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Episode five – Sponsored by Hollard
Episode five, task four, was sponsored by Hollard. This task was mainly touching on the concept of shared economy, and the apprentices had to come up with an innovative insurance solution for insuring assets being transported in ships, trucks and aeroplanes with spare capacity. So it's normally a spot going empty, but the load will be shared with others also transporting their own goods. Who insures what, what if there's no insurance and what is the liability around the whole shared economy concept?
Benji Coetzee from Empty Trips explained her business to the apprentices and after that Gareth Joubert from Hollard, who built his career around creating new businesses, tasked the apprentices to design an insurance solution for a company like Empty Trips. All the factors around insurability, self-insurance etc had to be taken into account.
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Waiting for Superman
And so we had our Martin Luther King ceremony at school and wasn't that lovely. It alternated between song and speech, included kid singers and speakers, some faculty and me reciting Langston Hughes' epic "Let America Be America Again" backed by powerful images gather by our librarian in a Powerpoint. Close to the end, I gave the following talk and after watching the last 2 minutes of Dr. King's iconic speech, 200 children stood, crossed and joined hands and sang from the bottom of their soul "We Shall Overcome." The tears came as they should and wasn't that a fine thing? Here is a version of my talk:
Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Look! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman!
When I was a kid, I loved to watch Superman on TV. I thrilled when mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent went into a phone booth and changed into Superman. Now I need to stop here and explain that in the old days, there was something called a phone booth because believe it or not, all phones had wires and if you were out in the world and needed to call someone, you had to put 10 cents into a slot from a public phone. The booth was made of glass and to give you some privacy, you went in and shut the door. One of the big mysteries of Superman wasn't how he had such super-powers and why kryptonite could weaken him—it was how he could change clothes in such a tiny phone booth. That was see-through and anybody passing by could watch. I'm still trying to figure that out.
But why did I love Superman so much? Because I was a little kid in a world of big strong adults and sometimes it was a scary place. Most people were bigger, stronger, with bigger voices and with the power to make me do things— eat my spinach, get to bed because the clock said so, get out my math book and so on. They could send me out of class out into the hall if they thought I misbehaved—and I did spend almost all of third grade out there— and older, bigger kids could grab me and steal my Halloween candy and I couldn't do anything about it. And mostly from watching TV, I learned that the world was filled with bad people who lied, cheated, stole things, hurt people, were greedy and took more than their share.
So Superman was my hero. "Oh yeah?! You think you're going to get away with that? Just you wait! Superman will come flying in and knock your heads together!" How I thrilled when the music swelled and he arrived on the scene and all those big, bad bullies starting quaking in the knees and turned into whimpering, sniveling little cowards they were.
Don't kids today still love the superheros? And so many more to choose from these days! Wonder Woman, Black Panther, the Hulk and lots more— each with special super-powers that will be useful when the bad guys are at it again. So I totally understand why we love superheros. But someday we grow up and realize that no one is going to save us. And that none of us is invincible.
Martin Luther King seems like a super-hero, but he was a very human human being who loved his wife and kids and sometimes made mistakes and did things that hurt them. And the bullet from the gun didn't bounce off like it did with Superman. No, it didn't. He was a strong, courageous man whose life and actions and words can help inspire us to stand up and face people with clubs and guns blocking our path across the bridge. But he was human. One of my favorite images—and saddest— is that just before he stepped out on that balcony in Memphis, a place he came to support garbage workers, he had a meeting with his team. When Andrew Young came a bit late to the meeting, Martin Luther King playfully threw a pillow at him and suddenly, everyone was bonking each other on the head with pillows. I love to think that this was the last thing he did before he left us. Had a playful, joyful and human moment. And then stepped out on that balcony. Where was Superman then?
So we love superheros because we feel powerless and we love their invincibility and power. But then we grow up and realize was are vulnerable and so is everybody we meet. We realize that the only power that counts is the one that we create in ourselves. How can we feel our own power? What kind of power are we looking for? How can we use our powers? How do we respond to others who have the power to hurt us?
Some people have outward power, be in money or position—a President, boss, head of a group. And we hope those people will use their power wisely, with understanding, compassion, intelligence and a vision to help others. Not all of us will get that kind of power nor do all of us want it.
But the truer power is the inward power, the power to make an effort to be better, the power to practice something you love so you can master it, the power to face yourself and others honestly, the power to see beauty in the world and to see the best in others. That last is a teacher's power . Goethe once said "When we treat a man as he is, we make him worse than he is. When we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. "
One of the worst things about racism or sexism or ageism or classism or any ism is refusing to see a person for who they really are, dismissing them in a category, arrogantly thinking that any human being has a right to define another based on anything but the proven character of that person. It feels terrible not to be seen or known, whether it's from strangers far away or people close to you that miss seeing the essence of who you are by believing in who you have been and who you yet might be. As Meg Wollitzer said, "That's what the people who change our lives always do. They give us permission to be the person we secretly really long to be but maybe don't feel we're allowed to be."
That's what a good teacher does, what a good person does. Bless you, praise you, believe in you and gives you permission to be the person you know you are deep down, but the rest of the world wants you to hide. So whether it's outward power or inward power, the question is the same. Will you use it to hurt and harm, or help and heal? Is it bringing more beauty to the world and making it uglier? These are important questions.
