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Evidence for Alienation As Child Abuse
As the target of unacceptable behavior, the targeted parent may feel helpless, frustrated and depressed. However, in addition to addressing these feelings and the needs underlying them, the targeted parent has another, more selfless reason to find a resolution to the issue.
Alienation can have devastating long term effects on the child himself or herself. In other words, even though your child may seem "fine" now or even appear to be part of the problem because he or she is colluding with the other parent, recognize that the experience can be detrimental.
In their 2010 article, Children Resisting Postseparation Contact With A Parent: Concepts, Controversies, And Conundrums, published in Family Court Review, authors Fidler and Bala argue that severe cases of alienation can damage children, psychologically.
They acknowledge that "these are complex cases" and admit that "a significant portion of the cases in which alienation is alleged are not in fact alienation cases." They also say that "for those where alienation is present, interventions will vary depending on the degree of the alienation."
After an exhaustive review of the relevant scientific literature, they echo other scholars in saying that "More severe alienation cases are unlikely to be responsive to therapeutic or psycho-educational interventions in the absence of either a temporary interruption of contact between the child and the alienating parent or a more permanent custody reversal."
Taking this line of analysis a step further, in 2010, Bernet et. al, writing in The American Journal of Family Therapy, argue in their article, Parental Alienation, DSM-V, and ICD-11 that "[approximately] 1% of children and adolescents in the U.S. experience parental alienation." Citing an analysis of "professional publications from 27 countries on six continents," they found that many independent professional researchers, clinicians and academics had come to the conclusion that alienation constitutes a form of abuse. For instance (our emphasis below):
• "Marie Helene Gagne, Ph.D., and Sylvie Drapeau, Ph.D., psychologists
at Laval University, Quebec, published "L'alienation parentale est-elle une forme de maltraitance psychologique?" ("Is parental alienation a form of psychological abuse?"). The authors proposed to use the conceptual and theoretical frame of psychological abuse to study parental alienation." (pg 109)
• "The First International Congress of Families was held in Mexico City in August 2006. The congress participants…noted that the manipulation and brainwashing of children should be considered a form of child abuse." (pg 116)
• "In Germany, mental health and legal professionals, institutions, and agencies use an important handbook, Kindesmisshandlung und Ver-nachl assigung (Child Abuse and Neglect). This book refers to the "Parental Alienation Syndrome" as a particular kind of psychological violence against children in the context of custody and visitation conflicts." (page 114-115)
A 2013 paper in Psychology Today cited the Fidler and Bala and Bernet et al. papers (among other research) to conclude the following: "As reported by adult children of divorce, the tactics of alienating parents are tantamount to extreme psychological maltreatment of children, including spurning, terrorizing, isolating, corrupting or exploiting, and denying emotional responsiveness…"
"For the child, parental alienation is a serious mental condition, based on a false belief that the alienated parent is a dangerous and unworthy parent. The severe effects of parental alienation on children are well-documented; low self esteem and self-hatred, lack of trust, depression, and substance abuse and other forms of addiction are widespread, as children lose the capacity to give and accept love from a parent."
The irony, of course, is that it is the alienating parent who often suggests that the other parent has engaged in abuse or neglect. What this research suggests is that these kinds of accusations (when not based in fact, obviously) constitute the very kind of behavior that the parent wants stopped.
For skillful, experienced assistance handling your Parental Alienation case, call the Williams Law Group, LLC immediately at (908) 738-8366.


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Joshua James - Interview
Yesterday, Joshua James hit us with The Jones Party, which sparked some pretty intense reactions (you can download the script here)! Although it was his first script, it's been optioned twice and gotten him a ton of assignment work. I thought it was a really solid piece of writing, Some of you thought it was way too "20s-ish." Whatever happened to letting people in their 20s hate?? That's what our 20s are for! But in all seriousness, I was happy when Josh agreed to do an interview for the site. Amateur writers need to be aware that there aren't just 2 types of screenwriters, madly successful ones and starving artists, but that the majority of writers fall somewhere in the middle, fighting for assignments while they belt out the spec they hope will put them on the A-list. Josh has a blog where he gets into a lot of this in detail, but I thought I'd pick his brain for some finer points here on Scriptshadow.
JJ: The following is only what I've experienced, it makes me no better or worse than anyone else. We are all flawed and imperfect creatures, which is oftentimes the source of great fun and / or embarrassment, oftentimes both at once.
SS: Now my understanding is that The Jones Party got you both your manager and your agent. Can you talk about that in more detail? How did you get the script into their hands? Did you know someone or was it a cold query?
JJ: It wasn't quite like that. I was a playwright in NYC and had plays going on in the indie theatre scene, so I met people through that, some development people, etc.
I wrote Jones and gave it to a theatre producer / actor who'd produced some of my plays, he loved it and optioned it, tried to get it made with himself as the lead, but didn't ... he ended up making another film instead ... happily, we're still friends.
The option expired and then someone else optioned it, and that expired and then I hung onto it for awhile, turning down offers on it in hopes of finding a way to direct it myself. All the while, I wrote other scripts.
Through another friend, I was introduced to a director-producer named Ken Bowser, who had done some cool documentaries (he's got a really great one out now about Phil Ochs) and he loved Jones and optioned it. Ken worked with me on developing Jones and I cannot understate how much I learned from him during this time.
Ken also had the rights to a book I'd read and loved, Peter Biskind's Down & Dirty Pictures, that he was also developing as a feature rather than a documentary (Ken had also done Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls as a doc as well, which I had seen).
Now, I'd read Down & Dirty Pictures at least fifty times, I mean, I was a huge fan of the book and that era (the indie boom), and every time we met to work on Jones, I'd asked him how the book project was coming, heheheh ... you know, just asking ...
Turns out, the project was stalled, they'd had a writer on it but it wasn't working out, the guy didn't really get the material ... I got a chance to pitch for it, offered a fresh take that Ken loved and I got the job. That was my first real job.
All of the above happened because I had Jones Party to show around, it opened a lot of doors for me, and got me quite a few meetings and other gigs, too (besides Down & Dirty Pictures).
At the time that I was hired on Down & Dirty Pictures, I had no representation, I'd left the agent and the manager I'd had back then (more on that later) and used an entertainment lawyer to handle the deal.
In terms of representation, initially Jones did get me repped, but not by the people I'm represented by now. When I first wrote it, a friend introduced me to an agent at a NY office who offered to rep me immediately and I agreed without hesitation.
This was a mistake.
I made the same mistake with a couple NY managers later on. They were the wrong fit, let's say. One manager was a nightmare, you have no idea. He's not even in the biz anymore. Shit happens, though.
I'd been given the following advice early on, and I should have heeded it but didn't, said advice being: It's better to have no representation than it is to have bad representation or the wrong representation.
I scoffed at this at the time, but now I can see that's indeed true. I should have stopped worrying about agents and focused harder on my work. If you write enough scripts that people love, you'll find the right people to represent you.
The Jones Party led to me getting hired to adapt Down & Dirty Pictures, and a good friend of mine (name redacted so he's not swamped with requests) passed that script onto Dan, my current manager, and he loved it. We met a few times to talk and see if we were simpatico and it turns out, we are.
