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Virginia Beach middle-schooler, Yorktown teen team up to make schools safer for students with epilepsy
By Jessica Nolte
Brie Gesick (left) of Virginia Beach and Jamie Van Cleave of Yorktown both suffer from epilepsy say that living with condition is like being in prison. Senate bill 420, a bill submitted by State Senator Bill DeSteph, would help make life easier at school for them and other children that suffer from seizure related conditions. (John C. Clark / Daily Press)
Rowena and Thomas Gesick take turns sleeping in their daughter's room every night so they can monitor her for seizures while she sleeps. But when Brie goes to school in the morning, the personnel are not required to know how to recognize and respond to seizures.
Two families — the Gesick family from Virginia Beach and the Van Cleave family from Yorktown — want to change that, so they're advocating for Seizure Safe School legislation in Virginia.
Brie Gesick, 12, and Jamie Van Cleave, 16, are two of approximately 11,000 children in Virginia with epilepsy, according to the Epilepsy Foundation of America. The girls and their families decided to team up to advocate for the proposal.
Sen. Bill DeSteph, R-Virginia Beach, sponsored SB420, which would use online training to educate school personnel on seizure detection and first aid. The bill would allow parents and guardians to submit a seizure management and treatment plan that would outline the health services students can receive at school. It also provides a Good Samaritan clause for people who act in good faith to help students experiencing seizures.
"Getting this law passed would mean we don't have to go to school scared every day because we know someone is going to be there who knows how to handle seizures and we'll be safe," Jamie said.
Both girls have intractable epilepsy, which means their seizures aren't controlled with medication. They're balancing honors classes — maintaining straight A's — with their extra-curricular activities and advocating for change that would eliminate the stigma and make the world around them safer for those who have seizures.
"Once we got together it made it a bit easier and more fun," Brie said. "I'm just hoping this law will get passed because it's going to do great things for everyone."
If Virginia passes the law it would join five other states — Kentucky, Indiana, Texas, Illinois and New Jersey — that have passed Seizure Safe School legislation. It would be the first state with the law named after two students.
"There are more than 3.4 million people in the U.S. living with epilepsy — many of them children. This important legislation will provide safety and security for our young children while they attend school," DeSteph said in a news release. "I am proud to champion the Jamie and Brie Strong Act, as we refer to it here in Virginia, and look forward to joining other states in passing this important legislation."
For Jamie and Brie's parents, the legislation would bring peace of mind.
Jimmy Van Cleave, Jamie's father, said he would sit in the school's parking lot for hours before going to work on days Jamie wasn't feeling well. He'd wait to leave until he knew she would be OK.
Not every seizure requires that students be sent home and the families believe if the schools were better equipped to handle seizures, their daughters wouldn't have to miss so much instructional time. On average, students aged 6-17 with epilepsy miss more than 11 days of school, according to the Epilepsy Foundation of America.
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The state wouldn't have to pay for the online training, the Foundation offers it free of charge to states that pass the law.
Jamie previously orchestrated training for teachers at York High School, Yorktown Middle School and Yorktown Elementary School, and she said it's made a big difference to have teachers with a better understanding of epilepsy. Her teachers are more in-tune with how she's feeling and more receptive when she needs to postpone a test or quiz.
"Teachers are such a great foundation because if you educate teachers, they're going to educate everybody else," Rowena Gesick said.
Previous coverage: Yorktown teen, advocate 'an icon in the epilepsy world'
Jessica Nolte, 757-247-4513, jnolte@dailypress.com
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On April 18, 2014 clarinetist Pete Furniss performed Richard Dudas' Prelude No. 1 in a new, updated version for clarinet and computer at the 2014 Dialogues Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. The concert is part of the festival's Late Lab concert series taking places at the Informatics Forum and also includes performances by Jean-François Laporte and Jess Aslan.
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The Fratellis have confirmed two US dates in March to follow their SXSW performance.
The Glaswegian trio will play New York's Mercury Lounge and The Troubador in LA. The shows will coincide with the US release of their debut album 'Costello Music', which hits shelves on March 13.
The band's first US release – the 'Flathead' EP, was released initially through iTunes, and will be available on CD format in record stores from tomorrow (January 23).
As previously reported here, The Fratellis are nominated for British Breakthrough Act at the BRIT Awards, which will take place at London Earls Court on February 14.