So we have to stop waiting for Superman. He's not coming. And even if he did, there's no phone booths anymore for him to change in. We have to stop waiting for something to save us.. I-Phone 15 is not going to save us. A political party is not going to save us. The Messiah is not going to save us.
Everything we need to save us is right here in this room. Everything we need is right here in our own mind, our own imagination, our own heart. We are the people we have been waiting for. And when we sing We Shall Overcome, we're not just talking about stopping the evil actions of greedy, power-hungry people. We're talking about overcoming our own shortcomings, our own lack of courage, our own refusal to be our whole self because it's too scary, our own refusal to love because we're afraid we'll get hurt. Yes, we have to work to stop the bad guys—and gals—not through head-knocking, but through speaking out, writing to and calling Congresspeople, gathering in the streets and most important of all, voting. But if we don't pay attention to the bad parts in ourselves, nothing will change. Nothing.
I have a dream too and this school has been the place to try it out. Sometimes it has been truly a heaven on earth and sometimes a hell on earth and sometimes both in the same day. Freedom lives in the human soul and that's where the most important work takes place. That's the work we're trying to do in this school and sometimes we get it right and sometimes we get it terribly wrong, but the important thing is that we keep making the effort. All of us. From the youngest to the oldest, all in it together. And it is that courageous effort that will finally free us from the tyranny of our own smallness and make us the beautiful beings we are and deserve to be. That's when we are free at last.
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By Dan Whitehead
In the eight years since Netflix flipped from simply being a digital distributor of existing shows and movies to creating its own material with House of Cards, the traditional TV industry has been watching the phenomenon known as "streaming" much as biologists watch an emergent new species – fascinated by its potential, fearful for the impact it may have on the ecosystem.
The notion of binge watching came about when Netflix and other streamers that followed its path abandoned the quaint notion of linear schedules in favour of letting people watch every episode of a new series in one sitting if they so choose. As platforms have proliferated, content has flooded the market, and new A-list releases now pass many viewers by unless they see people talking about it on social media. As a result, we're starting to see SVODs and other digital viewing services row back from the all-you-can-eat model.
Viewer indecision and anxiety brought about by "peak content" is certainly part of the shift. As early as 2014, satirical website The Onion posted a spoof news story about Netflix offering a "browse only" subscription that let users scroll through endless options and never choose anything. Late in 2020, six years later, Netflix actually trialled a new service called Netflix Direct in France. This applied a linear model to Netflix programming, offering a "channel" that simply showed one thing: non-stop. The aim was to eliminate that paralysis caused by a wall of content tiles, and simply give people something to watch immediately.
Yet, this is not a new idea; Shudder, AMC's horror-themed SVOD, offered something identical when it launched in 2015, playing old genre movies back to back via its website. AVOD services such as Pluto TV also already do this, with channels that play archive episodes of shows like Mythbusters and Unsolved Mysteries on rotation, 24-7.
It's reality TV that is also driving this change, as the streamers diversify away from scripted and have started competing with linear TV in other genres as well. Netflix opted for a weekly release for competitive reality show The Circle, as did dating show Too Hot To Handle. That show, created to compete with the likes of Love Island, even allowed Netflix to weave its broadcast-style release model into the marketing, with the idea of "Reality Wednesday" giving viewers a weekly focal point for their social media conversations.
Another reason is that the binge model has resulted in an accelerated culture, where a highly expensive new show can make a huge splash one day and be forgotten the next as everyone moves on to the next big release. Disney+ shrewdly avoided this trap by releasing all of its flagship shows – Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian, Marvel projects like Wandavision and Loki – at a weekly rhythm. The pay off is that the show trends for longer, and sustains online speculation and conversation.
Apple TV also went weekly for comedy drama Ted Lasso, and by delivering its feel good episodes gradually it meant that interest was still high when it won big at the Emmys. HBO Max, the latest entrant in the high stakes SVOD race, has learned from all of these experiments and launched with a multitude of release cadences. Some shows are weekly, others arrive with all episodes at once. For some shows, those where it seems audiences may need more time to take the hook, two or three episodes can be released at launch, with the rest following a weekly pattern.
What we're seeing is less of a retreat from the bingeable boxset model, and more like the SVODs realising they have a host of different ways to release their shows. Where it makes sense to go for the all-in-one model – as with brooding slow burn Netflix horror Midnight Mass – that can still work. Where a more measured release will pay better dividends, as with reality shows, that's also on the table. Some shows can stream endlessly, available whenever people want to dip in. And with no schedule to worry about, hybrids of all these options are also being trialled. It's become a truism to say that the way we watch TV has changed forever, but that's clearly not entirely true: it's still changing, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
Dan Whitehead has been covering TV and video games for over fifteen years, both as an entertainment journalist and as an industry consultant.


In 2017, Microsoft and SAP strengthened an enduring alliance by enabling our customers to run SAP S/4HANA on Azure. And they are backing it up with their own systems as well: both will run some of their critical S/4HANA systems on Azure. This means you can do the same with confidence. You can benefit from a joint ecosystem that brings unique insights and rich product integration to make the most of running SAP solutions in the cloud—accelerating your performance, productivity, and innovation with seamless enterprise-class support.


Breathe in, drink your fill of sweet air. Draw in color like shades of beautiful character expressing God's own.
What traits of His do you see reflected now in your own mind?
