras and the extremists can claim anything but gutter politics will not hoodwink the majority of peace-loving Malaysians.
Rahim Noor should crawl back into the woodwork and remain there for a long time tocome.
P Ramakrishnan is president of Aliran
This entry was posted on Thursday, 3 November 2011, 11:31 am and is filed under Bersih, Elections, Human Rights, Police. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0.
#1 by monsterball on Thursday, 3 November 2011 - 2:30 pm
It needs convicts…braggarts…idiots…gangsters…to speak and protect the Govt.
And it the Govt. itself….whenever the UMNO b Ministers speaks…hordes of commentators do not mince any words to expose and insult their intelligence…uttering nonsensical stuffs and weird logics.
Rahim Noor…the handpicked IGP by Mahathir…a street gangster from Alor Gajah?
Only a smart cunning crook like Mahathir's knows how to handpick all sorts of cronies…to do the dirty work for him.
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#2 by tak tahan on Thursday, 3 November 2011 - 3:18 pm
Every authoritarian ruler will use this papa canine to do his dirty job.What a joke to have former IGP to utter such undemocratic statements.Come GE13 let's send all these rouges to the dogs.Confine them in kennel.
#3 by jus legitimum on Thursday, 3 November 2011 - 4:07 pm
Until today,the most evil power shamelessly and relentlessly ransacking the nation for decades still resort to racial and religious tainted lies and allegations just to retain power.Now they make use of ex top hooligan and the faked melayu ex dictator to bullshit about human rights to pull wool over the eyes of the poor rural folks just to win their support.
#4 by shahrulazmiahmad on Thursday, 3 November 2011 - 5:05 pm
"Rahim Noor should crawl back into the woodwork and remain there for a long time to come" – no other words better to describe about this x-IGP!
#5 by tak tahan on Thursday, 3 November 2011 - 11:26 pm
Got better word-m##her F^&ker of the best nation destroyer.Banzai papa dog.
#6 by Jeffrey on Friday, 4 November 2011 - 1:51 pm
When Rahim Noor said that "human rights wave" would threaten the principles on which this country was founded, he must be taken to imply (i) human rights are Western notions and values and (ii) the country was founded on indigenous values whether they mean "Eastern" (as Dr Mahathir described them) or Islamic as others do or "Confucian" as SM Lee Kuan did. On the argument that the country was founded on basis of Federal Constitution guaranteeing civil liberties constructed upon human rights, one would expect Rahim Noor to argue that the Constitution itself plus its human rights bias were foisted and imposed by Colonial Masters (British) unto us without our forefathers having much power, knowledge or experience to oppose this imposition. And as to the argument that Universal Declaration of Human Rights is main banner of the United Nations of which Malaysia is member, again he and his ilk would counter that the UN is mere intrument controlled through majority of big powers led by Americans in its Security Council to impose Pax Americana/Anglo Saxon version of peace morality and world order on the rest of the world beneficial to American/Anglo-Saxon interests!
#7 by monsterball on Friday, 4 November 2011 - 9:24 pm
Rahim was a jail bird.
Rahim Noor too.
Both have titles.
Both are talking morals and principles in life.
These are the people who shame Islam religion.
#8 by rockdaboat on Saturday, 5 November 2011 - 3:15 pm
Rahim Noor talking about human rights?
Ha ha ha ha ha, don't tickle me!!!!!!!!


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It's July 1478, and business is good for Bristol's bakers during the lead up to Lammastide - 'Loaf-mass', the ancient harvest festival. But the shady Jasper Fairbrother's baking days are over when he's found face down with a knife in his back. Suspicion immediately falls on the mysterious Breton who'd arrived that day and had been seen having an argument with Fairbrother. But when it emerges that the Breton is also a suspected Lancastrian spy, Roger the Chapman wonders if suspicion of murder is merely a convenient pretext for the authorities to hunt down the Breton. True, there is no reason for Roger to take an interest in the case, and should he when he ought to be peddling his wares to provide for his new baby boy? But his curiosity and sense of justice is piqued - and before he finds out who murdered the baker, he is to become more than a little personally involved as some of the things nearest and dearest to his heart come under threat.
Though it is thirty years since Margaret Dodds was tried and executed for the brutal murder of her second husband, many troubling questions raised during the trial are still left unanswered. Why would she choose to commit the crime in such a way that the finger of suspicion would almost inevitably point at her? Why did she insist, even when all hope of reprieve had gone, that she was not guilty? Her daughter, an influential lawyer, wants her name cleared. The investigating officer, now a powerful politician with a seat in the House of Lords, is determined to ensure that the verdict stands. And Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend, charged with stripping away three decades of lies and deceit, finds that - once again - his superiors have presented him with a poisoned chalice.
This is Peter Lovesey's "Short List" of his best ever short stories, including the Crime Writers' Association's best short story of 2007, "Needle Match", and featuring some of his most popular detectives - Bertie, Prince of Wales, Sergeant Cribb and Rosemary and Thyme. Surprises are guaranteed, as elephants appear in a London side street; a gang of geriatrics goes on a hearing aid heist and an underworld boss searches for a harp. Join the author in a brush with Adolf Hitler and take a walk on Beachy Head, the UK's favourite suicide spot.
A woman's unresolved past has disturbing implications for her future in this compelling psychological mystery.
When she was nineteen, Kate's father, stepmother and eight-year-old sister were killed in a mysterious car accident in South America. The only survivor, Kate has no recollection of what happened that terrible day. But a proposition from a stranger becomes the catalyst for a series of events that will change Kate's life irrevocably. Somehow everything leads back to that one dreadful day in Ecuador, and loose ends that need to be resolved.
A woman's search for the truth leads her into terrible danger in this compelling tale of suspense.
Following a skiing accident, journalist Sally Proctor is recuperating at her parents' rural Somerset home when she hears about a local man, Brian Jennings, who's been jailed for arson. His sister, convinced of his innocence, is campaigning for his release - and Sally decides to help her by conducting her own enquiries. As she starts to uncover serious discrepancies in the original investigation, Sally and her family are threatened by a series of increasingly menacing incidents. It soon becomes clear that someone will go to any lengths to stop her finding out the truth.