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BRITAIN IN EUROPE
Knowing Our Rights project
Greek-British Initiative
Dr Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos
Calling upon Parliament to support Harriet Harman's amendment on EU citizens' rights
The Britain in Europe think tank calls upon MPs from all political parties to support the Amendment on EU residence rights after Brexit, which was debated in the House of Commons today (6 February).
EU citizens living in the UK should in no way be adversely affected by exit negotiations with the EU once article 50 has been triggered, and should continue to plan their future in this country exactly as before. Legally, morally and pragmatically, this is the position that the UK Government should have adopted immediately after the Referendum.
The amendment – tabled by the Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), the Rt Hon Harriet Harman QC MP and supported by other members of the cross-party Committee – states that:
"Nothing in this Act shall affect the continuation of those residence rights enjoyed by EU citizens lawfully resident in the United Kingdom on 23 June 2016, under or by virtue of Directive 2004/38/EC, after the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union."
The amendment seeks to guarantee current residence rights of those EU citizens lawfully in the UK at the time of the referendum vote on 23 June 2016, filling in the gap that will be created when the UK formally leaves the EU.
It gives effect to Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which could be violated if EU nationals lawfully residing in the country were deprived of the right to enjoy private and family life in the UK post-Brexit.
The Amendment draws on evidence received by the JCHR that overwhelmingly supports giving immediate recognition to EU citizens' rights. It already has almost 40 signatures from across the House, including from Rt Hon MPs Nick Clegg, Yvette Cooper, Margaret Hodge, Joanna Cherry QC, Caroline Lucas and Jeremy Lefroy.
'Britain in Europe' invites Parliament to support the amendment, and the Government to prioritise investing appropriate resources to ensure effective implementation in practice. There are significant logistical considerations involved in fully recognising the rights of EU citizens, including establishing who was – and who was not – lawfully in the UK on June 23.
Strong consideration must also be given to the rights of EU citizens arriving in the UK after the date of the Referendum. Until the UK has formally exited the EU, they retain full rights to move to the UK, and to work and reside here.
Dr Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos, Director, BiE think tank
Prof Julian Petley (Brunel University London)
Prof James Knowles, FRSA (Brunel University London)
Prof Ed Cape (UWE Bristol)
Prof Arad Reisberg (Brunel University London)
Prof William Leahy, Deputy VC (Brunel University London)
Dr Colin King (University of Sussex)
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Mr Scott Crosby (European Criminal Bar Association)
Prof Iyiola Solanke (Leeds University)
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Prof Ashley Braganza (Brunel University London)
Josie Welland (Lloyds PR Solicitors)
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TRADE: Blood Diamonds No Longer Congo-Brazzaville's Best Friend
PARIS, Nov 30, 2007 (IPS) - The announcement that the Republic of the Congo, or Congo-Brazzaville, has been readmitted to the Kimberley Process, which aims to stem the flow of conflict diamonds, marks a breakthrough.
Congo-Brazzaville was expelled from the-then year-old process in 2004 for exporting diamonds from its war-wracked neighbour, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and falsifying certificates of origin.
''Congo-Brazzaville comes back now after a very serious domestic effort to put their house in order and to get their domestic systems to the level required,'' Karel Kovanda, chairperson of the Kimberly Process secretariat, told IPS. ''It was quite an emotional moment. We're always happy to have new people (come on board the Kimberley Process).''
Congo-Brazzaville's fate is just the latest example of the enforcement procedure which gets its name from the South African city where one of the first meetings was held on stemming the flow of diamonds used by rebel armies or other groups to fund conflict.
Labels: Brazzaville, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Kimberley Process, Pascal Lissouba
FRANCE: Troubled Suburbs Erupt Again
VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France, Nov 29, 2007 (IPS) - The police station is a smouldering abandoned ruin, its roof gone, its walls charred black, and tiles scattered about its courtyard. From behind its locked gates the pungent stench of burned wood and plastic is carried on the wind into the street.
The commissariat of this town 10 miles north of Paris was ransacked and burned Sunday by rioters enraged by the deaths of two teenagers -- killed when the motorbike they were driving collided with a police cruiser.
Police say that they aided the two youths -- neither of whom was said to be wearing a crash helmet -- while some local residents maintain that police are at fault for leaving the scene before treating the boys. The boys have been identified as Laramy, 16, and Moushim, 15.
Pitched battles between police firing rubber bullets and tear gas, and masked and hooded rioters attacking with Molotov cocktails, bottles, and -- in a potentially lethal escalation of force -- firearms, continued Monday night.
According to police officials, by Tuesday morning over 80 officers had been injured -- some seriously -- and at least 63 vehicles in Villiers-le-Bel and neighbouring communities had been set aflame.
Residents have been left wondering whether there would be a repeat of the riots that shook the nation for weeks almost exactly two years ago.
"The commissariat was burned on the first night of the disturbances," Chanay Mahalinsnam, a Sri Lankan immigrant who runs the small Ocean Tropical supermarket just up the street from the destroyed building, told IPS.
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Labels: banlieues, Nicolas Sarkozy, Paris, riots, Villiers-le-Bel
Update on Riots in France
The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC
After two nights of deadly rioting in Paris's suburbs earlier this week, the situation seems to have calmed down for now. Michael Deibert, Paris correspondent for the Inter Press Service, tells us more about what caused the riots, and whether we can expect more.
Listen to the full interview here.
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Labels: Leonard Lopate, Nicolas Sarkozy, Paris, riots, Villiers-le-Bel, WNYC
All Things Considered, November 27, 2007 · Riots in the Paris suburb of Villiers-le-Bel continue Tuesday, following the death Sunday of two teenagers in a collision with police. Robert Siegel talks with Michael Deibert, Paris correspondent for the Inter Press Service, who says there are reports that the violence now is as bad as the riots of 2005.
Listen to the interview here.
Labels: banlieues, Clichy-sous-Bois, France, Michael Deibert, Nicolas Sarkozy, riots, Robert Siegel, Villiers-le-Bel
The flames of Villiers-le-Bel
There are sometimes in life when you would rather be proved wrong.
In September, for the Inter Press Service, I penned an article examining the state of the banlieues, as the impoverished suburbs that ring many French cities are known, two years after the deaths of two youths, Bouna Traore and Zyed Benna, electrocuted while trying to hide from the police. Following their deaths, rioting erupted around France that resulted in the torching of 9,000 cars and dozens of buildings, injuries to 130 police and firefighters, the arrests of nearly 2,900 people and the murder of retiree Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec, beaten to death by a hooded rioter after attempting to put out a fire near his home in a suburb north of Paris.
I visited the banlieue of Clinchy-sous-Bois, where Traore and Benna died and where the riots began, looking for evidence that the French governments of Jacques Chirac (in power at the time of the disturbances) and Nicolas Sarkozy (which took power in June) had taken any steps to address some of the stated causes of the social explosion, including dismal community-police relations and unemployment hovering around 20 percent, double the national average (the figure for 21-29-year-olds stands at more than 30 percent). I spoke to local residents, as well as to Fatima Hani and Mehdi Bigaderne of the Association Collectif Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, Ensemble (ACLEFEU), a community group formed in the wake of the 2005 unrest, and whose name is a pun on the phrase "enough fire."
"The problems are just the same," Bigaderne told me at the time. "We see the same comportment of the police, the same discrimination, nothing has changed. The relations between the police and the citizens continue to be very, very negative. The big questions -- the question of work, the question of housing, the question of discrimination -- are still with us."
Now, following the death of two teenagers whose motorbike collided with a police car in the banlieue of Villiers-le-Bel, the days of violence appear to have returned. Last night, for the second night in a row since the accident occurred on Sunday, police battled hundreds of rioters, the sides squaring off with rubber bullets and tear gas, and petrol bombs, bottles filled with acid and baseball bats, respectively.
Nothing can excuse random and wanton violence such as the type that some of those taking to the streets in Villiers-le-Bel have engaged in, injuring over 50 police officers and burning automobiles that working people save for years to afford, buses which take them to their jobs and shops where they buy the necessities of life. But, in my travels around the world I am convinced that there is no more potentially lethal cocktail than that of large numbers of idle young men, without work or hope for the future. In Haiti and Jamaica, I have watched them be recruited as armed enforces by cynical politicians. In Guatemala and El Salvador, I have seen them seduced in the life of the maras, as the gangs in the region are known. In Brasil, I have seen them recruited from lives of dead-end poverty in the favelas into the three major drug cartels there, which provide a greater immediate financial reward but a perilously short lifespan. The conditions in France are far less desperate than in those places, but the sense of oppressive exclusion and isolation in the banlieues is a physical as well as psychological one. Cut off from the rest of France by poor transportation networks and badly served by governments that seem content to adopt an out-of-sight, out-of-mind policy, the banlieues only figure in the national discourse in times of trouble, such as the last two days.
Having previously denounced delinquents in the suburbs as racaille (rabble), and vowing to clean them out with a kärcher (a high-pressure hose), France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, came to office promising reforms that would address the joblessness and discrimination that many see as the root of the malaise, and is supposedly set to outline a plan to address this inequity next month. But so far, there has been precious little change in the lives of the people, particularly the youth, in France's suburbs. They remain as excluded as ever from the life of wider French society and little, if any, attempt to ameliorate their situation has been evident in my visits to the neighborhoods since Sarkozy took office. Speaking to reporters on a state visit to China, Sarkozy asked that "all sides to calm down and for the judiciary to decide who bears responsibility" for the incident involving the teenagers.
Staggering from crisis to crisis, which characterized the administration of Sarkozy's predecessor Jacques Chirac, is not a policy. As long as the underlying causes of idleness and hopelessness remain, all the mano firma rhetoric in the world will only serve as an imprecise extinguisher of scattered embers of a larger fire. If the French government and, more broadly, France's political class as whole, is serious about addressing the problems of the banlieues, now, not tomorrow and not next year, is the time for them to put aside their solipsistic, internecine quarrels and focus squarely on bringing job opportunities to and ending the isolation of the suburbs. Otherwise France will be destined to repeat this destructive dance time and again, the stakes and the damage and the mistrust growing more grave and dire all the while.
The vast majority of people in the banlieues, the non-violent people who struggle daily to make ends meet and to find work and to support their families, deserve better than France's politicians have given them thus far. Likewise, France's politicians can no longer claims that they are ignorant of the need for action. I hope there is no need for any more wake up calls.
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Labels: ACLEFEU, banlieues, Bouna Traore, France, Nicolas Sarkozy, Villiers-le-Bel, Zyed Benna
Homage to Catalunya
Having just stepped off the plane in Paris from several days spent visiting my old reporting buddy Gerry Hadden and his family in Barcelona, I was yet again impressed by the artistic brilliance, creative energy and general welcoming friendliness that infuses both the Catalan and "foreign" population of this area of Spain. The city that was passionately Republican and so opposed to Franco's fascist forces that it did not yield to the rightist onslaught until early 1939 during Spain's Civil War, also served as fertile ground for artistic and intellectual endeavor, a tradition that counties to this day.
Over the years, Catalunya nurtured such talents as that of the surrealist artists Salvador Dalí (born in Figueres in 1904) and Joan Miró (born in Barcelona eleven years earlier), and the experience of fighting there alongside the Republican forces (during which he was shot in the neck and nearly killed) proved deeply influential to the British author George Orwell, whose memoir of that time, Homage to Catalonia, is among his most moving works ( I opt for the traditional Catalan here, as opposed to Spanish, spelling, no disrespect to Orwell). And even the quintessentially modern Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, whose movies often seem to run on the pulse and throb of Madrid, chose Barcelona as the setting for what I think is his greatest film, Todo sobre mi madre.
It is a vibrancy that remains, in neighborhoods such as Gràcia and Poble Sec, and in institutions such as the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona, where I went to peruse an exhibition that included among its components, screenings of Jordi Colomer's disorienting film Les Jumelles and the Italian Pier Paolo Pasolini's deeply strange Che cose sono le nuvole? Something of the winding, narrow streets and bright plazas of the old city reminded one of similar spaces in the Americas, including Santo Domingo, the city in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean with which I am most familiar. If one wonders through them long enough, sooner or later one arrives at a place in the Barrio Gotico bearing the name Plaza George Orwell, in tribute to the author.
It was my second visit there, and I could easily get used to it.
Labels: Barcelona, Catalunya, George Orwell, Joan Miró, Jordi Colomer, Pedro Almodóvar, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Salvador Dalí
Dispatch from Brussels
