I hope you can forgive the more disjointed than usual missive this week. I had a death in my family, and it caused me to pause for reflection, as death often does.
I deal with death on a regular basis. Other people's injuries and death are the only constant of my law practice. Over the years I have learned to look in my client's eyes when they tell the stories of their grief and pain and just listen. As I found out when death touched my family, that is only one possible response.
Hearing someone else talk about injury and death makes us uneasy. Folks look away. They find a quick segue out of the conversation to something more pleasant. Maybe our own mortality is too much to bear. Maybe it just makes folks uncomfortable when they can't think of the "right" words to say.
Because I represent injury victims and their families, I am used to listening to sad stories. I have long given up trying to find the right words to say. There simply aren't any. I can only let my clients know that I respect their pain and loss.
When our beloved Judge died a few years ago, my youngest son put his hand on my shoulder and said, very earnestly, "Dogs die, Dad. It happens." It makes us laugh now, but his young heart was trying to comfort, not minimize our grief. Seeing him weep at the funeral of someone he barely knew confirmed his soft heart.
Throughout this process, I remain proud to be a lawyer. Every time I asked for more time to do whatever legal tasks I got behind on during this time, opposing counsel was gracious to the last person. Not only did I meet no resistance, but each lawyer and judge expressed condolences and gave whatever favor I requested.
Trial lawyers love the gladiator metaphor for what we do. It has been a rough couple of weeks but my opponents did not take advantage. Even gladiators lay down their swords sometimes.
To avoid sorting through my emotions the past couple of weeks, I have busied myself with all sorts of distractions. A new cell phone for example.
As a confirmed geek, I am always anxious to grab the newest tech gadget that hits the market. Cell phone makers are happy to comply, offering a new model weekly. Gary Gulman pointed out that phones were the same for a long time, and now we expect something new every year. Throughout the history of phones, we spent most of our time tethered to a cord in the kitchen. We didn't even get wireless phones for over one hundred years.
In fact, my cell phone is barely a phone at all. The phone is just one app on the device and probably the least used one at that. My phone spends most of its time playing music. In the "old" days, I would be annoyed if I got music on the phone, because that meant that I was on hold. Now I play all the music since the beginning of time, gladly.
When cellular phones first came out, only people in limos had them. Some of us remember the pager/run to a phone booth that came first. Pagers and cell phones promised to save us time. I guess that is true, since I can talk without being in the kitchen anymore. Unfortunately, that means I can also take calls anywhere. And I must, or clients wonder why I am not available. Somehow we managed to practice law back then, answering the phone without knowing who was on the other end, and understanding that we couldn't instantly answer a question or solve a problem.
New phones and new technology excite me. Other people hate change, but moving my stuff and learning to master a new toy is fun. Maybe not fun, but gratifying. That is a whole 'nother sickness, I know. The certainty of mastering a new device is some comfort in a world where so much is out of my control.
I stared at my new cell phone this past Saturday, but didn't find much joy in it. In the past I would talk or text my brother during OSU football games. It will take a while before I grab the phone on Saturday with a smirk again.
I was back in court today, and the legal world has kept on spinning. Motions were argued. The accused were marched through in restraints for arraignment. Lawyers fought, swapped stories and represented clients. Nothing looked different.
I'll never say it to a grieving client, but my youngest son was right. People die. It happens. When it happens to your family, it doesn't feel like it has ever happened to anyone else. Lawyers on both sides sometimes lose sight of that fact when trying an injury case. I won't soon forget it.
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Greetings, Hatchlings! Every month we round up all the stories we can find about fun movie events like marathons, special screenings, and conventions and miscellaneous film-life stuff like food and games. Let's see what went down in the world of escapism and pop culture shenanigans in November and December of 2014!
Hooh boy! This is very late again. Apologies. Would you believe that I had a massive problem at my house that required me to move into a hotel for two weeks? And then I went on a cruise for my 30th birthday where I got a really bad sinus infection and was bed-ridden for a few days? Yeah, it's been a weird couple months. And then the holidays happened!
...the Reservoir Geeks! Back in July they held their annual "Lovely Soiree at the Bottlerocket Motel", an event at the hotel featured in Wes Anderson's Bottlerocket that celebrates the director and his films. I finally got a look at the festivities after they recently posted a recap of the event. It looks like it was a blast, complete with a "Wes Dressed" costume contest and a screening of the movie. Check out their site to see photos from the event.
So, while we're on the subject of Back to the Future, I have a very important mission for all you Escape Artists and Hatchlings out there. There's a petition on whitehouse.gov (via Nerdist) calling for October 21, 2015 to be made National Back to the Future Day! This must happen! Please visit the petition and sign your name. The future is in your hands. In the words of Doc Brown: "Your future is whatever you make it." So make it a good one by making October 21, 205 Back to the Future Day!


URL posting issues on Facebook | personal.amy-wong.com - A Blog by Amy Wong.
Is anyone else having issues with sending messages on Facebook groups? You know that "Message All Members" option. I mean, if I am a member of a group, I know I am subjected to any message the group administrator might want to send me… and yes, that includes links.
Now, if Facebook is a social network… and Groups are a cyber-social way of people who have something in common to share links, comments, news, etc. – why would Facebook block websites? And why our websites? Who is the one flagging my/our URLs? Because it wasn't only my address on that message I was trying to send.
So in the message, I was trying to pimp YAM's two new official Facebook officers – Erick over at Toma-Uno.com who's now the Facebook Second-in-Command, and Linzer Dinzer who's now added to the Facebook Officer list. Plus, our fave Film hangouts who are on Facebook groups and pages~~~ As well as our latest Cinencuentro article in Spanish and English.