An ambitious ecological experiment plunges Richard and Robin Mariner in deadly waters . . .
Heritage Mariner and Greenbaum International have financed an ecological experiment to prove how swiftly rubbish can foul the oceans by dropping and tracking a plastic bottle into a Tokyo river. Filled with lottery tickets for extra publicity - one of which could be worth $55 million - Robin Mariner and Nic Greenbaum's only child, Libby, will race each other across the Pacific to see who can reach the bottle first, but when it is discovered that it contains the winning ticket the experiment suddenly becomes part of a much deadlier game . . .
An unexpected letter brings life-changing news in this suspenseful tale of family secrets and ties.
Canterbury, 1900. Olivia Fratton will scream if she hears the words 'Isabel's wedding' one more time; she's struggling to cope with her little sister's demands on their limited budget. But Olivia is not the only Fratton with worries: Isabel, older brother Theo and the 'golden boy' of the family, Luke, all have their own troubles. But these pale into insignificance when a letter is delivered from someone none of the family ever expected to hear from again . . .


Assistant for a healthy Lifestyle (PAL) system. By linking in-app activities (e.g., play a quiz or keep a diary) to relevant educational achievements, and to skills and knowledge required in daily life, we aim to increase intrinsic motivation and thereby usage. We designed a dashboard displaying personalised achievements, learning goals and tasks in the domain of diabetes self-management education. We used common user interface design patterns such as layering, colouring, and iconic presentation to organise complex information and reinforce the relations between concepts. Subsequently, we conducted a usability evaluation with twelve children, on the basis of which we refined our design. We found that, colouring and layering were to some extent effective, however, iconic representations were insufficient. Therefore, we recommend to provide short, descriptive labels at any time.
© Peters et al. 2019. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in ICSLT 2019, https://doi.org/10.1145/3312714.3312736.
In this paper we reflect on the use of questionnaires as an evaluation tool in child-robot interaction research. We provide a case study containing eight user studies. While doing these user studies we ran into two major challenges: violations of the constructs used in questionnaires and a ceiling effect in the responses of the children. These issues are caused by a combination of factors such as, but not limited to, misinterpretations of questions, response biases, and the novelty effect. A first lesson learned is that a proper design of a questionnaire, and how questions are asked and answered, is essential. In this paper we discuss two questionnaire methods we have been developing that potentially could circumvent some of the issues. A second lesson learned is that user studies could benefit if they reflect the long-term nature of the child-robot interaction.
Social robots are entering the private and public domain where they engage in social interactions with nontechnical users. This requires robots to be socially interactive and intelligent, including the ability to display appropriate social behaviour. Progress has been made in emotion modelling.However, research into behaviour style is less thorough; no comprehensive, validated model exists of non-verbal behaviours to express style in human-robot interactions. Based on a literature survey, we created a model of non-verbal behaviour to express high/low warmth and competence—two dimensions that contribute to teaching style. In a perception study, we evaluated this model applied to a NAO robot giving a lecture at primary schools and a diabetes camp in the Netherlands. For this, we developed, based on expert ratings, an instrument measuring perceived warmth, competence, dominance and affiliation. We show that even subtle manipulations of robot behaviour influence children's perceptions of the robot's level of warmth and competence.
Educational technology needs a model of learning goals to support motivation, learning gain, tailoring of the learning process, and sharing of the personal goals between different types of users (i.e., learner and educator) and the system. This paper proposes a tree-based learning goal structuring to facilitate personal goal setting to shape and monitor the learning process. We developed a goal ontology and created a user interface representing this knowledge-base for the self-management education for children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. Subsequently, a co-operative evaluation was conducted with healthcare professionals to refine and validate the ontology and its representation. Presentation of a concrete prototype proved to support professionals' contribution to the design process. The resulting tree-based goal structure enables three important tasks: ability assessment, goal setting and progress monitoring. Visualization should be clarified by icon placement and clustering of goals with the same difficulty and topic. Bloom's taxonomy for learning objectives should be applied to improve completeness and clarity of goal content.
This paper describes ongoing work carried out in the European project PAL which will support children in their diabetes self-management as well as assist health professionals and parents involved in the diabetes regimen of the child. Here, we will focus on the construction of the PAL ontology which has been assembled from several independently developed sub-ontologies and which are brought together by a set of hand-written interface axioms, expressed in OWL. We will describe in detail how the triple model of RDF has been extended towards transaction time in order to represent time-varying data. Examples of queries and rules involving temporal information will be presented as well. The approach is currently been in use in diabetes camps.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Semantic Systems, ACM ICP, 2016.
The PAL project is developing an embodied conversational agent (robot and its avatar), and applications for child-agent activities that help children from 8 to 14 years old to acquire the required knowledge, skills, and attitude for adequate diabetes self-management. Formal and informal caregivers can use the PAL system to enhance their supportive role for this self-management learning process. We are developing a common ontology (i) to support normative behavior in a flexible way, (ii) to establish mutual understanding in the human-agent system, (iii) to integrate and utilize knowledge from the application and scientific domains, and (iv) to produce sensible human-agent dialogues. The common ontology is constructed by relating and integrating partly existing separate ontologies that are specific to certain contexts or domains. This paper presents the general vision, approach, and state of the art.
The PAL project is developing: (1) an embodied conversational agent (robot and its avatar); (2) applications for child-agent activities that help children from 8 to 14 years old to acquire the required knowledge, skills and attitude for adequate diabetes self-management; and (3) dashboards for caregivers to enhance their supportive role for this self-management learning process. A common ontology is constructed to support normative behavior in a flexible way, to establish mutual understanding in the human-agent system, to integrate and utilize knowledge from the application and scientific domains, and to produce sensible human- agent dialogues. This paper presents the general vision, approach, and state of the art.