Dan's awesome, and while working with him I wrote the original thriller A Black Heart, which led my current agent, who is also awesome.
Write a great script, and, if possible, write more than one and then the right representative will find you. Everyone wants to read a great script.
SS: The Jones Party was your first script. That's mighty impressive, since it's universally known that 99.9999% of all first scripts are terrible. What advice would you give to writers so that their first script comes out as good as The Jones Party?
JJ: Hmm ... I guess I'd offer the following advice when it came to first screenplays.
1) With regard to Jones Party, I had something really specific to say about the subject matter, something unique and personal, personal to me, anyway.
I think having something to say is what got the interest of the people who saw potential in the script even in its earliest form, it's why it was optioned right away (and multiple times after) and it's a reason why different folks, especially Ken, spent a lot of time working with me on it, because the story spoke to them.
And it spoke to them because the story was saying something.
2) It's fair to say that the early versions Jones Party were rough, no doubt, and not as polished as the version you read, and though the actions and characters and their journey were essentially the same then as they are now, but it was probably a harder read then, much rougher.
I'm lucky in that some people who knew more than I gave me great feedback on it and I listened to them. I listened to Ken. I think that's the second piece of advice I'd give.
I chose to listen to people in the know (which isn't everyone, but it is usually more than one someone) and take their feedback to heart.
You can't (and shouldn't) listen to everyone, but you should listen to someone and it should be someone smarter and more experienced, if at all possible, and at the very least someone who can tell you hard truths.
A writer needs at least one person in their life like that. You have to trust someone, even Stephen King has at least one trusted reader (his wife, Tabitha) who will tell it like it is and he'll listen ... I'm lucky in that I have more than one.
If you don't know anyone to ask for feedback, I would recommend taking a class or joining a free online group, like Trigger Street, for example.
My good friend Scott teaches an online class, http://screenwritingmasterclass.com/ ... Scott's one of the smartest guys out there. Yeah, that's a plug, but seriously, Scott's a great guy and really knows his stuff.
3) The last thing is that I kept writing scripts, I worked on other screenplays, and each script taught me something new and I brought that back with me when it came time to polish Jones again.
They say you won't really get it until you write at least ten of them. Jones was my first, but I wrote a bunch more after that and applied what I learned in subsequent rewrites and improved it and my craft. I definitely learned more about myself as a writer after script ten, no doubt about it.
To sum up:
1) Have something to say, something real and unique.
2) Listen to how trusted folks in the know respond to what you have to say.
3) Write more scripts.
SS: The thing that most impressed me about The Jones Party was the dialogue. What's the secret to writing good dialogue would you say?
JJ: I'm gonna be a dick and link to a thing I wrote about dialogue on my blog.
I really just try to listen, that's the thing, I try to imagine real people who care about real things and listen to what they want and what they have to say ... and then cut out the boring parts. That last thing is the most challenging.
SS: A huge issue I have with amateur screenplays is that I only remember 1 or 2 characters after they're over. Here, there a bunch of characters who pop off the page. What's your approach to character? Do you write up character bios? Do you try and make sure your characters arc? Can you tell us a little about your process?
I don't know if I have a process or if I just have a lot of voices in my head - LOL!
I just strive to make my characters real if I can, real to me, and if that's not working, then I put real people from real life into my story ... there is a real life Danno, after all. There was a Hope in my life, at one point. I have actor friends, and I will subconsciously plug them into a story.
I come from an acting background, I did a lot of it (oh me or my, the Meisner Training. The Meisner Training? The Meisner Training. The Meisner Training? That's an inside joke ... hardly anyone will get that) and so a lot of what I do with regards to character work is rooted in that. I put myself into a character whenever I can.
Also, I love what the FBI profilers say when figuring out who the killer is ...
What plus Why equals Who.
I always found that very useful.
SS: The script also has an offbeat structure, in that it's jumping back and forth and covering many different characters. How much emphasis do you put on structure as opposed to, say, writing by the seat of your pants?
You can write by the seat of your pants and still worry about great structure, structure isn't story, per se (I'm possibly gonna get roasted in the comments for that) but rather it's how the story is put together.
How I view structure regarding scripts and stories, is:
1) Story is what happens.
2) Character is who it happens to.
3) Structure is how it happens.
So whether you're writing by the seat of your pants or plotting everything out beforehand by the page, via scriptments, you still want it be be as cool and efficient as possible.
Jones is structured in the way it is to get maximum impact in as short of time as possible ... you could start at the chronological beginning (two years before the party, when Derwin and Hope first meet) and follow the story until we get to the party, but I don't think the story would deliver the same emotional punch as it does now.
How it happens now, structure-wise, it maximizes the impact, I think. Folks are free to disagree. But the point is to tell the story as fast and efficiently as possibly.
The story is about these people participating in a Jim Jones Party and why.
Writing by the seat of the pants is fun, and that's how I wrote Jones, I mean, I had no fucking idea how I was gonna end it when I started.
But I did know, in a way, when and where I wanted it to happen in the story, so I guess you could say I had an inner structure clock in my head. I had the where and when, just not the what. The what is the story, not the structure.
But writing without knowing the end is not always practical, either ... if you're working on a spec, it can be cool to write yourself into a corner and take weeks or months to get out of it. But if you're on an assignment, that's not so cool. And there's something to be said for writing a bad ending so you'll have something to fix later.
These days I usually do a treatment or an outline, just to work faster. But not always, it depends. Different genres, different types of movies have different demands in order to realize their impact, or potential ... I don't think that there's ONE structure to rule them all, it has to be the right structure for right story ...
I think Dirk Nowitzki has the perfect structure for a basketball player, but a terrible one if he wanted to be a horse jockey. He's seven feet tall. He'd need a vastly bigger horse.
Speaking of big horses, the real action in the Godfather doesn't start until Vito is gunned down, some forty minutes into it. That's perfect for that movie. It wouldn't be perfect for, let's say, Meet The Parents (actually, I haven't seen that movie, but I'm presuming Ben met DeNiro earlier than forty minutes into the movie) as an example.
Everything has a structure, everything ... even bad scripts. The problem is that the structure is either an incomplete or not efficient or serving the story's needs. Good ideas told badly are usually one or the other.
Or the story isn't compelling or just bad ... you can write a perfectly structured story that doesn't work ... I remember something a friend wrote about Goethe about criticism:
Goethe asked three questions:
1) What was the author's intent?
2) How well was it done?
3) Was it worth doing?
And I try to keep that in mind when going back over my own work. I try. Maybe ten years from now I'll think differently ... I accept evolution as an established scientific theory.
SS: The Jones Party feels like a very personal story. Which leads me to the age old question. Do you think writers should try to break in with a high concept screenplay that they don't necessarily have a personal connection with, or something more low-concept (like The Jones Party) that's extremely personal to them? Obviously, The Jones Party falls into the latter category, but I'm interested to hear if you think that's right for everyone.
JJ: It's not high concept? A feel-good movie about suicide isn't high concept? LOL!
I believe you have to write what you're passionate about.