But couldn't sent, because Facebook blocked websites. So I changed all the links to ow.ly links, fail again! Deleted the links to the Facebook groups, fail again! Deleted mine! Fail again. Changed Cinencuentro's to the Facebook URL shortener, fail again! It wasn't until I deleted ALL the links, that it let me send the message – which in the end is pointless, right? I mean, what's a bunch of names if there's no links?
It happened to me once before with YAM Magazine's URL, so I used the "report this error" link on the Facebook Error Message, but I haven't been contacted by Facebook, and I've read of people still waiting after six months… SIX Months!!!
So I'm asking you this – what to do? should I avoid links? and write things like amy-wong dot com?
Also… on a side note- I was browsing the The WB's Popular group's photos, and ended up looking at this photo of April Tuna played by Adria Dawn doing the Star Trek sign, and ended up with a link to Dawn's actual Facebook profile. Facebook creepy, or not?


If anyone is up for online gaming on the PS3 then PM me your ID.
I have quite a lot of games but spend 95% of my PS3 time playing Warhawk.
You can get it pretty cheap, if you hunt for it. The PSN Store has it for less than £20.
It is a tough game...... with a steep learning curve. You WILL die......lots.
It's online only so you'll never complete it, just get good or give up.
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Oh, and use it with a headset or Eye and you can communicate with other players.
I've had a PS3 for 1 1/2 years and I still play warhawk which says it all really.
Yeah I played Warhawk a lot say 18 months ago....so people are still playing?
Yeah people still play mate.
sgarley is mine, im always either on fifa 09 or cod5.
if anyone wants a game of fifa let me know!
DanK_SFC and I'm usually on COD4/5, Resistance 1/2, WipeoutHD or now Ghostbusters. I do have others though, but these are the ones I play most.
Barfy74 for me. I've not played online much lately as I've recently downloaded FF7 and got hooked again!
If I am online it's usually COD4 or 5 or more likely Killzone 2.
Out of interest, what are the new map packs like for COD5? worth stumping up for?
Playing alot of Killzone 2, Call of Duty 4 and Fifa 09 online wise at the moment.
Prehaps those of us who play COD 4 online should create a clan tag?
Right, i think i have added most of you now, you can start a clan tag if you want. In the meantime, if anyone see's me online, feel free to invite me and i'll show you how it's done.
but cannt remember my PS3 gamer tag...how the hell do you retrieve it..?
yes, it will sign in automatically with the wireless conenction.
will post on here in due course..just realised my mate still has COD4.
Not a massive fan of golf but Tiger Woods was £6 in ASDA...so I thought f**k it.
Until PES has a major update, I wont be buying any more.


Existing-home sales will fall 13 percent this year before recovering in 2009, according to a forecast by the Mortgage Bankers Association, the industry's largest trade group.
Sales of previously owned homes probably will drop to 4.94 million from 5.68 million in 2008 and then increase to 5.12 million next year, the Washington-based group said Monday. It forecasts that new-home sales will tumble 15 percent, to 666,000, before rising 6.6 percent in 2009.
'Credit crisis': Stricter lending standards are making it harder for people to buy real estate as the housing slump enters its third year. A "credit crisis" caused by subprime losses has depleted the capital of mortgage lenders and hobbled their ability to make new loans, said Doug Duncan, the group's chief economist.
"Banks are running up against capital limits as they write down the value of assets at the same time they are putting loans on their balance sheets because the markets for securitized products are essentially closed," Duncan said in the report.
Gloomy forecast: Mortgage originations for loans to buy homes will decline 18 percent in 2008, to $955 billion, according to the report. That compares with the $1.5 trillion lent in 2005. Loan refinancing will fall about 14 percent this year, to $1 trillion from $1.17 trillion in 2007, the forecast said.


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Democrats Unveil "Green New Deal" To Address Climate Change
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Democrats launched their proposed plan today to address climate change, which would create thousands of jobs in renewable energy. More than six senators running for president or considering a bid for the White House co-sponsored the Green New Deal put forth by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and veteran Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts.
The proposal calls for a "10-year national mobilization" on the scale of the original New Deal to shift the economy away from fossil fuels such as oil and coal and replace them with renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power. It sets a goal to meet "100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable and zero-emission energy sources," including nuclear power. The resolution urges elimination of fossil fuels pollution and greenhouse gas emissions "as much as technologically feasible" in a range of economic sectors and calls for "upgrading all existing buildings in the United States" to be energy-efficient.
Senator Markey predicted more Democrats would sign on as the plan gets better known and said some Republicans may back it. More than 80% of registered voters supported the concept of a Green New Deal in a December poll by Yale and George Mason universities.
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Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor (born 7 November 1996), better known by her stage name Lorde ( is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and record producer.
Born in Takapuna and raised in Devonport, Auckland, she became interested in performing as a child. In her early teens, she signed with Universal Music Group and was later paired with songwriter and record producer Joel Little, who has co-written and produced most of Lorde's works. Her first major release, The Love Club EP, was released commercially in March 2013. The EP reached number two on the national record charts in both New Zealand and Australia.
In mid-2013, Lorde released her debut single "Royals". It became an international crossover hit and made Lorde the youngest solo artist (and the only New Zealander) to achieve a US number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 since 1987. In late 2013, she released her debut studio album, Pure Heroine. The record topped the national charts in New Zealand and Australia and reached number three on the US Billboard 200. Its following singles included "Tennis Court", "Team", "No Better" and "Glory and Gore". In 2014, Lorde released "Yellow Flicker Beat" as a single from the soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. Lorde's music consists of subgenres such as dream pop and indietronica. She has earned two Grammy Awards, a Brit Award and ten New Zealand Music Awards. In 2013, she was named among Time's most influential teenagers in the world, and in the following year, she was part of Forbes's "30 Under 30" list.