Social Robots are increasingly applied in healthcare and education. Pedagogical Agents (PAs) are being developed to adapt to the users knowledge, and efforts are made in strategic action selection: what action is appropriate given the context and user preference. However, the issues of how these actions can be appropriately communicated receives less attention. In this paper we propose the development of an adaptive pedagogical interaction style for a robot. We discuss the role of style in human-human interaction and the lack thereof in human-robot interaction. While human educators heavily rely on their ability to identify and respond accordingly to social signals in a fluent and natural way, robots cannot adapt their style of interaction effectively. By adapting the pedagogical interaction style of a robot to the learner and context we expect to be able to create rich and fruitful personalized educational interactions and ultimately facilitate social bonding between the learner and robot. In this position paper we present our view as a starting point for the management of this interaction style. As a basis for the proposition, pedagogic and motivational theories are used.
We study turn-taking behaviour in non-cooperative dialogue for the development of believable characters in a serious game for conversational skill learning in the police interview context. We describe a perception study to see how participants perceive a suspect's interpersonal stance, rapport, face, and deception when the turn-taking of the subject varies. We influence the perception of the suspect's stance by altering the timing of the start of speech with respect to the ending of the interlocutor's speech. The results of the study contribute to the development of an embodied conversational agent capable of natural humansystem conversation with appropriate turn-taking behaviour.
A serious game for learning the social skills required for effective police interviewing is a challenging idea. Building artificial conversational characters that play the role of a suspect in a police interrogation game requires computational models of police interviews as well as of the internal psychological mechanisms that determine the behaviour of suspects in this special type of dialogues. Leary's interactional circumplex is used in police interview training as a theoretical framework to understand how suspects take stance during an interview and how this is related to the stance and the strategy that the interviewer takes. Interactional stance is a fuzzy notion. The question that we consider here is whether different observers of police interviews agree on the type of stance that suspect and policemen take and express in a face-to-face interview. We analyzed police interviews and report about a stance annotation exercise. We conclude that although inter- annotator agreement on stance labeling on the level of speech segments is low, a majority voting "meta-annotator" is able to reveal the important dynamics in stance taking in a police interview. Then we explore the relation between the stance taken by the suspect and turn-taking behaviour, overlaps, interruptions, pauses and silences. Our findings contribute to building computational models of non-player characters that allow more natural turn-taking behaviour in serious games instead of the one-at-a-time regime in interview training games.


It is bye bye India!
Sachin to announce retirement soon.
Further nightmare ahead for Indian cricket fans.
India on way to redeem!
It hurts Australia...and it is good it hurt them!
Indian Cricket team for the world cup!
India teaches cricket to the World!


In 2013 a diagnostics project concerning management of production in the company was conducted with the help of EAS; this provided a clear direction for further development. The diagnostics project was followed by three projects aimed at improving the management of production: increasing the added value created with production by decreasing costs, implementing information technologies in the dairy plant, enhancing the website and creating a product catalogue.
According to Jaanus Murakas, the Chairman of the Management Board of AS E-Piim Tootmine, these projects have strengthened the competitiveness of the company on external markets as more advanced planning and implementation of information technologies speed up decision processes and ensure more operational feedback from business partners.
According to Murakas, enhancing their website helps grow the popularity of the company; the product catalogue has information on their whole range of products both in Estonian and English.
AS E-Piim Tootmine is owned by the Dairy Co-operative E-Piim, which in turn is owned by Estonian dairy producers. The product range of E-Piim includes butter, cheese and milk powders.
The projects were financed by the European Social Fund.


New Bond Brand Loyalty study shows consumers are evaluating their loyalty program experience on elements far beyond the dividend and rewards. Members who find their loyalty program to be enjoyable are 11 times more likely to be satisfied, yet only 18 percent feel this way.
TORONTO and NEW YORK, May 23, 2017 /CNW/ - Bond Brand Loyalty, a leading brand loyalty agency, today released its seventh annual consumer loyalty report. The Loyalty Report 2017 finds that loyalty programs remain one of the biggest drivers of brand choice and loyalty. Brands continue to invest more in loyalty programs, and enrollment has grown by almost 25% over the last four years. Despite success, opportunities to drive business results are still being missed.
"Consumers love loyalty programs and continue to join more every year, but active engagement rates have remained flat in the past four years, indicating that there's a tremendous opportunity to evolve "same-old" programs to ensure members' expectations and needs are being met," said Bob Macdonald, President and CEO of Bond Brand Loyalty. "Today's hyper-informed consumers expect personalized and shared interactions delivered through a combination of human and digital experiences. By engineering the program with every asset of a brand's loyalty ecosystem and making adjustments to differentiate the member experience, brands can improve engagement and substantially increase program performance for gains in lift, retention and lowered marketing costs."
As customer experience increases in importance for consumers, evidence shows that Loyalty Program operators will be able to buy down the points or cashback dividend associated with their Program by providing better and more tailored member experiences. Based on data from the 2017 Loyalty Report, Bond has machine-learned and developed a proprietary tool to understand how certain member experiences and softer benefits can be introduced to offset the need to offer ever-richer dividends. This is key for Program operators, especially in payments, who need to reduce their program's cost per point.
Program enrollment continues to rise, with the average number of programs a consumer belongs to growing to more than 12.2 from 9.8 memberships from just 3 years ago; yet members actively engage with fewer than 60% of those memberships. These findings also reveal the Golden Rule of 7—this is the number of active program memberships that consumers have the appetite and capacity to handle. Brands have work to do to ensure that they are one of the chosen programs.
Members who agree that a program is enjoyable are 11 times more likely to be satisfied. There's lots of room to do better as just 18% of members agree that the program improves their experience with the brand.
More members than ever are enrolling digitally, with online enrollment now on par with on-site. 47% of members want to interact with loyalty programs via mobile device; however, 65% of members don't know if an app exists for their programs.