Look, the blossoms bud once again, though once dead, now bloom, violets and glories of the morning.
Trees mighty, their strength towering above and beyond, drawing life up from the deep.
Pictures imprinted, embedded. Your thoughts reflect these images.
Take them forward with you, these gentle whispers breathed into action, like smiles, kindness and prayers.
I love the tone of serenity and gratitude. It is contagious.


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Home Industry News Hitachi Construction Machinery UK celebrates 50th Anniversary
Hitachi Construction Machinery UK celebrates 50th Anniversary
Hitachi Construction Machinery UK (HCMUK), a leading name in the construction, quarrying and demolition equipment market, is celebrating its 50thanniversary in 2022.
To commemorate this important milestone, the company is celebrating its success over five decades, while looking forward to building a brighter future, together with its customers and employees.
A number of events are scheduled to take place throughout 2022 and promotional materials will be released to mark the company's anniversary, including a logo that has been unveiled demonstrating the company's continual progress and highlighting the strong partnership it enjoys with its employees, machine owners and operators.
HCMUK has come a long way from the company's formation in 1972, having originally traded under the names Beazer Plant Sales and BM Plant Between 1972 and 1993. The company then became HM Plant in 1993 before becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Construction Machinery Europe in 2007, with the company eventually changing its name to Hitachi Construction Machinery UK in 2014.
Today with its headquarters based in Hebburn, HCMUK employs over 250 people and is dedicated to being the class-leading solutions partner, from its 12 nationwide depots and appointed sub-dealer in Ireland.
Looking to the future, HCMUK is building on its reputation for manufacturing reliable, high-quality and technologically advanced equipment to offer in-house customised solutions or in partnership with leading suppliers.
HCMUK is welcoming the shift to digitalisation through its Hitachi Connected Technology department which offers market-leading 3D machine control and special attachment solutions, that are installed to factory standards by manufacturer-trained engineers at its dedicated Product Support depot in the North-East.
The company has also recently launched its mixed-fleet telematics system, CTFleet Link® which utilises both the Hitachi API and a bespoke API developed by HCMUK. It gives customers access to a live online portal to monitor the performance and location of not just their Hitachi equipment in real time but also those of other manufacturers they may have in their fleet.
Dave Roberts, CEO of HCMUK, said:
"We are all immensely proud to be celebrating this milestone year here at HCMUK. Whilst the company name may have changed a few times, our product and people have been consistent throughout the years, delivering high quality machines with first class support to our loyal customers, many of whom have been Hitachi users for generations.
"No doubt there has been a lot of change over the past 50 years, but the scale and pace of change that we face over the next few years will surpass that. I am very confident that the team at HCMUK is in a strong position to not only adapt to those changes, but to capitalise on them, and continue proving reliable solutions to our customers. Here's to the next 50 years!"
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Dr Ridge began his training at the University of London's School of Pharmacy, spending his early years as a registered pharmacist in clinical practice and the pharmaceutical industry, before researching his PhD on the automation of medicine supply and its use in hospitals at The University of Manchester.
Since then, his career has seen him rise to the position of Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for England with the Department of Health.
Along the way, he has helped establish the respected National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. He also served as chief pharmacist for NHS hospital services in North Glasgow, where he restructured the pharmacy service across eleven hospitals in the area, and established and led the cancer pharmacy group for the West of Scotland. He was also a founding member of the Scottish Medicines Consortium.
Subsequently, he was recruited by University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust to design an automated system for controlling medicine supply at a brand new hospital.
Later, once more working for the Department of Health, he led the development of both a landmark White Paper for pharmacy across England, and the establishment of a new professional regulator for pharmacy, the General Pharmaceutical Council. He is currently leading a programme to reform pharmacy education and careers. He has also been the driving force behind the 'healthy living' pharmacy and public health concept now being piloted across England, and has contributed at a senior level to UK planning processes for pandemic and seasonal influenza.
In addition to raising a family, Dr Ridge became a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 2010, and has worked internationally with the Council of Europe and the European Commission. His Alumni Association Award is the latest highlight in a distinguished career.


Google Cloud Next '18—Registration now open!
Registration for Google Cloud Next '18 is now open—we hope you'll join us July 24-26, 2018 at Moscone Center in San Francisco.
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Building on the energy of Next '17 with over 12,000 attendees, Next '18 will bring even more interesting keynotes, hundreds of hands-on learning opportunities, and 400 breakout and spotlight sessions on topics ranging from accessible machine learning to advances in security. We look forward to hearing from customers and partners building their businesses with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), G Suite, Maps and the latest technology across all of Google.
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As police continue to question a man being held overthe disappearance of a 20-year-old mother of two, divers have taken to the lakes and storm drains around Trollhättan, western Sweden, in the hopes of finding her.
The woman has been missing since Sunday, when she was last seen in Trollhättan, roughly 75 kilometres north of Gothenburg.
On Wednesday, a 35-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of having kidnapped the mother of two, although he has denied any involvement.
Police on Thursday increased their hunt for the woman, sending divers to lakes and storm drains in the countryside in the vicinity of Hunneberg, north of Trollhättan.
"We are doing a thorough search up there on the mountain and if you're going to do it, you should do it properly," Sten Rune Timmersjö of the local police told the TT news agency.