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Baker Donelson announces the addition of Sebastian Meis and Felix Faerber to the Firm's Global Business Team in Atlanta.
"The addition of Messrs. Meis and Faerber marks a significant expansion of and capabilities for our team serving German-speaking clients," said Michael H. Johnson, a member of Baker Donelson's Global Business Team and the Honorary Consul of Germany for Alabama. "Their experience and client base adds to our already dynamic practice grounded in language ability, familiarity with the legal culture and business context of our German-speaking clients, which are tremendous advantages for our successful representation and counsel to new and existing clients. We're very excited to welcome them to our team."
The Austria, Germany and Switzerland practice of Baker Donelson's Global Business Team offers a broad array of cross-border services to German-speaking clients geared specifically to expand their businesses in the U.S. The group counsels Austrian, German and Swiss clients across a full range of legal areas, including trade and commercial transactions, direct investment in the U.S., corporate, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, real estate, immigration, labor and employment, intellectual property and federal public policy. Existing clients operate in a wide variety of industries, from automotive, aviation, aerospace and advanced machinery manufacturing to real estate, energy resources, health care, medical devices, drug, life sciences, technology information services, franchising and distribution.
Mr. Meis joins Baker Donelson's Atlanta office as a shareholder. As an attorney licensed in Germany and the U.S., Mr. Meis advises companies in corporate matters, particularly in the formation and restructuring of corporations and partnerships both in Germany and the U.S. Mr. Meis has represented German investment funds in corporate, tax and bank regulatory matters in connection with real estate, as well as oil and gas investments in the U.S. In addition, he has advised investors on the acquisition of businesses and restructuring of investments. He has extensive experience in advising companies, as well as individuals, in the U.S. and Germany on complex visa issues and related international tax matters. Mr. Meis is a member of the Munich Bar Association and is fluent in German.
Mr. Faerber, who joins as an attorney in the Atlanta office, represents domestic and international companies in areas including corporate and partnership law, cross-border transactions, mergers, acquisitions, foreign direct investment and intellectual property. As a native German, Mr. Faerber has extensive experience counseling German businesses expanding into the United States. He also assists U.S. and foreign companies in connection with the negotiation and drafting of distribution, manufacturing, employment and agency agreements.
Baker Donelson's Global Business Team helps clients achieve success wherever their business takes them in the world. From the Firm's 24 offices located in key markets throughout the Southeastern United States and in Washington, D.C. and London and with the assistance of an extensive global network of local counsel and other professionals, the Global Business Team has helped U.S. and non-U.S. clients take advantage of global opportunities in more than 90 countries spanning six continents. The more than 75 members of the Global Business Team routinely work with U.S. clients in China, Japan, the United Kingdom, Central and Eastern Europe, Africa, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America. The group's cross-border attorneys are fluent in more than 15 languages, including German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese, French and Portuguese. The team also regularly assists non-U.S. businesses and individuals in connection with their activities in the United States.


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Syria may be using chemical weapons against its citizens again – here's how international law has changed to help countries intervene
93 Views December 6, 2018 Be first to comment Michael Scharf
New reports have emerged from the Syrian civil war that banned chemical weapons are being used in Aleppo, a city on the edge of the last remaining rebel stronghold, Idlib province.
Since 2011, the war has been the deadliest conflict on the planet. Among the Assad regime's most disturbing actions has been the repeated use of chemical weapons to subdue rebel-supported areas.
After World War I, the use of chemical weapons was prohibited by international treaties. The use of chemical weapons against civilians is now recognized as a war crime and a crime against humanity. The importance of the prohibition is so great that in 2013 President Barack Obama threatened to respond to Syria's use of chemical weapons with force.
But Russia has blocked efforts by the U.N. Security Council to investigate Syria's use of chemical weapons, to refer perpetrators to the International Criminal Court and to authorize countries to use force to prevent future chemical weapon attacks. Many observers believe this is payback for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad allowing Russia to maintain the immense naval base of Tartus in Syria.
Then, in April 2018, the Trump administration, joined by the U.K. and France, fired 103 missiles at three Syrian chemical weapons production and storage facilities. That assault was launched after reports from Syria that more than 40 people were killed in a chemical weapons attack in rebel-held Douma.
The purpose of the airstrikes was to halt Syria's continuing use of these deadly weapons. For a while, they did the trick.
Now, Syria is preparing for a major offensive in Idlib. The Trump administration warned in September 2018 that if chemical weapons are used again by the Syrian government, the U.S. would deliver a counterattack much more severe than the April 2018 airstrikes.
The conventional view is that use of force against another state is lawful only with U.N. Security Council approval, or in self-defense in response to an armed attack. Neither of these justifications is applicable to the present situation. Russia is preventing the Security Council from acting. And the U.S. isn't under attack – Syria is using chemical weapons against its own people.
So were the U.S., French and U.K. strikes in April a violation of international law? Would a new attack now violate that law?
New standard: Humanitarian intervention
Having international law on the U.S. side can help enlist allies to the cause being championed by the U.S. In the case of Syria, it can result in greater pressure on Syria to forego chemical weapons in the future.