The Loyalty Report 2017 performs in-depth profiling of more than 400 loyalty programs across key sectors including retail, payments, grocery, gas, dining, hotel, airline, entertainment and coalition. Some of the top loyalty programs based on overall member satisfaction include: Amazon.ca Amazon Prime, President's Choice PC Plus, Petro Canada Petro-Points, McDonald's McCafé Rewards, Johnson & Johnson Healthy Essentials, Porter Airlines VIPorter, MEC Membership and Chapters Indigo irewards.
Bond Brand Loyalty is a management-owned agency that specializes in building brand loyalty for the world's most influential and valuable brands. Our mission is to make marketing more rewarding for customers, richer and more resilient for brands, and more profitable for our clients. We build measurable, authentic and long-lasting relationships through a combination of services that includes loyalty solutions, customer experience, marketing research, customer analytics, live brand experiences and proprietary loyalty technology platforms. Visit our website, follow us on Twitter or contact us at 1-844-277-2663.


See that tasteful reading room above? Situated in a grand, cliff-side Swiss manor, you'll be painting it red in a matter of hours thanks to a new Killing Floor 2 update. The first major patch since the game launched on Early Access last month, the Volter Manor map is accompanied by a slew of tweaks and fixes, as well as two new classic characters for owners of the original Killing Floor, in the form of Briar and Masterson.
Collectibles and achievements have been added to the four existing maps, while a few prominent bugs have been swatted including server crashes, cosmetic issues and some nasty exploits on three maps. The full patch notes are on the Tripwire forums, and the patch itself is live right now.
Killing Floor 2 is currently in Early Access, but according to Tyler Wilde it's well worth checking out pre-launch. "Killing Floor 2 needs some tweaks, and will benefit a lot from more maps, but it's already a superb mutant bloodbath," he wrote.


Much of the pleasure in sharing Why Change Your Wife? (1920) with audiences is showing how early it comes in the history of film yet how enduring it is as an influence in the history of fashion. For my classes, presentations, and webinars, 1920 is the year I chose as a mark of when our modern fashion began. One could go a bit earlier and find similar style to be sure, but Why Change Your Wife? features such great examples of fashion from this time. The early part of the 1920s was very different from the late 1920s, and it's fascinating to see where design was in its transition from Gibson Girl to Flapper. Fabrics like velvet and silk brocade were deftly draped over the body, which rebelled against earlier restricted corseted clothes and led the way to loose-fitting dresses by end of the decade. Designs also became much more revealing, from showing off shoulders to using slinky straps and baring the back.
In my opinion, no one embodied this time and its style better than Gloria Swanson. 1920 was perhaps the peak of her power in Hollywood and audiences absolutely adored her. Read my recent article on Why Change Your Wife? and you'll begin to understand all the reasons why. The world watched to see what she would wear both on and off the silver screen. Fashion followed what she made popular, which is true both then and now. Donna Karan is but one designer today who references this style again and again in her own collections. Just look at some examples of how modern fashion continues to be inspired by Gloria and the costume design of Clare West in 1920's Why Change Your Wife?.
Labels: 1920s style, Cinema Connection, Clare West, Gloria Swanson, Why Change Your Wife?
I'm really enjoying these posts on Gloria Swanson and her incredibly influential style. It's made me admire her all the more.
KImberly - the early 1920s Hollywood cfilm styles were particularly reviled in the Eastern fashion press. While some costumes were over the top, others set the trends. Unfortunately many of these silent movies are completely lost to us. Thanks for this interesting post.
Thanks Silver Screenings! I love doing them. She is way too overlooked by people--in film, but especially fashion--while being super influential. I enjoy learning more about her.
Thanks Christian! Yes, the early costumes definitely swung more toward being over-the-top simply to distinguish themselves from anything in the stores. I think costume designers quickly realized that they didn't have to go quite so far with their design to still make a very strong statement.


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A timeline of all 22 sexual assault allegations against Texans QB Deshaun Watson
Rebecca Hennes, Jordan Ray-Hart, Staff writers
March 23, 2021 Updated: April 14, 2021 6:01 p.m.
Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson (4) on the sideline during the first quarter of an NFL football game at NRG Stadium, Saturday, August 17, 2019.
Karen Warren/Staff photographer
Note: This story contains graphic content and detailed accounts of alleged sexual misconduct.
Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson is now facing 22 women who have accused him of sexual harassment and assault during massage therapy sessions in 2020 and 2021 in Houston, Atlanta and Los Angeles.
The lawsuits all follow a similar pattern and claim Watson was a "serial predator" who singled out vulnerable women -- many of whom are single mothers who just entered the massage industry or are working on building up their independent businesses -- and contacted them directly on social media platforms to set up appointments during which he would allegedly sexually assault them.
Most of the women had not worked with professional sports athletes in the past but were eager at a chance to grow their businesses with clientele such as Watson.
The lawsuits accuse Watson of exposing himself, being aggressive in directing the women to do inappropriate sexual acts and in some cases, physically forcing them to perform sexual favors against their will. Most of the women said Watson used his status as an NFL player to threaten them in some way, and claim the abuse they suffered has led them to have panic attacks, anxiety, depression, seek counseling and psychiatric services.
Watson has denied the allegations.
Another woman dropped her lawsuit against Watson in mid-April, citing citing privacy and security concerns.
The accusations could signal one of the biggest sports scandals to unfold in Houston in recent memory. See below for a closer look at the graphic accusations Watson is accused of.
LAWSUIT #1
Accuser's home
Details: The suit states that the plaintiff, a professional licensed massage therapist who works out of her Houston home, said Watson repeatedly asked her to focus on his groin area, which made her feel uncomfortable, during a session at her home in March 2020. The suit goes on to claim Watson at one point exposed his fully erect penis to her and touched her hand with it. The woman said she immediately ended the massage and was "shocked and mortified" by Watson's behavior.
The suit claims Watson responded to the woman's cries by telling her: "I know you have a career and a reputation, and I know you would hate for someone to mess with yours, just like I don't want anyone messing with mine.'"