In Hunneberg, roughly ten kilometres from Trollhättan, clothes and a backpack were found, which have been sent in for analysis. A burnt out car was also discovered in the area. It remains unclear if the car or the clothes have any connection to the case, but investigators are looking into both.
Police have concluded that no murder could have occurred in the woman's apartment.
Around 200 volunteers from the Missing People organization have also joined the search party.


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Close-knit family with just 28 adoptive children
A Russian couple could not become biological parents – but with 28 adoptive kids they do feel happy. And, more importantly, the children feel loved and cared for.
After a miscarriage, Lyubov Shmidova (her name stands for "love" in Russian) was told she would not be able to get pregnant again and have her own children. The Shmidov family was grief-stricken by the news. It was at that time that they met a young pregnant girl near term. The girl was going to abandon her child, so they adopted the newborn, naming the baby girl Yana. That is how it all started in 1980.
Five years later, the Shmidov family moved to the Caucasus and adopted their second child.
Instability in the Caucasus forced Lyubov and her husband Sergey to move back to Russia in 1993. The family settled in the Tula Region in Central Russia, where they found a small house and engaged themselves in farming.
A year later, Lyubov was seriously injured and because of other health problems, received disability status. Soon after she had a prophetic dream.
"I had a dream that a wall disappeared and a beautiful woman came out with a girl. She told me that I should adopt children. When I saw her I said that she was very beautiful. I headed to the monastery and talked to a priest. I asked him what it meant. He said that I would have a lot of children," Lyubov recalls.
The same year the family adopted their third child, 15-year-old Mikhail. Five more children were adopted soon after. The family was growing with each passing year. All the children came from unfortunate circumstances, some even had criminal backgrounds. Last spring, the Shmidovy family adopted seven more children, bringing the total number of children in the house to 28.
Keeping this household running is a fulltime job requiring a team effort, from preparing the meals, to playtime and even raising farm animals for food to help cut down on grocery expenses.
"We receive social benefits. We borrow money, if we really need it. We borrow it and then pay back. Everything is fine, thank God. We have a place to live. We'd love to have more space for the children, I would like them to have bigger, more beautiful rooms with more light, but we are happy with what we have. I don't think we have the lowest living standard," Lyubov says.
Such a lifestyle certainly does have its challenges. The family has meals in three different shifts because the dinner table – which is quite long – cannot seat all of them.
Though the age difference between the children varies greatly, this group certainly sticks together. The older kids take care of the younger kids. Fights happen of course, but they are rather an exception.
Each member of the Shmidov family has a unique story, like Anya, who was left by her biological parents to live and eat in a doghouse, until the state stepped in paving the way to her new family. She was adopted at the age of eight. Now, twelve years on, she is happy:
"I believe this family was the best thing that could've happened to me," Anya says.
She hopes that she can follow her adoptive mother's example:
"I want to have my own kids and I also want to take an abandoned child from an orphanage out of gratitude that someone took me in. One or two kids, not this many kids."
Her own family and kids are still in store for Anya but two of Lyubov's older children have already settled with their own families, making their adoptive mother a granny.
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Roswell: The Final Verdict
Did aliens really crash-land near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947? In 1947, a rancher near Roswell, New Mexico, claimed to have discovered mysterious debris on his property, triggering decades ... Read allDid aliens really crash-land near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947? In 1947, a rancher near Roswell, New Mexico, claimed to have discovered mysterious debris on his property, triggering decades of official government denials, and countless conspiracy theories, about aliens. Now, tape... Read allDid aliens really crash-land near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947? In 1947, a rancher near Roswell, New Mexico, claimed to have discovered mysterious debris on his property, triggering decades of official government denials, and countless conspiracy theories, about aliens. Now, tapes of haunting first-person accounts from the past are being analyzed in a totally modern w... Read all
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Did aliens really crash-land near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947? In 1947, a rancher near Roswell, New Mexico, claimed to have discovered mysterious debris on his property, triggering decades of official government denials, and countless conspiracy theories, about aliens. Now, tapes of haunting first-person accounts from the past are being analyzed in a totally modern way, using artificial intelligence (AI) lie detection software to test if the eyewitnesses are telling the truth. Although most of the witnesses are now deceased, AI permits truth to be separated from fiction and the most important UFO event in world history can be weighed in the balance with all the evidence at hand. Truth seekers will now decide - the final verdict.
Hearsay is the new truth
Lets suppose that I tell my daughter that once I saw a flock of flying pigs with my own eyes. Years later after my passing she recounts the day I told her my account of the flying pigs. The most advanced generalized intelligence ever made by man running on a pseudo-entangled quantum computer analyzes her telling of the story and determines that she is 100% truthful. The world can now be rest assured that flying pigs are real.
That sounds like an appeal to ignorance and several other human fallacies at work. It's dumb.
So, if you can dismiss the crackhead logic used in this show and watch it purely for entertainment then it's still dumb.
All that I can really say is that you better hope I'm not the one that the aliens ask for advice as to why they shouldn't nuke us from orbit.
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UN agency: More than 94,000 Yemenis displaced since January
CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. refugee company introduced on Thursday that extra than 94,000 individuals have been displaced and compelled to flee their houses in a number of components of Yemen since January, a grim statistic reflecting the devastation introduced on by the civil struggle within the Arab world's most impoverished nation.