At an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council the day of the April 2018 airstrikes, the U.K. posed a third justification that would allow one country to use force against another. That exception: humanitarian intervention to prevent the use of chemical weapons against civilians.
At the same session, the U.S ambassador told the Security Council that the U.S acted in "lock step" and "in complete agreement" with the U.K., thereby adopting its legal rationale.
This was the first time in history that the U.S. and U.K. used the legal argument of humanitarian intervention to justify a use of force.
In the past, the two countries have said that actions to halt ethnic cleansing of Kosovar Albanians in Kosovo in 1999 and to save the Yazidis on Mount Sinjar in Iraq in 2014 were morally necessary but they declined to rely on a legal argument. They preferred to say the situations were sui generis, or without precedent.
The historic hesitancy to embrace a right of humanitarian intervention contributed to international paralysis when the Hutus of Rwanda slaughtered the Tutsis in 1994 and when the Serbs exterminated the Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995.
The past hesitancy by the U.S and its allies to use the humanitarian intervention argument was due to their concerns that this justification could be easily abused, as a pretext for a land grab or regime change.
The U.S. protested when Russia used humanitarian intervention as a rationale for invading South Ossetia, Georgia in 2008 and Crimea in 2014.
But that hesitancy is now history.
Under the pretext of humanitarian intervention, Russia invaded South Ossetia in 2008; a victim of a Russian bombing is shown here.
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Syria sparked change
In my 2013 book, "Customary International Law in Times of Fundamental Change," I speculated that events unfolding in Syria might bring about a fundamental change in international law regarding humanitarian intervention. In newly published research, I demonstrate how the April 2018 airstrikes have done just that.
Customary international law changes when there is widespread state practice recognizing a new legal right. Examples include the creation of International Criminal Law after the Nuremberg trials in the 1940s, the recognition of the right to resources on the continental shelf in the 1950s, and the development of space law in the 1960s.
Two former State Department legal advisers, Harold Koh and John Bellinger, have said that the U.S. failure to articulate a legal argument for its past humanitarian interventions not only makes it harder for customary international law to form, but at the same time makes it easier for the precedent to be abused by other countries since its contours are left purposely ambiguous.
The April 2018 airstrikes, in contrast, were based on a clearly articulated legal rationale, and were widely supported by the international community.
Only Russia, Syria and a handful of their allies opposed the airstrikes. And Russia's opposition was largely based on the argument that the Assad regime was not in fact behind the chemical weapons, an argument that has been debunked by evidence on the ground.
This fall, the White House said that the U.S. would respond "swiftly and vigorously" if Syrian forces used chemical weapons in Idlib.
France, the U.K. and even Germany have said they would join in such action.
Taken together, the legal rationale articulated in April 2018 and the international reaction to those airstrikes will make it easier for the U.S. and its allies to quickly marshal support for follow-up airstrikes against Syrian chemical weapons-related targets – if they should become necessary again.
Michael Scharf does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
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Wolf! Wolf!
Last night, I was browsing on Amazon and noticed that Virginia Henley's forthcoming romance, Notorious, had its description posted. Notorious, set in 14th-century England during the reign of Edward II, features a heroine named Brianna, whose love interest is Wolf Mortimer, son of the Roger Mortimer who's been mentioned on this blog.
Don't start Googling, folks. Roger Mortimer did some dreadful things, but naming a son "Wolf" was not one of them.
So what's with these names? Are romance readers really put off by heroines and heroes with monikers that suit the times they live in? It doesn't seem so; I trolled through Romance Reviews Today and found that most of the historical romances there had protagonists with reasonably authentic-sounding names (though there were some groaners too).
For what it's worth for you marketing people out there, un-period names scare me off. Here are a couple of romances set in the nineteenth century that I wouldn't read on a dare, even though they sound strangely familiar somehow:
Fine-eyed, spirited Raven Bennett disliked proud, arrogant Brayden Darcy, her new neighbor, from the start . . .
Try as he might, brooding, mysterious Blake Rochester could not take his mind off his daughter's governess, Jade Eyre . . .
Moving on, in the always popular Prove Me Wrong department, my rambles brought me today to a romance novel with a plot that revolves around a nearsighted, glasses-wearing heroine, Love Is Blind by Lynsay Sands. There's hope for us spec-wearers yet.
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Wolf and Brianna. Oh dear…
But maybe no worse than some of Henley's other heroes and heroines – Lynx, Lincoln, Summer, Raven and Sabre. And the inevitable Jasmine, of course.
Had to giggle when I saw on her website ('My Books' section) that 'heroine' has been misspelt as 'heroin'.
At least the names give me fair warning that I'm not the target audience.
Wolf? Oh, that sounds so ridiculous.
Wolf is bad enough, but Brianna? Is that even a name? I mean, yes, it probably is since Diana Gabaldon named Claire's daughter Brianna, but she doesn't exactly write historical fiction (despite being shelved as such in Germany).
According to one baby name list I saw, "Brianna" was a top 100 baby name in the US for 2005. (So was "Brooklyn"–can "Staten Island" be on the horizon?)
I think "Brooklyn" first became popular after a kid on a soap opera was given that name, maybe 15 years ago.
I used to watch a lot of bad TV.
Considering Gabaldon's popularity, I won't be surprised if the raise in Briannas has something to do with her character. 🙂


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Now Trending: Comedy duo Key & Peele said no to Barack Obama
Keegan-Michael Key (left) and Jordan Peele in Key & PeeleComedy Central
TAKING A PASS
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele turned down a personal request from U.S. President Barack Obama to shoot a sketch with them to promote Obamacare.