The woman took his response as a threat and said the ordeal has led her to have panic attacks, anxiety, depression, difficulty sleeping and has led her to seek counseling services.
Lawsuit filed: March 16, 2021
LAWSUIT #10
Houston spa
Details: The suit alleges that a licensed esthetician who owns her own skincare business in Houston was sought out by Watson on Instagram. The woman agreed to give Watson a massage even though her business specializes in skincare. During the session, the suit alleges Watson exposed himself to the woman, including when he was erect, repeatedly touched her hand with his penis and eventually ejaculated. After the session, the suit claims Watson told the woman he would like to come in weekly for the same service.
Watson's Houston home
Details: The suit alleges that Watson ejaculated onto the woman during a massage in the theater room of his home. Prior to their meeting, the woman explained to Watson she was a certified personal trainer and not a massage therapist yet he still insisted on booking an appointment, according to the lawsuit. Watson instructed the woman to come dressed in "casually relaxing attire" and told her "you don't have to be a full professional," per the suit.
The suit claims Watson exposed himself to the woman and that his "pre-ejaculation" touched her hand. After the woman abruptly ended the session, a naked Watson then asked for a hug, which the woman refused. The woman said she was traumatized from the incident, and that Watson repeatedly contacted her to try and book more appointments.
Details: The suit alleges the woman, a licensed massage therapist who has worked with professional athletes in the past and owns her own business, was told by Watson prior to their meeting that he makes "a lot of massage therapists uncomfortable" and was looking for someone to "meet his needs."
During a June 2020 session at a Houston spa, the suit claims Watson met the woman naked and refused to cover himself despite her wishes, and exposed his penis to her several times. The woman claims Watson touched her with his penis multiple times and at one point showed her his erection. The suit states Watson thereafter contacted the women another seven times to try and schedule another massage.
June 2020 & Aug. 17, 2020
Houston hotel
Details: The suit claims the woman met Watson for a session at a Houston hotel where he was staying at the time, and that it was the first time she performed a service away from the spa. During the session, the suit states Watson made advances toward the woman, including complimenting her body. Watson allegedly groped the woman by her buttocks and vagina and touched her hand with his erect penis. The woman claims Watson left without paying the entirety of his bill.
A second session was held on August 17, 2020, at the woman's spa. The woman did not realize the appointment was with the same man who made her uncomfortable before, per the suit. During the second session, the suit states Watson placed the woman's hands inside his anus, asked the woman to kiss him, forced her to engage in oral sex on him and later masturbated in front of her and ejaculated. The woman said feared for her life and was "humiliated and horrified."
Beverly Hills home
Details: The woman, a licensed massage therapist who owns her own business in Los Angeles, Calif., has worked with professional athletes in the past as a traveling masseuse. Per the suit, the woman agreed to meet Watson in July 2020 at a Beverly Hills home for a session. Once they entered the home, Watson took the woman to a private room and locked the door. The woman felt unsafe and grabbed her mace, to which Watson allegedly responded with laughter. The suit claims that during the session, Watson was aggressive with the woman, made repeated requests to focus on his anus, exposed himself and his erection to her and demanded she never talk about the incident. The suit claims Watson reached out to the woman again a few months later in December 2020, and she ignored him.
Plaintiff's business in Arizona
Details: The suit involves a licensed massage therapist based in Scottsdale, Arizona whom Watson met through a mutual friend on Instagram. During a session in July 2020 at the woman's business, Watson aggressively asked her to massage his anus, according to the lawsuit. After the woman repeatedly declined, Watson ended the session early and left, per the suit.
July 2020 to September 2020
The Houstonian
Details: The suit involves a massage therapist based in Houston who conducted four sessions with Watson over the course of three months. Two of the sessions took place at the Houstonian Hotel, per the suit.
Over the course of the four sessions, Watson exposed himself to the woman, touched her hand with his penis, ejaculated onto her and coerced her to engage in oral sex with him, according to the suit. The suit alleges the woman agreed to multiple sessions out of fear of retaliation, or that Watson may hurt her career.
Details: The suit alleges that Watson repeatedly asked the woman if he could be naked during the session and asked her to focus on his buttocks and anus, which the woman said was inappropriate and made her uncomfortable. The suit goes on to claim Watson eventually exposed himself to the woman and asked for additional sexual favors in exchange for more money. After she declined, the suit states Watson became angry and told her to leave.
Houstonian Hotel, Club and Spa
Details: The suit claims Watson flew the woman, who is a masseuse, from her home in Atlanta, Georgia, to give him a massage at the Houstonian Hotel, Club and Spa. Similar to the other accusers, the woman was a young, single mother whose business was not well-known yet but was eager to start a working relationship with a professional NFL player.
The massage started with Watson demanding he remain completely nude for the entirety of the session, despite the woman's objections, according to the lawsuit. The woman claims Watson demanded she massage areas that made her uncomfortable, including the inner part of his anus and towards his genitals. The woman said she repeatedly asked Watson to cover himself and when she tried to end the massage and leave he grabbed her by her hand and started to rub her arm. The woman said she was never compensated for her travel expenses or half of what she was owed. A few months later, the suit alleges Watson said he was in Atlanta and asked if she was available. She did not respond.
August 2020 & Sept. 9, 2020
Details: The suit alleges that the woman, a licensed esthetician who works at a spa in Houston, said she was subjected to inappropriate sexual advances from Watson on two separate occasions. She was introduced to Watson through her boss after he allegedly asked for a photo of her and to give her a massage. The woman declined but offered her services to Watson and he booked an appointment with her at the spa in September 2020.
Before the appointment, the woman said Watson texted her "incessantly" asking if the two will be alone and to use a backdoor into the spa. He demanded she stay in the room while he undressed and insisted he remain naked during the session. The suit claims Watson was aggressively dictating the massage and at one point exposed his erection and asked the woman what she was going to do about it. The woman said she felt "powerless and ashamed" and was worried that reporting his behavior could cost her her job.