"The ongoing conflict in Yemen continues to displace people from their homes as they struggle to survive," UNHCR mentioned in a tweet. The company mentioned the variety of over 94,000 — together with at the very least 15,000 households — have been displaced between Jan. 1 and June 6. Only about 5,200 individuals have been capable of return to their locations of origin in that interval, added the UNHCR.
The civil struggle erupted in Yemen in 2015, when a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition launched an offensive towards Yemen's Houthi rebels who had overrun the capital of Sanaa and a lot of the nation's north the earlier 12 months, forcing an internationally acknowledged authorities to flee to the south.
The preventing has killed extra than 100,000 individuals, displaced hundreds of thousands and introduced on what the United Nations says is the world's worst humanitarian disaster. Many households, particularly among the many hundreds of thousands displaced, can barely afford one meal a day.
At the identical time because the struggle rages on, Yemen is struggling to battle the coronavirus pandemic — ill-prepared for the struggle, with missing medical providers and a healthcare system in ruins. However, authorities have formally reported solely 564 instances and 130 deaths from COVID-19, the illness brought on by the coronavirus.
The World Health Organization says that there's seemingly a big undercount of the whole variety of individuals affected by the coronavirus outbreak. Richard Brennan, the WHO's regional emergency director, mentioned earlier that he believes the COVID-19 deaths are within the tons of and that the variety of instances are within the 1000's, based mostly on what he has heard from quite a few well being sources and medical suppliers in Yemen.


How Corrupt Are Your Courts? Too Corrupt To Be Fair?
In complex transnational litigation, ensuring the rights of all parties is especially challenging. Consider the following situation: A plaintiff brings a lawsuit against a US multinational in US court, alleging wrongful conduct in some foreign country; the defendant corporation moves to dismiss the case on the ground that the courts of the country where the alleged conduct took place are a more appropriate forum for adjudicating the suit, and the plaintiff should therefore be required to pursue the suit there; but the plaintiff opposes the motion to dismiss on the grounds that the foreign country's courts are so corrupt that it would be impossible to get a fair trial. What should the US court do when confronted with that sort of situation?
By contrast, other jurisdictions take allegations of foreign judicial corruption more seriously as a reason not to dismiss a lawsuit and insist that it remain in the forum of the plaintiff's choice. Notably, although the forum non conveniens analysis is very similar in US and Canadian courts, Canadian courts have been more willing to find foreign forums inadequate because of pervasive corruption. For example, in Norex Petroleum Limited v. Chubb Insurance Company of Canada, a US court dismissed the case on forum non conveniens grounds, while the Canadian court took jurisdiction, denying the defendant's forum non conveniens motion in light of the Canadian court's finding that—even though every other factor weighed heavily in favor of Russia as the better forum—extensive judicial corruption in Russia would prevent the plaintiff from accessing a fair and impartial court. It's certainly not the case that Canadian courts have been consistently receptive to these sorts of arguments—for example, a recent Canadian ruling found Guatemala an appropriate forum despite significant corruption concerns—but the contrast between Canada and the US demonstrates that the US courts' "see no evil" approach is far from inevitable.
Last August, a US appeals court may have finally brought to a close a case that the court described as "among the most extensively chronicled in the history of the American federal judiciary": a lawsuit, initially filed in 1993, seeking damages for adverse environmental and health consequences of oil exploration and drilling by Texaco (later acquired by Chevron) in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Chevron and the plaintiffs each have their own version of the long, complicated, and contentious litigation. (For a concise, relatively balanced summary see here.) For present purposes, the essential facts are as follows: After eight years of US litigation, in 2001 Chevron persuaded a US court to send the case to Ecuador. In 2011, after an additional decade of litigation in Ecuador, the Ecuadorian courts ultimately found in favor of the plaintiffs, ordering Chevron to pay an $18.5 billion judgment (later reduced to $9 billion). Unfortunately for the plaintiffs, Chevron doesn't have any assets in Ecuador, so the plaintiffs have been trying to enforce their judgment in a number of other jurisdictions, including the United States. In its August ruling, the US appeals court affirmed the district court's 2014 holding that the Ecuadorian judgment could not be enforced in the United States because it was a product of fraud and corruption—including the shocking finding that plaintiff's attorneys had bribed the judge with a promise of $500,000, and ghostwrote the multi-billion dollar judgment.


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Crepuscule in Guelph 2016, Douglas R. Ewart & Community Orchestra Inventions
Douglas R. Ewart (reeds), the former chair of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) was the 2015-2016 Improviser-In-Residence in Guelph and Waterloo. Ewart's residency included instrument building workshops, musical improvisations with local artists, a performance at the 2015 Guelph Jazz Festival & Colloquium and culminated in his orchestrated, massive community improvisation Crepuscule 2016, in Guelph's Arboretum. The Improviser-in-Residence program is a collaborative partnership between IICSI, the Laurier Centre for Music in the Community, and Musagetes.
Douglas Ewart: Crepuscule (1993-2016/present)
Crepuscule builds connections across boundaries of culture, class, gender, and ethnicity. This long term project began in 1993 in Minneapolis, Minnesota as a commissioned work by the McKnight Foundation, called Wondrous Waters, based on a composition with an enormous group of people performing music, inspired by the sounds, acoustical properties, and possibilities that land and water provided. Mr. Ewart modified the idea from being just an orchestra with a relatively passive audience into an orchestra of community and activities, and an active audience, a microcosm of society where many disciplines could converge.