In the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, the comedy duo said they were forced to refuse Obama's request to film the comedy short in support of the Affordable Care Act because they were midway through shooting their Comedy Central series Key & Peele.
"We had to turn him down," said Peele.
"We couldn't help him out on that one particular time," said Peele. "But this is a country where we technically have status over our elected officials. So you gotta remember, Obama works for us."
The X Factor reigns supreme in the U.K. Twitterverse. A new study from research firm Kanta Media has concluded that the talent contest fronted by former American Idol judge Simon Cowell is currently the most tweeted-about program on British television. The year-long study showed that The X Factor generated 9.4 million tweets over the past year. Coming in a distant second was Celebrity Big Brother with 5.3 million tweets followed by Britain's Got Talent (on which Cowel also adjudicates) with 3.1 million tweets.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Jeremy Renner has revealed that he's married and has a baby daughter. The 43-year-old actor confirmed his secret marriage over a year ago to model-actress Sonni Pacheco at the premiere of his new film Kill the Messenger. Why so quiet? "Privacy issues are important because I want her to go about her day without being bothered," said Renner. The Avengers star also revealed that he's the doting dad to a 17-month-old daughter named Ava. "I'm very miserable when I don't see her," said Renner. "I really love being a father."
Source: People
A U.S. insurance company has pulled its TV commercials starring former Saturday Night Live regular Rob Schneider in response to his anti-vaccination stance. State Farm Insurance has yanked the comedic spots after learning the actor had lobbied against a proposed bill requiring parents to meet with doctors before receiving exemptions from mandatory childhood vaccinations. Schneider responded to the ads being pulled on Wednesday by tweeting, "If the Freedom of Speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be lead, like sheep to the slaughter – George Washington."
Source: E! News
LOWE POINT
Get ready to see Rob Lowe like you've never seen him before. The rakish actor undergoes a drastic transformation in a new set of TV commercials for the U.S. broadcast provider DirecTV. In the spots, the 50-year-old Parks & Recreation star assumes two roles: The first shows him as a DirecTV customer: handsome, well-dressed and residing in a well-appointed home; Lowe is next seen as a balding, paunchy figure sitting in a rundown living room and saying, "I'm far less attractive Rob Lowe and I have cable." The spot closes with handsome Lowe standing behind his déclassé self and saying, "Don't be like this me."
Source: Adweek
MAN'S WORLD
Women are still hugely underrepresented in Hollywood films, according to a new study. New research from USC Annenberg analyzed the quantity and quality of female roles in 120 Hollywood movies between 2010 and 2013. Researchers concluded that moviegoers in the combined U.S./U.K. market saw over three times as many men as women onscreen, with female comprising a mere 23.6 per cent of nearly 6000 speaking roles. The study also revealed that fewer than one in four of the films featured a female lead or co-lead.
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CPP Independent Peer Review
Chief Actuary of the Government of Canada unveils external peer review panel for 31st Actuarial Report on the Canada Pension Plan
Accompanying Documents
Summary of the Process
Peer Reviewer Application Form (PDF, 42 kB)
The Office of the Chief Actuary (OCA) announced today the composition of a panel of actuaries to review the 31st Actuarial Report on the Canada Pension Plan (CPP).
Produced every three years, the Actuarial Report on the CPP is considered by the federal and provincial Ministers of Finance as part of their statutory triennial financial review of the CPP. This is the ninth external peer review of the CPP Actuarial Report since 1999. These reviews generate valuable recommendations that have been a source of continued improvements in the quality and transparency of actuarial reports.
The panel members include Mr. Stephen Butterfield, Mr. Michel St-Germain and Ms. Jill Wagman. They are all Fellows of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA) and Fellows of the Society of Actuaries (SOA). Each panel member has extensive experience in risk management, governance, funding, and design of pension plans.
To ensure impartiality and to enhance the credibility of the peer review process, the selection of the panel is based on the recommendations of the globally recognized social security experts at the United Kingdom Government Actuary's Department (GAD). The GAD will also provide an independent opinion on the work done by the reviewers.
The tabling of the Actuarial Report on the CPP is expected to take place before December 31, 2022. After the report is tabled, the panel will perform its review and submit their report by April 2023. Once the GAD has issued its opinion, the review panel's report and GAD's opinion will be made public.
"The external peer review process allows continuous improvements in the content of triennial CPP actuarial reports. It ensures that the report is prepared in accordance with actuarial standards of practice, and that it provides information that is accurate and relevant to Canadians and other stakeholders. The current challenging environment and increasing uncertainty reinforces the importance of the CPP peer review process. The Office welcomes the opportunity to work with a highly qualified and professional peer review panel for the review of the 31st CPP Actuarial Report."
- Assia Billig, Chief Actuary
Mr. Stephen Butterfield has thirty years of experience providing actuarial advice on defined benefit pension plans at a global consulting firm. This rich experience allowed him to take on important strategic senior roles, which include leading the executive pension team and representing the retirement risk management team. Since the beginning of his career, Mr. Butterfield has continuously volunteered with the CIA and SOA on various committees and task forces. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the CIA and as Vice-Chair of the Actuarial Standards Board and acted as the Liaison with Government Authorities on Pension and Social Security Matters.
Mr. Michel St-Germain has forty-five years of experience providing actuarial advice on defined benefit pension plans at a global consulting firm. For many years he held senior roles. Mr. St-Germain actively uses his knowledge and experience through public discussions and collaboration with decision-makers on issues related to public and private pensions. He served as President of the CIA and was a member of the Actuarial Public Oversight Board as well as the International Actuarial Association Forum on Pensions, Benefits and Social Security, and he continues his work with the CIA.