If you're passionate about big movies, write about those stories, if you're passionate about smaller, more intimate stories, write those. I happen to be passionate about both.
I was, and still am, very passionate about this particular story (Jones), as others have been, it's a unique story, one not about people dying but about people finding a reason to live, an idea which really moves me ... it is indeed very personal.
I'm also very passionate about Down & Dirty Pictures (I am an ex-video store clerk-geek, after all) to a rather ridiculous degree, I love-love-love movies and what they've done for my life ... so it was a pleasure to write about guys who loved movies as much (if not more) as I did, which is what Down & Dirty Pictures is about, at its essence. It's about guys who love film and movies so much it hurts.
Who among us here can't identify with that? LOL!
But I'm passionate about a lot of things ... I love thrillers, for example.
Action thrillers, I love stuff like that, and it's no accident that I've written more and more stories like that, not just screenplays, but short fiction, novels (I have a couple crime novels I tinker with in my spare time) ... anyone who knows me can attest, I love films like that. Always have. I don't write those only because they're high concept, I write them because those types of stories turn me on.
When my manager and I first met and had a series of meetings, we found we both shared a love of the classic suspense and action thrillers from the sixties and seventies, and spoke about what we'd like to see that hasn't yet been done, and my script A Black Heart is a direct result of those conversations ... I'm very drawn to those types of stories.
I love those kind of movies (I grew up on Lethal Weapon, in fact, and don't get me started on Bruce Lee movies) and I'm passionate about them to a ridiculous degree. And kung fu flicks! Oh man. I can go on and on (I LOVED Taken, and again I'll probably get roasted for that in the comments, but I loved it, man) until my wife tells me to shut up already ...
I'm also passionate about people, certain characters, both living and dead and also ideas, there are many, many ideas I'm passionate about.
And there are probably things that I've not yet discovered that I may be passionate about, you know? I just recently discovered something new and cool and dove right into it. That's part of evolving, after all ... everyone does it. You find new things to love.
How long ago was it that almost no one knew the difference between standard poker and Texas Hold 'em? Now most folks do.
We live and we grow and the only thing constant is the change.
I think it's important to write what moves you, what excites you. Whatever that is.
For me, there are many things that move me, I get excited about a lot of different things, a lot of characters and ideas, love, life, living, dying ... and while it's good to think about concept, it's also good to make sure the idea is something that really moves you.
SS: I know you read a lot of scripts to keep yourself sharp. What would you say is the biggest difference between a pro script and an amateur script?
JJ: The biggest difference is that when you're reading a well written script, you often forget you're actually reading it ... you may not even see the words, you just see the people in the story and you're dying to know what happens next.
A professional usually has no unnecessary space, words ... nothing unnecessary on the page and as a result the story moves like a freight train.
I read the Fight Club screenplay, because I wanted to see how the adaptation was done ... it's like 144 pages and I blinked and was at the end before I knew it (and hell, I've seen the movie and read the book, so I knew what happened, but still it drew me in). It moves.
No fat.
I read Taken, which has long blocks of action, and it flew by. No fat on that, whatsoever. Good writing, regardless of format, just flies by.
SS: Kyle Killen, the writer of The Beaver, likes to tell the story about how his wife got pregnant and he had nine months to make it as a screenwriter or forever be miserable in a "real" job. He sold The Beaver with a few days to spare. Let's play make believe. If you had to start over, what would your plan be to make it as a screenwriter if you only had 9 months?
Wow, I so had the opposite reaction when my wife got pregnant!
Seriously, I was working part time and busting my ass as a writer, making a couple grand here and there writing scripts for others, and when she told me she was pregnant I stopped and got a full time job as an office manager right away.
This was right around the time I left a bad agent, too. I thought, well, I had a good run but now I'm gonna make sure I can feed my kid. I'm gonna be a responsible dad.
I let Jones get optioned, to Ken, which in turn led to the Down & Dirty Pictures job a few months later, I left the office job as a result and have been fortunate enough to be able to work as a writer since then.
But in answer to your question, you realize that it's not make-believe, right? It actually is that way, in a fashion, for everyone ... we all have a limited amount of time.
You may only have nine months, you may have a week, you may have to do it early in the morning before your day job, late at night and on the weekends ... you may be broke and unemployed ... I was unemployed when I wrote the very first draft of Jones, I gave myself two weeks to write it, sat in a cafe and pounded it out, not sure where I was gonna get money for food (this was, happily, before I was married and a father) ...
I wrote that draft, then got a crappy part-time job ... kept going, kept writing and working and living and breathing.
You may have to completely start over, more than once.
You have until the money runs out, and even then, you can still keep going, you only have until your will and urge to do so runs out.
You have until the end of your life, but when is that? Fifty years. Ten? A week? Tomorrow? No one knows, right?
My friend Scott Myers has said, "Writing doesn't owe anyone a living" and that's so very true, so if you're doing it, do it because you love it, and try (this is hard) to write like there's no tomorrow.
Kyle's a brilliant writer, if he hadn't sold The Beaver by the time his wife gave birth, he would have eventually written something else that sold, even while at a crappy day job, had he wanted to. And I think he would have, some people, they have to write, they can't help it, they absolutely have to.
Sounds to me like Kyle wrote like it was his last shot.
The trick is to write everything like that, every day.
I believe that.
Tomorrow is promised to no one, therefore the plan is the same as it always is ... work hard, work smart, be grateful for good fortune and especially to those people in my life who enrich it and be certain to repay them by making the most of every moment.
If everything ends tomorrow, what note would you want it to go out on?
SS: Being a paid writer, you experience a part of the business that there's very little information on - trying to land writing jobs. Can you put us in the room of an assignment meeting? What do you think the key is to landing a job?
As that I live in NYC, a lot of stuff is over the phone ...
I sold a pitch once, over the phone, and I had a list of ideas I was going down and I couldn't see the guys I was talking to, obviously, they didn't say much (other than, nah, not that one) and so I had no real idea how I was doing until I got to the one they liked, and that was, yeah, we like that, we'll take it ... what an experience that was, man! Can't see them, can't really hear them well (on a conference call, that happens a lot). You're talking into a phone, it's hard ... but hey, I'm talking to someone who's interested in my ideas, so I'm not complaining!
You just have to talk ideas, paint the movie out verbally and be positive, I think.
They want to see the movie, I've been hired a few times to write something for someone, they had an idea for a movie but didn't know how to make it breathe as a film, make it work, that's the key to landing jobs like that ... how do you make it work?
You meet a lot of people, listen to what excites them, tap see the movie they want to make but haven't yet and, if you can, solve that problem for them ...
I was hired to help polish Cat Run (more here: http://writerjoshuajames.com/dailydojo/?p=2104) and it was about two weeks before they started shooting, yikes... we'd had a couple conference calls and the rest by email ... now, that close to shooting, there's very little time for messing around, the director doesn't want to debate you about story or character, what you're really there for is to solve his problems.
The director has this script section he's not happy with and needs it to work ... how to solve it? You throw ideas out there, he throws them back and so on until we find the one he likes and says, write that, get it to me by tonight. He's in Europe (or wherever they were shooting) and I was in NYC, just busting out pages. My job was to solve his problems. He doesn't have time for anything else other than that, and nor should I.