Crepuscule events usually take place near a body of water, trees, or botanical gardens as a means to draw energy from the setting itself. The circle is imagined as a source of endless nature and power and persons collaborating in Crepuscule events often join hands at some point as a demonstration of that power, unity, and community.
Ewart describes Crepuscule "as a space for all people to perform all kinds of creative art forms and disciplines."
Crepuscule events include a broad combination of community groups and artists organized as "pods" for the event. Learn more about the Pods of Crepuscule 2016.
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Paul Newberry: Harrison fumbles away a life lesson for his sons
James Harrison made his kids give their trophies back. There's no reward, the Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker...
Paul Newberry: Harrison fumbles away a life lesson for his sons James Harrison made his kids give their trophies back. There's no reward, the Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker... Check out this story on eveningsun.com: https://www.eveningsun.com/story/sports/2015/08/22/harrison-fumbles-away-life-lesson-his-sons/72239358/
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Bonita, California's Nick Maldonado (18) leaps on home plate as he is swarmed by teammates after hitting a grand slam off Bowling Green, Kentucky's Ty Bryant during the third inning of a baseball game in United States pool play at the Little League World Series tournament in South Williamsport, Pa. on Friday. The West won 14-2.(Photo: Gene J. Puskar — The Associated Press)
James Harrison made his kids give their trophies back.
There's no reward, the Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker insisted, just for showing up.
Sorry, James, you got that one wrong.
Rest assured, his 6- and 8-year-old sons will get plenty of experience dealing with failure over the course of their lives. They'll come to learn soon enough what a dog-eat-dog world it is out there. No need to deprive them of this bit of pride and accomplishment, even if they received their trophies merely for taking part in a camp.
We'll take that over the alternative, the win-at-all-costs mindset on display at Friday at the Little League World Series, which endured a cheating scandal just last year, where there's never a shortage of overbearing parents and 11- and 12-year-old kids potentially ruining their arms with curveball after curveball.
"Participation in youth sports has been declining steadily over the last decade," said Rick Eckstein, a sociology professor at Villanova University. "If giving kids a trophy for showing up and trying to improve keeps them involved, then it is a good thing."
Harrison, still going strong in the NFL at age 37, stirred up a national debate when he revealed that he wouldn't let his kids receive a trophy until they had done something to earn it.
"I came home to find out that my boys received two trophies for nothing, participation trophies!" Harrison ranted on Instagram. "While I am very proud of my boys for everything they do and will encourage them till the day I die, these trophies will be given back until they EARN a real trophy."
In fairness to Harrison, it's not surprising he would feel that way. He's the classic overachiever, a guy who wasn't even drafted out of college but has made the Pro Bowl five times and played on a pair of Super Bowl-winning teams.
He didn't get that far simply by participating.
"I'm not sorry for believing that everything in life should be earned," Harrison went on, "and I'm not about to raise two boys to be men by making them believe that they are entitled to something just because they tried their best ... cause sometimes your best is not enough, and that should drive you to want to do better."
His kids will probably turn out just fine.
Maybe they'll even be star football players, just like their dad.
My 16-year-old son won't be. But I don't think he'll be any less of a success in life just because his parents gushed over the trophy he received years ago for playing T-ball.
"I am not surprised that Harrison would take this view. As a professional athlete he lives in an unbelievably competitive world where finishing second is simply intolerable," Eckstein wrote in an email. "But kids should be motivated to play sports because it builds friendships, challenges them to improve, and, oh yes, can actually be fun. By focusing too much on winning and championships, we set kids up to stop participating at all, lest they be considered failures.
"This is not coddling kids," he added, "it is treating them LIKE kids, not tiny adults."
Or course, the colors of any issue are rarely black and white.
It's always good to have plenty of gray on hand.
There's something to be said for teaching our kids to deal with failure, to use their setbacks as a learning tool, to recognize that they're going to get knocked down from time to time but they'll be stronger when they get back up.
Rebecca "Kiki" Weingarten, a former elementary school teacher who worked in New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration and now serves as a life coach for corporations and educators, praised Harrison for sending just the right message to an entitled society that often buckles at the first sign of adversity.
In essence, she believes we all need the sort of tough love that Harrison was doling out to his kids.
"It's startling to see what's happening with kids that grew up with this attitude of getting a trophy because they appeared,"' she said Friday in a telephone interview. "I hear it all the time. Employees think they're doing something just because they showed up."
She goes a step further, saying that sort of parenting produces young adults who don't want to hear anything except what they already believe, the sort of attitudes that have led comedians such as Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock to give up playing college campuses because of audiences that are too focused on political correctness.
"Something's happening where parents do not want their kids to deal with anything negative, to have no negative feedback," Weingarten said. "Well, you don't win at everything all the time. You just don't. That's competition. If you want to start a business ... you have to shove some people out of the way. I don't mean that in a bad way. But you have to learn to sling some arrows."
Still, there's a balance to life that Harrison fumbled away with his sons.
Yes, there's always going to be winners and losers in life.
But there's nothing wrong with praising our kids — or even giving them a trophy — when they at least enter the game.