Watson's inappropriate behavior escalated during the second incident in Oct. 2020, according to the lawsuit. During this session, the suit claims Watson tried to put his penis in the woman's hand, complained she was wearing too many clothes and tried to kiss her on the mouth.
September 2 & November 2020
Details: The suit involves a makeup artist based in Houston who conducted massages on Watson over the course of two sessions in September and November 2020. The sessions took place at Watson's home, according to the lawsuit.
The plaintiff alleges that Watson contacted her via Instagram and inquired if she offered massages, in which she said she did. She alleges that Watson urged her to massage areas that made her uncomfortable and exposed himself.
In the lawsuit, she claims Watson later contacted her at least six times to arrange another massage. In November, she agreed to another session at his residence but expressed she wanted to keep it professional. During the massage Watson allegedly exposed himself, asked her to undress and touch his penis, and groped her. The suit claims the plaintiff eventually relented and put her hand on his penis and he soon ejaculated.
The plaintiff says she is suffering from depression and anxiety as a result of the incidents described in the lawsuit.
Lawsuit filed: April 14, 2021
Houston salon
Details: This lawsuit involves a single mother who owns her own fitness company. The suit states Watson was aggressive during the session in requesting his groin area be worked on, and asked the woman if he could be naked and if it was okay if he got aroused. The suit claims Watson at one point got an erection, repeatedly touched the woman's hand with his penis and ejaculated. The woman immediately stopped the session and left.
Details: The suit claims Watson exposed himself and tried to force the woman to touch his anus and penis during a massage at a spa in Houston. The woman, a single mother who is licensed in body contouring and skin tightening services, was told by her boss to meet Watson at a spa where she'd never worked, per the suit. The woman claims she did not know she was meeting a famous NFL player and was told she might have to sign a non-disclosure agreement but never did.
During the session, Watson told the woman not to be scared and completely exposed himself to her, according to the lawsuit. The woman claims she was forced to brush against his penis to massage areas he had specifically requested. After the woman declined to go any further, Watson only paid for a third of his bill, per the suit. The woman said she felt "violated and disgusting and used" and believes Watson "is in the sex trade."
Rick Barnes remembers the good times on his return to Austin
Oct. 19, 2020 & Nov. 2, 2020
Accuser's office
Details: The suit alleges the woman, a young single mother who runs a bodywork and stretch therapy business in Houston, was contacted by Watson through Instagram and asked to do a "sports therapy" session. The suit alleges that during their first session at her office in Oct. 2020, Watson repeatedly tried to pull down a towel that was covering his genitals to try and expose himself to her.
During the second session in November, Watson is accused of kissing the woman without her consent. The suit claims Watson asked the woman to work on his buttocks and penis area before moving his body so that his penis would touch her hand. At one point he allegedly offered the women more money to focus on those areas, and grew irate and left after she kept refusing to meet his demands.
Plantiff's office
Details: This suit alleges that Watson exposed himself to and touched a licensed massage therapist with his penis during an October 2020 session at her office. Watson at one point offered the woman more money to massage him inappropriately and told her "don't worry no one is going to know," according to the suit.
House of plaintiff's mother
Details: In this lawsuit, a massage therapy student said she conducted two sessions in November 2020 at her mother's house in Pearland. The suit alleges Watson purposely touched her with his penis and ejaculated onto her.
Following the second session, Watson contacted the woman "incessantly" to schedule additional sessions, sometimes calling her three times a day, according to the suit. The woman said she ignored all of Watson's attempts at further contact.
The woman said she initially felt comfortable around Watson because she had known him through mutual friends and "never could have imagined he would eventually assault her," according to the suit.
Unspecified location
Details: The suit claims a licensed esthetician who owns her own company was sexually assaulted by Watson during a private session in November 2020. The suit claims Watson assaulted and harassed the plaintiff by exposing himself and touching her with his penis. The suit also claims that "Watson used more than fifty different women for massages" and pressured the plaintiff into signing a document he said was an NDA.
Lawsuit filed: April 5, 2021
Office building in Houston
Details: The suit alleges that Watson allegedly was "aggressive" in his requests to focus on certain areas, including his inner groin area, during a session at an office building in Houston. At one point Watson allegedly forced the woman to perform oral sex on him, which she did not consent to. The woman claims she blacked out for a few minutes "from fear" and "felt hopeless in the moment." She claims Watson left without an apology and said repeatedly he was a professional football player who could "help, or hurt or career."
2020 (exact date not specified)
Watson's house
Details: This suit involves a licensed massage therapist who said she gave Watson three massages, including at least one at his home, and each session his behavior got "progressively worse," per the suit. Watson allegedly came to her through the suggestion of a mutual friend, and during the sessions, he exposed himself and purposely touched her with his penis, according to the suit.
Following the third session, the woman said she was "terrified" of what Watson would do to her career after she fired him as a client, per the suit.
Unnamed location in Houston
Details: The suit alleges a licensed massage therapist who owns her own business in Houston, was approached by Watson through Instagram and agreed to meet him for a session. Watson is accused of exposing his penis and touching the woman's hand with it despite her repeated requests not to.
Accuser's private office
Details: The suit claims a licensed massage therapist who owns her own company in Georgia was sexually assaulted by Watson during a private session at her office in Sandy Springs in March 2021. The suit claims Watson made several odd requests prior to the session, including asking not to fill out any paperwork and for her to not wear a face mask. During the session, the suit claims Watson repeatedly requested to remain naked for the duration of the massage; exposed himself to her and touched her hand with his penis.
This story will be updated if/when more lawsuits against Watson are filed.
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Virginia Beach experienced some close contests during Tuesday's elections, as the city appears to have a new congressional representative, as well as ushered in a new mayor and fresh faces on City Council.
The unofficial results indicate several Virginia Beach City Council races with less than 1 percent difference in votes for the winning and losing candidates. That includes the Bayside race between Louis Jones and Brad Martin.
There are no automatic recounts in Virginia, but the apparent losing candidate can request a recount if the difference between the votes is "not more than one percent of the total votes cast for those two candidates," according to the Department of Elections' website.