That's what I did, in a sense, was help solve the third act and the finale, how do they get into the castle, how do they do this, how do they do that, all in a way that was cool ... you really have to lose the ego, then, and just focus on doing the work. It's not about words, at that point, it's about making the story work in a way that makes them happy. And having fun, too. I had fun on that project, even though I know a lot of what I was writing was going to be changed once they got on set. I had fun.
The thing to remember is, everyone in the movie business loves movies as much as you do ... they all want to make cool movies, but everyone gets jammed up (yeah, everyone gets jammed up, everyone, some of us just lie about it much better than others) on a project they love and if you can solve the problem and clear the log-jam for them, you're gold, Pony-Boy, gold.
SS: Over the years, you've probably heard hundreds of screenwriting tips and pieces of advice. What advice would you say has influenced you the most? What tips would you say still guide you today?
JJ: Man, I can't write everything that's influenced or guided me the most, I've already yammered on past the point of maximum density as is.
Tell you what, I'll share two simple things that directly impacted my life and career and still do ... they're simple yet I'm amazed at how often I have to remind myself about them.
1) Don't waste a moment.
I had that insight one day, that every word, every character and every moment in the story should count ... I was dumbfounded when I looked at what I was working on then, lots of time I had filler scenes, filler conversations, filler characters, stuff that killed time until we got to the good part.
I realized that every moment had to matter, every character, every line had to be something. It all had to be the good part. Once that hit me, much changed. It's hard to follow through, though, real hard. But a good hard.
2) One day I realized that all I want from a movie, a book, a song or a story is to be moved. And as that I'm no different than anyone else, ergo, that's all anyone else wants.
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Kankakee County Judge rules portions of Illinois SAFE-T Act unconstitutional
Illinois' controversial SAFE-T Act was scheduled to go into effect statewide on January 1, 2023, but now will be suspended in the 65 Illinois counties who participated in the consolidated lawsuit against Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration and the other legislative leaders named in the suit.
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Dec 28 2022 | 5 min read
A Kankakee County Judge heard arguments last Tuesday in lawsuits brought by prosecutors and sheriffs around the state against the measure pushed by Democrats who control the Illinois General Assembly. | Photo: Illinois Courts
Update: We've updated this story to include all of the lawsuit participating counties at the bottom of this post. Additional counties are expected to use the decision to temporarily postpone the discussed portions of the Act until the Illinois Supreme Court has a chance to rule on the case.
KANKAKEE, IL - A judge in Kankakee County has ruled the elimination of cash bail and pre-trial release portions of the controversial Illinois SAFE-T Act to be unconstitutional, suspending those portions of the Act's start date in 65 lawsuit participating counties, at least temporarily.
Illinois' controversial SAFE-T Act, that included provisions to eliminate cash bail across the state, was scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2023, but now those portions will be suspended in the 65 Illinois counties who participated in the consolidated lawsuit against the administration of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and the other legislative leaders named in the suit, at least until the Illinois Supreme Court can hear the case.
Kankakee Circuit Court Chief Judge Thomas Cunnington heard arguments last week against the Illinois SAFE-T Act brought from prosecutors and sheriffs around the state and, late Wednesday night, Cunnington ruled in favor of the plaintiffs. His ruling means at least the elimination of cash bail and pre-trial release provisions are unconstitutional and will not go into effect at the beginning of the new year for the 65 counties that participated in the suit.
Other portions of the SAFE-T Act, such as the body camera requirements and police training, will still go into effect in those 65 counties and the full SAFE-T Act will continue as currently written in the remainder of the 37 non-participating counties.
The controversial Illinois SAFE-T Act was approved by the Illinois General Assembly in January 2021 and pushed by State Democrats who have overwhelming supermajority control of the Illinois General Assembly. The measure has also been backed by Governor J.B. Pritzker's Administration.
The bill makes several significant changes to the state's criminal justice system but leading the controversy was the elimination of cash bail statewide. Until Cunnington's late Wednesday ruling, Illinois would have become the first state to eliminate cash bail across an entire state.
The measure has been widely unpopular outside of Illinois' political class and has received significant pushback from nearly all of the state's law enforcement community and nearly all of the state's 102 county prosecutor's offices. Still, the suspension of the Act for the counties participating in the suit came down to the final days of the year and Judge Cunnington's decision.
Due to the statewide unpopularity of the bill and facing heavy criticism for how and when it was pushed through, state lawmakers returned to legislative session after the November elections and passed an amendment to the SAFE-T Act that created some detainable offenses that allowed certain individuals to be held pending trial, but that did not stop the legal challenge in Kankakee County.
Kankakee County State's Attorney Jim Rowe argued the law was too broad to meet what's referred to as the "single subject rule" of the Illinois Constitution. Rowe also argued that it violated a constitutional provision that says "all persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties," insisting that Illinois judges should be allowed to set cash bail.
"The Act was a 765 page bill passed during a lame duck session under cover of darkness at 4:00 a.m., affording legislators less than one hour to read it and vote on it, and denying the general public any opportunity to offer comment or input," Rowe said in a press release announcing the results of the lawsuit. "It amended the State Constitution and eroded the constitutional protections of the Victim Rights Act, all while disenfranchising the people of their Constitutional right to vote on such reforms. The people of Illinois deserve better than that, and today's verdict condemns the Act for exactly what it is: unconstitutional."
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul says that the state will appeal the ruling to the state's Supreme Court.
"To definitively resolve this challenge to the pretrial release portions of the SAFE-T Act, Governor Pritzker, the legislative leaders named in the consolidated cases and I intend to appeal the circuit court's decision directly to the Illinois Supreme Court, where we will ask the court to reverse the circuit court's decision," he said in a statement.
Cunnington agreed with the plaintiffs that the SAFE-T Act violates the Separation of Powers clause, violates the Victim Rights Act and unconstitutionally amends Article I Section 9 of the Constitution because voters were denied their right to vote on such a significant amendment to their criminal justice system.
As part of his ruling, Cunnington wrote "had the Legislature wanted to change the provisions in the Constitution regarding eliminating monetary bail... they should have submitted the question on the ballot to the electorate at a general election." He added that the legislature's action in violation of the Separation of Powers stripped the court's ability to ensure the safety of a victim and their family.
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Syrian Arms Trafficker Brokers Deals Between N. Korea, Houthis, Libyans
Friday August 10th, 2018 by Asharq al-Awsat (London-based, pan-Arab daily)
Despite earlier hopes, North Korea's missile program is continuing and their illicit arms dealing with Arab states seems to be increasing writes Asharq al-Awsat
Experts on a United Nations sanctions committee recommended adding shipping vessels, individuals and companies to the North Korea sanctions list over their dealings with Pyongyang. They revealed in a report correspondence between North Korean officials and others from Arab countries on illicit arms deals.
Asharq Al-Awsat exclusively obtained excerpts of the report that showed contacts between North Koreans and former head of the Higher Libyan State Council Khalifa al-Ghweil. Syrian arms trafficker Hussein al-Ali played a pivotal role as an intermediary between North Korean officials and others from Libyan Sudan, Yemen and Syria.