Paul Newberry is a national writer for The Associated Press. Write to him at pnewberry(at)ap.org or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/pnewberry1963
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The police are offering a $100,000.00 reward for the arrest of Conor D'Monte from the UN for his alleged involvement in the murder of Kevin Leclair. AYFKM? Tax dollars?
Kim Bolan is reporting that instead of saving lives by getting fentanyl off the street and disrupting street level drug trafficking, the compromised BC Gang Task Force has created yet another dramatic red herring to waste more tax dollars on unscrupulous criminals who lie for them in court. This new campaign is empirical evidence that Gang enforcement in BC is compromised.
They are going to spend another small fortune on the same unscrupulous criminals that lied for them about Corey Vallee just so they can set someone else up for something he did not do.
Ask yourself this, why are the rat pack so willing to testify against Conor D'Monte but are too afraid to testify against Billy Ly? Because they are lying about Conor D'Monte just like they lied about Corey Vallee. Corey was not the shooter. The shooter was much bigger than Corey. Anyone who saw the surveillance tape could see that.
The compromised BC RCMP have no desire at all to charge the person who ordered the murder of Britney Irving. That is a closed file as far as they are concerned. They have a conviction and they don't even care about accomplices. In fact they would rather pay one of the accomplices to her murder an obscene amount of tax dollars to lie about rivals again. You cannot get any more corrupt than that. Blaze is still posting on my blog. I didn't blow his cover he did.
He stopped for a while but as soon as I mentioned Billy Ly he started up again because that worthless piece of garbage can't keep his mouth shut. That makes him untrustworthy. He slowed down considerably after I outed him for posting on my blog when he's supposed to be in prison but he did not stop and yesterday he tried to post on my blog twice. I know when Blaze tries to post no mater what username he uses. If he promised his handler to stop he lied. Again.
After the Surrey Six the Bacon brothers and the UN were at war. The Surrey Six murder started the conflict. What about going after Jarrod Bacon for the murder of Nicole Marie Alemy who was shot dead in Surrey while her toddler was in the car. Jarrod was involved with ordering that murder. It's time to move forward not backward. The BC Gang Task Force has done nothing to disrupt the Hells Angels drug trafficking in BC since the Kelowna Summer Jam in 2012. Since they refuse to confront organized crime we need to hire someone else who will.
Did think it was a tad "odd" to be putting up a reward that large for his "capture". Left me wondering if they reward would still be paid if he was shot and killed by his enemies. The poster didn't say dead or alive, but it might as well have.
If this person is arrested or not, drug dealing will continue. Better to spend the $100K on rehab or enforcing some of the laws. Of course it maybe those who issued the "reward" have their own agenda.
You mention "the police" as offering the reward, is that the RCMP or is it the RCMP working for the provincial government. I know the RCMP have a 20 yr contract with the province so at one level they all work for the province. However, some work in cities and some more closely with provincial government bureacrats. Like who came up with this idea? A provincial government worker or an RCMP officer. Just wondering.
It does make one think this could just be an ego thing, if its RCMP motivated, you know the mounties always get their "man".
I'm not sure which department the money is coming from. We need a financial disclosure on how much was spent on these lying witnesses who got off of murder in Corey's case and how much has been spent on them since. Continuing to spend tax dollars on those clowns after they were proven to be lying is fraud.


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When Marmocil opened its new facility in Vitoria, Brazil, it not only invested in state-of-the art machinery from Italy, but it also equipped itself for optimum flexibility. Its equipment can be adapted for a range of production, from slabs to cubic architectural pieces, and it can also easily increase production to meet consumer demand.
The facility sits on 320,000 square feet of space, including over 20,000 square feet of covered area. The production process begins with blocks, which are cut on one of two multi-wire saws from Wires Engineering. Each saw can be fitted with up to 15 wires at one time.
Marmocil's owners explained that using wire saws as opposed to gangsaws allows the company to process blocks into standard slabs as well as thicker pieces for architectural work. As a result, Marmocil has already completed large-scale architectural projects at its new factory. Each wire saw can process 65,000 square feet of material per month, making for a total of 130,000 square feet processed per month overall.
Once rough slabs are formed, they are processed on a LeviBreton slab polisher from Breton S.p.A. of Italy, which is equipped with 19 heads. The slabs are automatically loaded and unloaded from the polishing line with automated equipment from Breton. To ensure optimum water usage, an elaborate filtration system was installed at the factory.
Marmocil's facility has a total of 16 workers, and there are 24 employees in the company overall. The diamond wire saws operate 24 hours per day, and the Breton polishing line operates 8 hours per day. Even though monthly production is holding steady at 130,000 square feet, Marmocil is prepared for future expansion, as the Breton polishing line is capable of polishing over 320,000 square feet of stone per month if needed.
The company has 15 "key" materials in its collection, and it also tries to have a broad range of non-traditional Brazilian materials in stock. Marmocil has begun exporting its production, and the U.S. has been targeted as a critical market for the company. In fact, at the time of Stone World's visit to the facility, there were no less than seven containers of stone being prepared for shipment to the U.S.
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NYPD Disbands Unit That Spied on Muslims
Published Apr 15, 2014 at 3:21 PM | Updated at 10:55 PM PDT on Apr 15, 2014
Muslim community and supporters marched near 1 Police Plaza when the secret surveillance program was brought to light.