Jones captured 70,602 votes while Martin secured 70,095 — a difference of only 507 votes, or 0.003 percent of the vote. With that margin, Martin could request a recount — and said that is a possibility.
"As close as this election is, I want to be as sure of these results as we can be," Martin said.
The Bayside District race wasn't the only close contest in Virginia Beach.
The Beach District race between John Uhrin and David Nygaard, as well as one of the at-large seats between John Moss and Dee Oliver, were also decided by less than 1 percent difference.
An apparent losing candidate cannot request a recount until the results are certified, which could take several days, according to the state's Department of Elections.
Any candidate in the city who decide to move forward with a recount must file a petition with the Virginia Beach Circuit Court within 10 days of the election results being certified.
Martin cautioned that although a recount might be an option, it was not definite.
"I'm not sure, but it's on the table, Martin said.


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Whole Foods Gets a Whole Lot Bigger
MarketWatch has reported that Whole Foods has purchased rival natural-foods grocer, Wild Oats, for $565 million.
Whole Foods has struggled in recent months, reporting a decline in fiscal first-quarter profit, largely due to increased competition from larger grocery store chains — including Wal-Mart — that have begun offering natural and organic foods. As conventional supermarkets try to cash in on Americans' increased health consciousness and willingness to pay more for luxury food items, shoppers no longer need to visit specialized food markets to get their soy-milk, organic vegetables, or tempeh-burgers.
By purchasing its smaller rival, Whole Foods can increase its presence in the Pacific Northwest, the Rocky Mountain regions, and Florida which may help it to slow the erosion of its marketshare by its conventional counterparts. The merger follows on the heels of another recent grand gesture by Whole Foods CEO, John Mackey.
In November, Mackey wrote a letter to all employees explaining that, among other changes to the company's compensation structure, he would no longer be receiving a salary.
"I am now 53 years old and I have reached a place in my life where I no longer want to work for money, but simply for the joy of the work itself and to better answer the call to service that I feel so clearly in my own heart. Beginning on January 1, 2007, my salary will be reduced to $1, and I will no longer take any other cash compensation."
Do you think Mackey's moves will help Whole Foods attract the best employees and keep Goliath-like competitors such as Wal-Mart from poaching their customers?
Whole Foods stock rose nearly 5% to $47.90 in after-hours trading.


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Queinnectrechus is een geslacht van kevers uit de familie van de loopkevers (Carabidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van het geslacht is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1992 door Deuve.

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Het geslacht Queinnectrechus omvat de volgende soorten:
 Queinnectrechus angusticollis Belousov & Kabak, 2003
 Queinnectrechus brevis Belousov & Kabak, 2003
 Queinnectrechus excentricus Deuve, 1992
 Queinnectrechus glacialis Ueno, 1998
 Queinnectrechus globipennis Ueno, 1998
 Queinnectrechus guttula Belousov & Kabak, 2003
 Queinnectrechus humeralis Belousov & Kabak, 2003
 Queinnectrechus incisus Belousov & Kabak, 2003
 Queinnectrechus janatai Belousov & Kabak, 2003
 Queinnectrechus micrangulus Belousov & Kabak, 2003
 Queinnectrechus miroslavi Belousov & Kabak, 2003
 Queinnectrechus smetanai Ueno, 1995
 Queinnectrechus zheduoshanus Ueno, 1998

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Dairy Processor News
Tetra Pak honors National Dairy Month with Daily Dairy calendar
In commemoration of National Dairy Month, Tetra Pak encourages American families to think differently about their dairy consumption habits. To kick off the month-long observance, the Vernon Hills-based sustainable dairy packaging manufacturer has released a "Daily Dairy" calendar full of nutritional facts and fun tips about milk and its benefit to a healthy lifestyle.
To combat the national nutritional challenge, families are invited to visit www.tetrapakusa.com to discover simple solutions to consuming calcium, even while on the go.
"Busy parents are always looking for ways to incorporate nutrition, convenience and fun into their kids' meals," said Sheniqua Little, dairy category manager for Tetra Pak. "Tetra Pak helps to do this with packaging and processing solutions that make foods and beverages shelf-stable – last for several weeks – without preservatives or refrigeration required. Parents can now add more milk to their kids' diets when they are away from home. Together with our customers, we're committed to helping consumers better understand the packaging behind the products they buy and the benefits cartons can bring to their lifestyles."
Milk in shelf-stable form has the same taste as milk in the refrigerated aisle at the grocery store; it's just packaged and processed differently. Tetra Pak's shelf-stable milk boxes enable the product to retain its quality without refrigeration for up to several months from its production date. This allows families to purchase multiple units at once, while keeping unopened milk boxes for safe use in the pantry. And, consumers can always chill before opening, if they choose.
To download a PDF version of the "Daily Dairy" calendar, or to learn more about the benefits of milk boxes and other products in shelf-stable cartons, visit www.tetrapakusa.com. Plus, follow Tetra Pak on Twitter at www.twitter.com/milkmonthtips this month to learn even more about milk and important nutrition facts.
About Tetra Pak
Tetra Pak creates smart food processing and carton packaging solutions that help make the world better, and each day its products meet the needs of hundreds of millions of people in more than 170 countries around the world. With almost 22,000 employees based in more than 85 countries, Tetra Pak is dedicated to its motto, "PROTECTS WHAT'S GOOD," and committed to sustainable business practices and innovations that make food safe and available everywhere. Its technologies result in safer and healthier food and beverage products with minimal impact on the environment. Protecting what's good also means doing what's right-for the business and its employees, customers and communities.