Ms. Jill Wagman is a Managing Principal at an actuarial consulting firm and has thirty years of experience working in the retirement industry. She was a member of the previous peer review panel for the 30th CPP Actuarial Report and conducted an independent review of the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan Actuarial Funding Report. She is a member of many professional boards, including her role as Chair of the Board of Directors for her current employer. Ms. Wagman has also served as the Vice-Chair of the Actuarial Standards Oversight Council and volunteered with the CIA on various committees.
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About the OCA
The Office of the Chief Actuary operates independently within the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) and provides actuarial services for key government plans and programs such as the CPP, Old Age Security program, Canada Student Financial Assistance Program, Employment Insurance Program, as well as pension and benefit plans that cover public servants, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the Canadian Forces among other groups.
Previous CPP Actuarial Reports, independent reviews, and GAD's opinions
Chief Actuary Biography
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Oh, what might have been. Heidi Klum revealed in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres this week that she ignored a text from Drake when he reached out after a different Ellen appearance last winter.
Back in February, Klum and DeGeneres played a game of "Who'd You Rather," where the America's Got Talent judge had to choose among famous men including Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Rock, Milo Ventimiglia, Chadwick Boseman, Adrien Brody, Harry Styles, Brad Pitt, Liev Schreiber, Chance the Rapper, and Drake, who ended up her top pick.
Not long afterward, the "Hotline Bling" rapper texted Klum. But she had already met someone else. "Sorry, Drake! You snooze, you lose, you know what I mean?" she joked during her most recent appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Tuesday, September 11.
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The hilarious new documentary Take My Nose…Please! is making its wide debut helmed by 89 year-old first time filmmaker Joan Kron (former editor at Allure Magazine for over 25 years and at New York Magazine). Take My Nose…Please! is a comedic point of view on women and plastic surgery, as told by female comedians, including Jackie Hoffman, Emily Askin, Judy Gold, Julie Halston, Lisa Lampanelli, Giulia Rozzi, and others.
The Orchard will release this award winning documentary on VOD and all digital platforms on January 9, 2018 – coinciding with the week of filmmaker Kron's 90th Birthday.
Take My Nose…Please! has played a number of film festivals across the nation before hitting theaters this October, including the Newport Beach Film Festival, Martha's Vineyard Film Festival, San Francisco Doc Fest, and others. Take My Nose…Please! picked up an Audience Award at the Miami Film Festival where it premiered in February, and again recently at the Berkshire Film Festival.
Take My Nose…Please! follows two comedians as they deliberate about going under the knife. Askin, an up-and coming improv performer, has always wanted her nose refined. Hoffman, a seasoned headliner on Broadway and on TV, considers herself ugly and regrets not having the nose job offered in her teens. And maybe she'd like a face-lift, as well.
As we follow their surprisingly emotional stories, we meet other who have taken the leap – or held out. Putting it all in perspective are psychologists, sociologists, the medical community, and cultural critics. And for comic relief and the profundity only comedians can supply.
The film includes commentary from Roseanne Barr, Phyllis Diller, Joan Rivers, Judy Gold, Julie Halston, Lisa Lampanelli, Giulia Rozzi, Bill Scheft, Adrianne Tolsch, and others.


FROM a distance, it looks like the storage tank for the Festival of Gas. But as New York World's Fair visitors draw nearer, they find themselves in a people trap—IBM's wonderfully zany exhibit pavilion, featuring the Information Machine. It's really a theater that sits atop a forest of 45 stylized, 32-foot-high sheet-metal trees. Their cleverly dovetailed branches support 14,000 gray and green Plexiglas leaves, forming a continuous, one-acre canopy. You join a couple of thousand others who are queueing up on a complex of catwalks suspended above a shallow pool. The ramps lead to a 45-degree tilted grandstand, holding 500 spectators. Eventually, you take your place on what IBM calls the "people wall." Its 12 tiers of seats are no sooner filled than an M.C. in white tie and tails comes gliding down above you in a "bucket." He promises that in the next 12 minutes you'll learn that computers make use of everyday methods we all use in our daily lives to solve complicated problems.
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https://www.starsinsider.com/lifestyle/482436/the-shameful-story-of-nazi-plunder
Looting of property -
Hitler wanted to enrich the Third Reich and its leaders with exquisite and culturally significant treasures. He did this by encouraging the widespread looting of Jewish property, which became a key element of the Holocaust. Pictured are looted Jewish shops in Pressburg (today Bratislava), Slovakia, in 1938.
Book burning -
The thefts perpetrated by the Third Reich were carried out from 1933, beginning with the seizure of the property of German Jews, until the end of the Second World War. This photograph shows looted books; most were destined to be burnt.
Religious treasures seized -
A US Army chaplain examines one of hundreds of Jewish Sefer Torah scrolls, stolen from all over Europe by Nazi forces and stored in the cellar of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics in Frankfurt.
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) -
As Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler enforced his aesthetic ideal on the nation. This did not include modern art. In 1937, the Nazi Party presented the Entartete Kunst ("Degenerate Art") Exhibition in Munich.
Degenerate Art -
Several hundred works of contemporary art, confiscated from German museums, were put on display as a way of showing its alleged perverse nature and immoral influence. Pictured: Hitler with Hermann Göring and other Nazi party officials examine a painting at the Degenerate Art Exhibition.
Illegal auction -
The looted "degenerate" art collection was later sold at auction on June 30, 1939 at the Grand Hotel National in Lucerne, Switzerland. The catalogue for the sale is pictured.