Having just returned from an enjoyable weekend of festivities in Brussels, it was interesting to see how the new Europe's political capital is faring these days. The headquarters of both the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Belgian capital, despite its small size, fairly drips with internationalism and affluence, a far cry from the relatively provincial backwater it was only twenty years ago. Coffee shops, bars and restaurants bustle with patrons and, even on chill November days, its Grand Place and Jardin Botanique still exhibit so small charm.
But all is not well in the union of Dutch-speaking Flanders (in the north) and French-speaking Wallonia (in the south). The country has been without a government since June, with the former Minister-President of Flanders Yves Leterme, the favorite to be Belgium's next Prime Minister, flirting with the idea of splitting up the country and an ill-advised recent editorial in The Economist suggesting the same thing. Unemployment in Wallonia is some three times higher than in Flanders though Brussels itself, somewhat schizophrenically, is a French-lingua franca enclave surrounded by Flemish areas. After being the subject of many jokes and guffawing, the political impasse has taken on something of a creepy ethnic-purity tinge, with Flemish politicians seeking to do away with the bilingual rights of some 150,000 French-speakers who live in the Brussels suburbs in what is otherwise a "Dutch" region. Yesterday, tens of thousands of (mostly French-speaking) Belgians rallied in the capital to urge a political solution and the preservation of a unified state.
Belgium, despite its sleepy reputation, is no stranger to serpentine, convoluted politics. One cannot forget the it was from Brussels that the world witnessed the creation of the Congo Free State, the corporate puppet-state that Belgium's King Leopold II, with government support, ruled over with intense brutality (though never setting foot in it) for nearly 25 years in the late 1880s and early 1900s, setting that stage for the country's star-crossed and tragic modern history. Today things are less bloody, but still quite complex. When a Flemish Belgian tried to explain the country's electoral system to me, I, who report on international politics for a living, have to confess to having been totally and utterly lost and befuddled.
Meanwhile, back in Paris, we greet the new week with a sixth day of strikes by transport unions protesting French President Nicolas Sarkozy's to reform their outlandishly lavish benefits and retirement packages. Though I have been harshly critical of Sarkozy's policies vis-à-vis immigration, I have been unimpressed by the arguments of the striking unions, and by the naked self-interest of their position versus workers in other sectors around the country. Speaking with French people in my working-class neighborhood, it sounds like this is a showdown that the French president may very likely win.
Labels: Belgium, Brussels, Congo, European Union, Flanders, France, King Leopold II, Nicolas Sarkozy, Wallonia, Yves Leterme
Special to The Washington Post
Friday, November 16, 2007; A27
BOUAKE, Ivory Coast -- Manning a rebel roadblock leading into this dusty, sunbaked city, Kone Omar spoke wearily of a life at war.
"We hope things improve and the peace settles all over the country," the 26-year-old combatant said, referring to an eight-month-old power-sharing agreement between the Forces Nouvelles, or New Forces, rebel army and the government of Ivory Coast. "I didn't join this army to fight forever."
Bouake, the country's second-largest city, sprawled northward behind him, a collection of low-slung buildings, cacophonous traffic and spit-and-polish rebel soldiers who patrol the streets.
About 200 miles south, the country's economic capital, Abidjan, stands in glossy contrast, with its high-rise buildings and crisscrossing modern highways. On the busy streets there, pro-government militias periodically violently harass opponents of President Laurent Gbagbo.
Five years ago, Ivory Coast was split in half when rebels seized the northern part of the country in a brief but bloody civil war.
Both sides touted the March agreement as the best chance for peace in a conflict littered with broken covenants and mutual distrust.
But the presence of combatants in both cities underscores the fact that men with guns in this resource-rich country wield the power. And despite the power-sharing deal, Ivorians say they have seen precious few improvements in their lives.
Labels: Abidjan, Alassane Ouattara, Bouake, Côte d'Ivoire, Forces Nouvelles, Francis Akindes, Guillaume Soro
The Dead and the Missing in Kashmir
My article The Dead and the Missing in Kashmir: The Struggle for Kashmir, was originally printed in the Spring 2007 editor of the World Policy Journal. Based on my February 2007 visit to Kashmir and interviews conducted both there and in India's financial capital of Bombay (Mumbai), I believe it remains an important examination of some of the significant factors in the conflict there. As the World Policy Journal website is available to subscribers only, I wanted to reprint the article, in its entirety, on a special blog so as to give the general public a chance to have access to the information contained therein. Thoughts and comments are welcome.
Labels: human rights, India, Jammu, JKLF, Kashmir, Pakistan
How independent journalism can have an effect
As many progressive, principled journalists will tell you, dear reader, the road trod by reporters genuinely trying to make this world a better place is not an easy one. Dangerous locales, long hours, little pay and no security (I myself have had health insurance for about one year out of the last seven) are par for the course of the journalist's life in this sense. But, despite all that, once in a while, an important message breaks through.
When some inspired soul from Connecticut wrote to Senator Christopher J. Dodd and Representative Christopher Murphy "to demand the sugar cane workers in the Dominican Republic (i.e. the Haitian immigrants and those of Haitian descent) be guaranteed full civil and labor rights in exchange for the Dominican Republic's right to sell sugar in the USA," and in doing so quoted my March 13th article for Inter Press Service, Exhibit Reveals a Bitter Harvest, which chronicled the Esclaves au Paradis: L'esclavage contemporain en République Dominicaine (Slaves in Paradise: Contemporary Slavery in the Dominican Republic) exhibition in Paris, it was just such a moment.
The article, which also referred to the cases of Dilcia Yean and Violeta Bosico Cofi, the struggle of Dominican activist Sonia Pierre and the work of Father Christopher Hartley, was one of two I wrote on the subject of Haitians in the Dominican Republic, and, taken in tandem with the Appeal to Decency on behalf of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent that I delivered at the Journalists & Editors Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean in Miami, Florida in May of this year, represent my attempt to present an honest picture of some of the issues involved in the largest immigration question confronting the island of Hispaniola at present.
It is good to know that the word is getting out.
The rain is falling here in Paris and the strike is about to begin.
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Labels: Christopher Dodd, Christopher Hartley, Christopher Murphy, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Sonia Pierre
Bravo, Zapatero!
It is very rare in my experience as an international correspondent that one can speak with unhesitating praise about the actions of the world's political leaders. However, the performance of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero at the Ibero-American summit in Santiago, Chile yesterday deserves such positive words.
Faced with the ranting invective of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, who looked every bit the self-aggrandizing, despotic egomaniac that his most vituperative critics accuse him of being, Zapatero displayed a rare trait in today's political firmament: Class
The trouble began when Chávez, who seems rather inordinately fond of the sound of his own voice, began excoriating Zapatero's conservative predecessor, Jose Maria Aznar, as a "fascist" who was "not human." Zapatero, a Socialist who made one of his first acts as Prime Minister bringing home Spain's troops from Iraq , legalized same-sex marriage in his country and has been locked in a fierce political struggle with Aznar's Partido Popular opposition party back in Spain, felt the need to respond.
"I am not close to Aznar's ideas, but former President Aznar was democratically elected by the Spanish people and I demand that respect for only that one reason," Zapatero said calmly.
Chávez's continued to rant and interrupt until his microphone was finally cut as would happen to a local crackpot at a town hall meeting. Though Spanish King Juan Carlos' angry demand that Chávez "shut up" has received far more attention, I believe it was Zapatero's calm and respectful demeanor in the face of an ugly and unprovoked attack against his countrymen and women and their democratic choice that deserved the most praise.
To fully appreciate Zapatero's gesture, one must also think back to March of this year. At that time Zapatero's decision to allow the hunger striker José Ignacio de Juana Chaos (aka Iñaki de Juana Chaos), a leader of the Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) Basque separatist group convicted of killing 25 people, to serve out the remainder of his sentence under house arrest lead to a huge political uproar in Span, which Aznar's Partido Popular effectively and a trace cynically exploited to their political advantage, calling hundreds of thousands of demonstrators into the streets of Madrid.
I did not support Zapatero's action at the time, given ETA's more than 800 victims and its attack against the Madrid airport last year that killing a pair of Ecuadorian immigrants (despite supposedly having initiated a permanent ceasefire, which has since been rescinded), but ultimately, it was within his rights as Spain's Prime Minister to commute De Juana Chaos's sentence if he saw fit, and within the rights of the Spanish people to deliver their verdict on the wisdom of that action in the country's next general election.
The difference between a political leader like Zapatero and a political leader like Chávez can be summed up in one concept, I believe: The belief that a country's institutions are always more fundamental to the health of democracies than the egos and grand designs of individual politicians. Unlike Mr. Chávez, who in my reading has sought to politicize every element of Venezuelan government and civic life to his own ends with little regard for such precepts as the separation of powers or the autonomy that grants bodies such as courts and educational systems their authority, Mr. Zapatero has been scrupulously faithful to the concept that a country's institutions are at least as important as its politicians and also to the idea that inclusion and persuasion, rather the confrontation and vilification, are the true paths to progressive political change.
For that, and for his eloquent defense of that concept in Santiago, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero deserves our respect and, in my view, a round of applause.
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Labels: ETA, Hugo Chavez, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Jose Maria Aznar, King Juan Carlos, Spain, Venezuela
On lyrical terrorists
Is it possible that Gordon Brown's United Kingdom has joined George W. Bush's United States in the questionable practice of locking up its own citizens for things that the government believes they might do sometime in the future as opposed to things they have actually done? It certainly seems like it.
Today in London, a 23 year-old Heathrow airport employee named Samina Malik, born and raised in England, was declared guilty of possessing material likely to be useful in terrorism.
Malik was charged and tried under the United Kingdom's rather outlandish Terrorism Act 2000, Section 58 of which permits the charging of an offense and imprisonment of up to 10 years against anyone collecting or in possession of "information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism," a definition that would seem improbably broad. It is hard for a writer such as myself to forget, for example, that the Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara was known to have studied Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and its meticulous descriptions of the Spanish Civil War while camped out with Fidel Castro's rebel army in Cuba's Sierra Maestra, or that William Butler Yeats wondered aloud, after learning that some of the Irish rebels of 1916 quoted his play Cathleen ni Houlihan as they faced the executioner: "Did that play of mine send out/Certain men the English shot?"
From everything I have read about the case, Malik indeed sounds like a somewhat, well, strange young lady. According to the Guardian, hardly a font of pro-government apologia, Malik, who authored poems with titles such as "How To Behead" and "The Living Martyrs," apparently enjoyed collecting extremist Islamist propaganda in her spare time, including such tomes as The Al-Qaeda Manual and The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook. Malik was also apparently an aficionado of Abu Hamza al-Masri, the frothing Egyptian cleric convicted of terrorism-related offenses in Britain last year, and used the social networking site called Hi-5 to describe her favorite television shows being "watching videos by my Muslim brothers in Iraq, yep the beheading ones."
Not exactly the kind of person you would want to be sitting across the table from on a blind date.
But how did the British constabulary apprise themselves of this? Try as I might, I could find no record of how the bobbies learned of Ms. Malik's decidedly odd proclivities beyond a line in the Daily Telegraph that "police were alerted after finding an email from her on another person's computer.
It would seem that, their own internment policies in Northern Ireland aside, the Brits in this instance would be borrowing a page from the rather rancid, extra-judicial "enemy combatant" status that the Bush administration has seen fit to employ. Remember the case of José Padilla, who was arrested in May 2002 and held as a material witness in relation to the September 11th attacks, then held under the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF) as an "enemy combatant" and then finally, in 2005, on charges he "conspired to murder, kidnap and maim people overseas." There may well have been rather more convincing reasoning as Padilla was alleged to have in fact met with top Al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan, but the legal sleight of hand that kept him from his day in court cannot help but disturb all of us who value America's constitution more than the current occupant of that White House at any given time.
One thing struck me about the British case, though.
Malik was also apparently a hip-hop fan, whose first creative forays were into love poetry while attending Villiers High School in Southall, and then branching out into harder, more aggressive creations modeled on Tupac Shakur and 50 Cent, using the sobriquet Lyrical Babe. That in turn, when her interests...shifted, became Lyrical Terrorist, a moniker the British press made much of.