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The publications from the Bibliography Room have always formed part of an important outreach programme, and by sending them to individuals and institutions in New Zealand and overseas, they highlight the Room's on-going activities. Such networking is vital. Over the years, recipients have included the Bodleian Library, the British Museum (Library), the Huntington Library (California), the Hocken, the Turnbull Library, the Harvard Library, and as displayed, the National Collection of Fine Arts at the Smithsonian Institution. Notable individual recipients have included the late Don MacKenzie, bibliographers Graham Pollard and Philip Gaskell, and American scholars James Osborn and Gordon Ray. Leo Bensemann, from The Caxton Press, was but one local supporter. As a designer par excellence, he had every right to make comment on the final copy.
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Consultation Digest (Local) Issue 86, 11 May 2021
Junctions squinty and scary plus permanent and pop-up lanes.
Around the north of the city, plans for Maryhill Road's squinty crossing are dwarfed by proposals for Canniesburn Toll roundabout in East Dumbartonshire.
In the city centre, another Bank Holiday building fire means the road is fenced off on High St at the junction of George St/Duke St.
The Scottish Parliament election has passed but it's still a bit quiet on the consultations front. However, there are plenty of temporary and permanent projects going on so we have another Infrastructure Update. Most of them are in the city but East Kilbride is also getting in on the Spaces for People action.
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Posted on 27 April, 2021 27 August, 2021
Consultation Digest (Local) Issue 85, 27 April 2021
A few consultations from the shires and feedback from Glasgow.
This is the third Digest during the quieter pre-election period. If you want to know what some of the candidates had to say about cycling, you can watch a video of GoBike's Hustings event. You can also see Pedal on Parliament getting their message across.
This Digest has news about Ayrshire, Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire. There's also some feedback about developments in Glasgow.
Since COVID-19 restrictions are easing, the usual editor is away and the previous editor is filling in. So, there are no links to jump to the topics this time (knowledge update required!). However, things are still a bit quiet so it shouldn't take long to scroll through.
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Consultation Digest (Local) Issue 83, 30 March 2021
A little less consultation – a little more action? Sort of…
As predicted in the last Digest, there aren't so many consultations due to the pre-election period. This Digest is split between Glasgow and a few items each from East Dunbartonshire and Lanarkshire.
However, there are often more developments on the ground around the city in March, to complete works before the Public Sector's end of Financial Year. Many of us might be restricted to our own council area right now. So, it can help to see that progress is happening somewhere, as it may not feel like it at times. That's why this Digest features an Infrastructure Update to bring you up to speed.
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Posted on 16 March, 2021 16 March, 2021
A rush of closing consultations from inside and outside the city.
In this Digest there's a mix of consultations from Glasgow and from all directions outside the city. Most are over before late March, which will mark six weeks until the Scottish Parliament election. This is the Public Sector's 'purdah' pre-election period when projects tend to avoid new announcements (which could get caught up in electioneering).
That may be why there's been a flurry of news about the next lot of Glasgow's Spaces for People projects – including Howard St, Cambridge St and Royston Rd. GoBike first heard about these at the revived Glasgow Active Travel Forum, which met for the first time online earlier this month (previous meeting was Sept 2019!).
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Consultation Digest (Local) Issue 81, 2 March 2021
New consultations from the Southside and elsewhere in the city, plus more from North Lanarkshire.
In this Digest there are consultations for a few parts of the Southside and traffic orders for a few City Ways. Also, surveys and events on traffic and town hubs in North Lanarkshire.
If you're in the city, see Andy's three infrastructure routes around Glasgow to take in Spaces for People infrastructure. Part of the Southern route includes the SfP 'pop-up' bike lane on Dumbreck Road, which was recently removed "by mistake" but then reinstated.
Andy has also started to inform GoBike about closures and diversions; if you hear of any please do let us know.
Looking further ahead towards spring, and an election, Pedal on Parliament have news about their events in April.
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Posted on 16 February, 2021 1 March, 2022
Consultation Digest (Local) Issue 80, 16 February 2021
Events and updates from the city and future plans for North Lanarkshire.
In this Digest there are consultation events for areas either side of the M8. There's a return to pre-pandemic plans for a few City Ways. Also, adding paths and removing the precinct in Motherwell.
If you're in the city, see Andy's three infrastructure routes around Glasgow to take in Spaces for People infrastructure. He's also started to inform GoBike about closures and diversions; if you hear of any please do let us know.
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Consultation Digest (Local) Issue 79, 2 February 2021
Quick trips to the seaside, countryside and updates from around the city.
In this Digest there are two projects by housing associations to improve active travel connections. The South Lanarkshire, (Y)our Districts and Woodside consultations are each from a wider ongoing series of events but could play a big part in shaping the areas they cover. Lastly there's a follow-up about East Renfrewshire and a few newsletters.
If you're in the city, see Andy's three infrastructure routes around Glasgow to take in new Spaces for People infrastructure. He's also started to inform GoBike about closures and diversions; if you hear of any please do let us know.
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Consultation Digest (Local) Issue 76, 22 December 2020
Mostly long term consultations except for a sudden Spaces for People scheme in Dennistoun.
Our blog post called it a 'Low-ish Traffic Neighbourhood'. Does it qualify as an LTN? It's included in one of Andy's three infrastructure routes so you may get the chance to see for yourself if you're in Glasgow.
There's also a recent petition for segregated cycle lanes at the Kelvin Way-University Avenue junction (open for signing until 28 January). It's near Hillhead Primary School, which also features for its School Street…
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Posted on 27 October, 2020 31 August, 2021
Consultation Digest Issue 72, 27 October 2020: bike storage – do get your views in to the Scottish Government!
Another selection of items for you, but please do respond to the OnBikes survey and, if you are a tenement resident, let's get some bike storage, see Item 1.5. Also, don't forget the language survey in 1.4. Lots to keep you busy but do read on for even more.
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Consultation Digest Issue 71, 13 October 2020: How do we talk about cycling and where do we store our bikes?
The language we use can be critical, as we know from so many spheres of our lives, so do please look at the journalism survey in Item 1.6.
Where can you store your bike if you live in a tenement etc? See the consultation on development in Item 1.7.
Plus we have important updates of speed cushions – confirmation of 8 more areas to be given this treatment, as well as less predictable issues, so do please read on.
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