Nazi looting organizations -
In 1940, the Nazis created an organization known as the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce (Einsatzstab Reichslieter Rosenberg or ERR). It was led by committed national socialist Alfred Rosenberg (1893–1946), who was executed at Nuremberg after the war. The sole purpose of the ERR was the appropriation of cultural property.
Hermann Göring (1893–1946) -
The role of ERR was later clearly more defined by Hermann Göring, who effectively controlled the organization. He ordered the ERR to seize "Jewish" art collections and other objects. In 2015, France published the handwritten catalog of Hermann Göring, a comprehensive record of the thefts committed by Nazis during the Second World War. Göring's personal art collection numbered over 2,000 pieces, including 300 paintings. He killed himself in his cell at Nuremberg after being found guilty of war crimes.
Nazi storage of looted objects -
Cultural objects plundered by the Third Reich numbered in the hundreds of thousands, looted from occupied nations. Classical portraits and landscapes by Old Masters, particularly those of Germanic origin, were set aside for eventual display in the Führermuseum, a cultural complex planned by Hitler for his hometown, the Austrian city of Linz. Pictured are crates of paintings confiscated from the National Museum in Kraków packed for shipment to Germany in 1942.
Jue de Paume -
The Führermuseum was in fact never built. But the systematic plundering of artwork continued. It was stored in several key locations, including the Musée Jue de Paume in Paris. Between 1940 and 1944, the museum served as a Nazi sorting house for the party's ill-gotten gains. In this photograph, workers unload returned works of art, which had escaped the clutches of the Nazis, from a truck at the Jeu de Paume Museum in October 1945.
Nazi headquarters, Munich -
The Nazi party headquarters in Munich, the so-called Brown House, also served as a repository for looted art. Destroyed by Allied bombs in 1945, the site is today home to the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism.
Merkers salt mine -
The Nazi party looted the assets of its victims to accumulate wealth. Gold was prized currency. Mines and caves were often used to hide gold bullion. These locations also offered the appropriate humidity and temperature conditions for stashing artworks, many examples of which were centuries old. The Merkers salt mine in Thuringia, Germany, provided the ideal repository for a staggering amount of gold and paintings.
Nazi gold -
Thousands of gold rings the Nazis removed from their victims to salvage the precious metal were discovered at Merkers after US troops searched out the subterranean site in 1945. Besides rings, watches, precious stones, eyeglasses, and gold fillings were also found, all confiscated from prisoners at Buchanwald concentration camp. As Minister of Economics and Reichsbank president, Walther Funk was responsible for banking for the SS the gold artifacts taken from Nazi concentration camp victims. Funk escaped the hangman at Nuremberg, instead being sentenced to life imprisonment. He was released on health grounds in 1957 and died three years later.
Underground art -
Among the more famous paintings recovered at Merkers was 'Wintergarden,' by the French impressionist Edouard Manet, seen here being examined by American GIs. Contrary to reports, this work of art was not a looted piece. It had been in the collection of the Berlin National-Galerie until it was moved to the salt mine for safeguarding.
Old masters -
General Dwight D. Eisenhower (right) accompanied by General Omar N. Bradley (left) and General George S. Patton (center) visited Merkers on April 12, 1945 to inspect the stolen art treasures.
Altaussee salt mine -
The Altaussee salt mine complex in Austria also served as a repository for stolen art. Much of the loot found here was intended for display in the Führermuseum.
Monuments Men -
Altaussee was seized on May 8, 1945 by members of the US Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program, the so-called Monuments Men, portrayed in the 2014 war film 'The Monuments Men' starring George Clooney and Matt Damon. One of the treasures discovered hidden at Altaussee was the 15th-century Ghent Altarpiece by Hubert and Jan van Eyck, the central panel of which is pictured as it was recovered.
Ghent Altarpiece -
Despite war damage, the Flemish polyptych panel was restored to its original splendor. Considered a masterpiece of European art, the Ghent Altarpiece can today be admired in St Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium.
Schlosskirche -
The Nazis also chose to hide loot in landmark buildings throughout Germany. In this April 1945 image, a soldier from the US Third Army stands guard over a large cache of artworks stored in Schlosskirche in Ellingen, Bavaria.
Neuschwanstein Castle -
While a lieutenant checks his list in the background, soldiers from the US 7th Army carry three valuable paintings down the steps of Neuschwanstein Castle at Füssen in southwest Bavaria, where they were hidden.
Neuschwanstein hoard -
The seizure at Neuschwanstein also yielded numerous pieces of antique jewelry and valuable ornaments, including a collection of snuff boxes.
Siegen -
A soldier with the US First Army holds up a painting by Rubens after Allied forces overran the German city of Siegen (incidentally, Rubens' place of birth) in April 1945 and discovered a hoard of Nazi loot hidden in an underground copper mine.
Plunder of the USSR -
To investigate and estimate Nazi plunder in the USSR, the convoluted-sounding Soviet State Extraordinary Commission for Ascertaining and Investigating the Crimes Committed by the German-Fascist Invaders and Their Accomplices was established in 1941. Pictured in 1945 are Red Army soldiers recovering paintings stolen from the Peterhof Palace and Pushkin Palace.
Looting in Poland -
In Poland, the Nazis systematically carried out a plan of looting the nation even before the start of hostilities. Pictured is a German unit plundering the Zacheta Museum in Warsaw in 1944.
Hans Frank (1900–1946) -
After the German invasion of Poland, Hans Frank was appointed Governor-General of the occupied Polish territories. His reign of terror against the civilian population was particularly brutal, and he was directly involved in the mass murder of Jews. In 1940, Hitler received a special "gift" from Frank—a collection of over 500 items of the most valuable art from Polish collections. Frank was found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg and later executed.