As someone who was in Manhattan on September 11th, I seek to make no light of the ghastly potential impact of terrorism on a mass scale. But I do wonder if Judge Peter Beaumont, and Prosecutor Jonathan Sharp had bothered to familiarize themselves with the oeuvre of the Philadelphia hip-hop band The Roots, whose song Clones, from their 1996 album Illadelph Halflife (which played as one of my soundtracks for a good part of that year), featured the following couplet from MC Dice Raw:
Dice Raw the juvenile lyricist, corner store terrorist.
Block trooper, connoisseur of fine cannabis.
Focus never weak, blow up the spot like plastique.
Leave a nigga shook, to the point, he won't speak.
While I'm not suggesting that Ms. Malik's rhyme style had reached quite the level of Dice Raw's, it still gives one pause that one person's poetry is another person terrorist threat, much as the rapper Ice T once pointed out his confusion as to why people harangued him but didn't get upset when Johnny Cash would sing the line "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die." I may be wrong, but something about this case makes me wonder if 30 years ago, Ms. Malik wouldn't have been sporting a Mohawk and a safety-pin through her nose and 15 years ago taking ecstasy and dancing to the Happy Mondays. But maybe not.
It just seems to me to be a slippery slope once you start arresting people for things that you think they might do in the future. And our current crop of political leaders - who have already managed to cause death and destruction on a mass scale - would seem to be the last people in a position to judge who will and who will not be a danger to society.
Put under house arrest for the time being, Malik must return for sentencing on 6 December.
We indeed live in strange times.
Labels: Al-Qaeda, AUMF, Britain, George W. Bush, Gordon Brown, hip-hop, José Padilla, Samina Malik, terrorism, Terrorism Act 2000, The Roots, United Kingdom, United States
Democracy returns, but media continues to be under threat in Haiti
Despite having an elected government in place for over a year now whose commitment to a free and independent press would appear to be genuine, recent events in Haiti have shown that alas that still does not guarantee an open environment in which the country's journalists may operate.
On Tuesday evening, unidentified gunmen fired upon the premises of privately-owned de Radio-Tele Ginen in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. A street vendor was injured by flying glass sent shattering from a vehicle that was hit during the attack. No arrests have been made and no motive has yet been divulged for the shooting, but an attack of such a brazen nature against a media house cannot go without condemnation.
Also this week, Joseph Guyler "Guy" Delva, my successor as the Haiti correspondent for Reuters, said in an email message that he had been the subject of repeated threats and intimidation in recent weeks, including being followed while in his car by unknown persons. Displaying far more responsiveness than many of his predecessors, Police Nationale d'Haïti (PNH) chief Mario Andrésol promptly dispatched a police contingent to escort Delva -who also currently heads up the Commission indépendante d'appui aux enquêtes relatives aux assassinats des journalistes haïtiens (CIAPEAJ) - from the Petionville police station to his home.
In an email sent to Charles Arthur of the Haiti Support Group (reprinted here from the Association of Caribbean Media), Delva had the following to say:
I´ve been receiving anonymous (sic) phone calls and messages from indirect persons threatening my life over the past few days, particularly after I reported information about Senator Rudolph Boulos, a member of the country s wealthiest and most powerful families, having U.S. citizenship, which is against the constitution...I have documents that prove Mr Boulos was born in Manhattan and is still a U.S. citizen, even though he had managed to obtained a Haitian passport which he has no right to according to the Haitian constitution now in force. I understand the threats might be also fueled by the fact that I condemned last week the attitude of Senator Boulos who refused to answer questions from the investigative judge appointed on the case the murdered journalist Jean Dominique.
A dispatch filed by Delva for the Caribbean News Agency (CANA) last month, wrote that "in a document signed by Boulos before immigration authorities, he admitted that the Haitian passport he has obtained in August 31, 2005, was his very first Haitian passport. But Boulos – who was born in Manhattan ( New York ) on April 28, 1951 – had been living in Washington for years and has gone on numerous trips during the past years."
I wrote to Delva asking the exact nature of this document but as of yet have received no response.
Later in his letter to Arthur, Delva also asserts that "Boulos is one of those people who had open conflicts with Jean Dominique. Dominique was in the forefront of the battle to make sure justice was made in the case of the children killed as a result of the consumption of poisoned drugs fabricated by the laboratory of Mr. Boulos."
Rarely has one event gone through so many transformations of governance and continually remained as a dagger pointed at the heart of state commitment to press freedom and human right as the case of the murder of Radio Haiti-Inter director Jean Dominique and the station's caretaker, Jean-Claude Louissaint, in April 2000. Occurring at the end of the first Préval government, the investigation was then thwarted at every turn by the government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide from 2001 until 2004, essentially swept under the carpet and ignored by the Boniface Alexandre/Gerard Latortue interim government of 2004-2006 and is once again presenting the thorniest of problems for Préval during his second mandate.
As Delva points out, in June 1996, René Préval's then-Minister of Health, Dr. Rodolphe Mallebranche, revealed that, since April of that year, at least sixty-four children had been poisoned by two fever-reducing syrups made by the Pharval laboratories, a company under Boulos family control. The Valodon and Afebrile medicines the children were taking apparently contained a toxic component, diethylene glycol, which caused kidney failure. The Boulos family, for its part, denied having ever used the chemical in the manufacture of the medicine and said that the product the children had ingested was in fact a pirated version of their brand, which it had asked the government to remove from the marketplace without success. Jean Dominique, at the time, indeed, was particularly scathing in his criticism of the family and their business practices.
If, as Delva, charges, Boulos has refused to appear for the judges involved in investigating the Dominique/Louissaint murder before, and is currently refusing questions from Judge Fritzner Fils-Aimé (the current investigating judge in the case), it is time for Sentaor Boulos to set an example to his colleagues in the senate, who often seem content to hide behind immunity (itself a repugnant concept) to escape accountability for even the most trivial matters and submit to questioning in the investigation. If one has nothing to hide, one ought have nothing to fear. The families of Dominique and Louissaint, as well as the Haitian people, deserve all the facts in this case. They have waited long enough. No one can be above the law.
Previously, in a 33-page indicted sent by Judge Bernard Saint-Vil to State Prosecutor Josué Pierre-Louis in March 2003, Saint-Vil accused Philippe Markington (a member of the Aristide Foundation for Democracy who sometimes worked as an informant for the U.S. Embassy), Dymsley Millien, Jeudi-Jean Daniel, Ralph Léger, Ralph Joseph and Freud Junior Demarat of having taken part in Dominique's killing . Persons with intimate knowledge of the investigation and the indictment have told me that the name of Harold Sevère, a former assistant mayor of Port-au-Prince and member of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's personal cabinet thought by many to be the key link in the crime, had originally appeared in the indictment. Sevère's name was removed following a meeting between Saint-Vil and then-Minister of Justice Calixte Delatour, allegedly on Aristide's orders.
To the best of my knowledge, no link has ever been established between the above persons and the Boulos family.
A year after that indictment, speaking on Radio Vision 2000 (partially owned by the Boulos family), the Cité Soleil gang leader Robinson "Labanye" Thomas, reiterated that charge that Harold Sevère had been the one responsible for formulating and carrying out the Jean Dominique murder. Labanye also charged the involvement of Annette "So Anne" Auguste and the notorious Camille brothers, Ronald and Franco, employing the services of Guy "Ti Ponyet" Benson, a downtown gang leader who was also later murdered, to silence his knowledge of the crime.
Former deputy mayor of Port-au-Prince Jean Michard Mercier, also interviewed on Radio Vision 2000, claimed that Sevère had actually been present at the scene of the crime on that fateful morning.
During Mr. Aristide's term in office, Mario Andrésol (then Directeur de la Police Judiciaire), investigating judge Claudy Gassant (now Port-au-Prince's chief prosecutor) and Dominique's widow, Michele Montas (currently spokesperson for United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon) all accused the Aristide government of personally and intentionally blocking the investigation.
Under the 2004-2006 interim government, there was barely any need for any active blocking, because virtually no progress at all appeared to be made by those charged with investigating the case.
Now, under the new Préval mandate, will justice be done?
The Haitian people deserve better. They deserve to know by whose hand and for what reasons Jean Dominique and Jean-Claude Louissaint had to die, just as they deserve to know who orchestrated the killings of individuals such as Mireille Durocher Bertin, Marc-Andre Durogène, Marie Christine Jeune, Claude Bernard "Billy" Lauture, Brignol Lindor, Jean "Pere Ti Jean" Pierre-Louis, Danielle Lustin, Jacques Roche, Yvon Toussaint and so many others, regardless of the political affiliations of the victims.
Is it too much to ask that one standard of justice be applied to all in Haiti, that the law be responsive to all? I think not.
Rather than proposing constitutional changes designed to propagate their own longevity and engaging in internecine power struggles, the Préval government and Haiti's parliament should set about the people's business, and set about delivering the justice that has been too long denied to so many. It is time for them to prove with actions, not words, that they respect and are willing to defend human rights and freedom of the press in Haiti.
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Labels: Guy Delva, Haiti, Jean Dominique, Jean-Claude Louissaint, press freedom, Radio Haiti-Inter, Rudolph Boulos
A few words about Alisher Saipov
From time to time on this blog, I have addressed the risks run by journalists in countries where the powerful and the corrupt are willing to do whatever it takes to protect their privileges.
Journalists such as Haiti's Jacques Roche and Russia's Anna Politkovskaya (whose stunning final book, A Russian Diary, I reviewed for the Miami Herald) provide an example of steely dedication to the profession that all other reporters can learn much from, especially in these days of ever-reduced foreign coverage in the United States and Europe, and half-baked "activist" journalism that seeks to obfuscate and protect the powerful rather than inform.
I never met Alisher Saipov, but when a friend of mine from New York forwarded along BBC correspondent Natalia Antelava's poignant remembrance of the Uzbek journalist, it sounds that Saipov certainly belonged among that well-respected company. A reporter practicing in his trait in a country - Uzbekistan - whose president, Islam Karimov, has been named a "predator of press freedom" by the Paris-based journalists' advocacy group Reporters sans frontières and where "critical journalists simply disappear, are sent in mental hospitals or arbitrarily thrown in prison," Saipov wrote about government violence, corruption and incompetence in a way that was sure to put him in the sights of those he was demanding be held accountable for their actions.
Antelava writes about how Saipov's commitment to journalism went beyond simply acting as a reporter. Two weeks ago he had begun printing an Uzbek-language newspaper titled Siyosat (Politics) that was published in Kyrgyzstan and smuggled across the border into Uzbekistan. The Karimov regime responded by portraying Saipov on state-controlled media a terrorist.
Two weeks ago, on October 24th, Alisher Saipov was gunned down by a lone assailant as he left his office in Osh. Kyrgyzstan's second city. A husband and new father, Saipov, also worked for Voice of America, Radio Free Europe the Uznews.net website, and the Moscow-based Ferghana.ru news agency. He was 26 years old.
Labels: Alisher Saipov, Islam Karimov, Kyrgyzstan, Natalia Antelava, Uzbekistan
Project May Boost Biofuels in East Africa
PARIS, October 30 (IPS) - A new project to develop an integrated sugarcane facility in Kenya could be a boost for biofuels production in east Africa.
The Ngima Project at Homa Bay on the shores of Lake Victoria (''ngima'' is the word for ''life'' in the local Luo language) is looking to foster a dual export and domestic system of sugarcane production, concentrating on both white sugar and biofuel production.
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The air-ground offensive launched by the Syrian regime and Russia against the province of Idlib and northern Hama continued since late April. The air and ground bombardment, during the period…
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Discovering the 'big why' in your life – why do you do what you do?
Forecasting your future – what gaps do you perceive in your education or skills?
There are a number of tools that can help you turn your career happiness around, from character strength and value assessments to leadership assessments that measure your attitudes, perceptions, perspective, and reactions under stress. "Having a coach is also a great way to explore what you're not happy with when it comes to your career," notes Loren, who also employs journal coaching to encourage weekly web-based reflection on key career topics. It's important to recognize that finding career happiness is a process. "Many people want to feel better right away. This is not a quick fix. However, those who fully engage from the start do see amazing results in all aspects of their lives, not just their jobs." Those professionals who are wise enough to pursue career happiness report that they feel a deep inner confidence they never had before. They say they earn more money as a result, have better quality of health, and feel free of heavy burdens such as shame, guilt, anxiety, fear, and stress. "My clients tell me that other people comment on how good they look and behave. They say their families actually like to be around them more than ever. Some even report that their career happiness has worn off on others who are then inspired to engage in the same pursuit." If you find that you're playing small in your career, experience intermittent or ongoing distress in your work, or know you need to move in another career direction but don't how, get help. Don't settle for less career satisfaction than you deserve. Though this is often a taboo topic, it is vital to resolve whatever career issues you're facing so you can avoid dragging this same baggage from job to job. If you're ready to experience more happiness in your career, check out Loren's upcoming Career Happiness webinar on June 9th, 2014.