North Korea "has not stopped its nuclear and missile programs and continued to defy Security Council resolutions through a massive increase in illicit ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products," added the report sent to the UN Security Council on Friday.
Correspondence and Meetings with Libya
The confidential report said that the experts continued its investigation in numerous attempts to establish military cooperation between North Korea and various Libyan authorities. In 2015, a North Korean military official sent a letter to Ghweil that revealed that Tripoli was seeking to obtain weapons from Pyongyang to "preserve Libya's stability".
The Consulting Bureau for Marketing firm was mentioned in the correspondence. The firm belongs to Ali, the Syrian arms trafficker who operates for North Korea in Libya, Sudan and Yemen.
Later that year, a Libyan technical team was invited to visit North Korea. A Libyan Defense Ministry document, dated May 20, 2015, revealed that Ali was tasked with negotiating the technical and financial details of the deal on North Korea's behalf.
Rocket Technology to Sudan
The UN panel also revealed military cooperation plans between North Korea and Sudan. It showed correspondence between Ali and another firm to transfer anti-tank "Fagot" rocket and man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS) technology to Sudan.
The panel also found that the Sudan Master Technology Engineering Company, which is linked to the military industry in the country, had contacts in 2009 with an Australian businessman known as Solomon Choi. A north Korean agent, Choi was arrested in Australia in December 2017 for his trafficking of rocket parts.
Sudan has not responded to a request by the experts to obtain official documents that prove Ali's correspondence with Choi.
Unabated Cooperation with Syria
The experts also continued their investigation into illicit activity between North Korea and Syria. It revealed how technicians from North Korea traveled to and from Syria. Many North Koreans work on behalf of blacklisted Syrian entities. They also collaborated with Syrian arms brokers to sell North Korean military equipment to several Middle Eastern and African countries.
North Koreans had traveled to Syria in 2016 and 2017 where they carried out prohibited activities for Syrian defense companies. Evidence of this activity was obtained from passports that were issued by the Syrian embassy in Pyongyang. The experts detailed flights to Syria from North Korea in February 2011, August 2016, November 2026 and March 2017, revealing that illicit military cooperation between the two countries "has continued unabated".
Syrian civilians, including Ali, became involved in trafficking arms on North Korea's behalf. They attempted sales of traditional weapons and even ballistic rockets to Middle Eastern and African countries, including armed groups in Yemen and Libya, charged the panel.
Ali did not respond to the panel's request for details about the nature of his ties with North Korean military entities and individuals.
Ballistic Missiles to the Houthis
The experts investigated efforts by the Korea Mining Development Trading Corp., (KOMID) North Korea's chief arms dealer, to provide traditional weapons and ballistic missiles to the Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen. The report cited correspondence, dated July 13, 2016, from a Houthi member, Zakaria Yehya al-Shami, to a KOMID affiliate, proposing a meeting in Damascus to discuss cooperation between Yemen and North Korea. This "cooperation protocol" was negotiated between Ali, on Pyongyang's behalf, and the Houthi ambassador in Damascus Nayef Ahmed al-Qanes. The proposed deal included Kalashnikov rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, "Fagot" rockets and other weapons.
Shami, Qanes and Ali did not reply to the experts' request to detail their role in these negotiations.
Panel Recommendations
The experts recommended that the Security Council blacklist three vessels for their role in trafficking weapons and oil products. It also recommended that six individuals be added to the sanctions list related to North Korea. It also called for freezing the assets of various entities and firms linked to the illicit activities.
The report was put together by independent experts who monitored the implementation of UN sanctions over six months. The report was submitted to the UN's North Korea Sanctions Committee on Friday.
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Long Stanton railway station was a station on the Great Eastern Railway, between Cambridge and Huntingdon. It served the villages of Longstanton and Willingham (being roughly midway between them), until closure in October 1970. The station was immortalised in 1964 in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann.

The railway line through Long Stanton remained open for freight trains from Cambridge to St Ives, Cambridgeshire, until 1992.  The track was removed and one platform demolished in 2007, due to construction of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway; however, the station building remains in private ownership.  Parts from the platforms were preserved for re-use on the Mid-Norfolk Railway.

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From the Wildlife- Indian Fruit Bat (Petrous giganteus) collection. By Anil Sharma Fotography Indian Fruit Bats (Pteropus giganteus) Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India- January 19, 2017: Indian fruit bat captive roosting/grooming pose while hanging upside down from a limb at Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. species, breeding, habitats, grasslands, cultivation, jungle, wings, pollinates, seeds, flowers, nectar, bananas, mangoes, wing membrane, blackish, closeup, fruit bats, urinating, licking, hanging, grooming, limb
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From the Wildlife- Indian Fruit Bat (Petrous giganteus) collection. By Anil Sharma Fotography Indian Fruit Bats (Pteropus giganteus) Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India- January 19, 2017: Indian fruit bat photographed in a captive situation in its typical roosting grooming poses while hanging upside down from a limb at Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. species, breeding, habitats, grasslands, cultivation, jungle, wings, pollinates, seeds, flowers, nectar, bananas, mangoes, wing membrane, blackish, closeup, fruit bats, urinating, licking, hanging, grooming, limb
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From the Wildlife- Indian Fruit Bat (Petrous giganteus) collection. By Anil Sharma Fotography Indian Fruit Bats (Pteropus giganteus) Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India- January 19, 2017: hanging upside down showing face detail at Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. species, breeding, habitats, grasslands, cultivation, jungle, wings, pollinates, seeds, flowers, nectar, bananas, mangoes, wing membrane, blackish, closeup, fruit bats, urinating, licking, hanging, grooming, limb
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Steve Harvey Announces NEW Talk Show
Steve Harvey Fans Go WILD After Hearing His Huge Career News
He's coming back with a new show in 2020, so get ready!
By Kayla Keegan Published: Dec 11, 2019
Steve Harvey is set to launch a new talk show on Facebook called STEVE on Watch.
The program will premiere on January 6, 2020.
NBC canceled the Family Feud star's daytime talk show Steve earlier this year after seven seasons.
After NBC bumped Steve Harvey's talk show to make way for Kelly Clarkson's daytime program this summer, the longtime TV host made it clear that he was optimistic about his future. As we know now, Steve's future includes hosting another talk show — this time, on Facebook.
On Tuesday, Facebook Watch announced that it will air STEVE on Watch beginning January 6, 2020. The first batch of episodes will run for 10 weeks, with multiple segments airing per week.
"Get ready for insightful perspectives, unfiltered responses, and surprising takes on the everyday issues affecting his audience," the announcement declares, adding that Steve "will interview remarkable people doing amazing things, get the real story of viral sensations, and get personal with some of the biggest stars of film, TV, and music."
"Reaching my audience anywhere and everywhere they are has always been the goal," Steve said in a statement. "Facebook Watch viewers are the most energetic, engaged community, and so are my amazing fans."