After the war -
One of the paintings stolen by German forces in Poland was 'Jewess with Oranges' by the Polish artist Aleksander Gierymski. It was taken from the National Museum in Warsaw and for decades afterwards Poland campaigned for its return. In 2010, the painting appeared in an antique market in Northern Germany. After compensation was paid out by the Polish authorities to the German owner, the painting was returned to the nation in 2011.
Recovery and restitution -
Indeed, much looted gold and art was recovered and restituted after the war. But despite the best efforts of the American and other governments, many thousands of pieces of art were never recovered by their rightful owners. A celebrated exception was the case of the 'Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer.'
'Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer' -
Completed between 1903 and 1907 by Gustav Klimt and also known as 'The Woman in Gold,' this painting was stolen by the Nazis in 1941. Nearly 60 years later it turned up in the Galeria Belvedere in Vienna. Maria Altmann, a niece of the original owner Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, successfully won a claim against the gallery for the return of the work, and others by Klimt. She later sold the painting for US$135 million. In 2015, Altmann's story was dramatized for the film 'Woman in Gold' starring Helen Mirren.
Gurlitt Collection -
In 2012, a sensational "Nazi loot discovery" was made in Munich when a collection of around 1,500 art works assembled by the late Hildebrand Gurlitt, a Third Reich dealer of Nazi-looted art, was discovered in the apartment of his son, Cornelius Gurlitt. The collection was suspected of incorporating a number of looted items and, probably, works acquired in dubious circumstances during the Second World War. Cornelius Gurlitt died in 2014. He bequeathed the collection to the Museum of Fine Arts Bern, in Switzerland. Fourteen pieces were later conclusively identified as belonging to Jewish owners and returned to their heirs. Pictured: the press preview of the Gurlitt Collection at the museum.
'Two Riders on the Beach' -
One of the paintings from the Gurlitt hoard, Max Liebermann's 'Two Riders on the Beach,' painted in 1901, was returned to the descendants of the original Jewish owner in 2015.
'Portrait of a Seated Woman' -
'Portrait of a Seated Woman' by Thomas Coulture was also found in Gurlitt's apartment. Identified as a looted work, it too was restituted, in 2019, to the descendants of the original owner.
Nazi gold train -
The fabled Nazi gold train is the legendary "treasure train" supposedly hidden by Nazi troops in a mountain tunnel as the Germans fled the area between Wroclaw and Walbbrzych in southwestern Poland during the closing stages of the war. Despite numerous claims that the train and its treasure exists—most recently by two amateur historians in 2015—the locomotive and its valuable hoard remains an enduring urban myth.
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See also: The awful truth about Albert Speer, Hitler's architect
The shameful story of Nazi plunder
The Third Reich's theft of European art
LIFESTYLE Theft
The widespread looting of European art by the Third Reich before and during the Second World War was one of the most shameful chapters of art history. The Nazis systematically stole thousands of paintings from individuals, and confiscated many thousands more from museums and other cultural institutions. Beside artworks, gold, silver, currency, jewelry, books, and religious treasures were also plundered. Most of these looted items were recovered and restituted after the war. But many thousands of pieces of art were never retrieved by their rightful owners.
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Harare, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Thursday defended his country's violent land reforms saying the reforms were the key to achieving development goals set by the United Nations (UN).
The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) seek to halve poverty, hunger, illiteracy and disease in the world by 2015.
"Land is the driver of the MDG process," said Mugabe.
The veteran Zimbabwean leader was presenting a progress report on Zimbabwe's efforts to fulfill the UN targets which seek to spur development and halve poverty in the world.
"The ongoing land reforms are expected to restore Zimbabwe's pride as the breadbasket of the ... region," Mugabe said.
Zimbabwe is going through a severe five-year economic crisis which has seen the country experience critical shortages of food, medical supplies and fuel.
Critics blame the crisis on Mugabe's mismanagement of the economy which was one of the strongest in Africa at independence 25 years ago.
The country has virtually survived on food handouts from the international community after Mugabe destroyed the key agriculture sector after seizing large commercial farms from whites for redistribution to landless blacks five years ago.
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Harare, Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe quietly adopted constitutional changes that make it easier for the state to seize private property and prevent opponents from traveling abroad to criticize his 25-year rule, state radio revealed Monday.
The report said Mugabe signed the amendments into law Friday, the same day the International Monetary Fund (IMF) deferred a decision for six months on whether to expel this southern African nation.
The amendments mark "the liberation of our land," Mugabe said Monday during a three-day trip to Cuba. "It's now final, and no one can question it."
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Mugabe's government has allowed the seizure of 5,000 white-owned commercial farms in recent years, wrecking agricultural output and exports and causing widespread food shortages.
He blames U.S. and European Union sanctions -- imposed for alleged human rights abuses -- for putting the Zimbabwean economy into free fall.
Inflation now runs at some 255 percent a year and 80 percent of the work force is idle.
"The Cubans are being punished with sanctions in the same way we are," Mugabe said during his ninth visit to Cuba since 1978, referring to the decades-old U.S. trade embargo against the communist-ruled island.
Opposition leaders said Mugabe delayed signing the constitutional amendments until the IMF put off deciding whether to expel Zimbabwe for being $295 million in arrears on its debts. The IMF executive board postponed the matter after Zimbabwe made a surprise partial payment of $120 million.
Associated Press reporter Vanessa Arrington in Havana contributed to this story.


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