The Sony World Photography Awards prides itself on being a truly global competition, and this year it received almost 320,000 entries from over 200 countries and territories. The awards cover four separate competitions – Professional, Open, Youth and Student Focus – which are themselves categorised into areas such as Architecture, Contemporary Issues, Landscape, Portraiture, and Travel. The winners will be revealed on 19 April, and a curated exhibition of the work will take place at Somerset House, London from 20 April-06 May.


If you are planning to fast this Navaratri festival then you shouldn't miss this wonderful recipe by Pavithra. N. Raj, Chief Dietician, Columbia Asia Referral Hospital Yeshwanthpur. Try it today!
We all are aware that fasting is the integral part of Navaratri festival. Many men and women fast during those 9 auspicious days of Navaratri. If you have also decided to fast we tell you about the recipe you can try. It is healthy and can be made easily. So, what are you waiting for ? Opt for this recipe suggested by Pavithra. N. Raj, Chief Dietician, Columbia Asia Referral Hospital Yeshwanthpur.
Take the nylon sabudana pearls in a metal frying strainer.
In a kadai, heat oil for deep frying till the pearls get immersed completely.
Pearls will start puffing up when they come in contact with the hot oil.
Keep on turning them around, so that they are fried evenly.
Even if they look, crisp and done from out, they will be hard from inside. So, fry them well. You can bite into a few pearls to make sure if they are cooked. If you feel they are not cooked from the centre, then fry them till they are cooked. Then, remove and drain the fried pearls on kitchen paper tissues.
Now fry raw peanuts, till they change colour and become crunchy along with cashews and raisins. As soon as raisins puff up, remove them from oil. Drain those yummy dry fruits on paper napkins.
You should add rock salt, powdered sugar and red chilli powder and mix everything together. Then, place all the fried ingredients in a jar, once the chivda mixture becomes cool. Add salt, powdered sugar and red chilli powder.
Remember, avoid going overboard and make sure that you stay healthy this Navaratri!