Amazing fans, indeed. Upon hearing the news, many took to Twitter to express their utter excitement. "I will be watching bossman! As you PREMIERE on my BIRTHDAY!! CONGRATULATIONS," one fan tweeted. "Yessssss, I knew it! I am so happy for you, they should have never taken it [the talk show] off," another said. "I'm so glad to hear that! ... We miss watching you Steve..." a different fan claimed.
Steve's big announcement comes days after he hosted the 2019 Miss Universe pageant. Besides that, he has spent the last few months working to launch Family Feud in South Africa and Ghana (which will reportedly premiere in 2020), spearheading a standup comedy contest, and hosting his annual Sand and Soul Festival in Cancun, Mexico.
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San Antonio, TX – An adventurous young man who joined the Marine Corps before graduating from high school, Leroy Calvin Alex Jr. never lost the patriotism that propelled him to serve in the military.
Losing a leg and two fingers in combat in Vietnam in the late 1960s, Alex wanted to be allowed to continue serving his country.
"They were going to release him from the Marine Corps, but he fought it," his sister Valerie Arreguin said. "He loved the Marines, loved everything about it."
Alex, who received two Purple Heart medals and a Bronze Star Medal for Valor, among other awards and citations, died Nov. 21 at 68.
The oldest of seven children raised in the Southeast Side of San Antonio, Alex showed early promise as a salesman.
"He worked for Watkins (Products) selling door-to-door, was good at what he did," Arreguin said. "He could sell to anybody."
Even so, he was restless.
"At 16 he ran away from home, hitchhiked to New York," his sister Sherry Sublousky said. "He was gone for a week."
Another time, Alex hitchhiked to California.
He was attending Brackenridge High School when he decided to join the Marine Corps.
"My mother kept telling him he didn't want to do that," Arreguin said. But "Junior was always one of those who wanted to do his own thing."
Sublousky, still a young girl at the time, and never forgot the day the family was notified of her brother's injuries.
"Two Marines fully dressed in dress blues … rang the doorbell," she recalled. "We thought that we'd lost him."
Sent to Brooke Army Medical Center to recover, Alex received a visit from Bob Hope and a letter from then-president Richard Nixon, who informed him that he had personally asked the Navy Department "be as understanding as circumstances permit in its review" of Alex's request to remain on active duty.
No less a patriot after leaving the Marine Corps, Alex traveled to the Texas coast on July 4, 1972, raising a flag on the beach and laying beside it.
The scene caught the attention of a news photographer who took a picture that many newspapers ran the next day.
Alex also wrote to the San Antonio Light in the early 1970s, suggesting that the city establish a memorial for Vietnam Veterans, an idea that gained momentum in the 1980s.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Veterans Memorial Plaza was unveiled in 1986.
Born: May 18, 1948, San Antonio
Died: Nov. 21, 2016, San Antonio
Preceded by: Mother Eleanor Alex.
Survived by: Daughters Jennifer Alex, and Summer Alex; son Aaron Alex; father Leroy Alex Sr.; three brothers; three sisters; 16 grandchildren.
Services: Funeral at 9:45 a.m. November 29, 2016 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, 16075 N. Evans Road, Selma, Texas
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The rain came at dawn, covering the valley in a shroud of mist and running water. It came in torrents, as if waterfalls had formed in the sky, intent on drowning the valley, but the sky was almost empty. The only clouds were white.
The wind was still.
Streams became raging rivers. Rivers grew fast and violent. Floods that started as trickles grew to a dull roar. A small lake in the valley was lost in competing floods, old decaying wooden structures surrounding it were erased from existence.
The stone city—in truth, the forgotten stone city—that stood on a hill to the side of the lake was beginning to flood before the end of an hour. By the time the sun had reached its zenith, stone statues that had stood for millennia were submerged. An amphitheater that could hold upwards of ten thousand people was filled, became a lake, and then was lost in the flood.
Yet, the rain still came.
Shortly after noon, an older man hunched with age shuffled onto what had been a balcony of the temple and found water lapping just below where he stood. It had formerly been seven stories above the ground. The man's burnished armor pinged with the force of the rain. Water leaked through his helmet and into his eyes, forcing him to blink it back as it trickled down his worn, sun-spotted skin.
His eyes widened when he looked up.
Where is the storm? Rorel Understok wondered as he placed his hands on the stone railing.
The temple grounds were not visible, except for the langiffer pines which stretched high above where Rorel stood. The walls that had surrounded the temple were submerged. In all the centuries he'd lived in Cerpatar, he'd never seen its equal. The rain still fell.
Yet there was no storm.
A thousand years ago or so, the flood would have been a disaster, but as Cerpatar was abandoned by all but Rorel and his captives, he wasn't much concerned.
The floodwater—which had previously only been disturbed by the rain—now had waves running across the top.
Yet there was no wind.
This was no mere change in the weather. He'd have noticed before today. Rorel squinted, trying to see if there were other such wave patterns further out on the water. If there were, there was too much tumult for him to see.
Despite the increasing water level, he didn't move. He gripped the railing and enjoyed the rain. He'd been alone so many years he welcomed the touch of the raindrops. It felt good to feel something that had a semblance of life against his body.
When the waters lapped against his knees, he decided it was time to move to a higher level. The rain would stop eventually. The tower had many more stories; he was not in danger. The flood may last for a time, but it would recede. Even with his gardens below flooded, he had enough planted throughout the upper balconies of the temple that he could wait it out.
Rorel held the railing as he followed it around the circular balcony, not trusting his frail strength alone to stand against the water that swirled around him. He didn't notice the lone figure at the balcony door until he was almost on top of him.
His lips moved but it took several moments for his voice to work. The figure's eyes bored into him.
"Saar," Rorel said, at last, his voice sounding strange to his own ears. He hadn't remembered it sounding so raspy. It was no louder than a whisper and drew a smirk to Saar's face.
"I was beginning to wonder if you were still here, old man." Saar's voice was as Rorel remembered, strong and deep. The man, despite his short size, could bellow when he had a mind. If the years had taken a toll on Saar, Rorel was unable to tell.
Even with Rorel's sagging shoulders, he still stood a head taller than Saar. It was part of what had made people underestimate the evil man.
Who am I fooling? Rorel wondered. He would have done the things he'd done regardless of his size.
What Saar lacked in height, he made up for in width and muscle. His forearms were thicker than Rorel's thighs, reminding Rorel of a log. His tiny eyes were still sunk into his oversized skull. The tattooed lines that ran from the top of his shaved head and down his face almost seemed to glow.
The man stood with the same straight-backed posture and smug smile.
The same one I see in my nightmares, Rorel thought. Somewhere in the back of his mind, he realized he should be alarmed. Panicked, even. But he couldn't summon the energy to stress.
"This isn't possible," Rorel said. "You shouldn't—"
"If it wasn't," Saar said dryly while shaking his head, the tattooed lines making it look as if he had a spider affixed to his face, "why'd you spend a millennium drinking the juice off the kippy pear to keep an eye on me and mine?
"No, what you really mean to say is that you planned poorly. Your plans didn't take into account the ravages of time nor their impact on you." He held up his hands and examined them. "More than a thousand years and I haven't aged a day, thanks to your prison. But you, old man, lack the strength to stop me. I doubt you can still summon the light."