The New York Police Department says it has disbanded a special unit whose efforts to try to detect terror threats in Muslim communities through secret surveillance sparked outrage.
The NYPD confirmed the decision on Tuesday.
The surveillance program by the NYPD Intelligence Division had come under fire by community activists who accused the department of abusing civil rights.
The program relied on plainclothes officers to eavesdrop on people in bookstores, restaurants and mosques. The tactic was detailed in a series of stories by The Associated Press and became the subject of two federal lawsuits.
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I wanted to post the recipe for my traditional Halloween meal.
I use ground turkey for my chili but you can easily substitute ground beef.
4 tsp. of green chiles (fire roasted in a can found in the Mexican food aisle- I use the entire 4 oz. can of MILD because I find if I don't use them all at once, I just end up throwing them out.
Optional–Chipolte peppers in adobo sauce (also in a can in the Mexican food aisle). These are very spicy so be careful…I usually use 1 or 2 chopped up because I like heat in my chili. You can freeze the rest for another meal.
Heat the oil in a large pot or Dutch oven over moderate heat.
Add the onion, garlic, bell pepper and carrots, cover and cook, stirring occasionally until the vegetables are soft, about 10 minutes.
In the meantime, combine your spices, cumin, cayenne, chili powder, garlic powder, oregano, salt and pepper.
After the vegetables are soft, ADD the spice mixture and stir well to incorporate the spices and vegetables. Cook for 1 minute.
Add the ground turkey or beef, raise the heat to high and cook, breaking up the meat with a spoon into bite size pieces, until the meat is no longer pink.
Reduce the heat to medium-high and stir in the tomatoes, water, green chiles, hot sauce and scallions.
Add the chopped chipolte chiles in adobo sauce and sriracha, if using.
Cook partially covered, stirring from time to time for 30 minutes.
Stir in the beans and continue cooking , partially covered, 20 minutes longer, stirring occasionally.
Season to taste with salt and fresh ground pepper before serving.
Garnish with shredded Hot Jalapeno, cheddar or Mexican cheese, dollop of sour cream and additional scallions.
In a bowl mix all your dry ingredients – flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir to combine.
Cut into squares. Best served warm with extra butter or raw honey.
This entry was posted in Breads, Casserole, Chili, Stew, Turkey on October 31, 2017 by aries041158.
You made my day knowing you love the site, thank you. Both the chili and cornbread recipes are worth trying. Enjoy.
Both recipes are keepers. I have been making them both on Halloween for over 20 years.


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Tales of crocodile tails under the FCPA
By Tom Fox2016-10-25T10:45:00+01:00
The language of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is clear, as it prohibits providing anything of value to a foreign governmental official or employee of a state-owned enterprise. That phrase takes on new meaning when seen in the context of a recent New York Times article about corruption in China, which recited some of the exotic items that Chinese officials had received as bribes, including the well-known favorite: meat from the tail of a crocodile.
This description alone is worth the price of admission. "Zhang Jianjin, a former party secretary of a pharmaceutical company whose high living was paid for by businessmen seeking favors," said he felt, "flattered to be treated to crocodile meat by a businessman." Jianjin went on to detail, "He arranged for a crocodile tail, and it was a big one, more than three feet long." It was laid out in a crescent shape and looked real nice. But I thought it was probably very expensive and had to be ordered in advance."
Most compliance practitioners would not consider crocodile meat as anything of value under the FCPA, but clearly this Chinese government official had a soft spot if not sweet tooth for such a delicacy. The point is clearly what is one person's pedestrian plate of squirrel meat may be the Rocket J. Squirrel of all delicacies in another part of the globe. Bribes can always take the form of good old fashioned cash, but they could also be an item that compliance practitioners in western countries do not consider something of value.
The article referenced other officials who received briefcases with $20,000 to $30,000 worth of cash. And others had wives with millions worth of jade and other precious stones. But never forget that the test for violation of the FCPA is anything of value—even if that anything is something that might well repulse the CCO sitting at the corporate, home office in the United States.
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Report: FCPA investigations, enforcement actions hit 10-year lows in 2021
The number of enforcement actions brought under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in 2021 fell to the lowest total in a decade, according to a new report by the FCPA Clearinghouse at Stanford Law School.
Biden corruption strategy puts FCPA in spotlight overseas
President Joe Biden's strategy on countering corruption shows tackling corporate abuses overseas is firmly back on the U.S. agenda. As such, European companies and executives should beware: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is likely to get a dusting off.
Lawsuit: Ex-JPMorgan VP links firing to concerns raised about compliance program
A former compliance executive with JPMorgan Chase alleges she was fired after pointing out flaws in the bank's compliance program and misrepresentations the bank made to regulators regarding a 2016 settlement of bribery allegations in the Asia Pacific region.


Cambridge-based conductive ink specialist Novalia is poised to release a new hybrid printed electronics platform that will turn paper into musical instruments.
The BlueTooth–enabled conductive ink musical instrument digital interface (midi) will be shown at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Music and Media Conference in Austin, Texas on 17-22 March.
+Plastic Electronics spoke exclusively to Novalia CEO Kate Stone after a range of Novalia products were featured at the recent Engage Future 15 technology showcase in London. Stone reveals how her company is finding marketing and promotional products focussed around music a natural fit for Novalia's ethos of creatively combining technology and graphic design.