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Stop widening gender inequalities: Asia's COVID-19 responses must leave no one behind
by Chamaiporn Siangyen
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Written by	Chamaiporn Siangyen
The first case of COVID-19, an infectious disease caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus virus, was reported in December 2019. Three months later, the disease has spread to at least 213 countries/territories with more than 2.8 million confirmed cases and 192,000 deaths. And just like that, the world as we know it has completely changed.
Similar to other pandemics in history, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to fight the coronavirus. The battle against the pandemic, in many parts of the world, will be long and uneasy. The Asia-Pacific region is no exception. In early April, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the total number of confirmed cases in the South-East Asia and Western Pacific regions were as high as 180,000 with a death toll of over 7,500. While the disease outbreak has affected different groups of people differently, girls and women, especially those from marginalised communities and with disabilities, are likely to be hit the hardest by this crisis.
Asia is home to more than half of the 1.1 billion girls globally. Unfortunately, in many parts of the region, girls and women are systematically disadvantaged and often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. Plan International recently released the 2020 Asia Girls Report, which introduced a new "Asia Girls Leadership Index", and assessed the situation (pre-COVID-19) of girls and young women in Asia across six domains: health, education, protection, economic opportunity, representation and laws and policies. The study examined how countries in the region are performing in these domains, in order to promote girls' leadership and reduce gender inequalities. It showed that even before the disruption caused by COVID-19, discriminatory attitudes and practices towards girls and women in Asia kept them from developing the leadership capabilities they need to successfully navigate their daily lives and act on their own goals.
To prevent further setbacks on the path towards gender equality in the region, Plan International is calling for governments, organisations and communities to take steps to ensure that all short-term and long-term COVID-19 policies and interventions are equitable, protective of human rights, inclusive of the most vulnerable, and responsive to the different needs and risks faced by individuals, particularly girls and women.
At minimum, COVID-19 responses should take into consideration the following five recommendations on age and gender.
National and local health authorities responding to the immediate health consequences of the pandemic should ensure that continued and non-discriminatory access to adolescent-friendly and gender-responsive sexual and reproductive health information and services is prioritised. According to Plan International's 2020 Asia Girls Report, the key factors determining access to health services in Asia are culture, gender, language, education and geographic proximity to healthcare providers. During a health crisis like this, these factors mean girls and women will likely have limited access to essential gender responsive health information and services.
Data related to the impacts of COVID-19 and the implementation of emergency response must be disaggregated by sex, age, and disability and analysed accordingly. Globally, there is inconsistency in collection, disaggregation and reporting of data for adolescent girls and young women. Without credible and consistent data, governments and emergency responders are constrained in their ability to understand the gendered differences in exposure, impact, and treatment and to design differential preventive measures and responses.
Child protection and gender-based violence risks must be assessed, monitored, and addressed during the planning and implementation of COVID-19 responses. Girls and women across Asia live with the regular threat of violence, including domestic violence. Furthermore, even though many countries across Asia have made progress in strengthening legislation to combat child marriage, the region still has some of the highest child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) in the world. CEFM not only compromises girls' development, it also puts them at greater risk of domestic and sexual violence.
COVID-19 interventions must address the unequal and exacerbated burden of unpaid care and domestic work on girls and young women, who usually bear the responsibility for caring for the elderly and ill family members during health emergencies. Girls and boys learn gendered norms and expectations within their families, communities and societies when they are very young. Data shows that on average girls and women in Asia and the Pacific normally perform 80% of total hours of unpaid care work.
Strengthening the leadership, meaningful and ethical participation of girls, women and marginalised populations, at every step of planning and decision-making processes and at all levels (regional, national and local), is key to effective and fully inclusive COVID-19 preparedness and response.
Working in all sectors and with a wide range of key stakeholders is not easy, but it is absolutely necessary if we want to stop widening gender inequality gaps and ensure that no one is left behind in the response to COVID-19 in Asia.
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Chamaiporn Siangyen
Chamaiporn Siangyen is a Regional Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Specialist at Plan International, Asia-Pacific Hub. Based in Bangkok, she supports regional and country programs on strategic evaluation and leads a regional research agenda on girls' rights.
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Netflix, here are all the movies and TV series arriving starting January 17th
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We know that Netflix never stops updating its media catalog. In fact, there are several TV series and movies ready to appear on the platform as of tomorrow, Monday, January 17th. Let's go and see together the most awaited productions.
For example, on January 21, the awaited first part of the fourth season of Ozark, which will conclude the story starring the Byrdie family. Therefore, Netflix will split the season into two segments of seven episodes.
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Jomo Kenyatta International Airport , is an international airport serving Nairobi, the capital and largest city of Kenya. The other three important international airports in Kenya include Kisumu International Airport, Moi International Airport and Eldoret International Airport. JKIA is located in the Embakasi suburb  southeast of Nairobi's central business district, the airport has scheduled flights to destinations in over 50 countries. Originally named Embakasi Airport, the airport's name was changed in 1978 after Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first President and Prime Minister. The airport served over 7 million passengers in 2016, making it the seventh busiest airport in passenger traffic on the continent.