Saar laughed. It wasn't the maniacal laugh that had made the world bow in fear; no, it was more subdued and mellow. The menace that had been obvious before he'd been placed in the residio vault was no longer there.
That's not right, Rorel thought when he looked into Saar's eyes. It's still there, as much as it ever was. It's just deeper now. Internalized. The rain pounded down even harder, forcing Rorel to squint as he regarded Saar.
The two figures stood, oblivious to the passing of time. It could have been an hour; it could have been more.
Time had lost much of its meaning to Rorel.
It dawned on Rorel that something else was different about Saar.
He had learned patience.
And I was the fool who helped him learn it, Rorel thought with a shudder of horror. Saar had never been able to wait. It was that one weakness that had been his undoing. The one thing Rorel had always been able to count on to betray Saar.
"How?" Rorel stammered. "At least tell me how you escaped."
Saar's laugh changed. It was subtle, Rorel's aged senses almost missed it. There was a tinge of bitterness. That wasn't unexpected, considering he'd been trapped for so long. But it was surprising. He almost seemed to regard Rorel with a sense of respect.
Even gratitude.
"I owe you, old man. All my enemies are long gone." Saar shook his head. "But I don't owe you enough to tell you the truth." He thrust his arms up into the rain, the sun illuminating him like a god, and his arms glowed. "I'll let you live out your life, such as it is. If you find the will to consume another, come find me." He smiled as he lifted off the ground.
"I'll be back for the rest. Keep an eye on them."
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Alliance Party Health Spokesperson Paula Bradshaw has warmly welcomed the announcement of a new Regional Mental Health Service for Northern Ireland, but cautioned that long-term funding guarantees for the overall Mental Health Strategy are still awaited due to the lack of an Executive.
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The South Belfast MLA stated: "It is highly apt on World Mental Health day that we have a significant step forward for mental well-being in Northern Ireland, with the announcement of the Regional Mental Health Service. It will deliver a voice for people and consistency across services.
"However, with regards to implementation of the overall Mental Health Strategy, the Minister is still acting with one hand behind his back given the absence of an Executive and of a long-term funding guarantee. Without that, there remains considerable uncertainty over what actions can be taken and what support can be offered over the coming years.
"It is imperative, particularly given the impact of the current economic crisis on mental well-being, that we are able to act swiftly to remove all uncertainty and guarantee the timely implementation of the overall Mental Health Strategy. The failure to put an Executive in place demonstrating that the mental well-being of the entire population is an absolute priority issue only serves to undermine much of the good work ongoing.
"We now have a promising Service announced and an excellent Strategy published; it is time all politicians got back to work to ensure that implementation will begin immediately."
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Based on Sarah Water's novel Fingersmith, Chan-Wook Park's THE HANDMAIDEN hornswaggles its audience with its opening scenes, and then continues on for its running time to continually confound, shock, and gratify that same audience. Told in four separate chapters that each covers roughly the same action, reality becomes a series of preconceived notions that are confounded with deft wit and grotesque irony. It's an elegant puzzle of a film with a dark edge and a wicked sense of humor.
That first scene finds Sook-Hee (Kim Tai-ri) taking leave of her loved ones in the midst of the pouring rain. She is going to serve as a lady's maid in a grand house far away, and those who are bidding her farewell are weeping, some declaring that it should have been them going, an older woman taking a baby from Sook-Hee's arms and gently placing an enameled hairpin in Sook-Hee's coif. Trust nothing. The emotions are real. The older woman's gesture is a genuinely generous one, but as with everything else in this superbly constructed film, there's much more going on.
Sook-Hee will be serving Lady Hideko (Min hee-Kim), a childlike heiress of great beauty and even greater innocence. Clutching a doll, and plagued with nightmares about her demented aunt who committed suicide, Hideko is being groomed to marry her late aunt's husband (Jin-woong Jo) and thus assure that his passion for collecting rare books and living in the manner of Japanese nobility will continue unabated. Sook-Hee takes one look at her exquisite new mistress and is overcome with feelings more personal than professional, and she makes it her mission to save the innocent young woman from the clutches of her venal uncle, and deliver her to the waiting arms of the dashing Lord Fujiwara (Jung-woo Ha).
Jung-woo Ha, Min-hee Kim
Park changes the action of Water's novel from Victorian London to the early years of the Japanese occupation of Korea, thus adding an extra layer to the filmmaker's exploration of identity as characters pose in both Western and Eastern garb, mixing cultures almost wantonly. They move in carefully constructed tableaux that, as in that opening scenes, show everything, but reveal selectively. The effect in Park's able hands is not a disjointed aggregation, but rather a story that builds both dramatically and erotically as the pieces come together. There is portentous irony in a heavy rope hidden in a hatbox, and the warning from mistress to servant to never lie. Irony, too, as a hand placed on a waist chastely ensconced in white lace is as full of potent sensuality as a scene in which Sook-Hee gently rubs a rough spot from her mistresses' back molar, gently moving her finger back and forth as said mistress reclines in her steaming bath, the picture of pure innocence and unsuspecting seduction.
Jung-woo Ha, Kim Tae-ri, Min-hee Kim, Jin-woong Jo
The formality of cinematic execution renders the imagery all the more intense. The characters onscreen are so often forced to subsume their desires until they are pushed to the breaking point, that when the break occurs, the secrets unfurled, the joke played, and the revenge exacted, the effect is an almost orgasmic release.
Ferociously mischievous, this is film that should not be taken lightly. It will seep into the dark places of your psyche, and titillate your moral compass in disturbing yet delightful ways.
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Tagged With: book to screen, Fingersmith, Japanese occupation of Korea, Korea, mystery, Sarah Waters
"The Handmaiden" isn't merely a film, it's an experience.
Exquisite production design, costumes and cinematography are saturated with beauty, including the two main female characters. Along with intrigue and twists, this is story of both erotic and sensual sensibilities. You won't soon forget it.
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Andrea's Rating: 4
MPAA Rating:Not Rated
Reasons for rating:Explicit sexual activity
Cast:Hae-suk Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Kim Tae-ri, Min-hee Kim, So-ri Moon, in-woong Jo
Country:SOUTH KOREA
Director:Chan-wook Park
Writer:Chan-wook Park, Sarah Waters (novel), Seo-Kyung Chung
Genre:Mystery, Romance, Thriller
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Mr Buhari commissioning the Transport University in Daura [Photo: Thisdaylive]
How I coerced Chinese firm to construct University in Buhari's hometown – Amaechi
Nigeria's transportation minister, Rotimi Amaechi, has spoken on how he coerced a Chinese construction firm, CCECC, to construct a university for Nigeria in the hometown of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Mr Amaechi spoke Monday during the groundbreaking of the Transportation University in Daura, Katsina State.
Mr Buhari is from Daura.
In his speech at the event, Mr Amaechi said CCECC, a company that has won several multi-billion naira government construction contracts, was initially reluctant to construct the university.
"I engaged the companies, the first engagement was when they were constructing Lagos-Ibadan.