The postal code for Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) is 00501

History

1950s and 1960s

Discussions about building the airport date back to 1945. At that time, the colonial power—Britain—and its national airline, BOAC, were worried that the existing airport at Eastleigh was inadequate for post-War civilian airliners. The costs of improving Eastleigh versus developing a new airport occupied planners for 8 years. Who would pay was a major issue.

Plans for the airport were drawn up in 1953, work started in January 1954, and by mid-1957 it was found possible to bring the operational date forward to mid-March 1958. The task was by no means straightforward, and many problems —largely of a civil engineering nature—had to be overcome before the runway could be built. An extensive amount of the airport's construction was done utilizing forced labor, many of whom were Mau Mau rebels. Due to the enormous pressure to finish the airport and the high amount of labor necessary, it was not uncommon to work the laborers to the point where some of them died of exhaustion. The working conditions were so poor that were reports of suicides and self-mutilation among the laborers. The site chosen, on a great lava plain, is a pilot's and a controller's dream:  from the centre of Nairobi (the city's two other airports, Eastleigh and Wilson, are closer), its approaches are free from any obstruction for at least  in any direction. The nearest mountain ("high ground") would be a misnomer when Embakasi itself is  AMSL),  away, and 10 degrees off the runway centre-line. Visibility rarely falls below this obstruction-distance in the clear air of the plains, and it may have been possible to see the summit of Mount Meru in Northern Tanzania, about  away; both Kilimanjaro  away and Mount Kenya could be clearly seen.

On Sunday 9 March 1958, Embakasi Airport (now JKIA) was opened by the last colonial governor of Kenya, Sir Evelyn Baring. The airport was due to be opened by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother; however, she was delayed in Australia due to an engine failure on her Qantas Lockheed Super Constellation aircraft. Due to this, the Queen was unable to attend the ceremony.

The  runway at the then Embakasi Airport was a big improvement on Eastleigh's  murram runway, which in the rainy months was unsuitable for Britannias. The runway was  long between thresholds, and was sited roughly 06-24. The 06 approach was used on 90 per cent of the time. A basic strip  long and  wide was prepared for the  wide runway. There were  shoulders each side; and consequently  run-offs beyond the shoulders. After cambering, weak spots were reset, and finally paving machinery was used to lay the asphalt surface. The result was an engineering success of which the contractors were very proud; so accurate was the cambering that the wet surface of the runway dried out evenly on each side of the centre-line. Physically, the great care taken in the engineering resulted in a load classification number of 100 being achieved. The surface at the time was strong enough to accept the Boeing 707 at maximum gross weight, although  rather than  length was the probable all-weather length requirement. There was no physical limit to extending the paved length to this figure, but more definite plans for the operation of the big jets into Kenya was required before such an increase was contemplated.

At the time in 1958, Nairobi was one of the few towns in the world that could boast of a 1965 airport with an expansion option at hand. The number of aircraft movements then was less than 600 per month. The airport architect was strongly influenced by the design of Kloten, Zurich, in the planning and design of Embakasi, although similarities were by no means obvious. Both airports are arranged so that arrival passengers can see completely through the building; the minimum of signs is required. And although Embakasi was designed to meet Nairobi's particular needs, both airports shared a lightness and spaciousness that was at the time extraordinarily refreshing. The fitting and colour schemes employed at the then Embakasi Airport were first-class.

1970s, 1980s and 1990s

In 1972, the World Bank approved funds for further expansion of the airport, including a new international and domestic passenger terminal building, the airport's first dedicated cargo and freight terminal, new taxiways, associated aprons, internal roads, car parks, police and fire stations, a State Pavilion, airfield and roadway lighting, fire hydrant system, water, electrical, telecommunications and sewage systems, a dual carriageway passenger access road, security, drainage and the building of the main access road to the airport (Airport South Road). The total cost of the project was over US$29 million (US$111.8 million in 2013 dollars). On 14 March 1978, construction of the current terminal building was completed on the other side of the airport's single runway and opened by President Kenyatta. The airport was again renamed, this time in honour of President Kenyatta after his death about five months later on 22 August 1978.

In October 1993, a British Airways Concorde landed at the airport for purposes of testing the aircraft's performance at high altitude.

2000–present
On 10 June 2008, Kenya Vision 2030 was launched by President Mwai Kibaki. Under the vision, JKIA's aging infrastructure was to be upgraded to World Class standards. New terminals and runway upgrades were to be added in phases. The African Development Bank carried out an Environmental Impact Assessment on the development of Phase 1 of the proposed Green Field Terminal (GFT) which was expected to increase the capacity of JKIA to about 18.5 million passengers annually by the year 2030. The Greenfield Terminal project was to encompass the construction of a four level terminal building comprising a central processing area, a transit hotel, landside retail centers, arrivals and departures plaza. Ancillary facilities which would have included an access road, car parking, access taxiways, Ground Service Equipment (GSE) and bus parking areas.

On 29 March 2016, the KES 56 billion (US$560 Million) Greenfield Terminal Project was terminated by Kenya Airports Authority because the contractor failed to secure funds thus ending Kenya's vision of having the largest terminal in Africa.

In February 2017, the airport was awarded a Category One Status by the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States, thus allowing possible direct flights between the US and Nairobi. Five other African countries have direct flights to the US (South Africa, Ethiopia, Egypt, Morocco, and Cabo Verde).

2013 fire

On 7 August 2013, a fire originating in the immigration area caused massive damage to the airport and forced it to suspend operations temporarily. Unit 3, usually dedicated to domestic operations, was used temporarily for international traffic. The worst fire in the airport's history occurred on the fifteenth anniversary of the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, but no connection was immediately obvious and no terrorist group has claimed responsibility. The cause is not believed to be intentional, as no explosive devices were discovered during the initial investigation. According to Kenyan officials, firefighting efforts were hampered by some of the first responders choosing to loot the airport instead of fighting the blaze. International arrivals had been bused to a temporary facility set up in the ground floor of the new parkade until the reconstruction of the damaged areas. In June 2015, a new, fully functional temporary terminal building became operational. This terminal building was planned for a design life of 10 years, until completion of the planned new permanent facility.

Facilities

Terminals

There are two terminals. Terminal 1 is arranged in a semi-circular orientation and is divided into four parts: 1A, 1B, 1C, and 1E are used for international arrivals and departures while terminal 1D is used for domestic departures and arrivals. Terminal 2 is used by low-cost carriers. The original terminal, located on the north side of the runway, is used by the Kenya Air Force and is sometimes referred as Old Embakasi Airport.

Figures from KAA indicate that the airport's Terminal 1-A has a capacity of 2.5 million passengers  The Kenyan government is targeting over 25 million passengers annually by 2025 on the expansion of JKIA's terminals. In 2016, JKIA accounted for more than 70 per cent of overall passenger traffic in the country. It also had over 7 million passengers pass through it. Domestic travellers through the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) made up 40% cent of overall passengers in 2016. This is an increase from 32% five years prior (2012).

Terminal 1A International Departures and Arrivals
Terminal 1A has a capacity of 2.5 million passengers a year and 3 levels, 30 check-in counters, 12 departure gates, ample seating and food & retail options. The Arrivals area houses 5 baggage carousels. This terminal is used primarily by Skyteam member airlines.

Terminal 1B International Departures
Terminal 1B houses common-use check-in counters, with security check points leading to the departure lounge on level 1. On level one is the Aspire lounge as well as duty-free shopping outlets and cafe's

Terminal 1C International Departures
This terminal houses common-use check-in counters, with security check points leading to the departure lounge on level 1. On level 1 are duty-free shops, Kenya Airways Simba Lounge and the Turkish Airlines Lounge and a cafe.

Terminal 1D Domestic Flights
Serves departing and arriving passengers on domestic flights. Occupied only Kenya Airways and its subsidiary, Jambojet.

Terminal 1E International Arrivals
Following the closure of the main International Arrivals and Departures terminal after a fire, a parking facility was converted into the temporary International Arrivals terminal.

This terminal was subsequently opened to serve arriving passengers on airlines operating out of Terminals 1B and 1C.

NOTE: Remodeling & extending Terminals 1B, 1C & 1D is scheduled for 2017, after which JKIA is predicted to be able to handle 12M passengers.

Terminal 2 Low-cost Carriers
Serves mainly low-cost carrier airlines (LCCs). The prefabricated terminal opened in April 2015 with a capacity of 2.5M passengers - originally intended to relieve overcrowding. Terminal 2 houses international & domestic check-in desks and boarding gates. Current lounges at Terminal 2 include the Mara Lounge and Mount Kenya Lounge - both at airside, Level 1 and open 24 hours.

Lounges
In January 2015, The Simba Lounge and Pride Lounge which are situated on the second floor of Terminal 1A were opened. The two facilities, with a combined capacity of 350 people, were developed at a cost of KES 135 million ($1.35 Million), and are for the use of KQ's Premier World and SkyTeam's Sky Priority passengers. There is also a Turkish Airlines TAV Lounge (T1B), as well as the Swissport Aspire Lounge (T1C). Both are regular lounges, which can be accessed by elite status or a paid-pass.

Second runway
In January 2017, a new instrument landing system-equipped runway  in length was approved for construction at a cost of KES 37 Billion shillings (approximately US$370 million). According to KAA's managing director John Anderson, construction of the new runway which will be bigger than the existing one will begin this year (2017). It will also double aircraft movement from 25 to 45 per hour. The new runway will be a category 2 runway and will complement the older runway built in the 1970s. The proposed design of the project is a  long and  wide runway. The current runway is  wide and  long. This is an ICAO code F which can handle the new generation wide bodied aircraft like the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 747-8. The new runway will have fog lights, currently the present runway is only lit at the sides. The runway will also enable long haul flights to destinations like New York city carrying up to 32 tonnes of passengers and cargo.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Cargo

Other facilities
 Amaica, a restaurant offering authentic Kenyan and African cuisine has its store in Terminal 1A Level 2.
 American fast food chain Hardee's has an outlet at JKIA Terminal 1-A.
 African Express Airways has its head office on the airport property.
 The Kenya Airports Authority also has its head office at the airport.

Statistics

Ground transport
The main entrance to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport is on Airport South Road, which can be accessed by an exit from the A109 highway (Mombasa Road).As well as the new 2022 expressway which can connect you to the airport with no turns or traffic from the city.

Passengers can also travel to and from the airport via city Bus Route Number 34.

Taxi and Car rental services are well represented.

A link to the Nairobi Commuter Rail network has been proposed.

Accidents and incidents

 On 20 November 1974, Lufthansa Flight 540, a Lufthansa Boeing 747-130, D-ABYB, LH 540, "Hessen" (German state), delivered 1970, crashed on takeoff from runway 24 in Nairobi killing 59 of the 157 on board. The aircraft was on a flight from Frankfurt to Nairobi then Johannesburg. This was the first fatal accident and third hull loss of a Boeing 747.
 On 17 May 1989, a Boeing 707-330B operated by Somali Airlines aborted takeoff and then overran the wet runway and crashed into a rice field. The plane had 70 passengers and crew on board, but no fatalities resulted. The airplane was damaged beyond repair.
 On 4 December 1990, a Boeing 707-321C freighter operated by Sudania Air Cargo struck an electricity pole  short of runway 06 and crashed in flames. Visibility was  in fog with a  cloud base. All 10 persons on board died. The airplane was damaged beyond repair.
 On 6 June 2012, EgyptAir Flight 849, an Airbus A320, blew a tire while landing and veered off runway 06. Portions of the aircraft obstructed the runway, necessitating closure of the airport. Inbound flights were diverted to other airports in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. None of the 123 passengers and crew was injured.
 On 2 July 2014, a Fokker 50 crashed after takeoff due to a mechanical failure, killing all four people on board.
 On 4 January 2015, a Fokker 50 carrying 6 people crashed after a landing gear failure. Of the 6 on board, no injuries were reported. Jomo Kenyatta Airport was temporarily closed and all flights were diverted to Moi International Airport, Mombasa.

References

External links

 Kenya Airports Authority – Jomo Kenyatta International Airport

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