"They were not so keen at spending their funds to build a university for Nigeria, until I refused to sign the contract for the Lagos to Ibadan railway," the minister said, apparently seeing nothing wrong in his action.
Mr Amaechi's speech was published by the government-owned News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
The minister then said he only agreed to sign the Lagos to Ibadan railway contract if CCECC met three conditions.
"I insisted that I will only sign if three things were done," he said.
"The first thing is to take our children to China and train them by giving them first degree in railway technology.
"Today as I speak, 60 of our children are in their second year and we thank CCECC and 90 are on their way to China this week, making it 150."
PREMIUM TIMES last year reported how Mr Amaechi and other top officials of the Buhari administration commandeered scholarship opportunities offered to ordinary Nigerians. Young Nigerians who had no relationships with influential public officials were eventually excluded from the scholarships.
Mr Amaechi also spoke on the other two conditions he gave to the CCECC.
"The second is that, if we must sign the purchase of locomotives in China, they must build a factory where we can construct for coaches, locomotives and wagon and today at Kajola that factory is being constructed.
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"Finally, I insisted on the University of Transportation and today we are here for the groundbreaking of the university and for all we are grateful to CCECC and the Chinese government."
The minister said he has no regret for his actions including siting the university in Mr Buhari's hometown.
"When we sited the factory at Kajola, there was no noise, nobody debated about it, nobody abused us for it unlike the site for the university.
"Daura is in Nigeria, it is not in any other part of the world. It is not in Niger Republic, Biafra or Mali, it is in Nigeria. So, what is wrong in siting the University of Transportation in Daura?
"I have no regret siting this university where I have sited it, it is not because I want to get any gain," Mr Amaechi said.
He also said the university's land, which is about 413 hectares, was donated by the Katsina government.
In his speech at the event, Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State said the project will further "boost the efforts of the state in providing sound education and technical skills to indigenes of the state."
In his speech, President Buhari said he gave his consent to the university "to encourage the development of indigenous capacity which is part of his commitments to Nigerians."
"The project is part of the ongoing effort of the federal government towards promotion and development of indigenous capacity through technology acquisition and knowledge transfer to effectively maintain and operate numerous railway infrastructure,'' the president was quoted as saying in a statement by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu.
"When established the university would among other things pave way for (the) domestication of railway engineering and general transportation sciences in Nigeria thereby bridging the technology and skill gap in the railway and ultimately transportation sector."
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CHICAGO, January 29, 2020 – Clermont Partners, one of the nation's largest women-owned financial communications firms, announces it has expanded its fast growing Environmental, Social and Governance ("ESG") Advisory Services group with the appointment of Aileen Boniface as a Senior Director.
Prior to joining Clermont, Ms. Boniface worked as an advisor at Institutional Shareholder Services ("ISS") to corporate issuers on governance, compensation, and ESG issues, including proxy statement reviews in accordance with ISS voting policy in advance of shareholder meetings. Prior to ISS, she was an analyst at the National Association of Corporate Directors and began her career working in emerging markets, conducting political-economic risk reports in the energy and sustainability sectors.
Ms. Boniface joins the firm's ESG Advisory group, which was established in 2017 to counsel on the implantation and integration of material ESG factors into mainstream investor communications. These services include:
Compensation Advisory including CD&A reviews and engagement strategies to address and recover from lower shareholder support or failed Say-on-Pay outcomes;
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"We have been at the forefront of integrating ESG communications into our client's programs – during normal investor outreach, but also during acute corporate moments, such as M&A and shareholder activism campaigns. This reflects the fact that one of every four dollars invested in mutual funds is now in ESG-oriented or ESG-forward funds," said Victoria Sivrais, the firm's founding partner. "There is no question that investors are viewing ESG with a risk-based lens and requiring amplified levels of transparency on this new set of operating risk factors at their investments."
She continued, "We are delighted to have Aileen join the team, which is inarguably at the forefront of helping our clients stay ahead of the ESG curve by integrating this counsel into our financial communications programs, crisis and proxy engagements, and transaction communications advisory."
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Q: Regarding using same distribution provisioning profiles for IOS in two MACs I have set up a distribution profile for my IOS App. On Mac A, in Xcode this profile can be perfectly imported and used even the right distribution certificate is used. and now I can successfully upload app to app store via MAC A.
I have added distribution certificate in MAC A's keychain and then i exported certificated from it. Later I imported it to MAC B's keychain.
Now on another machine MAC B, if i import the same provisioning profile in XCode, it doesn't recognises distribution certificate.
Can someone throw some light on this whats going on here ?

A: Based on your information, you have only imported the certificate to Mac B.  In order to use that certificate to actually sign a binary, you will need to export the private key from Mac A. You will find it in the Keychain Access app on Mac A. Find the iOS Distribution certificate in the Keychain and you should be able to expand it to see the private key (note that you will not be able to expand the certificate in the Keychain app on Mac B).  See this answer for details about how it should look in on a Mac that is setup to allow for code signing.
Once you find the private key, you can export the private key from Mac A by right clicking it and choosing export.  Save the .p12 file and then copy that .p12 file to Mac B.  Open the file to import it to the Keychain.  Once you ahve done that, you should now see the private key under the certificate on Mac B.  If you don't, you have the wrong certificate on Mac B and you should delete it and export the certificate from Mac A to import on Mac B.

A: There are couple of factors which affects your Distribution Provisioning Profile, to find the issue you can check couple of things like

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*Check in you MacB's Keychain > Certificate section about Distribution certificate is valid which you have installed from MacA?

*Does there is any expired certificate from same or different account in your keychain which is situated/placed above your Distribution certificate, because many times XCode fails to validate your desired certificate from Keychain due to some expired certificates entries above your certificate. So if any then please remove it.

*Try removing all provisioning profiles, then again install latest one. And finally try quit XCode completely and relaunch it. Many times this steps will solve issues regarding Provisioning profiles.

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The 2022 Florida Gators baseball team represented the University of Florida in the sport of baseball during the 2022 college baseball season. Florida competed in the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Home games were played at Condron Ballpark on the university's Gainesville, Florida, campus, in the second season at the ballpark. The team was coached by Kevin O'Sullivan in his fifteenth season as Florida's head coach. The Gators entered the season looking to return to the College World Series after an early regional exit from the 2021 NCAA Tournament.

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The 2021 Gators entered the season as the unanimous No. 1 team, but stumbled to a 17–13 SEC record to enter the SEC Tournament as the sixth seed, where they made the semifinals before being eliminated by eventual tournament runner-up Tennessee. The Gators were then selected to host a regional in the 2021 NCAA Division I baseball tournament in the Austin Super Regional, but were eliminated in only two games, suffering a 19–1 loss to South Alabama, who scored 10 runs with two outs in the sixth inning.

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Saudi Arabia has gotten too big for its britches, and the oil-producing Middle East is turning even more unstable. Not to mention that global warming is getting worse and worse because of burning fossil fuels like petroleum.
President Donald Trump's decision to exit the Paris climate agreement reaffirmed what was already clear: The federal government is no longer leading American efforts to shrink our carbon footprint.
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